Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-08-11
EAST TENNESSEE.

Correspondence Of the Union and Americana
RoGERsvLLE, August 6, 1S66.-This
being County Court day, large number Of
the present and former sovereigns of the
county, were in attendance upon its sessions.
In the afternoon proclamation was made at
the Courthouse, that public addresses would
be made upon the state of the country.
Prompted by curiosity, more than inter
est l followed the large crowd, which
moved to the Courthouse. The crowd re-
minded one Of the days Of old, when the
masses came out to witness the intellectual
conflicts between the old party giants.
Mr.. JAMES WHITE, formerly a representa-
tive from this county, came forward, and for
about an hour addressed the asgembIage upon
the great issues Of the day, defending the
administration, and exh0rting the people to
the adoption Of Mr. JoHNsoN's policy, as
calculated to restore the country to peace
and prosperity.
He was followed by Rev. Mr.. GuLENwA-
TIERS, who labored for about the same length
of time to keep alive the bitter feeling en-
gendered by the war. He charged upon
JOHNSON desertion of his platform, on
which he was elected, and a purpose to re-
organize, and reinstate in power, the old De-
mocratic party. That the Convention at
Philadelphia, on the 14th inst, would be a
nlelangc of the fragments of all parties, COM
posed chiefly Of anti-war Democrats, rebels,
etc. He also took occasion to befoul the
white robes of the church, by dragging her
into the arena of politics, and charging that
the very church organization, Of which, for
years he was a minister, is now a rebellious
organization; that all of the church associa-
tons South, which have not disbanded and
made the confessions required by their
Northern brethren, and returned to the fold
of the Northern church, are so many nurse
ries of treason. don't attempt or pretend
to give Mr. G's language, but the marrow of
his discourse.
Although he disclaimed every thing like
a prosecuting spirit, yet, to one acquainted
with the fact, that worshipping assemblies,
conducted by Southern ministers, have been
broken up in this county; that these minis
tiers have been threatened with death if they
attempted to exercise their ministerial func-
ton in certain neighborhOods, and that one
appointment of Southern Methodist minis
ter, in the county, blood was actually shed,
and the life Of the principal disturber taken;
yet, he hesitates not in such community,
to use language calculated to perpetuate this
unfortunate and deplorable state of affairs.
Col. JOHN NETHERLAND followed Mr.. G.,
and in one of those clear, plain, solid and
convincing speeches, so characteristic of that
gentleman, he showed where was the path
of duty and patriotism in this, the day of
our country's peril.
He showed most conclusively that Mr..
JOHNSON was endeavoring to carry out the
very policy to which the administration Of
Mr.. LINCOLN was pledged-that he adhered
to the glorious old Constitution formed by
the Fathers of the Republic, and which was
the great battle-cry of the conquering armies
of the Union in the fearful civil war through
which we have just passed; he deprecated
its mutilation; he opposed the negro equali-
ty sought to be imposed upon the South; he
did not believe that to humiliate and de-
grade the conquered people was the best
plan to restore fraternal feeling between the
sections; he believed in the nation redeem.
ing the solemn pledges made to their erring
felIow-countrymen when it received their
submission and their arms; he defended Mr..
JOHNSON against the charge of attempting to
resuscitate the old Democratic party; he had
shown by his appointments that he had riser
superior to partizan prejudices, etc, etc.
The numerous friends of Mr.. NEITHER
LAND, throughout the State, will be gratifed
to learn that his position is not doubtful
one, as many of them were led to appre-
bend from a newspaper paragraph recently
published in you city, saying that his APP
pointment as a delegate to the Philadelphia
Convention was wholly unauthorized, and
that he was a supporter of the policy of
which Gov. BRowNLow is the representa-
tive in this State. X.