Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-09-18
TENNESSEE.
The Reign of nadicaIisn az IlIustra
ted In BP0wnlOw's Dominion.

Commenting on the speech of Maj.
Thompson. of Nashville, delivered
in New York on last Friday evening,
the New York World of Saturday
says:
There appears in this issue an ad-
dress which merits the hest attention
of those desiring an exact and unim-
passiOned statement of the situation
in Tennessee. From time to time,
as every one knows, we have
had reports of disorganization and
violence from that State, but never
until nOw,I so far as our knowledge
goes, has the true condition of affairs
there been clearly and connectedly
presented. Taking up the present
State Government from its inception,
Mr.. thompson, the author of this
address, traces its history through
Its protean shapes of violence and
fraud down to the effort even now
making in the Brownlow Legislature
to prop the waning fortunes of the
ItauIcai party with blood.
Familiar as we are with the wrongs
enacted in the more Southern States
under the reconstruction scheme, this
recital of the course pursued in Ten
nessee strikes US as embodying, per-
haps, even greater iniquities. Iii Ar
kansas, under her Africanized Consti-
tuition, white man may, always
provided that he swears toa belief in
negro equality, claim some right to
vote; but in Tennessee, as the fran
chise now stands, there is no man In
the State can vote unless Brownlow
says 80. Suffrage there is narrowed
down to this, that no man votes un-
less registered, and no man is regis
tered, remains 50, unless it please the
Governor, Suffrage being the State
and Brovnlow being suffrage, it Is
easy to credit everything that Mr..
Thompson relates of Tennessee.
For these statements he offers proof;
and IL the reader will but go over this
really very able address with care,
1t Will strike him Us each stage is
reached, that he has seen something
relating to just that very circum-
stance IN the telegraphic dispatches
of that day. Thus we may remem-
Der that here was considerable ex-
citement last spring at an officer OF
the regu ar army having forbid a
campany of Brownlow's negro mill
tia to enter the town of franklin al
an election time, and the secret his
tory of this affair is fully shown In
what we published to-day, though
at the time the matter died away
without anything more than the at
tention excited By the brief kilograms
relating II.
Other flint voices that have from
time to time come up from Tennes'
see, but pissed away unregarded, are
in like manner revived and ex'
planned, and the result of all this ex'
position els most important state
ment. MIR. Thompson Is, as is stated
in his remarks, a native Tennesseean
and speaking for his down-trodden
State does so with degree Of good
sense and correct feeling that will al
once strike the reader. There is M
attempt at flights of oratory. 1t was
Mr.. Thonpson's mission to stat'
things just as they are, and in this W.
cannot but think he has fulfilled hi
duty to tie letter. Long as the ad
dress Is, We desire to repeat that IL Il
worthy ofan entire and thoughtful pc
rtisal, and on such reading, there arr
few but will thank God they, at least
have been spared the full operation o
Radical malevoence, stupidity, ant