Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-27


Yankees who came heref for nothing but Of
fee. He stated how long he had been
Judge and the difficulties he encountered in
organizing the courts during military
times, having secured the appointment Of
Circuit Court Judge from Governor
johnson. Stated that he had always been
prompt and faithful in the discharge Of his
official duties, and had exacted it from
others.
He was a member of the Union League,
and there was nothing in the association
that patriots could not indorse; any one
who lived up to the requirements of the
league was a true friend to his country.
He had been elected a member for three
months before he ever went into the league.
Cary had been a member all the time He
announced himself as a candidate for Cir
cult Judge, believing that he would be in
dorsed and that he would have no opposition,
nor would he have had but for this man
Cary-Insurance Agent, Eugene, Coon
Skin Judge Cary. He had come
down here without a dollars worth
of taxable property, and was not fit
for the place. He was the nominee
of the Randall Brown-Street Overseer-
Metropolitan Police knock down and
drag out Convention. When he spoke
of the Metropolitan Police force he would
say that that there were some high-toned
gentlemen among them, but there were
some as infamous scoundrels as walked the
earth. Name them," shouted policeman
from the markethouse. "You are one"
said the speaker. Sensation
In oDao kinO Of Tho NJ D. h.
he had favored the proposition that half of
them should be trusty blacks. Who are
the police force? Men who had laid around
town for year trying to get office. Men
who could not pay their debts, and got the
position that the citizens might be taxed
to pay their board. Capt. Danly and several
others that he mentioned were true and
worthy gentlemen. The speakers son was
a member of the City Council, and he had
drawn up bill for action in the Council,
requesting the Legislature to abolish the
Metropolitan Police force, but he was told
that if he introduced it he would be dis
missed from the Board Office was what
they wanted, and there were not Offices
enough to supply the "ring." He did not
want to pay taxes to support the Metro.
politan force, and dress them up in new
uniforms to strut through our streets in
sulting good citizens.
Many of the acts of those now in power
he denouncedas usurpational. When they
set Judge Frazier aside, they threw over
board one of the best men that ever lived,
a true man, sound leyyer, and an upright
Judge. When they impeach Judge Bar
ry, of Gallatin, they turn out of Office
one of best men and capable Judges
in the State. And why was he deposed {?
Because he was traitor" said a voice in
the outskirts of the crowd. Raising his
head and looking in the direction Of the
sound, the speaker said: "Whoeyer calls
Judge Barry traitor tells an infamous
LIE" (Sensation.) Here Mr. Stewart
rushed through the crowd exclaiming, that
come from whatever source il might, the
man who said Judge Barry was a traitor
was liar.
The speaker stated that he had been
urged to accept the Office Of Judge
and had received his commission from
the President, who knew him well and
who had confidence in his capabilities.
Yet he was denounced. The editor of a
little Dutch thumb paper, named John
Rhum, had denounced him as a traitor,
and said he wanted office. Rhum he said
was lying, dirty scoundrel, and the whelp
ought to be kicked ont of town. He de-
nounced Silas F. Allen in strong terms,
relating the occasion of his speech at the
Lebanon toll-gate. In that speech be said
Allen told the negI oes that Brien would
only get the votes of the BARRIERS and the
aristocratic city negroes who had been raised
under their mlstresses petticoats. He said
that Aliens foul tongue should have rot
ted out the moment he uttered such
infamous language sluring the ladies
of Nashville. He again referred to
Carey. He said that Carey and the
blue-bellied Yankees wanted the negro
votes. That they promised them every
thing when they had nothing to give. Not
an officer, from Mayor Alden down, paid a
dollars tax. Yet they were going to do
30 much for the negro. 1t beat the impu-
dence of the devil when he led the Savior
upon a high mountain and told him he
would give all that could be seen from the
summit if he would fall down and wor-
ship him, when the devil didn't have a
foot Of dirt in the world. What had Carey
done for the negro? He had made an
Infamous speech, in which he said he was
sick and tired of the distinction between
white and black ladies and wanted all to be
on level.
He supposed that Cary himself, who
boarded at little lager beer saloon, would
be willing for negro women to enter his
room on terms of social equality with him
self and wife.
He again referred to the franchise law.
The franchise law had passed, and was the
law of the land, and he submitted to it.
But he did not believe it constitutional,
the decision of the Supreme Court to the
contrary Notwithstanding. 1t had gone
up to the Supreme Court, and if properly
argued, be. believed it would be decided
unconstitutional in that tribunal. In this
connection he told the crowd who the ne
gro's true friends were, and cautioned
the darkies against the foreign, import.
ed, blue.bellied Yankees aud Coon
skin Judges. He denounced Mckinley
severely, as being instrumental in the i'm
peachment of Judge Barry. He and
others were down here electioneering for
Cary before the negro convention. He
asked what they wanted to do with the
franchise law? When he thought of the
disgraceful scenes of last Saturday when
he saw such men as Governor Neil S.
Brown, and Bob Caruthers and Mr.. Nc
Perrin, driven from the polls, and the bali
lot box controlled by irresponsible Yam
KEGS, who come down here and stock
and pack such a mob az they had
on last Saturday, he felt like say.
ing down with the franchise law,
and up with universal suffrage. He
wanted once more to take by the hand
Neil s. Brown and other good men. He
stated further, that in regard to the Metro
politan Police force the legality of its or
ganization was before the courts, and that
he had volunteered to prosecute and would
yet give the gentry some trouble.
City Attorney Cook was roughly excori-
ated, the speaker saying that he would not
know law suit if he met it in the road
and that he could look more wisdom and
display less than any man he ever saw.
After speaking over an hour MIR. Il.
closed his remarks amid loud and pro-
longed cheering, requesting those who had
listened to him to remember what he had
said az citizens listening to a citizen. The
speech was bold and vigorous, and strong
telling one and it will be long remembered
as an entering wedge driven into the spill
Of the Radical party in Nashville aud the
| State of Tennessee.