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State of TennesseeDepartment of State Tennessee State Library and Archives 403 Seventh Avenue North Nashville, Tennessee 37243-0312BROWN, JOHN CALVIN GOVERNOR_JOHN_CALVIN_BROWN_PAPERS_1871-1875 (1827-1889) PAPERS, 1871-1875GP 23Processed by.Elbert WatsonArchives Division. TSLA (1964)David R. SowellArchival Technical Services, TSLA (2007)Date completed: 1964 Reprocessed: 2007MICROFILMEDWith the exception of folders 6-10 in Box 7.SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTEThe official papers of Governor John c. GOVERNOR_JOHN_CALVIN_BROWN_PAPERS_1871-1875 Brown, 1871-1875, deal with many subjects of significant interest to researchers studying Tennessee during the period of Reconstruction. One quicklyGOVERNOR_JOHN_CALVIN_BROWN_PAPERS_1871-1875
notes the undisguised relief of citizens over this regaining control of the reins of state government through the election of Brown, a former Whig butState of TennesseeDepartment of State Tennessee State Library and Archives 403 Seventh Avenue North Nashville, Tennessee 37243-0312BROWN, JOHN CALVIN GOVERNOR_JOHN_CALVIN_BROWN_PAPERS_1871-1875ty' who is in favor of putting negroes on an equality with white people I have no use for: (2) “Mr. Hill served with honor and fidelity to the Confederate States through the late war."Many applicants for appointive offices apparently believed that past encounters with Radical candidates automaticall GOVERNOR_JOHN_CALVIN_BROWN_PAPERS_1871-1875y enhanced their chances for securing the desired position. Knoxville’s John H. Crozier, for instance, on November 24, 1871. applied for the positionGOVERNOR_JOHN_CALVIN_BROWN_PAPERS_1871-1875
of Attorney General for the Criminal Court of Knox County. As a Conservative, he reminded Brown that earlier a convention had disqualified him (CrozieState of TennesseeDepartment of State Tennessee State Library and Archives 403 Seventh Avenue North Nashville, Tennessee 37243-0312BROWN, JOHN CALVIN GOVERNOR_JOHN_CALVIN_BROWN_PAPERS_1871-1875minent [men] will exist just as long as union men are benefited by it, and they will never surrender it until their eyes are accustomed to seeing rebels in office, and are made to understand that, with peace, all prejudices on account of the war must be buried". Another writer, James Mitchell of Dan GOVERNOR_JOHN_CALVIN_BROWN_PAPERS_1871-1875dridge, on December 8. 1871. recommended James p. Swann to the office of Supreme Judge, but slightly altered his evaluation because Swann had been a uGOVERNOR_JOHN_CALVIN_BROWN_PAPERS_1871-1875
nion man. Despite this handicap. Mitchell knew him to be “honest and linn. When the carpet-baggers were overrunning the country, he was the first man State of TennesseeDepartment of State Tennessee State Library and Archives 403 Seventh Avenue North Nashville, Tennessee 37243-0312BROWN, JOHN CALVIN GOVERNOR_JOHN_CALVIN_BROWN_PAPERS_1871-1875overnor Brownlow’s name was mentioned only occasionally throughout the collection. One interesting, though not particularly significant, letter from p. N. Vignolles sought to collect a claim dating back to 1867 when he made sketches for a statue of Abraham Lincoln to be erected on the Capitol ground GOVERNOR_JOHN_CALVIN_BROWN_PAPERS_1871-1875s. Across the years. Brownlow, now a United States Senator, had failed to acknowledge the bill, so now Vignolles appealed to Brown. (Box 2. Folder 1)FGOVERNOR_JOHN_CALVIN_BROWN_PAPERS_1871-1875
oreign immigration, especially that of the Swiss into Grundy County, is covered extensively in the Brown Papers. The largest portion of this corresponState of TennesseeDepartment of State Tennessee State Library and Archives 403 Seventh Avenue North Nashville, Tennessee 37243-0312BROWN, JOHN CALVIN GOVERNOR_JOHN_CALVIN_BROWN_PAPERS_1871-1875 the immigrants, c. w. Charlton, Commissioner for Immigration for East Tennessee, pushed this project with considerable vigor. For some reason not brought out in the correspondence. Brown did not evince the enthusiasm which Charlton thought necessary to successfully accomplish the program, so the la GOVERNOR_JOHN_CALVIN_BROWN_PAPERS_1871-1875tter encouraged him to clearly state his position so the masses could understand. He also stressed that Radicals were attempting to misrepresent the gGOVERNOR_JOHN_CALVIN_BROWN_PAPERS_1871-1875
overnor because if his silence. Although defending himself against being unfriendly to Swiss immigration. Governor Brown wrote: “I admit that I have nState of TennesseeDepartment of State Tennessee State Library and Archives 403 Seventh Avenue North Nashville, Tennessee 37243-0312BROWN, JOHN CALVIN GOVERNOR_JOHN_CALVIN_BROWN_PAPERS_1871-1875een stimulated a little had 1 been fortunate enough to own a few thousand acres of wild poor lands that could not be sold to Native Americans nor to any one else except some adventurer who was colonizing a part}- of foreigners to make all he could out of them."The deplorable murder of J.u. Baur, a S GOVERNOR_JOHN_CALVIN_BROWN_PAPERS_1871-1875wiss native and founder of the Gruetli settlement, also appears in the correspondence of John Hitz. Consul General of Switzerland residing in WashingtGOVERNOR_JOHN_CALVIN_BROWN_PAPERS_1871-1875
on. Hitz demanded "prompt punishment of the offenders,” believing that this alone would "in a measure mitigate the effects and reestablish to some extState of TennesseeDepartment of State Tennessee State Library and Archives 403 Seventh Avenue North Nashville, Tennessee 37243-0312BROWN, JOHN CALVIN GOVERNOR_JOHN_CALVIN_BROWN_PAPERS_1871-1875ssee will henceforth avail nothing in securing” Swiss immigrants. (Box 4)John Williams in 1871 gave a personal insight into the character of former president Andrew Johnson, following a speech in which Governor Brown had apparently made some unkind references to Johnson. Williams believed that Johns GOVERNOR_JOHN_CALVIN_BROWN_PAPERS_1871-1875on planned a reply, but had restrained himself thus far. “Mr. Johnson is not a malignant man. as many suppose him to be". Williams wrote. “On the contGOVERNOR_JOHN_CALVIN_BROWN_PAPERS_1871-1875
rary, is forgiving in a high degree, and is willing to yield to others in whom he has confidence" (Box 1. Folder 3).Aside from these major consideratiState of TennesseeDepartment of State Tennessee State Library and Archives 403 Seventh Avenue North Nashville, Tennessee 37243-0312BROWN, JOHN CALVIN GOVERNOR_JOHN_CALVIN_BROWN_PAPERS_1871-1875timate details of the edifice's appearance and furnishings. One writer, identified only as the "Louisiana Tiger." an inmate at the state prison, told of the intolerable conditions which he and his fellow prisoners experienced there. (Box 1, Folder 6) Apparently aged, the "Tiger's” style of writing a GOVERNOR_JOHN_CALVIN_BROWN_PAPERS_1871-1875nd word usage are unusually good. Indications are that he had spent many years in his confinement. Students of Judge Thomas A. R. Nelson, the unionistGOVERNOR_JOHN_CALVIN_BROWN_PAPERS_1871-1875
, will be interested in his correspondence offering his resignation, one reason being the forthcoming trial of his son who was accused of murdering foState of TennesseeDepartment of State Tennessee State Library and Archives 403 Seventh Avenue North Nashville, Tennessee 37243-0312BROWN, JOHN CALVIN State of TennesseeDepartment of State Tennessee State Library and Archives 403 Seventh Avenue North Nashville, Tennessee 37243-0312BROWN, JOHN CALVINGọi ngay
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