Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-08-21
THE KNOXVILLE WING.
Knoxville, Tenn, August q, 1867.
TENNESSEE.
The Election and its Lesson.

IuC ElCCtAOu dtUU lis LSSSoHs
Interpretations and Errors Correctod-Steadfast
ness Of the White LoyaIists-- WonderfuL Action 81
The Cotored Votsrs-l Prescriptions and L1toLeranc,
Of the DeniOcrdcy-AH Instructive Parallel
Scenes, Incidents, Results.
Special Correspondence Of the Cincinnati Gazette.
NASHVILLE Tenn, August 6.
-Four days have passed since the election tool
place in Tennessee. The result is pretty definitely
known. ThestOrm Of passion envoked during the
contest has 70 : considerable extent subsidized; and
we may now, with q reasonable degree Of Calmness
and certainty Of arriving at correct conclusons re-
view the election ITSELF and endeavor TO deduce itl
nature, IFS lessons and its political bearings.
No party evOr fought battle under such discour-
agements as this was fought by the Union men Of
Tennessee; no party ever gained more complete
and benehcent victory. 1t was not alone that the
devoted loyasts OF this State were obliged TO con.
tend against the bitterly hostile elements in theil
midst; not alene that the whole influence of the
National Administration was thrown into the scale
against them not alone that their foes held in hand
the potent cards Of society and property not alone
that tssy were threatened with the vengeance Of
Fifty thousand veterans of the rebel army, inhamed
with hatred Of the National Government and fercsr
wrath against their lloyd neighbours ali these rep
resented but portion Of the hostile influences with
which they were called upon 10 contend.
NORTHUMBERLAND NORTH.
ty so situated as we're the Union men Of Tennessee
would have attracted 20 itself the warmest sympa-
thies and moral support Of every American who
was loyal to his countrys cause Manifesting from
its first formation disposition 10 second true men
everywhere in their efforts TO sweep away old abuses
and put the Government upon a new, sounder and
better basis crucfying the life long prejudices Of
majority Of its members by admitting the 4 fcan
race 10 full participation in civil rights ~ wing
around its standard those thousands Of brave Ten
nesseeans who left their homes and families 70 the
tender merces Of rebel guerrillas while they them
selves followed through the smoke and thunder Of
battle their countrys aag acceding promptly TO the
national requirement and adopting the Constitu-
tional Amendment although its effect would be
either 70 bring the negro TO the balotbox or lessen
the political power Of the State inviting the coll
Ored man 20 the polls that Tennessee might be saved
70 loyalty and 10 the nations and last spring plant
ing itself fairly, squRrely and unequivocally upon
the platform of the great Union hosts of the North
it might reasonably have been supposed that s
party which had done all this, would have at least
the moral support Of every friend Of the Republics
and that from every loyal household throughout the
land prayers would liTl suc4
cess. Yet il is painfully and humiatingly true.
that SEINE Of the cruelest stabs 10 which these loyal
Tennesseeans we're subjected, came from the hands
Of those who had every apparent reason TO be their
friends II is true that bitter denuneatons and re-
proaches were heaped upon their heads by some who
pretend 10 guide public sentiment in the North. 1t
is true that the wrath Of the baed traitor and the
hiss Of the venomous copperhead, as they saw the
magnificent work in which this party was engaged,
we're REINFORCED in Ohio, in New York and in New
England by the sneers of some who call themselves
Union men. And it is true, pitiably true that the
most effective ammunition with which the deadly
enemies Of human freedom fought against its friends
in Tennessee was supplied TO them during the con-
test that has just passed by portion of the North
ern Republican press In fact, there were news
papers calling themselves Republican, and quoted
by the rebel press of Tennessee as Republican,
which seemed thoroughly in league with those who
once dragged the State into rebellion to drive ia
loyal administration from power turn every corner
Of lie broad domains into theater in which should
be enacted the deadly tragedy of rebel persecution
and make Of Tennessee, now q bright star in tbs
national galaxy, what Kentucky is to-day.
SOURCES OF THIS OPPOSITION.
That the Unionsts Of Tennessee should have had
this most discouraging Northern opposition TO fight
against and overcome seems really too preposterou;
tor belief 1t was a singular phenomenon in oul
politics, and predict that dozen years hence il
will appear too monstrous TO be credible and will
only be made evident by looking back over the col
umns Of such journals rs the New York Herald
Springfield Mass Republican, New York Tribune
(which has seen its error and the New York Times
portion Of this most unnatural opposition TO th'
Union party Of Tennessee may be accounted for By
ignorance Of affairs in that State; but some Of i
was deliberate and conscious Misrepresentation, in
duced by secret hostility 70 the loyal cause. TIT
malignant editorials of the Now York Times may
be taken as specimens Of the latter the blunder
ngs Of the Tribune as types Of the former The
articles Of tho Republican were evidently the result
q n muish obstinacy, which, having once so
wrong, vaB determined not to be set right while
the Herald, not intending perhaps, 70 misrepresent
but not caring much II il did, was imposed upon By
it's correspondents.
A INDUSTRIOUS MEASUREMENT.
of ithaca laet IN ,-arf1apaop for whom I havf
personally the highest esteem sat down at his table
and wrote deliberately, but few days before cleo
tiOn 20 be read in the Herald by tens Of thousands
that the ktheridge party Of Tennessee identical
with the National Republican party Of the North
And this in face Of the fact that every measure o.
civil and political reform advocated BY the Repub
lcan party has been, for the last two years met and
fought persisteatly, and inch by inch, by the Eth
eridge party in Tennessee; in face Of the fact thai
every leader Of that party supported Mcclellan IL
"a, and is to-day in fun communion with the De
mocrscy in face Of the fact that every organ OF Ia
Etberidgeites throughout the State teemed each dA
with vile denunciations of the Union party North
in face Of the fact that every leader OF the Etherdg
men supports and has supported, every measure 0
Andy johnson and that every one OF is convention
passed resolutions in his favor; and in face Of The
fact that no Union candidate for The Presidency
could to-day get a single vote from the entire Eth
eridge party. Union men Of the North you re
member the course Of Campbell, Leftwich Tsylo
on no single occasion did they vote with the Repub
llcana but always with the Confederate Democracy
One OF these four, Taylor received his reward from
Anay johnson IN the shape Of the Indian Commits
noneTthlp- Another Campbell, has recently issued
manifesto declaring that the Democratic party j:
not oeA0 pu1 possesses vitality than ever and
advising US members TO stand bv their colors The
other two, cooper and Leftwich. wora Ftharidv ?,
candidates Tor re-eectlon. All fopr are s,,or, 49,
Chosen leaders Of the Etherage ps-,- - 49,
correspondent o. ne = CIV York Herald could WRIT
that tsis same E.nerioge party WA in eonposit;on
ends and aims identical with the Natonsl -.
can party Of the North. To account for a. ,S
Etrous assertion, utterly at loss Am ~
well acquainted with my friend's moral character !,
suppose that he woald wifuly misrepresent an
even II this did not forbid there Is no oonceivabl
motive Why he should attempt 10 do so much ur
called for wrong 10 the gallant and strugRlin
Unionists around him. can only conclude that 4
was laboring under the influence Of some hideou
political nightmare which, for The time prevente
him from seeing the truth.
FALsEHooDs REVIEWED.
Permit me now briefly 10 notice q few Of d
falsehoods urged against the Union party Of Ter
Hessee by ignorance, misrepresentation and mslicl
and believed, alas BY some right-minded and i'm
partial members Of the Union party Nerth
il was asserted that Gov. BroWnloW was ambi
lions, despotic and syraunicai.
in reference 20 bis ambition" It Is only neces
sgry 10 SAY thai he became candidate fer re-elec
ton 70 the Governoiship against his own wishes
and with the utmost reluctance, and only after b
was requested and almost co1sDiandsL 10 do 50, b
shs upanimoIH vniee cf the Union people Of The