The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-06-16
Tennessee Politics

Stokes and Senter. zrcadss ansbo, have opened the
canvass for Governor in that Btomn4o#=fidden State
Stokes, in q speech at Nashville, sid as Was rot
favor Of universal suffrage never had been, a'a didn't
think be ever would BE- He declared that he WAS il
favor Of opening tie fsl!ot.box 70 rebes only when It
could be safely done, aac then by twohrds vote o
the Legislature. He referred to speech he had made
in reply to johnson in April las in which speech hi
said that the bao..hos would be opened TO the rebels
when they had ceased to murder and assassinate and
showed by their good behvior that they could o.
trusted with the ballot In other words, We pre7Hine
be willing to indulge the rebel children IN Ten
nessee il the privilege Of voting when they shout
prove to be good children and manifest proper de
sire to keep their noses clean.
After the noise and confusion which followed tn.
speech of the gentleman so-eaef, had subsidized, Sen
ter gave his views upon the question al issue He re
garded the question of acknowledgements as Of para
! mount Importance. and said he wonld By no subter
fuge, seek to evadc it. No leading statesman Of thu
Republican party, and journal Of high character ia
vored the continued Acknowledgement the late rehel
The policy not sustained by the Chicago platform
If elected he felt he would be, be would re.
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political disabilities Of e7arq paving citizen of Ten
nessee.
To the people We fancy it ia OF great importance
which proves the uppernost dog in the fight. 1t il
dog dog IF they till the ao and make good crops
and put money in their pockets they buy and pa,
for whatever they want from the party that 8ina For
it has been said, and it's truth nobody doubts, that
time these four years enterprsing capitast, with
little cash. might have gone into the General Assem-
oily of Tennessee and bought out the entire Radical
party, body, boots and breaches. True, 1t is little
costly, but then every State cannot expect have
such pure and immaculate Governor as our own be,
loved Warnoth-a man whose lofty nature scars fal
above thoughts Of petty peIf and who would shrink
Mortified and abashed at the bare suspicion Of brbe
+" No, no, no, not for Joseph" Poor opinion, how
ever, have of the Radical party OF Tennessee,
in fact of anywhere else, must demonstrate wit!
the Courier Journal for using such language as the fol
lowing, which it applies to the Tennessee article:
1t is composed of notorious pimps and peddler-,
vagabonds and b"cklegs dseraced bankrurts, broken
down preachers, sponges, dead-heara and strumpers
lts late convention would have di>graced The Gambia
islands, but could disgrace baud Of robbers WIN
have neither political credit nor personal respectable
ity. Such riot OF profanity and vugarity venture
to say witnessed outside of the capitol build
ing in the most abandoned Fothel in Nashville Their
was never dog fight, there never bear fight.
there was never fight, there never mink
fight. there never fight of painters. possumS
poecars that be iikened to il, and it prpsages-
what all good citizens should earnestly derirethe dis
solution by spontaneous combustion of a of ma
terial which rotten when it came into the world
and has been purifying ever since. Thus the whrl,
nft hrinu fnaH
kites, and ravens lie in wait for crows,