Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-04-24

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The third of the leading objects" OF this
meeting, as it is stated in this call, is to
express to General John Pope, command
ing the third military district, the gratifed
sense of this people, at the justice and
moderation of the spirit which he bringsto
the discharge of his great and delicate
trusts" This statement needs no common
tary by me, and cannot be improved by
any. 1t gives me great pleasure to join in
this expression of the public thanks to one
who combines in himself the characteris-
tics of gentleman and soldier"
THE RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
Resolved, Without expressing any
opinion as to the legislation referred to in
the foregoing preamble we hereby mani
fest our qualification at the spirit of mod
Grafton which the Major General COM
handing the third district brings to the
discharge of the responsible duties, and to
the exercise of the great powers committed
to him; and that we feel called upon to
meet him in like spirit, and hereby to
express to him our purpose to throw no OBJ
stacle in the path of his official duties, but
| that in all that tends to a genuine desire
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| constitution, including all the States, we
| pledge ourselves to a most earnest and cor
dial cooperation.
Resolved, That We recommend to all
who are qualified to register and vote uno
der the provisions of the law, to do so IS
early as convenient after the opportunity
is offered for that purpose, and to scrupu-
lousy abstain from any act which might be
construed into disposition to hinder or
disturb any other person in the discharge
of any duty or the exercise of any priv
lege conferred by law.
Resolved, That we shall so demean our
selves as people that it shall not be our
fault if, pending the efforts at reeonstruc-
ton under existing laws, the civil officers
of the State are disturbed in the exercise of
their public functions.
Resolved, That we find nothing in the
changed political condition of the white
and black races in the South that ought to
disturb the harmonious relations between
them that we are ready 10 accord to the
latter every right and privilege to which
they are entitled under the laws Of the
land that we sincerely desire their pros
perity and their improvement in all the
moral and intellectual qualities that are
necessary to make them useful members of
society; that we are their friends, both
from gratitude for their fidelity in the past
in war as well as in peace-and because
our interests in the future are inseparably
connected with their well being"
THE SPEECHES OF coLoRED MEN.
T. U. Barnard, (colored) said that the
position he occupied was one for which he
was but little prepared. He would not
have been here to night, but for believing
that the object of the meeting was to pro-
mote harmony and unity between the white
and black races. He had always been, and
all his people had been, true to the South.
In time of war; as well as in peace, he was
and had always been a Southern man.
There are people among us trying to create
disorder and make mischief, who should be
put down. We ought to look out for them.
He said the interests of the white and the
colored races were the same and believed
they would all act together, if the mis-
chievous influence of those bad white men
could be overcome. They had called meet
ing after meeting of the colored men in Sc
cret Why did they not come out on the
corner of Royal and Government, or Royal
and St. Francis street, where they could
be seen and heard He had, day or two
before, received an invitation to attend a
meeting at the corner of Franklin and St.
Anthony streets. Being mechanic and
Woodworking man, he would not go, but
he learned that the meeting had been
adjourned TO the hoods. Why was this
Were they ashamed to be seen in company
with the colored people 4? They were not
ashamed to take their money when they
could get it.
He hoped that, under the new order of
things, we would not be led by party
cliques of ofhce-seekers. He believed that
the white and black races could and would
live together in peace and harmony, ifthey
were let alone. He had never seen one of
the Confederates for Rebels" as they
had been styled, take a club and strike |
down colored man, as he had seen Fed
eral soldiers do. The Southern whites and /
the colored people should stand by each |
other. 1t was the interest Of all of US now /
to promote reconstruction. We could and /
should act in harmony, and when we found |
a snake among us, we should scotch him.
Immense cheering.
John Premier, (colored,) then delivered /
a brief speech enforcing the same views,
and the meeting adjourned
THE EFFECT OF THE MEETING.
From the Advertiser and Register, 10Th, (edi- |
torial)
Last night was success browning all /
the hopes and wishes of the patriotic citi- |
zens who inaugurated it. The moral taught |
by it was that the citizens of Mobile, with |
out distinction of race, are prepared to |
meet squarely in the face, the dispensations /
of Providence, and the DEGREES of war and /
political necessity in the present emergen-
cy. 1t was a whitening rebuke to the scoun-
drels who are striving by wicked agitation /
to add to the calamities of the South, 1
to deepen the gloom of the in |
evitable present with the horrors of 1
intestine and domestic strife, and |
by marshaling in hostile array different !
classes of the community, who, forced by /
the march of events to live together, are
counseled by every consideration of policy, |
humanity, political and social interests, TO |
dwell together in peace for the common |
good. 1t taught that Alabamians should |
move together to control the destinies of |
Alabama, and that a broad distiction should |
be drawn between the men of Northern |
birth who come here in good faith to take l
their part and lot in our political destiniss,
and the prophets of evil who come like the |
intruder into the domestic circle to put |
assunder those whom the DEGREES of God |
and the destinies of fortune have joined to-
gether. The latter, as one colored speaker |
remarked, are serpents who should be
watched, marked, scotched and trampled
upon. We have taken a new departure
and bold, forward and gigantic step to- |
wards the realization of the duties of the.
hour. "Glory be to God on high and on
earth, peace, good viii to men y This is
what this meeting teaches, and henceforth
let Southern men, black and white, take
care of themselves and spit in scorn and
contempt upon all Intermediates who seek
their own vile advancement by traficking
in bad blood between Them
DISSOLUTION.