Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-07-30

Ra. If the Conservative party is de-
feated in Tennessee it will be. by FORCE
and FRAUD. Every intelligent man in
the State knows that without these ele-
ments under Brownlow, who is the can
didate to be elected by their use, he must
be defeated. Even negroes would vote
against him if they were sufficiently IN
formed not to b0 cheated and misled'
The Radical leaders are controlling them
with lies. Notwithstanding the fact that
four.fft of the whites are disfranchised
here, we believe, without doubling, that
the enfranchised fifth would defeat him,
if it was left to them, out of patriotic
motives and 10 Difference to the wishes
of the remainder of their white fellow
citizens, many of whom they know to be
as much entitled to register, even under
existing regulations as those now en-
franchised, but who are excluded on sus-
picien of being Conservative voters. II
all the really loyal Unionists of Tennes-
SEQ. and none others, we're allowed to
vote, without molestation or fear, no
tool of Brownlow could hold an office in
Tennessee after the election. But now
it is extremely doubtful whether this
farce of an election, predetermined in
its results, and controlled for Brownlow's
benefit, will not result in the election OF
Brownlow and his creatures.
Well, suppose it does ? Suppose at
fairs to be o criminally and successfully
manipulated by Brownlow as to result in
his election by means of the exclusion OF
whole counties and Of thousands of loyal
and legal voters, and by tricks, strategies
and deceptions innumerable, now being
mt upon both white and black, tohat
Menf If the general government has
power oves Mississippi to secure to her
a republican government, has 1T not also
the same power over Tennessee Z True
Tennessee is nominally in the Union,
but placed there by an executive order,
which gave control to one'tenth OF the
voters of the State. Under that order,
and that vote of questionable tenth,
Tennessee now claims to be State, and
to elect governor against the voice OF
majority of her people, against the
very forms Of the Constitution, and IN
deroga,ion of the cardinal principles OF
republican liberty. Now, we ask can
not the power which made her,
also unmake herr Will the govern
ment Of the United States permit repub
lican government to be crushed out OF
Tennessee, and her people to be subjected
TO the tyranny of a worse despot than
Jeffreys had the heart to be. We say in
such case We ask for military ruler
anything that will give peace, stability
and security. IL Brownlow is elected 1t
will not be by fair means, under a tar
election, and if this is not a case in which
the executive interference is warranted
for the purpose Of securing to the State
republican government, under the Con-
stitutou, we are at loss to know what
could be.
We confess we expect little or moth
ing from this pretended election IN
wb;cb Ne look for nothing bat aresis,ra-
ton Of edicts Of the petty tyrants. Con
servatives will do what they can. II
defeated, we shall see whether fraud aud
villaiuy is to triumph, while the Wash
ingtsn Government looks sNimiy on
an unmoved, and, perhaps, little inter
esied spectator. We shall know whether
this Government has one President and
one head, or whether 1t has mary
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