Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-09-21
Meeting Of Ez-GOnfederate Sol
disrs at Memphis.
The CgereJaRd ConVentioH IN
dOrSed.
THE PRESIDENT SUSTAINED.
ISLANDERS REFUTED.
THE PRESIDENT SUSTAINED.
ISLANDERS REFUTED.

neld granQ mass meeting III OOuEb qudEe
on Tuesday evening, to express their sin
certify Of action in support of the Govern
ment-their confidence and trust in the late
soldiers and sailors assembled at Cleve-
land-their approval Of the Administration
of President JOHNSON, and TO refute the
ISLANDERS heaped upon their name by the enc
mics of peace and Of truth in the North.
Gen. JOHN G. FIzER was called to the
chair, and stated the object of the meeting.
AS Gen. FIzER resumed his seat, loud and
repeated calls were made for Gen. FORREST,
and that gentleman came forward amid the
greatest enthusiasm. He said that he would
address those before him as fellew-soldiers,
for the last time he had spoken to them they
were soldiers. He had been indisposed du-
ring the day, and was not in a condition to
make a speech; he held in his hand, how
ever, dispatch, which he wished 90 read.
1.-THE dispatch was read, being the reply
of Gen. GUSTAV and others to the one of
Gen. FoRREsT and others, published yester-
day.l
Upon hearing the dispatch, three rousing
cheers we're proposed and given for the
Cleveland Convention after which General
FORREST continued. He said most Of those
whose names appeared subscribed to the
sentiments Of the dispatch he had presented,
it had been his fortune to meet upon the
field of battle. They had fought him brave
", and now that the fight was over, he was
willing to take them by the hand and be
come with them friends and co-laborers in
the restoration of the Union and the pre-
seryation of the Constitution. 1t had been
maliciously reported through the North that
no Union man could live in the South in
personal safety, and this meeting had been
| called to refute the SANDER. He, for one,
would bid welcome to the citizens of the
| North. We want them among us. Let
them all come, and we will prescribe no
man. He was anxious and willing to do
what is right. He thought the American
people were inclined TO go to the extremes
! in every thing. The Radicals of the North
were now doing so, and they might yet meet
what the South had met, Jill E-fL
| He thought il the duty of the South to
stand by President JOHNSON, so long as he
makes the Constitution his guide. He would
not stand by any man or any party longer
| than this. He was glad to see so large a
number of those at the meeting whom he
| had been associated with in the army.
! They were together then as they were now,
i for the maintenance of their rights and the
vindication of their character 1t behooved
| every Southern soldier to stand by Presi-
! dent Crimson. The war was over-he would
again say he was willing to clasp the hand
! of any citizen of the country, and to assist in
| bringing about that time when the Ameri-
can statesman can again say he knows no
North, noSouth, no East, no West. General
FORREST was frequently interrupted in his
remarks by enthusiastic applause, and when
he had taken his seat, General CHALMERS
was called for and made an eloquent and
| pertinent speech relative to the issues now
before the country, and the position which
should be assumed by the soldiers and the
! people of the South.
| At the conclusion of Gen. CHALMER's
remarks, Col. SAFFERANs presented to the
meeting the following preamble and resolu-
tons, which we're unanimously adopted:
WHEREAS, A Convention Of the Union
Soldiers and Sailors is now in session in the
city of Cleveland, Ohio, having under con-
| sideration the best mode in which to restore
the Union of these States, and to cement that
bond of fraternal friendship SO sundered by
the late war and
| WHEREAS, We, the soldiers of the late
army of the Confederate States, feeling and
being in sympathy with the movement of
our late adversaries, to restore our country
to its former state Of peace, happiness and
prosperity; and
WHEREAS, We believe that our stern ad-
vocacy of the principles for which we con-
scientiously struggled during a period Of
four years, will be rather a recommendation
of our sincerity and honorable purposes to
the brave soldiers of the Union therefore,
ResOlued, That we have seen with pleasure
the movements made by the soldiers and
sailors of the Union, for the preservation of
which they have so long fought and that
we have no fears that wrong or injustice will
be done to US by those we have learned on
the battlefield to respect, as 'foemen worthy
of our steel" stre
ReSolUed That we tender to them a SOL
dier's pledge of our fidelity to the Govern
ment, Of our assistance in the maintenance
of law and order, and our earnest desire for
the return of that day when the American
people can say with truth they "knOw no
North, no South, no East and no West"
ResoLped That the charge that the life,
liberty or property of Northern men is IN
safe or unprotected in the South, is a SANDER
which could only have emanated from the
cowardly fears of 'fireside heroes" or from
the corrupt Vaccination of reckless office
holders, grown desperate at the approach of
retributive justice, and the loss of power
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