Year: 1867

DTOWnlOW naS Qeeueu Ib necessary
to contradict the foolish statement that
he wonld favor q liberal policy toward:
the disfranchised whites. No one be
lieved the old brute capable of any
display of generosity, and the report
therefore did him no injury with his
Radical friends. A correspondent
of the Cincinnati Commercial write:
from Nashville, as follows, on the stats
of affairs in Tennessee. Coming from
o Republican source it is not bad testi
moDy:


A good deal of comment has lately
been elected, based on a reported pri
vate conversation Of Gov. Brownlow
in which he is said to have declared
that in his message to the next Legis-
latu-es he would urge the elevation to
citizenship of the now disfranchised
rebels. Whether this is really so oil
otherwise, is still q mooted point, with
the probabilities in favor of the asser'
tion that the Governor made 10 such
statement. The Press and Times of this
city, which is said to reflect the views
of Brownlow on all leading issues,
AYERS quite positively that the Cover
nor could not have been guilty of such
thing, inasmuch as the enunciation OF
such o liberal doctrine would simply be
bounding over to the Conservative
platform. Bear in mind that the issue
in the late canvass hung upon the qnes-
ton of enfranchisement, the COnserva-
tives battling for universal suffrage, the
Radicals as stoutly opposing it. In
view of the fact that in order to secure
Radical triumph, the most outrageous
wrongs and lmpositious were resorted
to by Brownlow and his election agents
aye, to the extent of disfranchising
some of the best Union men in the
State, while enfranchising swarms OF
rebels who were to vote in the Radical
interest-in view of this, it is hardly
probable that, right on the heels of a
Conservative defeat, Brownlow would
practically transfer himself to the Con-
servative platform. Besides such a
stroke of liberality is altogether incon-
sistent with the antecedents and unre-
lenting nature of the man, from whom
this policy is asked. 1t is said Cover
ner Brownlow is kind and indulgent in
the private relations of life; but who
ever knew of him to practice anything
like charity or conciliation to his enc
Tiesi And then it can hardly be denied
that the rebels of Tennessee, from some
canse or other, detest him with a
hatred that knows no bounds. 1t is
really very unfortunate that such man
is at the helm of State.


In the Radical party here in Tennes-
see there is division of sentiment on
the franchise question, goodly portion
favoring an enlightened and liberal
policy, while the entire crew ofoffice-
holders, office-seekers, and nearly the
whole rank and file of Loyal Leaguers
are firmly determined TO keep the
rebels down." as they say. Keeping
the rebels down" is the extreme rebel
shibboleth, and do you know that there
are some who would sacrifice the best
interests of the State, and gladly see n
war of the races rather than extend to
the now DISTINGUISHED masses their pre-
rebellion political rights' With them
party ascendency is everything; the
claims of our common humanity, and
the promotion of akind and generous
feeling is not to be thought of, if thereby
their party might suffer. Theliberal ele-
ment is exerting itself to give a more
charitable and generous tone to the par
w. hut has to be very cautious, or suffer
the humiliation of being kicked over
board.