Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-11

We are panied to learn that cur Radi-
cal brethren cannot dwell together in uni
ty. We find the Nashville correspondent
Of the Cincinnati Go=cHc, CRadfcaD IN
der date Of Dee. :, mkind and uncharita-
be enough to make some very uncompli-
mcntary remarks, about our venerable
United States Senator, who halls from the
Metropolis of East Tennessee. In order
that our readers may see in its fuDncss the
lack Of appreciation which this Radical
correspondent has Of our Ex-Governor
and present Senator, we make the follow
mg extract from the letter:
Very few men have made so many and
50 persistent and plausible misrepresenta-
tons about Republicans in Tennessee as
this correspondent of the New York
Times and the Cincinnati COu7DlcrcicI
Hence every Republican in East Tennes-
| see was well pleased when Senator Brown
| low caused Capt. Kicks nomination as
| Pension Agent at Knoxville to be defeated.
| Though, to make full statement of the
whole truth, they were by no means
equally pleased at seeing Brownlow' SON
in-law, DR.. BOynton, Gate Of Ohio, ap-
pointed to the place. The general feeling
was that it was getting quite too much of
the Brownlow family, to have the father
in the United States Senate; one son re
cciver Of q delinquent railway, with plenty
to get and nothing to do: another son
/
only fitness lay in the fact that he knew
enough to distinguish tolcrably well be
tween a hand-car and locomo-
tive, and whose only claim was the
fact of his being Brownlow:
| and lastlya daughters husband coming IN
for a good and profitable government ap-
| pOintmCnt on the strength of being hus-
band as aforesaid. This grasping selfish
ness was so conspicuous, so greedy and 50
shameless, that the body of Republicans
| all through East Tennessee had begun get
ting alienated from the old Governor, even
before the canvass between Stokes and
Sentcr began. When that fatal split
| came, the common instinct of all Repub-
! licans in the Statc-evcn Of those that
! went for ScnteT-tod them that Brown
! low, in espOusing SCnter's cause, was
| flying in the face of all his own record as
a loyal man, and had joined himself to
men who had been disloyal to their GOV
ermcnt and muraerously hostile to such
as had remained loyal to it. This could
in no way he glazed over by Brownlow's
| "cards' and Peamc's editorials: neither
could II be blinkcd by those that wanted
to screen the offender from the Just wrath
and fiery Indignation of East Tcnnrssceans,
who found themselves betrayed by their
leaders. All these things being so, il need
surprise no one abroad, tC be told that
! the most utterly detcsted men today, in
Tennessee, between the Mississippi and
Alleghanics is VIM. G. BrOwnlow. His
! former enemies hate and revilc him as
! heartily as ever, and his former friends
think of him with loathing and name him
with cursing
Before quitting this business Of Brown
| low, may as wcll mention that among
the many who have descended into graves
of their own digging, is his hcnchman, DR..
Thomas A. Pearne, late editor of the
Knoxville Wig, a man whose overbear-
ing arrogance had ALLEVIATE most of the
. Republicans be came in contact with, and
whose c!ownish rudeness would have
raised the admiring envy Of loorat Cape
Colony.
Thus has sunk from conspicuous place,
the mGn whose violence and backguard-
ism have done more damage to the char
acter of Tennessee Republicans at home
and to their reputation abroad, than can
be mended ty years of good conduct
And the farewells we wait to VIM G.
BrownlOw are few and very faint, for
we know too well how that 'the evil men
do, lives after them'-the good isoft in
tered with their bones. AQUAyIvA.