The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1872-05-23
JNO. {. BROW
His Speech before The Convention,
Accepting the Reformation


Of yorr confidence fills my heart with rn-
sPeakabIe gratitude, because in the con
srisatiouS discharge Of duty there is moth
ing more agreeable to the public servant
than to have his official acts publicly iu-
dor'ei BY the representatives ol the peo.
PIE. Less than twn year. ago you did ue
the honor to place me in the chief Eyecn.
tive chair Of your State. | found myself
surrounded with almcs, inuumorahle dir.
foul.ies. The finances Of your State
vere Frustrated. Your treasury vas ox-
hsus;ed. No stable and fixed policy had
been iuougurated. The detlils Of the
State Government, had uo' been discussed
before the people aud neither the Iegsa-
tive branch Of the government nor the Ex-
ecu,ive were certain how the State stood,
We came to administer the affairs Of the
State in the midst Of all these difficulties,
Difficulties almost insurmountnble met US
at every step; and in the midst Of these
trying difficulties havo done the best
could. thank the people whom you
represent for the compliment Of M re-
nomination. thank the people Of Ten
nossec for conccrring upon mo this un.
nerited houor. But, gentlemen, to say
more on this subject would be egotisti-
cal.
We are now on the evO of, perhaps, the
most important canvass that has ever
transpired in this country. Certainly Ten.
nesseeaus have never been called upon to
act on an occasion fraught with greater
interest to the American people.
For seven years we Of tho South partie.
uarIy, have bowed Mt the fcg, of power
and asked for constitutional guarantees;
we Of the South hayo been beyond tie
pale OF the government, When say Ho
nave Oo"eu AZ 'no ''o' V' P'"eI' ness'nS
for constitutional rights, / speak literally
the truth. The best men in the land--
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