Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-01-27
THE Tennessee DEsPOTTsM.

The passage of a new militia law
by the Legislature, the prelimina-
ry proclamation of Gov. Brownlow
in relation to calling forth his army,
his appointment of Gen. Cooper as
Commander, and the Generals ar
rival at the Capital of the State,
with an order assuming command
all these events, betokening instant
war in such counties as the Govern
or, in his proclamation n,chief,
shall designate, being duly her
aided by the newspapers-have pro-
duced what may be called genu-
inc sensation. 1t has brought to
Nashville host of delegations and
delegates, who have sought inter
views with Gen. Cooper, and
with members of the Legis-
lature from Gen. Smith of
the Senate, down to Rowles,
of the House, and from Bowles,
of the House down to Gen. Rogers,
of the Senate. We are gratifed to
know that all of the delegations
pledged themselves to use their
utmost exertions to suppress the
Ku-Klux, and that all the members
of the Legislature who were kneeled
to and duplicated pledged them
selves to use their utmost exertions
to have the bloody militia withheld
from the sacred counties thus hum
BILE and dutiful. In short that the
patriarchal Brownlow, the law-giver
over this beautiful land, will surely
inaugurate a new passover"
The fact is worthy of, not
only historic record, but of sue h
evangelical commemoration as that
future generations shall bow
towards the shrine of Brownlow as
the devout Hindos towards the ris-
ing of the sun. Our belief, however,
is that the petitioners will also have
other gods to worship, and that
they and their posterity will make
obeisance to Gen. Cooper as the
moon, and to the several members
of the Legislature as tho chiefs of
the stars. These new divinities
are certainly bewildering to con-
template. The gods of Homer and
of Virgil could not hold candle to
them, and not one shall escape
apotheosis at the close of their Off
eial career. a...
After this heartfelt tribute to
these new-fangled deities, we have
a word for the worshippers. Sup
pose Davidson county is omitted
from the operation of martial law,
| and it is visited upon Giles or Fen
tress. The wrong to e p RaY II dssG9gg iaRass
stitutional rights ofone are usurped,
those of all may be. If the little
finger is in pain the whole body
suffers Why then should the fin
ger seek to escape, and heap Goals
of fire upon the head or the chest?
In other words, we think the time
has come for the people of Tennes-
see to make common cause. 1t will
result in this at last. 1T is needless
to repeat an old story, or to say
that the temper Of Tennessee is not
such as to bear with patience such
treatment as is now being inflicted
upon the people of Arkansas, by a
band of rufians, miscalled militia.
No resistance will be offered, we
suppose, to Brownlow's militia.
And it should be the study Of the
people to have no conflict with
them, The first arrest by them
should be placed, at once, before
the Federal Courts, as we have be-
fore suggested. In the meantime,
if petitions are to be offered and
representations made, it would be
more appropriate to make them at
the Federal Capitol, and ask that
the provision of the Federal Con-
stitution requiring the United
States TO guarantee each State of
the Union a republican govern
ment, should be enforced.
BARGAIN AND SALE.