Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-08-07
WHAT IS SAID ABOUT THE TENNEs.
SEE ELECTION.
From the Correspondence of the Cincinnati
Commercial.

/ WHAT IS SAID ABOUT THE TENNES-
SEE ELECTION.
| From the Correspondence Of the Cincinnati
Commercial.
KNOXVILLE, August 3, S67.-Governor
Rrownlow in a speech tonight said that his
majority in the State would be over forty
thousand, and that he proposed to bury the
Rebel party in a coffin with both ends open,
80 that when the devil went in at one end,
they could go out at the other. No promi-
SEES had been made by him or his friends
as to how long he should be Governor. The
constitution did not fix the time, and as he
was called a despot he would be one, and
be Governor for ten years, TO show what he
might be.
Gov. Brownlow to-day, in conversation
/ with a prominent citizen, made the re-
markable assertion that in his first message
to the Legislature he would recommend
| that every male citizen over twenty-one
| years old should be allowed to vote Some
such policy as this will probably be the
result of the overwhelming victory. The
disfranchised accept the-situation.
From the New York Citizen.
We must either exterminate the alb
origines from whom we stole our pleasant
homes and their pleasant hunting grounds,
or we must give them the great franchise.
With the ballot in his red right hand the
wild man of the woods is the equal of
| Sambo Cufy, or New York loafer, and
may strike the fre-water selling trader, or
the meek and aspiring politician, to his
feet. 1t is hardly humane or civilized to
endeavor to annihilate the remnants of a
people whose only crime is that we robbed
their ancestors Of their patrimony. The
inquisitive world, in these investigating
times, might appoint commission to in
quire into atrocities inflicted on our dusky
Poles. So we had better give them the
ballot at once. As for degrading the suf-
frage, that cannot be done; we may thank
the negroes for that impossibility.
The Herald has taken up this view, and
| gives it that powerful support and furnishes
that " mysterious influence which will do
much toward success. The Tribune goes
the same way, of course the chief editor
of that journal may throw over the women,
but must stick to his friends and brothers
whose skins have the glorious tinge of the
sun. Every argument that justihes the
grant Of the ballot to unlettered, down
trodden serfs, just freed from bondage, APP
plies with equal force to the redskins
The latter have more intelligence, greater
self-reliance and infinitely mere claims,
and we should save a terrible war and i'm
mense expenses by doing a simple act of
consistency. An Indian can be educated
and will settle down to civilized labor, az
he has done in Massachusetts, Tennessee
and this State, whereas the future career of
the colored man is as dark as his skin. 1t
has cost us 100000, 600 to enfranchise the
negro; let us save the few odd millions
that are left by doing the same by the red
man. Cannot our Western frontiersmen
consent to try ballots instead Of bullets,
and stop firing the Indian heart by robbery
and murder, till they see.how the change
works ?
From the Chicago Tribune.
The colored population is densest Just in
those districts Of the State where the Rebel
element is strongest; and this is the reason
why the Republican ticket succeeded in
Central and Western Tennessee. In more
than twenty counties, including Memphis,
the blacks constitute an absolute prepon-
derance of the population, and, with the
white Republicans, can poll heavy MAORI
ties for the Radical ticket. The result of
Thursdays election proves that, if no
IL,
Republicans had voted, the Secesh could
not have beaten Brownlow. Large num-
beers Of colored men failed TO vote-in part
for want of sufficient polling places, and in
part from Rebel intimidation of the Judges
of election in many precincts, whereby no
polls were opened. These causes reduced
the Republican vote by fully 10000. And
if all had voted, the Radical majority
would be not far from 10000, which shows
thatthe Acknowledgement regulations might
be materially relaxed with perfect safety
The true policy for the Brownlow party to
pursue would be TO remove the disability
from the rank and file of the late Rebels
continuing the Acknowledgement only on
the leaders, on those excepted by the recon-
struction act of Congress. If this were
done it would produce a better state Of
public feeling, and would strengthen the
Union cause, as thousands of those now
disfrancised would unite with the great
dominant Republican party.
From the New York Herald.
The Tennessee election, the returns from
which are still pouring in upon Us, marks
the Inauguration of a new political revo-
luton in the South and throughout the
United States. The results of this election
are SO remarkable so unique, so sharply
defined and decisive that they cannot be
measured by the ordinary standard Of the
ups and downs Of our political parties. We
have here the first test on a large scale of
Southern negro suffrage under the new dis
Pensation, and in regard to law and order
the experiment has proved a most crafty
ing success.
We think, too, from the successful ex-
pertinent OF negro suffrage in Tennessee,
that We need no longer hesitate in giving
The ballot 10 the Indians and Chinese where |
they may be regularly established in the
community, especially when the sovereign
authority of the United States over the |
several States Is beginning to be clearly IN.
dersteod by men of all sections, parties and
races. We say that this Tennessee election
marks a new political revolution in the
South and new depensation in our politi-
cal affairs The Democratic party goes to
pieces the Republican party must take a
new departure or pe broken up.
From the New York Journal Of Commerce
Thurlow Weed.
The best men Of all parties must have
felt a positive relief in the news from Ten
nessee. 1t is true that all sensible people
had perceived for some time that the cleo
ton would either be a tragedy or a farce,
end the alternative was not a thing in itself
to be desired; but bloody collision would
only have given to the tyrannical Brown
low an excuse Cor fresh outrages upon the
majority, and was therefore to be avoided
at any personal sacrifice. A large part OF
the citizens were openly disfrancbased by
the registry, and, Of course took no part in
the election. OF those who participated,