Notable men of Tennessee, from 1833 to 1875, their times and their contemporaries

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NOTABLE MEN OF TENNESSEE FROM 1833 TO 1875— THEIR

TIMES AND THEIR CONTEMPORARIES 31

Chapter I

Brownlow a Native of Virginia— A Mechanic— Methodist Preacher- Established Te7inessee Whig at Elizabethton, 183S-In 1839 Removed to Jonesboro, Paper Taking Name Jonesboro Whi(j and Indepenaent— Editorial Contest Between Haynes and Brownlow— 1849, Removed Family and Paper to Knoxville— Bitter Quarrel wuth Knoxville /^emst'er— Controversy with John H. Crozier, William and James Williams, and William G. Swan— In 1860 Circulation of TT hig 14,000— Personal Characteristics— Public Spirit— As a Speaker— Influence in 1861.

Chapteb II 287

Fidelity to Friends— Newspaper Warfare with George D. Prentice-- Attitude Toward Slavery— WMV of April 20, 1861— After Battle of Bull Run— Belief in Long Continuance of War— North Had No Conception of Spirit of War in South—North and South Not Alien

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I WILLIAM GANNAWAY BROWNIjOW— Continued.

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Races— The Covenantei*— The Merrimac— The Dutch, Irish, aud German Contingent— Not Surprising Southern Soldiers Won First Victories—The Puritan— Small Farmer.

Chapter III 30r

Discontinued Publication of Paper, October 24, 1861— Flight of Union jMen to Kentucky— Thornburg and Perez Dickinson Arrested— Brownlow Refuses to Take Oath — Abortive Attempt to Escape Into Kentucky— Bridge-burning, November 8. 1861— Brownlow Escapes to Mountain — Crittenden Offers Passport After Letter from Benjamin — Brownlow Arrested— March 3, 1862, Permitted to Start for Nashville — Flag of Truce— Brownlow Meets Johnson at Capitol.

Chapter IV 311

In the North— Published Book, May. 1862— Mrs. Brownlow and Mrs. Maynard Sent Beyond the Lines- Brownlow and Family Retui-n to Knoxville, October, 1863— .January 9, 1865, INIoeting in Nashville- State Constitution Amended— Elected Governor— Ku-Klux— Bond Issues—Reconstructive Measures — Review of Secession Movement.

Chapter II 369

Democracy of Greene County— Johnson Elector for State at Large on Van Buren Ticket, 1840— Elected State Senator, 1841— Elected to Congress, 1843— Represented First District for Ten Years— Introduced Homestead Bill During Second Term— Elected Governor of Tennessee, 1853.

Chapter III 383

Succeeded Himself as Governor, 1855— Campaign with Gentry—Arraigu- ■ ment of "Know-Nothing Party."

Chapter IV 391

Elected to United States Senate. 1S57— In 1860 the Democratic Delegates from Tennessee to Charleston Instructed to Vote for Johnson for President— December 18, 19. Speech in United States Senate in Opposition to Secession— Spring of 1861, Canvass with Nelson to Save the State— Hindman's Proposition to Arrest Johnson at Rogersville Thwarted by John R. Branner. President of Railroad— Made Brigadier General by Mr. Lincoln and Appointed ^Military Governor of Tennessee on Fall of Fort Douelsim, February, 1S62.

Policy as Military Governor— April 12. 1SG4, Knoxville-Greeneville Convention Convened for Third Time— Majority Report Aimed at Johnson— '"Convention" at Nashville. January, 1865— Noted Oath for Regulation of Election of Electors— McClellan Electors Ask Lincoln to Revoke the Oath— Lincoln Declined— Johnson Takes Oath as Vice-

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ANDREW JOHNSON— ConcrMdccf.

President March 4, 186&— Remarkarble Utterances— Johnson's Change of Views After Lincoln's Death— Mr. Blaine's Views of President Johnson's Reconstruction Measures— Mr. Seward's Relations with the President.

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Bitter Quarrel Between President and Congress— Impeachment of Johnson— Failure of Southern States to Ratify "Fourteenth Amendment"— Contest Between Mr. Johnson and Republican Party— Attitude of Prominent Republicans Toward Negro Suffrage— Reconstruction— Negro Rule— Fifteenth Amendment— Civil Rights Bill- Johnson's Opposition to Fourteenth Amendment.

Chapteb VII 439

Johnson Defeated for United States Senate by Henry Cooper. 1869— Defeated for Lower House of Congress by James White, 1870— Defeated for Congress from State at Large by Horace Maynard, 1872— January, 1875, elected to United States Senate— Assails President Grant in the Extraordinary Session Convened March 4 — .Johnson's Views as to Payment of National Bonds— Bonds Issued by Tennessee.

Chapter VIII 451

My Early Impressions of Andrew Johnson— Compared with Other Public Men of His Time— Some of His Peculiar Traits and Characteristics—Intimate Friends and Their Influence— Mr. Johnson in the Senate, 1860— Personal Character and Habits— Critical Attitude of Contemporaries— Celebrated Speech in Knoxville April, 1861.