Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-04-06

in the smell of gunpowder, but were 10
their closets or some secret place, and
became war men when the war was over.
I could tell some secrets concerning
the state OF sffsirs. Here it was dan
2erous for O man to be Union man,
there, where these men came from, they
dare not be anything but loyal. should
like to take up my sacrinees and COM
mare with these neophytes. | asked a
little while ago what they had done for
the eolored man. Can any OF you tel
except to get you into the leagues and
give you new masters f? Don't you know
that the leagues are eonspiracies against
the Government IfyOu are free, did
you become any freer to go in the oath
bound leagues and become slaves to new
masters Now when in a free country
you see these oath bound leagues, you
may know they are trying to take away
other mems Liberties. Tnese lesguers
will, if alIo wed to go on, destroy the lib
critics Of the country.
BROWNLoW ATTEsTs HIS LOYALTY.
IfIhave pardoned 30 many ought to
be pardoned for some Of my errors, but |
think have some evidence OF my 10y
atty. have paper which will read
Received. Nashville March 24fh 1862 Of An
drew johnson, Military Governor OF Tennessee,
df6een huudred dollars, to aid in the establish
ment of q Union Press at knr'xv1Ie, Tenn ;,
and 70 d. fray my expenses while passing n
der secession oppression to the city OF Nash
$500 wM. 6. BROwNLOw.
Now, here you see this was for
Union press, and TO aid in escaping from
the oppression Of secession. Voice
VINO is it 2' Why this is signed by no
less @ man than VIM. q. BEownlow,
with his own sign manual. But now
I'm the traitor.
ALL SLAVES TO THE BONDHOLDERs.
But, my friends, we must reason to-
gether. We must not allow our feelings
TO deceive us.
So far as my presence here is con-
eerned, / have no other object than to
thank you for your c1rdialigy. l have
gone the round OF all the offices, and so
far as the corruption Of the Government
is eOrcsrned, my hands are free from il.
Here [ have come 10 live, with my wife
and my children. 1 want little. Man
wants but little here below, and, like
Cato, 1 return to my little farm.
But this time is full Of alarming pOr-
tents. The country is in danger, and let
me Lift my warning voice. Look at the
taxes. Your debt is nearly three billions
Of dollars, so far as the Federal Govern
msnt is concerned. How much il is at
home, G0d only knows. I know
now 1t was when l was your
Governor. You had a school fund
then. Where is it now? Look at the
taxes of the State and OF the Fed
eral Government. The Federal Govern
ment collects one hundred and fifty mil
lions, three times as much as was neces-
sary a few years ago for the whole ex-
Denses Of Government, TO pay the bond
holders. You black men might as well
know this, that while they have been en-
franchising you and disfranchising white
men, they have been making you all
slaves. Yes, you are all slaves together to
the boudhOider, who never shed a drop OF
blood | would to God that the Govern
NJ ant had not the credit to borrow doh
lar to carry on war. If the people lad
had before hand to pay the cost Of the
wsr, we should never have had one. We
had a great talk before the war about a
negro slave aris5ocracy. But these ne
gro slaves were worth 50 O0J, COO, 700.
| The negro has now been freed from one
man only to be slave to another, for il
has to come from their toll, and from the
white mans, to pay these bOndhOlders
/ their one hundred and fifty millions.
| Did they lend it in gold and silver No;
/ in deprecated currency. Now, tie in
terest must be paid in gold and silver,
! extorted from the toll and sweat OF white
/ and black.