The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-16
SENATOR BROWN ONE
 IF SOUTH'S W|SEST
Sentiment and Business Judg- ment Remarkably Combined
WAR GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA
Col. J. F. B. Jackson Recalls the Days When He Was Sheriff and Brown Was Judge In the Same
 County.

Speaking of great senator's" remarked Col. J. F. B. Jackson. an ex-Georsian, "one of the really olg senators the south has sent to Washington since the war was Joseph E. Brown of Georgia. His views on public questions were pronounced. He was ever practical
 "To illustrate: Brown was accustomed to say to young men and all political stu dents under his guidance not young man flag and an appropriation I have often thought him right, for in that advice Is embraced sentiment and business. Brown was not an orator in the common accep- tance of the term. If he possessed one iota of brillancy it was simply In the force of his pronunciation. He was a great stclller for old-fashioned pronuncia- ton, and when his great. long feet and large hands would move in response to his thoughts he would invariably use the word judgment with the emphasis on the last syllable. To illustrate: The cenator was great friend of Hon. Benjamin H. l Hill, but he doubted the wisdom of his course sometimes, and I once heard him say If I could take a gimlet and bore some Judgment into Ben Hills body 1 would make of him perfect man. He l is brainy and brilliant
 ''I was sheriff of Georgia county when Joe Brown was the circuit judge and he l was great even then. He transacted court l business In a business like way and l have heard him say to lawyers: Do not consume the time of jurors, ballitfs and clerks in demurrers, but come to my room from ' to II o'clock tonight, and we will take these matters up in chambers That was just like him.
 Joe Brown was a prominent church. mana Baptist, a strong supporter finan- cially and otherwise of that denominations yet he was a man of action Individually and in his state. His physical courage was never questioned his social life superb, his business accumen never ex- celled.
 Speaking of his church connections: On one occasion Gen. Bob Toombs became of tended at something Brown had said or done and though friend sent word to Joe that if 1t were not for his church connection he would call him to the field of honor Brown replied to Toombs that he would willingly accommodate him by discarding for time his church member l ship. Nothing more was done. "As you know continued Colonel Jack son, Brown was the war-goyernor of Georgia and always a strong democrat It has been said of him that he was the only | leading southerner who was really guilty of treason against the federal government, in that he drove the federal troops from Fort Pulaski and placed therein state troops before Georgia seceeded from the | union.
 After the war Governor Brown accept ed the situation, and was accorded a posi- | tion by the federal and republican regime of Georgia to solve the problem. Repub- lcan Governor Bulloch appointed him chief justice of the supreme court. which office he filled with honor and' credit Tn 1876 the democratic convention, which nominated Tilden at St. Louis, de- clared by resolution, for the first time after the war, it's allegiance to the Amer
  Then it was that Joe Brown said: That 1 is right. The democratic party has ac- cepted the situation and come back to me. l am democrat
 1 And so he was. so much so that the democracy of Georgia made him its leader once again; and most remarkable is the | fact that he was appointed by a dem ocratic governor and elected by a dem ocratic legislature to the United States Senate, and there remained to the end of his life.
 l "Joe Brown was wise and powerful in every calling of life, and died with credit | to his religious, charitable and educa- tional accounts, and left wealth to his family and much to his friends