Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1867-02-28
The Radical Convention.

The Radical Convention.
The Radical State Convention
in Nashville, last Friday, unani-
mously nominated Brownlow for.
Governor, who accepted in a char
acteristically vulgar address, in
which he announced his determin-
alton to make the recently defeat
ed "loyal indemnity" bill an issue
in the next canvass. The animus
of the Convention may be seen in
the utterances of some of the ''big
dogs" of the concern. Judge But
Ter said:
81 would rather see niger
Governor of Tennessee than Isham
G. Harris.
cit had been said that the Sd
preme Court would declare the
Franchise Law unconstitutional,
but he thanked God that there
was a power that would come to
therescue when treason threatened
to triumph over loyalty-the Con-
gress of the United States.
GA circular signed by Nathaniel
G. Taylor had been sent into every
portion of the State, to the effect
that Congress had passed law
prohibiting the intermarriage of
whites and blacks. If this was
true, the Congress of the United
States should be thrown into the
Potomac. But it was not true
a more villianous falsehood had
never been published"
Judge Houk said:
eff there was any poor Rebel
or Copperhead present, he pitied
him, he said, knowing how he must
feel in such respectable company.
1t had come to rather a bad pass
with these Rebels, when the dar.
kies up yonder in the galleries
were allowed to vote, and the for.
mer had to take the back seat
He complimented the Legislature
in this noble actionin enfranchisine
the colored man, and thought that
a niger any day was better than
a white Rebel. Now that the mig
ger has become enfranchised, these
Rebels and Conservatives have be.
come models of politeness towards
Sambo. They want his vote, you
see, which accounted for his re-
markable condescension. These
Rebels here in Tennessee had bet
ter keep quiet, for if there is any
blood to be shed, traitors and Cop
perheads are bound to be the vic.
Tins, not loyal men. The Union
men of Tennessee have had to suf
fer in their day; if war should come
again, woe be to the vile traitors of
the State, for their time will come
next, and they've got to be killed
or banished. He would head a
regiment of niggers, and if the
Rebel scamps wern't made to ske.
daddle, then he wouldn't say so.
He would advise all his hearers
to increase in the Radical faith,
and to properly do SO, they must
learn to hate Rebels and traitors
worse than ever.
"The meanest niger in all
Tennessee-the thickest linped,
thickest headed, --LATEST nosed,
longest heeled niggerin all Tennes,
see, was good enough to sit on
Jury to try a rebel-and he would
vote for such a candidate for office
in preference to rebel or Conser,
vative-for there was not a scin-
tilla of difference; if possible, the
Conservative was meaner than the
rebel. The most hateful, nastiest
thing he ever saw in his life was a
man coming along and saying he
was a Conservative. He would
as soon hear him say that he was
a horsethief-he was a mean, mas.
ty dog"
Mr.. Foote, of DeKalb county,
said:
"He considered a loyal niger
better than al the Rebels in the
State put together"
49, The 'loyal indemnity
bill has been defeated in the Leg