Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-05-04
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WIZ Ehlca they naiieo him to day, and stated
| that he should proceed to discuss what he con-
sdered the great issues of the day; and as
he audience had heard Gov HARR1s, he ho-
| ped they would give him q patient hearing and
then judge between them. He proceeded 10 ihetask
before him BY remarkiBg thsths thought his com
peitor little at fault in his tactics He desired to
know if Gov. HARRIs supposed, after the Democratic
party have done so much mischief~after assuming
the reins of government with SverfowiDg treasu-
ry aud squandering the money for corrupt purposes
until they had 50 nearly bankrup'ed the government
that it cannot pay forty dollars, that he (Col.
NErHERLASD) was to be led of by the cry of niger
and AbotiOnism into the discussion of distractions
and questions which were deadi Not at ALL he
before the people to defend but to prosecute
He referred to the conventions that had nominsted
his competitor and himself, and said he supposed
6ev. HARRIS would stand upon the platform erected
for him, although he had not said he would. As
for hmself he should stand upon the platform of his
party. He thought he had discovered an ugly spin
ter in CT the planks of he platform of his COM
petitor, and that he had walked tender-footed
it, The first resolution Of his competitors platform
was fora strict construction, Of ;he constitution,
and the Democratic party claimed TO be strict
/ cODstruetionists Waeu talking Of the damage the
Democratic party have dcae, he wished it UNDER
stood he did not mean the masses, Of tha party but
the leaders He regarded the masses as perfectly
honest aud disposed to do rigq, he did those of
the Wing party, and he was glad that great many
i Democrats were going to vote for, and elect him,
as he was to be elected; that was q fixed fact.
But how do the leaders of the Democratic party carry
/
They met at Cincinnati to nominate candidate
for President, and they there adopted resolution of
sympathy with Gen. WALLER in his efforts to eslab-
lish American institutions in Central America. This
was before the election. After the election an Off
Ger Of the Navy sent out to bring WALKER back.
He would like to know where they found any thing
in the constitution auhOrsing such proceeding
The Democratic party professed to be in favor of
a tariff for revenue slone-ihey so declare in their
platform adopted at Cincinnati, and yetthey nomi>
mated and voted for JAMES BUCHANAN, who had al
ways been in favor of high protective tariff.
The Democratic party was for Cuba; so vas his
party. If Spain would sell Cuba, he was in favor
of giving the last dollar for it that it is worth
When the Democratic party assumed the control
of the Government there we're SIT 900, 600 in the
duu Au6ES II INV IL WAS I'LL stiuhu-
dered, and so extrsvagant had the administration
become, that we find leading members of that par.
! ty in various parts Of the country denouucing it.
| WISE was making var upon that party in Virgil, ala,
and SoULE doing The same in Louisiana. 1t
was but the other day that meetipg'of Democrats
was held 10 Louisiana, headed By SoULE, that de-
: uOuneed the administration for It's corruptions
These mutieFings Of discomfort explained the rea-
of the excitement that was attempted to be got
ten up about Cuba.
He could not see the proprety necessity Ct agi-
tating the slavery question here. There was no
Abolition party in Tennessee. 1t would be calum-
ny to call the Democrats of Tennessee Aboliiionsts
Neither are the Wings AbOlitionists. Let papers as
sert as they may, he declared that it was caumny
to charge tina. the Wings were AbolitiOusts and he
was there to defend them against all such charges
His honorable competitor (Gov. Harris) was true
Southern Democrat and it afforded him pleasure to
bear this testimony He claimed himself to be true
to the South, and presumed Gov Harris would not
charge otherwise, as it would be unjust.
The Democratic Convention which nominated his
competitor, found it difficult to agree in regard to
the currency, and he thought there was a splinter
in this plank of his competitors platform, over
which he walked rather tendery.
! He had said there was trouble in the Demo.
cratic Convention in fixing up the currency plank
PHIL GLENN, of Somerville, was there, and he made
speech to the Convention. Pull. was good fell
low, but an awful Democrat and he told the Con-
ventiOn that whether ths7plauk was hard r soft he
was going with the Democracy. He further told
the Convention that he had met a man down in
West Tennessee, who could read, write aud CIPHER,
a very smart man, too, who told him that if the
Democratic party would throw niger at the OppOsi
! tiOn they could beat them easily.
TGen GLENN said lie had heard ETHERIDGE, a
man who could ''read, write and cypher," remark
in speech that the Democrats had beaten their
opponents since they had directed their atten-
tion to ''the niger In the woOdpie"]
Col. NETHERLAxD read the resolutions adopted by
e meeting ef Democrats ct the Capitol in September
last, in which it declared that gold and silver
constituted the only constitutional currency. The
platform of his competitor opposed the recharteriug
of the present banks, and favored a near ap-
prOach to constitutional currency as wise anu
proper Before legislator takes his seat, he takes
an oath to support the constitution, and he desired
to know how a near approach could be made to a
Al6 AeAoEIeu u tue HCllOn
Of various democratic county meetings on the cur
rency question. Some were for hard money and
some we're net for hard money When the Conven-
ton met the object was to make platform to catch
everybody. ANDREW EWING was on the Committee,
and so was Jo GUILD. One man would say, ''put |
It down hard, Mr. EWING" but he did not like to do
it, and GUILD said, damn it, put down anything |
to fool the rascss;" and thus it was fixed up When
the platform reached Brownsville where he was
attending court he asked Ger. MnLIGAN, of Greene,
what they were going to do with it, and the General
said it was big web to catch all the flies.
Col NETHRRLAND said he understood Gov HARRIS
was a hard money man, and he wished him to state
whether he vas hard or soft. He regarded the res.
OiuiiOns adopted a. the September meeting by his
(GJv. HARRIsO suggestion. as hard, and opposed
to the recharteriIg of existing banks. Gov JoHS-
SON attended that meeting, and in his Greenevile
speech he olassed himself among the hardest and
said there were no softs. He desired to know
whether Gov HARRIS was in favor of ehsrteripg
any bank. If Gov. HARRIS was in favor of paper
currency convertible into gold and silver, he stood
with him.
Col NETHERLAND said Gov. HARRIS had brought l
up certain charges against him during his legislative
career That was long time ago and had nothing :