The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1868-07-31


due from you on the LIST of July next must
be paid to the Comptroller of the State at
least fifteen days before that date.
10 as15-AK. q. BRowK1ow,
=a Governor. Of Tennessee.
Your attention is alse called to, The still
partial conguaioH3 indedtedpess and crowd
ed condition o.. the penitentiary. A full
settlement with the lessees is desirable, if,
indeed, it IS not Absolutely nscessary. |
do not advise the creation of additie nal
buildings. at this time. at Nashville /; but /
suggest, as I have done on former oeea-
esions, the commencement of branch pen
itentiary ia the Eastern division Of the
State. The penitentiary at Nashville ought
to be self-sustaining but. instead Of this,
large pproPFiations of money are annually
required. The whole matter is with you,
and to you submis it without enteriRg In
to detail A
COL. a. BOONE.
whom you designated,by special ensotsnent,
to settle With. provide for and pay off the
officers and soldiers Of the late State mill
tia. has performed Che g5fk assigned to
him, and is now ready Tor asettlement with
such committee as you may designate.
have been appealed to by prominent
men Of both political parties, to urge upon
you the propriety Of removing political
disabilities formerly imposed upon large
class of Rebels. The conduct of that class
of people has been, and ii Stills, such that
I do not feel justified il making this re-
commendatiou. They have military or
ganiza,ion in this State. whose ayoWed OBJ
iect ia to tramplo the laws under foot ant
force the party in power to enfranchise
themselves and their sympafhiaers. can
not stultify "a yselfby yielding to this re-
quest. accompanied With threats of vio-
Ience If members Of the General ASSEM-
bly, are alarmed for their personal safety,
and feel disposed o sue for peace upon the
terms Of an armed mob, they will, of course,
take different view of the subject. Any
RECOMMENDATION of this kind, If made st
an, should be At regular. and not At a
| called session Of your body. And whether
such sreoommendatioh and corresponding
action thereupon shall be deemed wise at
your adjourned meeting in November neat
can bs then more safely determined, by
strictly observing the conduct Of these unre-
constructed Kuklux Rebels and their sym
pathizing supporters between thus time and
that.
Trusting that your session may be brief
and useful, may the hard Of kind PFovi-
dence guide your families in your absence.
July 81, 1868. W. G. BRowELow.
The Message and the Legislature.
Persons who believed that Brownlow was
anything bit the most bloodthirsty fend
upon the continent, are now ready perhaps
to acknowledge that he leads the whole
pack Killaius and mmderersFiH the IN
tehsity ofhis hate toward the law -biding
and peaseab1e part Of our people. His mes
sage, ppblished elsewhese fiu this paper,
contains the most Yillainous and attrocious
recommendation ever before submitted 70 a
Legislature. he desires that the Kuklux
should be declared out laws, aud the mill
ia instrqctedsto Bboot-th em dom Ri1srsver
found, and then proposes to relieve the mi
litia Of legal aoseanlabihty iof9oH act. conf
naittsd 1Oli1s IL tie service Of tie State, thus
giYinglpYer the3iyas liberty and property
of our people to the unrestrained passions
OF partisan and brutal soIdiery.
But Win the Legislature, partisan and
unPrinciplsd as it is. sustain him !? We
cannot think so. 70 the 6rst place, they
dare not do it. And then we are charita-
bic enough to believe they do rot want to
do it. WscanHog believe there are many
such men as Brownlow in The Legislature
II Their are, God save the countryi At
this writing Thursday evening. the Legs.
lature has done nothing.