Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-06-20
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TRIMBLE Ar THE CAPITOL.
His speech last Night" The OnIy
: Rights of Rebels, the Legal Right
20 be Hanged and flse Divine Right
60 be Damned
T A Radical gathering was addressed at
Representative Hall last night by Senator
Fowler and Hon. John Trimble, one of
the Radical candidates for Congress in this
district. Just before the meeting wascalled
to order, the greater portion Of the seats on
the foor being vacant, and there being
little prospect OF a crowd. Jesse Woods,
col, sung out 10 the colored people in the
galleries to come down and take seats with
the white folks. Only few Of them, how
ever, paid any attention to the invitation,
and it was again extended by Gen. H H.
Thomas, but the majority still refused to
come down, evidently suspicious Of a con-
vention game, or something of the sort
Senator Fowler spoke first--a long, dry,
see-saw lingo, that sent half the crowd to
sleep, and set the balance nodding. He
was followed BY Trimble, who branched off
by calling his entire audience not only
citizens Of the State of Tennessee, but of
1 "a. l.
election would be- one Of the most import
ant ever held, and the practical issue was,
who should control the destinies of the
aforesaid sections.
There were but two parties-the Demo-
cratic, which stole its name, the livery of
heaven, to serve the devil in, and the Ma
tional Republican party. The Democratic
party had become odious. 1t feared to
faI~x, - 1I1 l. 4 Il L
of Conservatism. It had inaugurated the
nose wicked war the sun of heaven had |
ever shone upon, and the only rights that |
the defenders of the Southern Confederacy |
were entitled to, were, the legal right to be |
hanged and the divine right to be damned.
The country was under the control of the |
United States Congress, and not Of Moses.
1t had ruled, and, by the grace of God,
would continue to rule. The national |
Republican party had snatched the colored
man from slavery and put musket in his
hand, and there was not colored man
living who had not the capacity to know
that if the Democratic party should get
into power it would work his ruin. To re-
store the Democratic party would be to
restore the idea of slavery-not that they
would put any back into slavery, but the
Oiu lucas hOulu De retained.
When the speaker referred to the fact
that there had been at one time sixty four
thousand votes against the secession of
Tennessee from the Union, the applause
was scarcely audible. A considerable num-
Der of hands we're raised, but couldn't reach
a spat. Something seemed to be wrong.
By this time a number of the colored
auditors were sound asleep on the floor
near the speaker doubtless dreaming of
Mason and confscstion, and balancing in
their obfuscated understandings the chances
for share Of the plumber.
The speaker had understood the colored
people had been threatened with dismissal
from service if they voted in particular
way. This was part of the lesson they
must learn. Labor was of more value than
dead land. Land could do no more without
labor than labor could do without land
He announced himself the regular NOM
inee Of the national Republican party in
this district; had never been self-nomi-
mated candidate for any Office. He had |
been ahead of the times, and when the
first gun was fired from Sumter he had
seen what was to become of slavery and
when emancipation was proclaimed, he had
seen that the eolored man was to be invest l
ed with all rights under the law.
The civil rights bill, which had been '
BY him, would have done away
with the necessity of militia, and it's object t
was the establishment Of civil and crimi- '
nal law for all classes in the State. He, t
whom some lying scoundrels had termed a
a Conservative leader, was the first '
to introduce anything looking TO suf-
trage for the colored man. He had even /
been in favor of extending the right of
suffrage to al the people of Tennessee, for
he believed the greater portion Of them had 4
never countenanced the rebellion
He was not TO be taught by Mr.. Union
and Dispatch and Mr.. Gazette. They
hadn't got the stink Of treason from either
heir garments or their hearts, and they
couldn't teach him until this was removed.
An editor of one of the Rebel sheets in this :.
,ity had found himself at the end of the u
var in charge of freesoil newspaper in A
cincinnati, and was now pretending to il
each loyal people their duty. h
1t now being nearly midnight, and the !
audience rather falling away, Mr.. Trimble "a
wound up his harangue with an explana- P
ion of why he voted against the franchise 81
ill, and the meeting adjourned. I,