Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-11-20
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southern SOcieH and Representative
Men.
1.-The South must be regenerated ~ NO
society" say the lachrymose aeso.o' ,be
the Lost Cause /" and We nn9 ~ .bat
Southern newspapers great de's' t -
inflated style of self -adulation W. VIII ! void
Ia eami.civilized races, and WhiS" y
cd bv people Of refinement III, ~ soc;al no. |
persons who feel secure OF 'lol, .oe,.,;d,
s;t;on arc tbe least given 70 soii-eSsel sig J
a,,d trina worth is always "Scoiii PlS I.y
,,,odostv No better gauge Vi ln1 iIai ''lei
Ia 80 southern civilization couio DC pro-
S',aoS tbon the average character Oh her
,.e,,,.osentative men. her pest society, 50
~ ~ ,s~ass and people boosted, furnished
.iOl P-aon. such as they were.
~ he term society were used by these
II IN any enlarged sense other than as
PeooIIosenting very limited (and that the
- useful) class, we should reiterate the
,1I~claraton that the South must be re-
Generated by her society" But what is
Society? Does IL consist merely Of those
who are lifted above the necessity Of labor,
who despise the honest workingman and
the humble freedman, and still cling TO the
traditions Of a sinful and hidcous system of
slavery, Of which they reaped the benefits
while others endured the wrongs? No; in
its proper sense, society covers all grades Of
humanity and all phases Of life. 1t has its
distinctions, we admit yet there is within
it a grand equality also. Human society
arises by virtue Of the different gifts and
conditions it has pleased the Creator to al
lot to different individuals, all having the
same fundamental constitution. These diff
ferences are not meant to divide, but to
unite mankind. One may be poor, another
rich one learned another ignorant; one
holding station Of command, another Of
obedience one weak, another strong-but
these diversities Of life, like the concord of
divine notes on a musical instrument should
make the actual harmony Of mankind. The
corner stone Of the social fabric is the fdnli-
". Is it because the Southern slave system
demanded the destruction Of this corner
stone that Southern notions of society
should still count the freedmen out? The
family is the symbolic group around which
all elements Of the social organism cluster.
1t impels the industries of men and the dl-
vision Of labor; it parcels out the earth; 1t
builds cities; it inspires the brain OF the
architect; it calls into play the mechanic,
the manufacturer, the artist; it drives the
plough through the loamy furrow; it causes
the miller to grind his meal, the grazier to
breed his cattle, the gardener to till his
produce, the dairy maid to milk her COWS,
the merchant to send his vessels abroad for
the luxuries of other lands; it gives the
laws &c society and 20 the nation Husband
and wife, parent and child-these are the
relations which vitalize our whole social
structure, and for the preservation of which
we struggle in all the stations of life Not
the rich merely, nor the poor; not the gift
tod merely, nor the simple; not the men of
position, nor the aristocrat; not the white
nor black-but all people. Look at this
city with Its population--0ne hundred and
twenty thousand men, women, and childrenl
Who shall presume TO Gull out Of them a
class, and say, Behold this constitutes
Washington society How marvellously
composed how subtly intermingled; how
variously derived from every quarter, are
the materials and elements Of our civil |
prosperity Who hews the stone; who |
builds the houses; who plants the parks;
who makes the carriages and who rides in |
them; who raises the potatoes who bakes |
the bread; who brings together inestimable |
richness Of goods and clothing, and mines
and jewels-fur from the arctic, and spice
from tropic coasts? No President nor |
Congress, nor general, nor conqueror, nor |
caste, nor class does Il, but the aenrla-all !
who toll, and God at their head In this |
Of the length and breadth and |
helghth and depth Of society, we believe, |
too the South will be regenerated by it |
but her regeneration will only begin when |
she casts off her devotion TO the Sir Oracles |
Of the past-her former high priests at the |
altar of the Moioch of slavery and takes !
up new men from the masses; insignificant
men they may be in the estimation Of those
who Judge of men by the noise they have
made in producing strife; unknown as poll
tical leaders in most cases they must be, to
be truly representatives Of the society that
is TO regenerate the South. Yet there are
brave men Of the progressive school in the
Southern States whose names are familiar
10 all by the boldness Of their acts and their
devotion TO the cause Of the Union in its
darkest days. Such a man has recently
been elected United States Senator from
Tennessee, Governor William G. Brownlow.
This brave patriot, who suffered oppression
and Punishment from the Union during the
war, is great improvement over his inn
mediate predecessors, Andrew johnson and
his son-in-law As might have been ex-
pected, the New York World, the InteHi-
geRcer, and other papers of the class that
pirate about society and uphold Democracy,
denounce the selection of the brave, honest,
and sober Brownlow The New York
World, thae Notwithstanding its comments
upon Andrew johnson, on the 9th March,
1855, has since found him a marvellous.
proper man, arraigns Governor Brownlow
as ribald and scuTillous and what not.
Why? Because Governor Brownlow has
been true to his principles and preserved
Tennessee TO the Union
We have observed with regret all through
the past season a disposition on the part of
some of our Northern papers TO conciliate
his presumptuous, overbearing spirit toward
the new men and true leaders of the South
by sort Of depreciation The Tennessee
loyalists carried their State in the teeth of
Andrew Johnson's patronage, trickery, AMI |
influence, and in spite of the combinations |
or traitors Had Brownlow proven like |
Swami, of Maryland, Tennessee would have |
been under rebel rule o-day He was firm |
and true, and Tennessee is free, with all |
the Union men, black and white, enfran-
chised. That she should reward him with 1
the Senatorship is only NATURAL Washing
ton Chronicle.
Abandoned Lands In the South.
Gen. Howard, with tho official apnroval