Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-05-08
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fee, tobacco, beer, gin, &c, were
excluded, and bread made of unbolted
meal prescribed, with "a grudging use of
animal flesh with very little salt. He
was at one time so enthusiastic on the
subject that he became an inmate of a
boarding house run OH this plan. In poll
tics he was Wing until the demise of
that party, and has been a "thick-and-
thin " tariff man ever since, alway advo-
eating the protective system with zeal and
earnestness. He Is the author of work
on Political Economy, which is devoted
to defense of the doctrine of Protection.
He astonished his friends and the coun-
try in general soon after the commence
ment of the late war; by advocating poll
cy-(that of letting the South depart in
peace)-which would have resulted in a
certain disruption of the government. He
again astonished them by his attempted
"treaty of peace" with the notorious rebel
Thompson in Canada, while Grant was
laundering away at Richmond. He again
asst Jnished his friends in 1864, two days af-
ter the Democratic Convention had met
in Chicago, and proclaimed the war a fail
ure by writing TO the Governors of the
loyal States, three months after Lincoln's
nomination as follows:
NEW YORK, Sept. 2 1864.
Hon.---
YoUR EXCYLLENCY; The undersigned have
been requested by body of influential Union
lists to communicate with the loyal Governors
for the purpose of eiciting replies to the follow
ing queries
l. In your judgment, is the reelection of Mr..
Lincoln probability
2. In your judgment, can your State be carried
| for Mr.. Lincoln
| Union party, and so of the country, require the
substitution of another candidate in place of
Mr.. Lincoln d?
In making these queries We give no opinion
nj Nnlx fha nat
private and confidential use.
Yours truly, HORACE GREELEY,
Editor of tho Tribune, land two others)
He opposed Mr.. Lincoln's election as
bitterly as he has the election of President
Grant. He got up a sensation in 1865 by
doffing his white hat and grey coat and
going all the way to Richmond to bail
jeff. Davis. He astonished everybody last
summer by taking a trip through the
South, eulogizing rebel generals, and bid
ding high for the help of the South to as
sist him into the White House.
He was an ardent supporter of the pres
ent administration until less than a year
ago, when he opened up his batteries, and
has since been firing promiscuously into
the house of his former friends, regardless
of results. 1t he could be elected he would
fairly die with joy, but will take defeat
with rs much resignation as any man
living. He has been beaten so often that
he has got used to it.
GOVERNOR CRATE BROWN.
OF the Liberal candidate for Vice Presi-
dent we CLEAN the following facts concern
ing his early life:
Governor Brown was born in Frankfort
Kentucky, about forty-siX years ago, and
has quite political lineage on both pater-
nal and maternal sides. His father was
the late Judge Mason Brown, of Frank
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son OF John Brown, the first person ever
chosen Senator in Congress from Ken
lucky, a position he filled for three success L.
sive terms. Jesse Bledsoe, his maternal
grandfather, was also Senator in Congress
from Kentucky. He is a kinsman of the
| Prestons, Breckinridges, Blairs, Mellow
ellis, Bcntons and other we'll known fami-
lies, whose members have been prominent
in National and State affairs since the
formation of the Government.
Governor Brown graduated at Yale Col
lege in 1S47, and after studying law re-
moved to st. Louis, Missouri.
He became one of the editors of the
Missouri Democrat, and was prominent
actor in the free soil movement
On one occasion, in a personal rencontre
with prominent pro-slavery politician,
! Governor Brown was shot through the
knee, and so severely injured that he yet
suffers from its effects.
| NIL DIONH Il regiment
of militia in Missouri in 1861 and with
Gen. Lyon aided in the capture of Camp
Jackson.
During the first year of the war he COM
marded a regiment of volunteers, but be-
fore any opportunity of distinction in the
field had been afforded him he was elected
to the United States Senate, and resigned
his position in the army. AT the expira-
ton of his Senatorial term he retired from
politics and devoted himself to profession
al and private pursuits, until the organi-
cation of the Liberal Republican move
ment in Missouri, which he headed as a
candidate for Governor, and to which of
flee he was elected by an unprecedented
majority.
In person Gov. Brown is rather less than
middle height, slightly built and of nerv-
GUS organization.
HORACE WHITE, the managing editor
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