Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-04-17

| Hon. William Il. Campbell.
J. W. Leftwieh.
| A. A. Kyle.
4 John Lellyett
| Chas Reedy.
| John Baxter.
| Hon. John w. Leftwich, of Shelby. in
troduced the following resolution. which
was adopted, mem. con-:
| Resolved, That each county in the State
be entitled, on nominations, to a number of
votes equal 10 its number of representatives
in the lower branch of the State Legisla-
| ture
Hon. Edmund Cooper, of Bedford, offered
the following: -..-
Resolved, That a committee of fourteen
be appointed by the chairman, composed
| of one delegate from each of the Congress
sional districts and six from the State at
large, as a Committee on Resolutions, to
| whom shall be referred all resolutions
without debate, and who shall be author
| ized TO report resolutions for the action of
| the convention.
The chairman having announced that
The convention was ready to receive any
other resolutions from any person wishing
TO offer them, calls were made from all
parts of the hall for Cooper" and Mr.
! Cooper not presenting himself for
| Thomas" The'latter then ascended the
stand and said:
| SPEECH OF u. B. THOMAS.
am sorry that it will not be in my
power adequately TO interest you. 1t is
useless making apologies. However, suffice
it to say, that have made no preparation
for addressing you but that of the most
| ing interest in this, my native State. al
most suf6ces Of itself TO extort speech
| from me on such an occasion as this, when
| am confronted with so many of my fell
| low-citiZens, come together with the single
puSpose of asserting her rights, aud vindi-
J eating her honor. Cheers. We are in
| deed in the midst of exciting scenes. We
| had fondly hoped, now that the conflict of
arms had ceased, that political strife would
have ceased also. But instead of this,
mems minds are no less agitated to day
than when years ago we were in the midst
of fearful fratricidal war Party strife
has taken the place of the conflict of arms,
aud threatens us with results scarcely less
calamitous than those which war entailed,
and from which We still suffer. Party strife
is legitimate, until il is carried so far as to
be destructive TO the liberties and happi-
nes of the people. When it has eulmina-
ted in this, and assumed magnitude and a
violence which menaces our present safety,
and blights our future hopes then it be.
comes the greatest calamity that can befal
q great people. -Four or FIVE years ago
the Stale OF Tennessee put herself
in an attitude OF hostility to the
government Of the United States,
and sought TO divest herself of all obliga-
tions towards that government, and to de-
prive her people of all the rights and i'm
muniIies Of citizens of the United States.
The confusion and havoc which this sad
affair induced, so obliteraied the great
landmarks Of our rights and Liberties that
we scarcely knew what rights or privileges
we're left as There are, indeed, certain
rights which are inherent in man, and
which no power can legitimately trample
| upon but how 30 exercise even these, un-
| der cur present circumstances, we scarcely
know. Men have attained topower whose
interests, real OF fancied, are in keeping
up the turmoil, and preventing passion
from abating or subsiding Their aims
are exclusively selfish. They seek place
and aggrandizement rather than the we'll