Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-05-22

(Stokes) turns his poisonous breath on his
benefactor and friend Stokes says he don't
know my position. / said yesterday that
the colored people were free by law and in
fact and | have no friend who could or
would enslave them, and / am for giving
them all the rights that are logically
corrolaries of freedom.
ASlayery was at one time universal. Rome
had in the AugrIstan age more thar ten
million white slaves. Ny ancestors Sax
ons) were serfs and slaves. Slavery wilted
away before the printing press, that has
been the motive power in all moral and re-
ligious enterprises. The speaker made an
eloquent eulogium on education and human
progress. He showed how slavery had
gradually faded out. No country made
free has ever again been made slave State.
We want white men as good as blacks. If
black man don't want whites to have the
same rights he has, then he has the heart
of spaniel and the soul of slave.
He asks, why not hire jurors to work on
juries? We don't hire jurors. You may
hire them to vote; not an honest one, how
ever. The speaker adverted in severe
terms to the habit of taking oaths and not
| valuing them more than the Duncan letter.
de says the Tennessee Legislature is in
| advance. Advance of what? In grosser
and meaner tyranny than has existed for
three hundred years-when the rights of
all men are in the hands of imbecile ma
Lightly? When men have to 60 to rene
gade Rebels and ask the privilege Of voting
against the master tyrants? When Ten.
nessee advances it will be against you, and
| ~ ruot,lA Y.a,Ea e
tremble. Tremendous applause.
He showed that in England the Liberals
were extending the franchise; but VIM.
Stokes was more advanced than John
Bright Here, advance is to deprive old
and noble, honored men, distinguished ju
rists, Of the elective franchise. The speak
er, in beautiful language, sketched the de-
| privation of Union man of his rights,
and the shameful progress made by the
Brownlow faction. This day of tyranny,
| as remorseless az ever existed is called
progress.
He asks why the Conservatives didn't
enfranchise the colored man. Every Con-
| sentative voted TO give the franchise TO
every man. Is there black man so mean
as to ask the ballot for himself and not give
it to him?
Mr.. Ethefidge said he had not been
elected to Office by the Republicans. Some
respectable ones voted for him, but it was
Kentucky members who nominated him.
He was not slave on the account of Re-
| publicans voting for him. He was indie,
pendent He poured shot on those who
were Rebels and now prostituted their
dupes, and who would vote against him
now. The Rebels were never so mean as
the little sneaking despOtism that has sto-
len away the liberties of their people Hon
oTable Rebels and honorable discharged
Federal soldiers were for him.
Mr.. Stokes explained how il came that
Mr.. Wallace was not allowed to reply TO
him at Bartlett. He wanted to know if
Mr.. Etheridge would divide the time
with him throughout the canvass,
two hours each, and thirty minutes to
reply. Mr.. Etheridge said he would &C
cept and would give Stokes 500 if he
would go all through with him. Stokes
accepted, and the shook hands amid ire
mendous applause. Mr.. Etheridge made
announcements, then resuming his course
said he was in fellowship with Federal Gen
erals, whom he named more than this, he
was in fellowship with the great principles
of constitutional liberty. He was for equal
rights to all, and exclusive privileges to
none Stokes could not say this. 1t was
Brownlow whosaid that the Rebels abolished
slavery. Stokes saysit. l say it was the
war. He calls people seditionists because
they won't make him king. At this mo-
ment it was announced that it was twelve
o'clock, and Mr.. Etheridge declined to
speak longer, though pressed by the shouts
of thousands
Our meagre sketch cannot do justice to
the eloquence and logic, the patriotic APP
peals and cogent reasoning that resulted in
the overwhelming defeat Of the Brownlow
orator. Longer visages than the Brownlow
Radicals had as they came out of the meet
ing, have not been seen at funeral lately.