Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-05-09
THE EXAMPLE OF TENN ESsEE.

From the Baltimore sun, May 4.
The announcement by Governor Brown
low Of his determination TO call out the
militia of the State TO suppress disorder
and preserve the public peace, is not a
very favorable symptom of the workings of
reconstruction in the model State in which
the proscriptive principles which Congress
has since embodied in its laws for other
Southern States, were first put in opera
ton. In fact, so deplorable is the state of
things in Tennessee that even that leading
Republican journal, the New York Times
is compelled to declare that "the condition
of Tennessee is far worse than that of any
other Southern State" The Times adds
"The violence of political parties, the
operations of secret societies, the feuds of
families and factions, the luminosity be-
tween the white and black races, the bitter
ness against the Brownlow government and
the Brownlow policy have brought about a
state of affairs in which life is unsafe. So
ciety is in constant disturbance and indus
try is seriously Frustrated. We have re-
Gently had accounts from gentlemen con-
yersant with matters in the middle and
western portions of the State, which have
given us a more vivid idea of anarchy than
anything that we have ever before heard of
in the United States"
Such, then, is the result Of the sweeping
Acknowledgement of whites and enfran-
chisenent Offreedmen, of the stringent des-
potism and feroeious spirit in which Ten
nessee has been governed. Instead of
bringing about pacification, or even order,
Tennessee Is now, after three years of
Brownlowism, in a condition bordering
upon anarchy, and requiring the militia to
be called out TO preserve society from
chaos.
When the Border State Republican Con-
yention assembled in this city last sum-
mer, Mr.. Maynard, one of the members
from Tennessee, made a speech, in which
he declared that "when Tennessee acceded
to the simple proposition of legislating for
the people-for human beings-then all
the difficulties of race and complexion and
condition disappeared. And so it will be
| throughoutthis vast country when we reach
| that simple altitude. All the difficulties
| that have shaken us with tempest will
| disappear and be at an end" Read by the
light Of actual events in Tennessee, we
may see exactly what this twaddle, and
| much of the same kind from other Radical
sources, was worth. Mr.. Maynard, how
ever, was perfectly right in saying that,
such as the state of things is Tennessee,
$50 it will be throughout the whole conn
try" when it is reconstructed on the same
| principles, Most Of the Southern States,
through the machinery of the reconstruc-
ton conventions, will soon be in the same
political condition as Tennessee, and the
Border States are invited to the same en-
tertainment; and there are those who would
force it upon them if they will not accept
it voluntarily. What prospect for the
South and the nationl The fairest section
Of the land consigned 70 anarchy, or else
the heavy burthen Of taxation must be in
creased to keep up a large standing army
for the purpose of preventing the militia
so-caIled, of the South from being over
powered by an outraged and prosecuted
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