the same speech at Clarksville,
Nashville, and Shelbyville; and my only regrets are, that my
engagements prevent me from delivering the same speech at every
point in this State, where Gov. Johnson held me up as the "High
Priest of the Order," and argued therefrom the _want of
respectability_ for the Order. In addition to your request, I
have had verbal applications from many gentlemen to publish my
remarks--gentlemen who have been mild and moderate throughout
their political course. I shall, therefore, comply with your
request and theirs, at my earliest convenience.

I hold that no man's position in life should shield him from
the rebukes he may merit by his bad conduct; and as for the
present Governor of Tennessee, his wholesale abuse of the
American party, towards whose members, without a single
exception, he has indulged in language which ought not to be
tolerated within the precincts of Billingsgate, no epithet is
too low, too degrading, or disgraceful, to pay him back in.

Respectfully, &c.,

W. G. BROWNLOW.

FELLOW-CITIZENS:--The occasion which has called you together to-night,
is the special appointment of our young friend, Mr. Crowe, to whose
eloquence we have all listened with pleasure. I have made no appointment
to speak here; nor have I prompted the loud and long calls made upon me,
this evening, by this large Nashville audience. I shall speak to you;
but not upon the _issues_ of the late canvass, nor upon those of the
approaching canvass of 1856. I will discuss _Andrew Johnson_ and _E. G.
Eastman_; and if they are in the assembly, I hope they will come forward
and take seats on this stand, that I may have the pleasure of looking
them full in the face, as I denounce them in unmeasured terms: which is
my purpose to-night, let the consequences be what they may!

On a memorable night in August, after it was understood that _Andrew
Johnson_ was reelected to the office of Governor, a procession was
formed in Knoxville, composed of the worst materials in that young and
growing city--such as drunken, red-mouthed Irishmen, lousy Germans, and
insolent negroes, with three or four men of respectable pretensions
thrown in, to exercise a controlling influence over these bad materials.
This riotous mob halted in front of my dwelling, in East Knoxville, and
_groaned_ and _sang_ for my especial benefit: all which was natural
enoug