Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-06-13
BROWNLOWISM.
A View Of ifs EnOrmities from a Dis
raasf0nafe SOurce

PstASADhotS SOuHSC.
The Baltimore Sun, a moderate and in
dependent journal, thus speaks of our
Tennessee Troubles: -" When will the
wicked cease from troubling, and the
weary be at rest?' Is the country never to
be freed from the excitements and agita-
tions, stirred up and fostered by men who
seem to be sent into this worid-for no other
purpose than to act as frebrands and in
cendiaries? The public mind is weary
with the constant turmoil and confusion,
the interminable intrigues and the unlaw-
full actions of politicians without principles,
and with none but the most diabolical
policy. Scheme after scheme has been
hatched in Tennessee, at the instance Of
men who have no ends to subserve but pri-
vate ambition and personal aggrandize-
ment: who seem to be reckless of the
claims of the country upon their patriot
ism, and the right of the people to enjoy
repose. In fact, reasoning upon all fair
principles of evidence, we might conclude
they were animated by no better mo-
tive than an insane diabolism-a
preference TO rule despotic in hell
rather than serve in Heaven. They
seem to be utterly unfit for the peace
ful enjoying of a calm and benign govern
ment extending equal protection to all, as
it demands equal obedience from each.
They seem unhappy unless riding on the
whirlwind Of political fury, lashing the
human passions into rage, and directing
fiery elements to the overthrow of all that
is good in governmental that is sacred
between man and man-all that is holy
and respectable in religion, and all that Is
dear in the social relations Of life. To set
brother against brother, friend against
friend, and one form of organized govern
ment against another, whose rights are
equally guaranteed and acknowledge,
seems, indeed, to be the mission OF such
men.
We feel a painful sensation of melan-
choly and doubt as these repeated accounts
come to us, indicating that there exists in
the country men who are determined to
keep up constant and recurring agitation.
They seem bent on raking amidst the
ashes and reviving the slumbering Tires
tanning them into a fame that may yet
with its feceness, burn up those who will
not let them alone.
How mournful, too, when we see one who
"Prince of Peace" "the man of sorrows,
who came into this world to proclaim
peace and good will unto all men," head
ing the faction of disorder and oppression
His noble office would be to urge the proc,
lamation of that good herald. Peace is the
earnest cry-the anguishing prayer of all
good and patriotic men. Repose is the one
thing earnestly desired and coveted by the
people of the South, (at all events.) Rest
is the language of the great, true heart of
the people. Business calls for it. Reli-
gion demands it. Society, if it is to stand
on any solid basis hereafter, positively re-
quires it.
Yet that arch agitator Brownlow will
have none of it. In order to stuff the ballot,
| boxes of Tennessee, and choke off the peo-
pie from the polls, to prepare fresh crop
of treasons and assassinations-to drench
the country with more blood, and baptizo
his own name in a new flood of the
crimson tide, he is marshaling his mill
tary. Would he register with the bayonet
the behests of his party, rather than pro
| tect the purity of the ballot and stand by
| that bulwark of liberty? The best evi
| dence that his motives are revolutionary
and his designs bad is to be found in tbs
! fact that the people have called ON the Fed
eral government to protect them by mili
! tary force in the exercise of their rights
against the hirelings eff their Governor
When the Romans left Britain, then came
the Picts and Scots in their airy costumes
to rob and murder the poor, subjugateC
! people Their wall went forth to Rome
! for legions to protect them The barba
rians forced them into the sea; the ses
threw them back on the barbarians.' Such
a wall has come from Tennessee to the au
thorities at Washington. Fortunately, the
Federal Executive has the power, and, i
the necessity shall continue, will probabl,
WELD it to protect them"