Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-07-04
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mountains We have On our ID &c fourTery lengthy
letters giving accounts of the discussions at New
Port, Sevierville and JonesbsE ough. We regret
that we have not space for theGS at length We Can
only give an extract from EACH US indicative of the
triumph Of our candidate and the warmth of feeling
that is animating the Democracy throughout the
Stete:
NEWPORT, June 81 1851
The candidates for Governor spoke in this place
to day. 4
In conclusion permit me to say that il was the gen
eral opinion of the crowd here that in point of solid
ability, there never were two candidates the
stump for Governornor in Tennessee before who
cOntrasted so widely l gave my first vote for Gov
ernor for Newton Cannon, when first elected, and
am free to say that in my judgment, there never
has been since that time candidate for that high
office of such small claim to craftsmanship es the
present Know Nothing candidate. This is the gen.
eral opinion here. l suppose, however, that they
would not have nominated him if they had expected
to have elected him.
ALI moves we'll with our party here. We shall
make a gain over the last vote The Vatican
has lost its terror to our sworn neighbors in
these parasitic carpet bag of the JarineT is no
longer considered a fore of dire celamities,
and after the 4th of August next all will be well
with US. COOKE.
SEvIeRvILLE, Tenn, June 25, '51.
Mr.. EDITOR The candidates for Governor ad-
dressed the people of seyier to-day at this place
Mr. Hatton lead of by saying thai he was the can
didae of The Wing and American parties for Gov
ernor of Tennessee, and stated that the subject to
which he would more particularly invite the atten-
tion of the people that ofte distribution of the
public lands among the States. lie consumed an
hour on this subject.
The extravagant calculations and assertions of
Mr. Hatton were such as TO make every intelligent
man present see that his sole OBJECT was to humbug
the people, and disguise by his distribution scheme,
the hideous determines of know nothingism, which
are becoming daily more offensive to theu-
| Hatton did by means prove himself the Ajax he
| had been represented to be by the know nothing
press He next apologised for his vote for county
Judge and Tax Assessor, and told the people far
as he was acquainted the law did not meet the end
for which it was enacted that it error in leg
islation &C.. and that if he had performed his du-
ties badly as a legislator in voting for these mea
sures some democrats had, too
General Harris replied to the speech of Mr. Hat
ton by saying FIRST that he was not fortunate as
| his competor-that he not the candidate of tro
parties but that he was the Candidate of the Demo
| cratic party for Governor of Tinnessee and asked
the audience if it did not seemso them remarkably
strange TO hear a candidate i the Know Nothing
| party use the name "Whig," Then, but two short
| years age all Wings who refusC from patriotic mo-
tives to cooperate with the IN. party de-
bounced and prescribed for kir " obnoxious acts
and violated pledges, and lt they, the X. N.
| party, could not be held respo bic for them. He
showed clearly to the people utter impractical
bility and uncOnstitutiOnaly - the distribution of
the public lands, and in the d. !ssion of the subject
displayed the ability of state of the first rank.
He went to the plain facts ar> .gures, and showed
conclusivey that the whole syi$ m advocated by his
| competitor was fallacious, an hat the system had
| long since been abandoded be great champions
of the old Wing party, Clay Webster, and was
now made an issue in this cal to sustain party
which has rendered itself par arly obnoxious to
the people of the Southern He showed that
should the public lands cease 80 a source of rev.
enue to the General Govern a by carrying into
practical operation the syst Of his competitor,
that the deficit would inevita S AVE to be supplied
either in direct indirect Ia n: that the South
being exclusively agricult people, consumers
| and not manufacturers, the 81 burthen of sup
plying this deficit in the of the General
Government will fall upon t,sS4k nd the Northern
States would realise the b of the pre- ective
policy that would be establish Gen Harris said
he could not believe that L. competitor was so
| viz To GtlougbipU borr md
faxen-hared" girl educated, or he would not have
introduced into the last Legislature his famous Nor
NAL School BILL approprating fifty thousand dollars
to the establishment of said school, andve thousand
dollars annually to the maintenance of the same,
and only three or four boys to be educated out of
each Senatorial district That ifhe desired so much
to see the bueeyed boy and haxen haired girl edu-
Gated why didhe not appropriate this enormous sum
of money to the common school fund, and let it be
generally dused throughout the whole State, where
all would have received alike the benefit?
The proceedings of the day were very much to
the satisfaction of the Democracy, who are in high
spirits. ALPHA.
JoNEsBoRo, July l, 1857.
Mr.. EDIToR:-The candidates for Governor spoke
here to-day. Hatton introduced his speech by adj
verting the Distribution question: and upon con-
sumed almost two-thirds of his time, from which
you may note the prominence this question has as
sumed in the present canvass. He next brought
up the Alien suffrage question: said the doctrine was
"infamous and smelt to heaven" (but whether the
smell was pleasant not he did not say,) and
charged the democracy with being its advocates
He then concluded his speech by advertng to some
of Gen. Hsrriss votes in the Tennessee Legislature
and Congress-the Qualification resoutions-the
Memphis memorial, and wound up by asking the
people to vote for him if they thought him right
&C., &C.
Gen. Harris then took the stand-said he was
the candidate of but one party-the Democratic
party-wheress, Hatton boosted of being the can
didate of two-the Know Nothing and Wing. Chow
happens it," enquired Gen. Harris, ''thst but a
short time ago the Know Nothings Wanted them
selves as being the only pure party in the govern
ment-that the old Wing and Democratic parties
were corrupt, and they were not responsible for
their broken promises and violated pledges and
yet they are now counting the Wings, and throwing
out tub to the whale, in the shape of 'Distri-
button, for their votes" His retort on this point
was perfectly overwhelming.
Gen. Harris then went on to discuss the distribu,