Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-08-06
Democratic Meeting.

At q ioi 80 ouu oeIOAciFO Al0CI-
ing CT the people of Lincoln coun-
ty, held in this place last Saturday,
the assemblage was called to order
by Alfred Bearden, ESQ.,, when on
motion, Hon. Geo. w. Jones was
called to the Chair, and on motion
Iof J. FL. Burnam, Esq, DR.. John
Wood, Benz. Whitaker, James
Bright, and L. L. Stone were APP
pointed Vice Presidents, and R.
Farquharson, N. O. Wallace, and
E. Hill, Secretaries.
On motion of D. w. Holman, ESQ.,,
| a committee to draft resolutions
was appointed by the Chair, viz /:
John NJ. Bright, 10. G. Carrigan,
J. H. Burnam, ]. B. Lamb, A. S.
Randolph, John D. Tolley, R. S.
Woodland, Alfred Bearden, James
Nv. Newman, and James M. Dyer,
who retired for consultation. Du.
ring their absence, the chairman
entertained the meeting in a few
brief remarks on the object of the
assembling and the condition of
the country.
The committee on resolutions
then returning reported through
their chairman, John M. Bright
Esq, the following resolutions,
which were unanimously adopted
The resolutions were sustained by
Mr.. Bright in speech Of nearly
an hour in duration, in which he
wildly pictured the country as il
now is under Radical rule, and
showed the only hope of the coun.
try was in the success of the Dem
ocratic cause, counselling peace,
order, and submission to law:
| Resolved, by the people of Lin
coin county, in general mass meet
ing assembled:
LIST. That we hail with acclama.
ton the nomination by the New
York Convention of Horatio Sey.
mour and Frank P. Blair, as the
Democratic and anti Radical candi-
dates for the Presidency and Vice
Presidency of the United States at
the ensuing election, and we pledge
ourselves to use every honorable
effort to give them the electoral
vote of Tennessee.
End. That we approve, most
heartily, the declaration of princi-
piles enunciated and promulgated
by said convention; that we en-
dorse them as wise, conservative,
Republican and Constituencies
a platform upon which all honest
and patriotic men can and ought
to stand, and do battle by voice
and vote for the Republic.
Ord. That we accept the general
amnesty extended to us by Andrew
Johnson, President, in pursuance
of the constitution and laws of the
United States, and we here pledge
Yourselves to bear true faith and
allegiance to the same, and in re-
turn claim only its protection from
arbitrary power and oppression.
4th. That we are now and al.
ways have been faithful to the
constitution and laws of Tennessee
that we desire its peace and pros
perity and the happiness of all its
people.
9Th. That abused, insulted and
slandered as we are and long have
been, by foreign newspapers, and
even by the Governor of our State
in his late message to the Legis}a-
ture, we are still for law and order,
and will patiently bide the good
time when justice shall be done
and right prevail,
9Th. That there exists no legal or
honest political necessity for send
ing armed soldiery into the differ
ent counties ofthe State, and that
if done will be provocative OF vio-
lence and bloodshed, we solemnly
call upon our representatives in the
Legislature now convened to op-
pose such measures.
7th. That taxation and repre-
sentation should go together, and
that suffrage is the inalienable
right of freemen. Wherefore our
said representatives are earnestly |
requested to labor for the extern
sion of the elective franchise to all
men unconvicted of crime, as a
measure of peace, amity, concord,
and common brotherhood.
On motion of Col. J. II. George,
RESOLVED, That we approve of
the call for a convention to meet at |
Tullahoma on the 9th inst, to ap-
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