The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-10-29
Bx-Gov. Neil s. Brown.

Ex-Gov. Neil 5. Brown is confined
! nowadays to his home across the river,
and even to his room. His familiar
face has not been seen on the streets OF
Nashville in so long time that the
| young generation now coming on the
scene of action scarcely know OF such
a man. He is about "a years old, and
| has been an actor of some weight iDsthe
nations affairs. In lS4S he was made
governor of this state, and during Fill
more's administration was sent as min
lister of the United States to Russia,
through Bells weighty influence with
that administration and with Taylor,
who followed. Gov. Brown was never
an exceptionally able man, for he
lacked the strong foundation which in
formation gives to public man HIS
nature has been of the emotional order,
intensely sympathetic. As q public
speaker he was first and last strongly
given to the flowery and ornate-a hol-
iday speaker In this respect, unlike
Andrew johnson, such forcihle an
tagOnist in the intricscies of a pro-
longed debate.-American,
The same amount of ignorance
and bad taste has seldom been
couched in so small a space as in
the foregoing article. Taylor's ad
ministration did not follow Fill
more's. Fillmore was elected vice
president on the Taylor ticket Tay-
lor died in one month after taking
the oath of Office and Fillmore be
came president 1t was not Bells
weighty influence by which Gov.
Brown, during Fillmore's admins
tration, was sent as minister tol
Russia. Its was Gov. Bro WIS own
inherent strength with the admins
tration. Gov. n. S. Brown had
more to do INFRINGING Gen. Taylor
forward as the Wing candidate for
president than any man in the
United States. Ia fact, as Col.
Benton said about himself in al
memorable affair, SOLITARY and
alone" Gov. Brown "put the ball in
motion" In 1847, when candi
date for governor, he ran up the
name of Zachary Taylor for presi-
dent and presented his claims in
every speech. This canvass united |
the Wings of Tennessee on Taylor
His name was taken up in other
states, and at the convention the
Tennessee delegation took the lead |
and pressed Taylor and he and Fill
more were nominated.
The balance OF the article about
Gov. Brown does him the grossest
injustice, besides being strangely
out of taste.
The propriety of discussing the
merits or dement's especially to
say he was wanting in information
of such a citizen as cx-Gov.
Brown ought to have been decided
before pencil touched paper. But
the unaccountably strange intro
duction of this subject "as town
topic" and the more unaccounta-
bly, strange act of injustice TO the
distinguished citizen, so lnoppor-
tunely brought before the public,
make it proper for US to do Justice
by correcting the ignorant allusion
to one of Tennessee's most eminent
as wanting in information,
aud being only a sort of holiday
speaker.
Instead of being a public man,
in information, Gov. Brown,
from his early manhood, was not
only man of great culture and re
1nement, but a man of extensive
reading, possessing vast fund of
information, as well in ancient his
,ory as modern and passing events.
When he came to the front as a
young man and leader Of his par
", coming from the country as a
'ehool-teacher, born of humble pa
'ents and raised IN a cabin, he was
'or many years literally the idol of
lis party-a party that had in it