New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-11-02
THE SOUTH-TWO VIEWS.

LETTER FROM EX-SENATOR BROWNLOW.
Az .ppFA, To TUE UNION MEN OF THE NORTH NOT
10 TRUST THE sOUTH-THE CAUSE LOST BY
ARMS TO BE WON BY THE BALLOT.
70 the EdttOr OF The Tribune.
SIR: As one who knows precisely what IS meant
by solid South" l beg leave, in view OF the
perils which threaten our common country 10 al
dress few words of warning to the people OF the
North who saved the Union from the maestTom OF
accession. Let no man dclude himself into the be-
lief that the success of Samuel j. Tilden as the
leader of Democracy does not mean southern
supremacy was born in the South and have spent
nv whole life, nearly three-quarters oil century
among the Southern Democratic leaders ana l mo"
that | understand Them l speak torth inc "OiuS
nj truth and soberness when 1 say that they
intent to accomplish through the oaiioV
box what they failed to achieve Oh the
bloody field. They are deaf to the lessons
of the terrible past. They are determined TO carry
ont their purposes and render their past treason re-
speetable. At my time of life, when neither seek
nor expect Office, can have no motive to deceive
Won. am animated only by a longing desire to see
opr free institutions perpetuaed, and the affairs OF
this government so administered that when am
dead and gone posterty may enjoy degree OF pros
nerity and peace at least equal TO that enjoyed by
the country during my life time. l am thoroughly
convinced yea know that such will not ana can
mot he the case if the Democratic party succeeds III
this contest
Asan evidence of the spirit of Southern Democ-
rae. | have only to state that, few days ago
Isham g. Harris visited Knoxville. He 1t was, as
Governor of the State in 1861 that forced Iennes-
see ont of the Union. He disregarded the VIII OF
the people as expressed at the bailot-ooN' ana ae
on,nIisbed his purposes with the aid of Confederate
h. .lafl LODI
Secession doctrine of State sovereignty, and said he
had no regrets to express apologies TO offer for the
mast He is a candidate for the United States Sen
ate. and received such an ovation in Knoxville as
has been rendered no man since the war. The policy
of the Democratic party in this canvass Is TO carry
"solid South" with the aid of the shotgun ana
pistol and then, by a free use or money
enough Northern States to elect Mr. IIlden
On behalf of the Union men of East Tennessee,
whose devotion TO principle was tried IN the hlc
who with death and destruction staring them III The
face stood true to the Union who met mailyrooh
in its most terrible forms and who never WaNered III
the hour of their countrys peril ON behalf Oh theSe
and the Union men of the South generally appea!
10 tho people of the North not to forget the lessons
Of the past written in characters of blood but stand
firm in this contest. With all their protestatohs 10
the contrary in the secret depths of their hearts
these Southern leaders cherish fond recOcctons OF
the lost cause and through the election OF llIdeh
and the accession to power of the Democratic party
they expect 10 see it resusctated Can 1t be that ID
so short time the people in States when remained
true to the Union arc going TO forget u!e
fearful struggle which bequcathcd them such
q legacy of debt; so many empty chairs; so many
widows and orphans; and more than half million
Graves over which the grass of a dozen summers
grows green to-day, and in which sleep then
brothers husbands, and fathers, and conhdc the
destinies of this great country TO the keeping OF
those who attempted its destruction only few
wears agol cannot and do nOtsbelieye 1t. kno"
that if the people of the North had seen that hdeons
rebellion as we, the loyal people of the South saw
il there would be absolutely no danger TO fear
/ trust and believe that your ballots on the Uh
day of November will, like the long INES OF our
nished steel in the hands of your brave sons during
the period from SCI to 1865, say TO the world III
thunder tones This is a nation, and as such 1t shall
be perpetuated through all time.
w. G. BRowNIow.
EnoJri1e T,nu. Oct 80, 1876.