Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-04-14

! could not learn.
Grand POw-wOw-NegrO Meeting at
| the CapitOI-An Attempt 90 Get the
Negroes 10 Endorse the Press and
Times.
The grand Radical negro pow-wow came
off at the capitol yesterday. The show
was opened by Abraham Smith. He
said the Radical Republicans had
given them their suffering" meaning
we suppose the right of suffrage. fit had
not been for the Radicals we would have
been slaves to-day, and our prayers should
ever ascend to Heaven for the good cause.
The Radicals fought four years to free you,
and the Rebels fought four to enslave you.
All the Radicals in the Tennessee Legis-
lature voted to give You the right OF
"s1fferins" and the Rebels voted against it,
Let US be up and doing. To vote for Con-
seryatiye is TO vote for the chains of slavery
to be rivited on your necks. They will give
us the right to set on juries and TO hold
office, at the next session of the Legislature.
By resolution all the reporters of the
city papers friendly to the cause Of Radi-
calism, we're invited to act as secretaries.
There being no representative from the
Press and Times, it was agreed that all the
CITY editors present, should report the pro-
| ceedings of the meeting supposing that
our literary qualifications we're sufficient to
give literal translation of the unintelli-
gible jargon Of the various speakers.
The chairman then announced q COM
( mittee on resolutions, who after having
had sufficient time to go to the office
of the Press and Times after them, re-
turned, and the following resolutions
were read During the absence of the
committee Nelson Walker was loudly
called for, but he didn't come, he had
! lcaiked off.
Whereas, it is the sense of this conven-
ii on that the time has come for the colored
citizens of Nashville, Davidson county,
and of the whole State of Tennessee, to
show that they distinguish their friends
from their enemies; and, whereas, we, I'M
der the providence of God, and through
loval and tried friends, who, true to the
genius of liberty, fought, bled, and many
died, to give the colored American his con-
stitutional rights and privileges therefore
Resolved, That our hearty thanks are
! due to the Federal army and navy Of the
! United States Of America, Who achieved
| this boon for four millions of freedmen Of
the South.
Resolved, That We will endorse no per-
son or party who does not endorse the Con-
gress of the United States, the Legislature
| of Tennessee, and W. q. BrownloW fer
Governor of the State.
Resolved, That we will stand by the
Radical Union party in veal and in woe,
| recognizing the same as the only party in
the true path to a safe, honorable, and
lasting reconstruction of the Rebel States.
Resolved, That we deeply regret the
| transmorphoses of our once beloved " Mo-
| SEES " into the slave-catching Pharaoh Of
ancient Egypt, and that the dignity Of the
glorious republic should be 50 furnished by
| His Accidency as Chief Executive of the
nation.
Resolved, That we will sustain the NOM
! inee, whoever he may be, that the David
son county convention may agree upon.
Resolved, That we fully endorse the pay
ment of United States bonds in good faith,
| and the reputation in toto, Of all bonds of
the so-called C0nteder0cy.
Resolved, That we will bear up under
the wicked pressure of the Conservative land
| Olcners, and will not sell ourselves nor our
votes but look to the Congress of the
United States for redress.
Resolved, That copy of these resolu-
tions be printed in the Press and Times,
New York Tribune, and all the loyal papers
in the State
All the resolutions were loudly cheered
| by the odoreus crowd, except one en-
dorsing the Press and Times, and that fell
like blight upon the sable countenance
of the convention. Grim despair seized
the Radical whites. The one great object
of the meeting was defeated. Not a single
new subscriber tothe Press and Times.
After the reading of the resolutions, Mr..
| A. J. McTyiere was called to the stand,
and expressed himself delighted with the
| day. 1t reminded him of the 18th April,
when Beauregard was laundering away at
| Fort Sumter. We are met every day on
the street by men whose hearts were with
! him then They fought to enslave the
| colored men until they were compelled TO
| Surrender, and by the privilege of living in
| the United States. Now they tell you they
I will 60 further than the Yankees dare go in
guaranteeing to us our rights under the law.
They cannot fool sensible people. They
/ know that without the vote CG the colored
man they are ruined. ! am glad TO see
such demonstration. 1t speaks well for
| Radiealism in Davidson county At the
Conservative convention trey were too
| weak to organize / have heard these
same men who now hang around you, try
| ing to cheat you out of your vote, say you
| h,,F .hnva Lrt1Fno
| KEYS and balloons. Whenever you hear
| man abusing Brownlow, you may know he
/ ia a Rebel Here a noise vas made dis
tuTbing the speaker, when the chairman,
with an oratorial houaish Of his hand, re-
quested a sensation Of profound silence"
| DR.. Wood said he wished his "respo-
nent" was there while he are reading the
resolutions, abiding to Williams, we sup
pose.
Rev. Nelson Merry made merry srgu-
ment on the subject OF inhdelity. He had
always opposed Andrew johnson because
he was an infdel. He was for God and
against everybody who did moi reverence
God. Didn't say what he thought of
Brownlows reverence for Deity.) He
didn't care whether a man was from the
North or South, so he will take me by the
hand and lift me up. He differed from his
sable brother McTyiere, who thought that
slavery would be revived if the Conseva-
tives should carry the election. Slavery
was dead, and over its grave was written,
No resurrection" When the nominee
for Congress comes out, he may say to you
Il was a Shareholder; I thought il a Divine
institution; but now / have changed my
mind" Watch that man, whether Brown
low or Trimble, and see if he speaks from
the heart.
Dr. Woods, ali the way from Albion's
Isle, was the next speaker His subject
was the chronological and physiological
origin and development oi the Hamitii
race Not having our edition Of Nott &
Gliddon on the same subject, We were mol
we'll prepared 10 follow him through tbs
metaphysical labyrinths Of African ethnol
ogy. The negroes, however, seemed {,
drink in his words of learned length" or
that subject, as they seemed 10 think hi
argument would throw some iiglt on thei
black laces. The question OF climatic in
. auences was fully elaborated, and CAV,
general satisfaction. he arrived al tn
conclusion that man was originally made o
{ a snuff color, about like his own. lie sal,
God raised mp Abraham Lincoln 70 carr.