Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1867-04-25
From the Nashville Press s Times.
Fayetteville Radical
Meeting.
A Colered Mans Speech

At a meeting held In. the town
Of Fayetteville on the 9th day of
April, 1867, by a portion of the
Union men of Fayetteville and
Lincoln county, for the purpose of
nominating a candidate for the
State Senate for this Senatorial Dis
trict; also a candidate for House
Of Representatives for Lincoln
county, and. for the purpose of ap-
pointing delegates to the Union
Convention, to be held in the
town of Shelbyville on the first
Monday in May next, on motion
of A. T. Hicks, E. P. Reynolds
was called to the chair, and Tyler
HI. Mclaughlin was appointed
Secretary.
The following named persons
were then appointed delegates for
the county at large:
Thomas j. McGarvey, E. P.
Reynolds, Geo. E. BLOOM, T. H.
Mclaughlin, o. P. Houghton,
A. T. Hicks, James E. English,
Joseph ]. McCown, James Tafts,
John Corey, c. B. Carly, VIM.
Lightfoot.
Colored- Benjamin Mcdaniel,
Samuel Eddins, Allen Mcdonald,
VIM. Stonebraker, Abner Todd,
Peter Bagley.
DELEGATES FOR THE DISTRICTS
9th District-Geo. w. Brown,
B. E. Lain, Hardy Wardey,
William Fife.
18th Decentralization Sims,
Edward Boaz.
Sth District-W. C. Yates,
". P. Huld, Simeon Bloom, Geo.
Cant, VIM. Fletcher (coD, Albert
Bonner (col, Allen Mcdonald
(col), VIM. Tyler (col.)
9Th District-James Armstrong,
David Armstrong.
18th Dist ict-Henry Carey,
Samuel FL. Taylor.
18th District-William Wyatt,
Thomas Wyatt.
14th District-James FL. Ham
ilton, David Blair.
18th ,District-Samuel Bond,
Geo. W. Pickett.
18th District-Logan Carpenter,
A. H. Smith.
10Th DESTRUCTIVE W. Watson,
William Fife.
goth District-Thomas McDill,
Robert Drennon.
E. P. Reynolds offered the fol-
lowing resolutions:
Resolced, That James Mullins,
of Bedford county, is our choice
for Congress, and the delegates
for the county of Lincoln are
hereby instructed to use all their
influence to secure his nomination,
and in the event he is not selected
as the candidate they will support
the nominee of said convention.
Resolred, That John Carey is
hereby nominated a candidate to
represent the county of Lincoln
in the lower branch of the next
State Legislature.
Both of which were unanimous
ly adopted.
The following resolution was
offered by Allen Mcdonald fool
ored:)
Reso7red, That VIM. Wyatt is
hereby nominateda candidate to
represent us in the Senatorial
branch of our State Legislature for
this District.
Which was unanimously adopt
ed. r.es ~.
Benjamin Mcdaniel (colored)
offered the following resolution:
ReSolued, That The colored vo-
tiers know, from experience, their
friends, and will sustain them ac-
cordingly, and that they fully en-
dorse Gov. Brownlow in all his
official acts, and also the acts of
the State Legislature of Tennessee.
The resolution was adopted,
when he made the following re-
marks:
My colored friends: / feel it
incumbent upon me TO make a
few remarks in regard to our duty
in the ensuing campaign. A few
years since slavery bound us hand
and foot, tore the child from the
mother, the wife from the hus-
band and brothers and sisters
from each other and crushed all
manhood in our race. The Just
God who watched over us, and
who does not let even a sparrow
I'LL