Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: Brownlow published this circular for the "Loyal Men of Tennessee" to protest the appointment of General Longstreet as Surveyor of Customs for the Port of New Orleans and to refute Andrew Johnson's suggestion that he had received funds from Johnson to start a Union newspaper in Knoxville. Brownlow presents his protest by sharing the speech he had made before the U.S. Senate wherein he described Longstreet's actions against the federal government. His refutation is reprinted from a...