The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-08-20
Tennessee-Parson nrowniow ON the
Esection---sentera Coed Enough Re.
publtcan---The Ex.presitient not to
90 to tho Senate.

Tennessee-Parson Hrowniow ON the
Election---Sentcr a Coed Enough Re.
publican-.-The Ex.Presitfent not to
go to tho Senate. IS.
From the Nashville whig August Is rr
The letter of Senator Brownlow, which
appears. in another column, was four days
ago dispatched to the Office Of the Washing
ton Chronicle for publication. As it has
not appeared, though there has been time
enough for it to reach there and return, the
Inference is that it's publication has been
declined. This inference is strengthened
by the fact that Senator Brownlow's lett CT,
| addressed to the colored men, was forwarded
to that Office with like request, which was
not complied with.
In view of this fact tho letter appears in
our columns this morning. It speaks for
itself. Calm, kind, and dignifed, but firm
as the rock itself, the letter speaks but the
sentiments of all thinking, unbiased Re-
puhlicans in Tennessee or elsewhere Il
will carry not only the assent, but the earn
est conviction of oil true men North and
and neutrality-suspicious. and Conservatives
alike. We like the tone of the letter. Its
manly frankness and its kind but fearless
| boldness must command not only the re-
spcct, but the esteem also of all who read it..
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, August 10, 1869.
Editor Of the Washington Chronicle:
Sir,-I wish to say few words through
Your journal to the Republicans of the ma
ton generally, and also to the President
and his Cabinet particularly, touching the
late Tennessee election. g..
Hon. Dewitt G. Senter is elected Go
vernon Of Tennessee by majority ranging
from 10000 to 10000, having carried East,
Middle, and West Tcnncssec-the three
grand divisions Of the State. That there
were many fraudulent Votes cast l have no
doubt, but the ma ority is quite too large
| to be set to the account Of fraudulent votes.
a again take the occasion to endorse
| Governor Senter as sound and reliable
Republican, the charge of his enemies to
the contrary notwithstanding. .-
" The Legislature, though rot Republi-
can, is not Democratic; and therefore will
not elect Andrew Johnson to the Senate,
but will fall back upon some such Conser-
vativc-oldline Whig-as Governor Neill
5. Brown or Bailie Peyton, and, in my
judgment, adopt the fifteenth amendment.
"Messrs. Stokes and Butler, stung by de-
! feat, and by loss of both their congressional
districts, which have been carried by the
Senter party, it is said by their friends,
will proceed at once to Washington, to have
all Federal officers in Tennessee who voted
| for Senter instantly removed, and Stokes
Republicans appointed in their places.
Thousands of as good Republicans as Ten
nessee affords voted for Senter as Repub-
lican candidate; and to-day majority Of
Republicans of Tennessee are Senter
men. They have never sent dele
cations to Washington to invoke the aid
of the Administration in the contest, and
they will not do SO now, even for the
sake of continuing their friends in Office. I
write in no spirit of dictation, but in that
of friendly cautionary advice. We think
here in Tennessee that it was quite enough
for members Of the Cabinet to send cleo
pioneering letters during the canvass de-
claring their preference for Stokes and
now to turn Republicans out of Office for
daring to vote for Senter as their choice Of
the two Republican candidates for Governor,
| will look to us from our standpoint
! very much like bringing the patron
age of the Government, into conflict
with "the freedom Of elections" We
think here that no competent and honest
man should be removed from office because
he voted for Senter or Stokes, both being
Republicans, and we shall be greatly dis
| appointed if the lRepublican party of the
! whole nation do not take the same view Of
the subject. In plain English, what we
ask is this that in the removal Of Senter
Republicans from. Office the same rules
shall be applied as in the removal of Stokes
Republicans or any other Republicans-a.e.,
that they shall only be removed for incom-
potency, growing out of inefficicncy, un-
faithfulness, or dishonesty.
"ln conclusion, am not by any means
alone in the holding and expressing of these
views; and, further, in uttering the addi-
tional opinion that the Administration
| should make haste slowly to drive from its
support majority of the Republicans of
Tennessee by pursuing the proscriptivc po-
Icy which will be urged upon it by Stokes,
Butler, and few disappointed politicians.
q am, very respectfully, your obedicnt
servant, w. u. DROWNLoW.
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