Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-05-04

ments cannot be still further reduced, and promise
them all the aid in my poser in prosecuting the
investigation"
In accordance with this suggestion, the Senate
passed resolution requesting him to cause the
heads Of the various Executive Departments ITO
submit estimates Of shs expenditures Of the Gov.
eminent TO the thirty-sizta Congress, upon basis
not exceeding $50 100000 per annum, exclusive of
The public debt and The interest thereon"
Il will be further seen, said Gov. r., BY refer
eoce TO the appropriation bill of the recent Con.
gress that The Democratic party have COM
menced the WorA Of retrenchment, and that
they have been able to bring down the segre
gate expenses Of al the other departments of
The Government, with the solitary exception of the
Pos Office Department, TO Sal 1870, 1874; and of this
SO 600 was to provide for pensts Of investigating
committees and Se2l 126 to carry into effect treaty
stipuistions With certain Indian tribes
Not having time to travel over the entire ground
embraced in this subject, Gov. II. contented him
selfby again Challenging bis competitor to show
single instance Of Wasteful and profgate expendi-
tnre ia the history of the government for which
| majority Of The Opposition had not voted. He had
examined the records of the country careful ly and
he had never found one, and he not believe Lis
competitor conlI.
Gov HARRIS proposed next in order, to speak of
things which had a more immediate bearing upon
his competitor. He desired to examine his compe-
THOR politically aud see of what kind Of material
ne was made lie had recently stumbled upon
speech delivered years since in the Legislature
of Tennessee, by a gentleman of high authority
with the Opposition aud justly esteemed by his
petitOr. He called attention 10 the following ex
! srsct from that speech:
81 admire he of President jackson in veto-
Dgihe Bank of the UBitedStates. l should support q
tariff for revenue, but now for protection be-
neving as do, that II operates uneQualiy on the
| different paris Of the Union, and that inequality
mounting TO injustice if not oppression. / have
| always opposed the doctine Of internal improves
| nent by the jvernment and took stand against
1t 50 far the expression of opinion could CO. when
he great National Road was prom sed tc Tennessee,
Rhen the Representative from the district in
which lived, elected the doctrine, voted In
It's favor, and advocated the passage Of the bill IN
an allie speech. On this question at that time
Uttered with almost al who spoke of il in my coun
! y and the surrounding counties; | stood almost
alone aud felt solitary aud when the President is
sued his veto on the Msysyiile road many, after
readlI his doctrine and contained in that
able STATE paper, thought and spoke with me-. 1
vas no longer lonesome. but crowded with COM
pduyt not iOJ 30, because SUN I0unu myself
10 the ranks with men, who, by the convictions Of
reason, had taken proper view of the subject and
| rtjotced at it l had always doubted the consti
uiiOnal power Of Congress the subject, and had
40 doubI Of the dangerous and unhappy influence
Shich the ctrne ", uld exc sheH carried out to
he pO'nt which its advocates wished to pursue"
This, said Gov. H., is sound doctrine. 1t sounds
very much like the Democratic speeches of the pres
day; and he was glad to see that, notwthstand-
ing men and leaders bsve So often changed, Demo-
cratic principles remain the same. Would the
dienee believe that the same man who uttered these
sentiments Of hostility to Banks hostility to pro-
ective tariff; hostility to Internal improvements;
and admiration for the craftsmanship of ASDEEw
Jackson, in speech in the Tennessee Legislature
Of 1886, is the identical gentleman nominated by the
Opposition 10 Tennessee their candidate for Cover
nor? Would they believe it Aad yet strange as il
night seem the facts were that way.
After sll this devotion TO Democratic principles,
his competitor determined to change aud, in order
to up his inconsistency he endeaVored to show
that in sustaining Judge WnrE for the Presidency,
chad view the success of these principles -
IA one of the Electors the White ticket for the
Presidency in 1886, Col. Netherland published en-
add ess to the people of the State from which Gov
Harris read as follows:
'Sinee the organization of our State, her politics
have been decidedly of the republican school Al
most without division upon the leading princi pies,
which have divided the great parties of the
iou, Tennessee has, with Que voice sustained the
Eerlnes advocated by the republicans Judge
Whine, had fer long life, with equal uniformity,
ustsined the pi iciples, and with consistency
almost uRequalled IN he has DRY Of public men. He
known 10 be opposed TO the Iatitud marian priu
cipies OF The FEDERAL party, and even of some who
claimed to belong 10 tie republican school He was
opposed to Iniernsl improvements by the general
government he was opposed 10 tariff for pro-
lection = In sustaining him scs hare
a visU to the success Of these principles
One error leads to another, and his competitor as
ne would show, had been laundering ever since
Up, the subject of banks he had been very unfor.
unate. He CHANGED to be in the Legislature wHen
he Planters Bank was chartered at that time
there very few of those institutions in Teunes-
zee, but Col. NETHERLAND voted against and endeaV
ored to defeat the charter Of that instu ion. Will
he tell us what new lights have dawned upon him
since? or will he play mum upon this subject?
Again we fnd him upon a committee to investigate
eertain alleged outrages on the part of the Union
sank. That bsuk had refused to pay over to the
state the divid, nds arising from the stock of the
State. The committee, of which his competitor was
member in their report upon the facts of the case
aid:
Such conduct between individuals would be
igmafised as Fraudulent aud can only be explain
II 10 The present los ance by the well ss abiished
act thai corporations in their aggregate capacity,
Sill, upon their int responsibility, frequently
NIT acts 'rieh ild'UiduaLs they UouLd blush to
JUSTIFY"
This was the language Of Col. NETHERLASD when
Democrat OF course he will have to talk differ
emily now as be is ambitious to be recognized the Pc
oulisr champion of the banks. The only bank that
scaped his ire, said Gov H., was the little shin
asteE concern of YEATMAS, WOODS & Co He felt
authorized from these facts to say that Col METH
ERLAND decidedly a hard ct that time.
But his competitor had undergone q very great
change. Ia 1872 he was member Of the Legisla-
ture. Banks had, in the meantime, somewhat in |
creased. But Col. NETHERLAND concluded there |
we're net enough and with one exception, favored |
every bank charter that came up, including the
CItzsns' Bank, the Farmers Bank of East Ten
nessee and the Bank Of Chattanooga. He had
fallen 50 much in love with banks, they had
gained rapidly upon his confidence that, not>
outstanding he had said in the Legislature of
SG3, that corporations in their aggregate ca
J-ci y WILL upon their joint responsibility, fire.
iurntly commit ac,s, which, as individuals
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