Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-04-28

We gave 4 brief account yesterday OF
meeting at the State Capitol Friday night
one of the handsomest and most elegant
assemblages Of citizens, of both sexes, that
ever met there. Yesterday afternoon we
were called to the Capitol on business, and
after transacting it, hearing racket
above stairs, went up to see what was goihg
on. We found assembled in the Hall Of
the House Of Representatiyes-galleriCs
included, OF course-about fifteen hundred
colored persons, men, women and children
and about one hundred persons with fair
faces. 1t was meeting to appoint dele
gates TO the Radical Union Convention,
which meets on the 18th Of next month, to
nominate a candidate for Congress in this
district There were Trimble Radicals
there, quiet, orderly and firm Bureau
Radicals, noisy, demonstative, aggressive
His Honor, NJ. NJ Brien, was in the chair
"a most appropriate selection to preside
over a meeting in which the vast majority
were colored persons-our Manse, that Is,
Msnse of Nashville, who demonstrated his
recognition OF the freedom Of the negro in
Tennessee, after the proclamation, by
Gaming one Of them in the streets for assert
iRg that freedom. lie was assisted
in his labors by We editors Of loyal
Wspapers-whateve that means-and
when we entered, Mr. Peabody was on the
stand. Peabody is a bird, one Of those
birds-we will not say vultures-which the
war brought and left us-very erect, very
stately, and so very full OF law, he is the
wonder Of magistrates court. He spoke,
il not words of wit and wisdom, briefly,
and subsided, amidst a call for Bilbo. And
BiIbo was thar" He arose, turned on
his gas lighted up, and blazed away. We
will not describe him or his manner, for all
know Bilbo He went in with a looseness.
His colored auditors we're fred up, they
clapped hands, and sometimes when he
rounded off one Of his peculiarly emphatic
and fierce periods, some of them shouted
That's id good" said one venerable
dusky-skinned gentleman-We know he was
a gentleman from the manner in which he
swore. But turning TO bysiander, he in
CURED
Who is that speaking p 81.
"That is Colonel w. n. Bilbo-lawyer,
politician, fnancier, statistician, Rebel,
Radical" was the reply. But" quoth
the dusky gentleman, ia he q friend of
mineP
dob course Like the man in the play,
he's eurybodys friend"
This appeared to satisfy the guestioner,
and soon after Bilbo's gas was shut of By
the interference of a committee man-shut
off, before he had fairly got into sweat.
Resolutions were reported and adopted (for
which see We loyal organs,) and then list
of delegates were read and appointed.
And here the thing began to be interesting.
A Bureaucrat moved that the delegates be
instructed to vote for Chaplain Lawrence.
Shouts went up from the initiated" Law
rence!" Lawrence Lawrence |"
Ruhm smiled with inefable satisfaction
Mason shook his dark locks, and looked
victor. "Hurrah for Trimble !" shouted
a colored voter in the Vestibule, believing
himself a freeman "Shut upl What are
YOU shouting for him for? said Bureau
crat, with Yankee accent--We know he was
a Bureaucrat because he was so plump, so
sleek, and his whiskers in such good trim
who but a Bureaucrat, could afcrl in
these hardtimestoa assume such guise. The
colored voter obeyed the order he will
know better and do better hereafter; and
no more succnmb to the order of Bureau
crat than TO slave drivers whip.
In the nick Of time up jumped one Of
Brownlow's pets. and moved to lay the
Bureaucrars motion on the table Brien
put the question and the motion 10 instruct
went on the table. Here things began 10
grow confused Some one cried for Bilbo
some for Wood; when 4 motion TO adjourn
was pa; and carried. So Bilbo didn't get
a chance 10 conclude, nor did the Bureau
crats carry their point. Afler the adj
ionrnmeni, Woods, colored man Of CON
siderable ability, made a speech.
Il is claimed thai the delegates are
Trimble men-a majority of them at least
that the good father Lawrence is euchered.
We don't know how that is but we no.
ticed that sam - Trimhle's Sam any
body's Sam that pays besi-was in great
glee and lively a. an Arkansas ague patient
after a stout dose Of quinine.