National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-27
Senator Brown rs n Republican.

To tie Editor Of The Republican:
If you will 90 to the Congressional Lii
brary and procure volume called Condition of
Affoirs in Georgia" Fortieth Congress, third ses
sion, you will find out how Chief Justice Brown
talked with the Republican side of his coat turned
to the public view. He was requested to give his
opinion on certain matters connected with the dis
pensation of law in Georgia, and he took occasion
on page AS to express himself thusly:
ATLANTA, January 3 1868.
am Republican; supported Grant and Col
fax honestly and faithfully, rejoiced at their
triumph because 1 believed their success was
necessary to the future peace and prosperity of the
whole country. Iii their defeat L was satisfied
saw the reopening of the vexed question OF recon-
bloodshed i = know sir, that your party
the So called DemOcTacy-in this State has but one
common tie that holds it together, and that is Op
DoSition to the reconstruction measures of Con-
greSS, and that tie will become a rope of sand as
soon as Congress ceases to legiSlate upon this
question and to give the leaders of Your
party new causes of agitation and COM
plant, which enable them to ply the party
lash to hold the organization together. 1t is a
heterogeneous mass OF as antagOnlstlc elements as
ever banded together i'll one common cause. 1t is
composed Of original Wings, Democrats, Know
Nothings secesSioniSts, Union men, white men,
Mestin0es, and negroes. Some of its leaders are
bitterly hostile to each other, and denounce each
other on every stump where they speak. Your
Ldrge majority obtained IN the State IN LRdny places
by untdrneSS intimidation, and fraud, and not By the
lCedpORS OF reason and truth. You will soon advo-
cate the right of the negro to hold office to get his
VOTE If 50, 900 to 10000 cOlOred voters in State
with only 100000 voters cannot with the ballot in
their hands protect the rights of their it is
because they have not intelligence to know how
to use it. oppose congressional legislation on this
question, because l know it Will enable the party
leaders to hold the present So-called Democratic
party togetherand will nfiict upon the Republican
party blow which it will not recover from in
years to come. Very respectfully. your Obedient
servant, JOSEPH L. BROWN.
Hon. NELSON TIT.
The Senator was red hot Republican $50 called
about that time, but he turned his coat soon as
the Democrats obtained control of the State Offices
to maintain his hold the State road lease (which
Senator Voorhees, denounced so eloquently in his
congressional speech the plumber of the eleven
Southern States ~ and also to maintain his hold
on the convict slaves of Georgia, of whom he is
tod ay master and general director, having guar
anteed to him. through Democratic legislation,
three hundred able bodied, longterm convicts for
the space of twenty years, beginning on the 1st of
April 1879. Of 200 cOnvictS, only I'D white;
gro does not reach far Us his coal mines in Dade
County, where the poor wretcheS work under
ground (Oftentime for light otfenses), for twenty
years, in a system of slavery that would disgrace
the Gold Coast of Africa. Senator Brown was
never a Republican from principle-itappeared to
be simply condition precedent to bargain"
lie ran as an Independent Democrat for the SEN
Mr.. GarfeldS Cabinet, ard the grapes are now very
sour. As Senator Malone ably remarked, Mr..
Brown failed to know his opportunity. To see
this trading politician rebuEe trickery savOrS of
Satan rebuking sin. GEORGIA.
ATLANTA, April 3d. 1881.