Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-01-09
WHAT HE SAID
"Had I my Life 10 Live Over i Would
Pursue the Same Course I Have Pur-
sued, OaIy More SO.''

Pursue the Same Course I Have Pur
sued. OaIy More sO.''
Such is the remarkable declaration o
Gov. Brownlow in taking final leave 0
the Ia.rons Of the Knoxville Wing
"Aiter reviewing his long and eyentfu
career as an editor" he finds no word OF
act that he would have erased or undone
On the contrary, he assures the worlt
that he has ''the consolation to know that
L Chez have al,odyS taught both parent:
and children to holl fast to sound doc
triRe, and in defending them, I have
Invariably uttered the words of truth
and soberness." Al,oays and inUdrt
| ably!
With the consultations of such reflec
tons upon an editorial life of more thar
thirty years SO consistently and SO illus.
triously marked with 'the words of truth
and soberness," with what complacency
and serenity will our Senator elect take
his seat in tho halls Of Congress With
what stately heroism he can draw from
his port>folio copy of the Knoxville
Wig, Of April Ii, 1S61-the very
memorable day on which Fort Sumpter
was surrendered-and point to the fol
lowing choice extract from his own edito-
rial pen on that 18Th of April
1.-THE blame of this disunion movement
rests on both the North and the South.
1t is not our province to determine
which is most in fault. Our opinion is
that this is difficult to determine. Both
are largely at fault-each laying the prin-
cipal fault on the other Every well in>
formed citizen of the United States know 8
that Northern Williams have encroached
upon the rights of the South, little by
little, for q quarter of century; they
have added insult to injury, enacted i'm
famous personal liberty laws, encouraged
slaves to run away, and sought to bring
on collision between the North and the
South that would result in dissolution
of the Union !"
And having read this, he can proudly
show that force ought never to have been
resorted to by the North, for in the same
article he said
"Civil and military forces can never
bring about reconstruction. The day
for this has gone by Moral forces must
be resorted to, but the wicked hearts and
reasonable designs of Southern Seces-
sionists and the damning deprayity and
hellish purposes of Northern Abolition
lists will alike resist, and successfully re-
sist, all applications of moral power"
All this the Governor said on the very
day that the glorious stars and stripes
were hauled down at Fort Sumpter, and
at the very time President Lincoln and
his Cabinet were preparing the call for
1900 troops But ifthis be not enough
to convince the Radical Senators that he
was the teacher of Sound doctrine" let
him draw forth copy of the prospectus
of the Knoxville Wing, published on the
same memorable day (though written
March l., and read to them these con-
elusive paragraphs:
eve are willing to try Mr.. Lincoln
under the pledges of this (Inaugura)
address, promising TO rebel when he
attempts TO inaugurate oppressive and
unconstitutional measures, whether in
reference to slavery or any other subject
believe that the zeal of the anti
slavery party at the North, has not yet
subsidized, and that the Border States
have cause to guard against the mesner
portion of abOlitionists. | shall battle
against the Greeleys, Garrisons, Suns
ners, ChaseS, Hales, Beechers and Fes>
sendens; and with equal freedom. l
shall denounce all who are hand and
glove with the YanceyS, Rhetts, Davises,
Toombs and Wigalls, and other dis
unlonlSts South, who seek to destroy this
government from equally base motives.
W. G.. BRowNLow,
Editor and Publisher,
March II, 1861"
Having fully satisfied the Summers,
Chases, Greeleys, Beechers, Fessendens,
ETC., etc, that they are the identical in
diYiduals against whom he is to battle"
let him then, with all the solemnity be-
coming so grave communication, pre-
sent each of his Northern villains
with copy of his farewell address to
the readers of the Knoxville Whig, and
let him re-assure them that he <'has
always taught both parents and children
to hold fast to the forms of sound doc
trine ;" and that he has invariably
uttered the words Of truth and sober
ness" and, finally, that "if he had his
life to live over, he would pursue the
same course he has pursued, only more
so !"
Thus endeth the first lesson.-RnOG
VWe Press and Herald, Jan. T.