Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-10-30
no THE BITTER End:
Ex-President 5ohnsoa's Chattanooga
Speech.

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Speech.
The Chattanooga Times publishes thret
columns of ex-President Johnson's speecl
some points not covered by our specia
of yesterday morning:
He read f.Om one of Gov. Browns
speeches to the effect that johnson had bet
ter dispose Of the lions in his way before
attacking unseen enemies. / preferred
walking around such lions as were in my
pathway. Some animals are not worth at
lacking. l suppose he would prefer me to
fight the lions instead OF going into the
woods where the unseen enemies are. But
thought | would she'll the woods. At
Springfield | opened the door to him and
offered him a division Of time to discuss
these questions to his hearts content. Gov.
Brown says that l voted in the Constitu-
tional Convention for
A PROPERTY QUALIFICATION.
/ did no such thing. The clause does not
mean that, but Gov. Brown is the last one
who should speak of it. My own letter to
Coz. Shsrkey, of Mississippi, urging prop
erty qualification, was meant to disarm the
objections of the Northern people by giving
the negroes suffrage on the same terms as
in the Northern States. But Gov. Brown
had voted for the poll-tax qualification in
the institution. That principle is con-
verting the elective franchise into merchan-
disc. A nan can't vote unless he pays for
the privilege. That's Democratic?
Franklin illustrated this in Pennsylvania.
They had property qualification Of $3.50.
If man owned an ass worth $3.50 he could
vote. If the ass died he couldn't. Then
the question is which vote i, the man or the
ass ? So the question is which votes here,
the man or the three or five dollars? Levy
the tax and collect it if you can, but let
men vote whether they have paid il or not.
Property holders do not have to pay taxes
to vote. L knew this was intended 10 strike
at a certain class, but it hits every white
man in the State. | think that's another
nail in. That makes two or three we've
got in.
NOT A FUEDER.
In his speech at Franklin, Gov. Brown
says that ex-President Johnson advised his
friends to vote for the funding bill. / will
answer that by saying, eA-President John
son did nothing of the kind. If Brown
said il he said what was rot true. Now,
the fact is, that Gov. Brown, by his influ-
ence, succeeded in getting the funding bill
passed under circumstances not very credit
able. This funding bill added an item Of
one million and a halfto our taxes in these
bard times. 1t ought TO have been called
Browns bill. Suppose L had favored it,
would that have excused him? But L
did not. Ii was wrong then and is wrong
now.
THE PENITENTIARY LEASE.
Gov. Brown is very tOuchy about the
penitenliary. One thing is clear, that
while was Governor il was not leased out
nor any one making money cut Of it.
Mr.. johnson read from one of Gov.
Browns speeches in regard to Gov. John
sons employing convicts at mechanical in
dustries. He said that he opposed IN his
convicts in mechanical industries, and read
from his message showing his argument IN
the matter, and urging the Legislature to
exclude all the branches of mechanism
from the penitentiary, but the Legislature
did not do it. Now, Gov. Brown is trying
TO make the people believe that L was re-
Sponsible. How unfair; how unmanly.
Il seems as though he was trying in
10 scatter falsehOOds among
the people.
BROWN NO DEMOCRAT.
Gov. Brown says l have never attacked
and have charged him with being
a Wing. | did not charge him with being
a Wing. l said he was no Democrat.
Look at his Hobbs and his NO5bs, and his
and lodging, and scratching.
did not charge him with being a Wing.
He was a Wing, then he was a Know
Nothing, then a rebel, then Greeley man,
and tried to force Horace Greeley upon the
country as one of the purest Democrats of
he country He Democrat Why, he is
/ perfect chameleon. When he is in the
yrass he's green, and when he is on the rail
he is gray.
l think have summed up the Governors
,ase, and, although haze hardly touched
he threshold, have used ammunition
enough TO Kill the game. Gov. Brown has
provoked this. He has brought this fight
N, and | intend it shall be fought to the
utter end.