Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-06-27
rHE NINTH WARD.

AktE NlNIh WARDs
Conservative Rally last Nighf-siir-
ring Speeches by the Candidates of
the People.
A large meeting of the Conservatives Of
the 9th Ward was held last night. The
opening speech was made by Capt. Driver,
who made some very excellent points
against the present ruinous policy of Ten
nessee Radicalism. Not only were old and
good citizens, who were contributing very
large share of the material for carrying on
the government, DISTINGUISHED, but many
of those who had served beneath the stars
and stripes through a long war, and who
had done all in their power for the per-
petuity of the Union, were disfranchised.
Men who had never finched in time Of
need were called upon for references" to
prove their loyalty, and those who now de-
sired to forget the past and work together
for the common good, were under the same
iron heel of that despicable tyranny.
He had held an interview with President
| Lincoln before the issue of the emancipa.
ton proclamation, and had urged its neces-
sity as war measure He knew perfectly
we'll the reason that proclamation was is
sued He had lived in Massachusetts,, had
been born there, and had talked the matter
| over with Gov. Andrew, too. Every home
in the North had lost its first born, and
they had finally said, "We'll pick mp the
poor niger, and see if we can't use him."
That was what had brought the proclama-
| ton. The philanthropy of the North had
had no more to do with it than that of the
South.
Lucien Temple followed Capt Driver
He had entered the contest only upon prin-
ciple, and cared for nothing beyond that
He wanted to see the rights of the people
restored, and peace and prosperity every
where. Men who had served their country
on the field of battle, and ia the councils
of the nation, were now called upon to
prove their loyalty, and were required to
do this through men who knew none but
those identified with the interests of the
Radical party.
The people were called upon to pay gov
eminent tax, State tax, county tax, corpo-
ration tax, poll tax, and this not being
deemed sufficient, they were required to pay
a tax for the protection of their rights by
the militia. And such protection the pro-
| lection the vulture gives the lamb
Brownlow had all the courts beneath his
thumb, and if Judge dared to breathe a
conservative sentiment, political decapita-
| ton was the inevitable result. The fate of
Judge Frazier, his trial by the most cor
rupt body that ever assembled anywhere,
was sufficient evidence of this.
| He appealed to the colored people to
look well to the issues at stake, and not to
l l. lz.o:-aI l. II ~
he denounced as a willful and malicious
liar, any who said the Conservative party
wanted to put them back into slavery. They
had been made free from necessity, not
from the friendship of those who freed them.
He had heard many Federal officer say,
/ didn't come down here to fight for the
| d-n Niger / would trample my shoulder
straps in the dust before / would do it.
And Federal soldiers had reiterated the
same sentiment. The promise OF forty
| acres Of land to the eolored people was ali
| 9 sham, an electioneering dodge, and this
would ere long be made plain.
Mr.. Temple was followed by Major
| Walker, in a short but telling speech,
showing mp the melish and all the ether
institutions of the Brewnlow despotism.
| He did not believe one true soldier of the
late war could be found in the ranks of the
militia. If there were any such men con-
nected with il, they had blotted the record
they had made.
The interests of the eolored man were
centered here. The colored people were
not wanted at the North. He himself had
seen them modified and driven away ia In
diana by white laborers. Their connection
with the so-called loyal league could result
in no good to them. The oaths they took on
attaching themselves to it was no more
binding than if it had been administered
by the devil, and was only one of the many
means to draw from their pockets their
hard-earued money, for the elevation and
enriching of the INSCRIPTIONS adyentur-
ers who were deceiving them.
At the conclusion Of Major Walkers re-
marks, Col. A. s Colysr addressed the as.
semblage in response 20 many and loud
calls, and the meeting broke up at the close
of bis speech.
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