Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-06
SENATOR BROwNLOw's REPLY TO
BRCk'S SECOND EFFORT.
The Kentucky Congressman Literally
skinned.

"a copy of his speech rs ii was printed at
the Congressional Gto6e Office, to which
he adds the following scathing remarks
in answer to Beck's second ill-natured eff
fort:
Since the foregoing remarks were deliv-
ered Mr.. Beck has attempted to vindicate
himself by rising to personal explana-
ton in the House of Representatives, the
substance of which, for the most part, was
an attack upon my administration while
Governor of Tennessee. j could not sex-
pect man who sympathized with the
usurpations of Isham q. Harris the Gov
ernor who forced Tennessee into rebellion,
and justified the military dislocation of
Tennessee IA member Of the Union body
against the expressed will of its citizens,
to approve of my course Had he done
50, should have doubted its justice The
man whose reasonable heart rejoiced in
the prospect of the destruction of our
great Republic, and who countenanced, if
he did not applaud, the hanging of its
| friends in East Tennessee, and the robbery
of the school fund and other public mon
eys to assist rebelious warfare, is not the
mau whose judgment care to consult or
whose support | should value.
He attempts to assail the validity of my
election, and falsely assumes it to have re-
suited from military interference. Every
! body in Tennessee knows that the war left
| litical contest, they being prisoners of war
on parole, and thousands of them still
serving in the rebel armies when / was
! first elected Governor; and that ! was
peacebly elected by large majority of the
! legal voters of Tennessee.
| have never yet quarrelled with the re-
! suit of the ballot; let those who, after
failing to elect their President in 1860,
reasonably appealed to force, eXclaim at
my triumph as they may. l stood by the
| Constitution and laws then they attempt
ed to overthrow both, and had a tempo
rary triumph. 1t is mainly in them to
keep up am everlasting whine at being
whipped
The Kentucky member assumes to be
the special champion of the people of the
South. 1t appears to make a great deal of
difference to him which particular people,
and his zeal to save them from oppression
has only manifested itself since the poi
soned chalice they presented to others has
returned to their own lips. Had the South
obeyed my counsels she would not now
have needed his sympathy; and yet | de-
! ny that it Is any greater than my own. j
have never chosen to Justify her folly or
palliate her treason, and in opposing both
tried honestly to save her from her present
| fate. The South owes her distress to trail
tors and cannot point her finger ut me and
say did IL. As tried 10 save her in the
beginning, / have tried to restore her since
Il. Ill l.uVN Il.Nal lNa not .Wee L.
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1ie WIsuo'lI vi NY hi.',i ~ III El.llel ct'e'
I'M, nat ohiy P.oNSs9 .li"S t'i S uJis1 eun -
much common sense.
IN MS reply 10 my uelen2e against MS
un"arrahtaole et,ach, INC NeHeucky N9P-
resehta'lSe aV9ius tie hlaih issue. ne
says he c1raISeu that hls'ue 2hueIiIo'
NUN OF tennessee, aoous WhIcn l Clearly
stated ala not care ior nus OPINION, aho
then goes Or 10 justly MS IelhaIks III re
producing my HIllIlh proSlahlaIoh anU
other acts, as noVerhor ol tnaC StaIei uutI
ne hau worn OUT me pasiehce oi tne hSus'
ana everybody inquired whaI lhat haa u
do win ms so-called PERSONAL explanation
he uoes not Reproduce, however I'M
contemporaneous statement OF the repe
general, n. Is. r orrest over MS own sig
, nature, that ne had iorty thousand organ
lied kukluX III the state, nor the cohnrnn
! alton gwen 10 that statement py lhe act
OF the kuklux;
Ihere II nothlhg III my proclahatiohi
ana the nliilIary orders lssuea III PursuaIie'
thereoi requiring an answering from me IA.
| put am gIa.in9u 10 oo5erT w, on o reatine
thein over tIl'lt auheIoI III tnIouSh y
my e,.pelaloe p pm oiue tl.s IN
eeneI"si III li.Ll W ss, u's
clpllne ana 70 snow no quarter 10 oincer
OF prlEates VINO slouiu oe io"h" suh'S
7 eNCessINe uIlhhns; IL, -. lit, =.
ne ouJecls Ii ~ o',lieu guy soluie az!
! Keep V'le peaIe III teiihe5seel mhen t.%
/ peen auVIseu ny lne 1uInoiIt'S az Wasii
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