Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-03-01
The Nashville Convention
1000 Delegates Present.
The President Endorsed.

: Nashville was crowded on la
e, Thursday, by those in attendant
d as delegates and spectators, at th
q mass meeting convened to sustai
President johnson. The gathel
ling, it is said, was the wisest, wol
lthiest, and weightiest that has as
sembled in Nashville during tn
last twenty-five years. 1t repre-
sented the practical loyalty an,
intelligence of Tennessee. An at
tempt was made by the Radical
to disturb the harmony of the Con
vention, but the effort ignomini
Iously failed. The following reso
buttons were adopted:
The friends of the Union, and
Iof the National Administration,
have deemed the recurring ami.
versary of the birthday of the
Father of his Country, to be a
proper occasion on which to as
semble in Mass Convention, for
the purpose of declaring their con-
tinued devotion to the Federal
Constitution, and the Federal I'm
ion; and of proclaiming their ear
nest approval Of the policy adopt
ed by President Johnson, in his
patriotic efforts to preserve the
Constitution, and to re-establish
the Union of the States, and there
by to secure, for the whole coun-
try, the blessings of permanent
peace and Of republican freedom.
Such a celebration of the day is
rendered peculiarly appropriate in
view of tine extraordinary resist
ance made by Congress to the res
toration Of the Southern States to
an equal participation in the ben
efits of the Union; and in view of
the fact that q small portion of the
people Of Tennessee, possessed of an
accidental influence in the govern
ment, are giving an encourage
ment to that spirit of sectional IA
naticism in Congress which has
threatened to paralyze the arm of
the Federal Executive, and which
persists in holding the Federal Tn.
ion iii a state Of virtual dissolu-
ton.
The people of Tennessee are ex-|
Guided from the benefits of the I'm
ion upon the unfounded assumption
that they are not sufficiently 10y
al to be admitted to representation
IN the two Houses Of Congress-
The delegates to this Convention,
representing the great body of the
people of the State, embracing as
well those who participated in and
sympathized with the rebellion, as
those whose loyalty to the Union
was never questioned, come for
ward to place upon the record
their united testimony against the
truth of their imputation Of disloy-
atty made against the people Of the
State.
Upon the surrender of the
Southern armies, the people of
Tennessee accepted the result as d
conclusive settlement of the issues
involved in the war. BY the actof
aging down their arms, and surren-
lering to their victorious enemies,
he Southern soldiers acknowl-
edged their defeat, and pledged
heir honor not again to renew the
This pledge was made
n good faith by brave men. 1t has
been kept with scrupulous fidelity.
they returned to their homes, re-
,umed their peaceful avocations,
md have distinguished themselves <
~ the zeal and energy with which
hey have prosecuted their various {
The result had established the
ndestructibility Of the Union, by S
means of separate State secession, I
md hence that the several States I
which had sought to form new
;onfederacy, had never been with t
lrawn from the Federal Union.-i1
IN this result the people of Ten I
lessee acquiesced unhesitatingly, t
md have waited patiently for the {
ldoption Of such measures as would {
'estore them to their former rights
n the Union. In the meantime I
hey have submitted, without COM s
,laint, to all the terms and condi- /
ions imposed upon them as citi-
ems of a State lately in rebellion; s
md have complied with all the I
equisitions, and discharged all the l
by which their sincere |