Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-03
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Grand Barbecue and Great COnservs
tive OGtpOuring-Sfirr speech a
Mr.. Etheridge-The BrownlOw Des
pOfism and who are supporting 1t
A Weird Of Advice to COIOred Voters
There was a grand Conservative demon
stratiOn at Gallatin yesterday. Thong
the notice that Mr.. Etheridge wonl,
speak during the day had been on
but brief space of time, an i'm
mense crowd gathered to hear him. TIL,
| place selected for the speaking, was thu
great shady grove nearly opposite th'
beautiful home of Judge Guild, about hal
a mile from town, and good old-fashionec
barbecue vas determined upon as fitting
accompaniment 10 the feast of reason
that should preeede it. The stand was
built facing eastward, while mammotE
table, one hundred and fifty feet in length
was spread to the left and covered with all
the delicious viands peculiar to such q
festival.
At about half-past ten o'clock, omnibuse:
and carriages began to leave the city for
the grove, while horsemen were dashing
up the westward road, and crowds OF
pedestrians trudged along on foot, all
moving toward the one destination.
Before the arrival Of Etheridge upon the
ground, about three thousand persons had
assembled, among them many ladies.
| A number of soldiers of duty were in the
crowd, aud the colored people were well
represented.
The most intense eagerness was mani
| tested 10 catch glimpse of the great Con-
sentative standard bearer as ne rode up,
but the aversion shown by him on the pre-
/ viOus night, and during the morning, to
being made an idol, rather held the crowd
| in check, and the enthusiastic greeting
was reserved until be mounted the stand.
One plain old farmer, in rough gray Jeans,
| expressed the universal sentiment of the
great mass in one sentence, when he blunt
ly declared, as he jostled his way along, 81
want to stand where / can look him right
| in the face"
As the speaker opened his remarks, the
| attention Of every one became riveted to
him, and all seemed lost to everything but
| the subject and its master. Before he bad
/ gone half through his speech, by the mys,
terious wand of his magic eloquence, he
had drawn every man bolt upright from
| the benches, while scores of bright eyes in
the long line of carriages were beaming
with awakened interest as he proceeded.
We have iotted down some of the points of
his remarks, which occupied about two
hours and half Whenever he attempted
TO stop speaking, the crowd would shout.
GO on go on! well hear You all day /!
Go onp
Every man, woman and child, in this
State he said, whether white or black, was
| grooming under a despotism which was all
| the time growing worse and permanently
| Gripping every resource of the country
Who were the men who were doing this,
and who were their antecedants? Who
were they, who in the name of loyalty, and
false to every principle of law, protested to
despise the late rebellion, and yet were
doing all in their power to make it
res ;ectable Who were they who were
trying to get up a black mans party where
he does not number one to five; who would
have him share the fate of the Indian, by
getting ap antagonism with the dominant
race? This work had been reserved to
those who had been false to their political
obligations, to political honor to religion :;
who had been apostates to their own race
More than half the brain and muscle of
this despotism were made up of the low
characters who, when the rebellion came
went to the Rebel camps and sought posi-
tions which good men spurned. They
were the ofal and refuse of the rebellion.
aud they had only been left behind by the
Rebels as precaution for the protection of
health-as a sanitary measure.
There was not one spot of free earth in all
Tennessee upon which the sun of heaven
shone. 1t shone not upon the face
Of single free man, white or black.
Name FIVE of the leading Radicals Of
this State, I'D in every instance four OF
them could be placed in the ranks OF the
Rebel army. Stokes and Maynard re-
ceived So 600 for their Radicalsm. They
should have been seen in Washington,
when they were watching the course thing
were to take Just before the rebellion opened.
Maynard had then said we were in the
midst of events of more moment than at
any time in the history of the world He
had pledged to Jefferson DRis the support
Of France, of England, ~ the civilized
world. He had denounced Abraham Lin
coin as a third rate lawyer, and had said
war waged upon the Rebels would be a war
waged upon the entire South. Was it not
by such talk as that the Southern people
were drawn into the rebellion?
The next day after that speech of May
nard, Congress had passed a resolution of
thanks to Major Anderson for his gallant
defense of Fort Sumter against the Rebels
and traitors who captured it. They were
Rebels and traitors, as everybody knew at
the commencement of the war. Maynard
had endorsed the raising of Rebel troops,
and had sent to Nashville for a splendid
fife and drum for a Rebel company. And
these principles he had advanced from the
commencement of the rebellion, until his
hopes of a Colonelcy in Rebel regiment
had faded He (Etheridge) had no OBJ
lection to them because they quit the re-
bellion, but they should not now be perse~
cutting those whom they had drawn into the
Rebel army.
pom the whole Conservative ticket
there was not one man who had ever ut
'c;ed word Of encouragement to the re-
bellIon, yet the ranks of the Radicals were
made up of spostste Rebels They wanted
to hold the whole people as slaves, and
were trying to caiole the colored people in
to the support of their despotism. But
they would desert them after the election,
as they deserted the poor boys whom they
drew into the rebellion.
The satraps of military despotism had
been posted n every Southern State, and
there was freedom no longer A white
woman might be shot at any time, and the
deed would need only the sanction of two
men to make it legal, no matter how afro
cious it might be. This was what
was keeping up the Federal debt.
That debt was now three thousand million
of dollars-equa to six hundred million
pounds sterling upon which the people
re paying six per cent. interest, or one
I'd and eighty million per annum.
.- I'd heard of the grinding taxes Of
England, but the debt of England last year
I'd only seven hundred and ninety-eight
ltrnon pounds, upon which only three per
cent. interest was required to be paid, and
England, too, was the greatest manafactur-
ing country in the world, and could, there
fore, with less difficulty, supply all needed
revenue. This being the case, il We would
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