Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-07-19
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10 the Voters OF the Fifth Congress
SIGNAL District

10 the Voters OF the Filth Congress
sional District.
1t will be remembered by many fyou,
that was a candidate to represent this
district in the Congress of the United
States two years ago, upon the Demo-
cratic and Conservative ticket, and was
defeated for the reason that four-fifths
of the white men were deprived of the
right of suffrage, by the illegal and u,s-
constitutional legislation of the Radical
party then controlling the des.inies of the
State government of Tennessee. Happily
for the people and their future peace and
welfare, IL Is not the case 1ot0. To-day
all elections are free ard equal, and the
glorious right of suffrage is exercised by
all men, and no man can be denied or
deprived of this right, except upon the
conviction of some infamous crime, by
a jury of his peers, and the judgment of
the law. The question of suffrage being
then settled, for all time TO
come i trust it is the right and duty of
the people to determine and decide in No
vember next who shall represent them in
the AID Congress.
IO1Cidl RCullClllCu VI nEn CncAA dCbCA
and ability have announced themselves as
candidates for this important and respon-
sible trust, /, therefore, hope it will not
be considered premature or presumptious
in me, to submit my humble pretensions
to the consideration of the voters of this
Congressional district. In taking this
step. | must be allowed to say, that /
greatly distrust (if elected) my ability, to
perform adequately the duties and re-
sponsibilities of the trust. The ssgacious
trainers of the government, wisely divid-
ed its powers into three distinct and in
dependent departments; the Legislative,
Executive and Judicial. In order, there
fore, to preserve and perpetuate the
liberties of the people, which the
government was designed to secure,
the powers of these coordinate
departments should be maintained in their
original purity and integrity. Has this
been done by the party in power? Ger
tainly not. No one who is cOnversant
with the history of the times will deny
the truth of the proposition, that we
have not the same constitution of gov
eminent that was ordained and estab-
lished by Washington, Madison, Frank
lin and Jefferson, and those other patriots
and statesmen of the Revolutionary pc
Rod. What has been done by the legis-
lative department of the government
They have crippled the arm of the Exec
utive and deprived him of his just con-
stitutional powers. They have encroached
upon and usurped the powers and juris-
diction of the judicial department, and
will, unless arrested in their madness by
the American people, overthrow and de-
stroy our glorious form of government
and establish upon its ruins COMPRESSION
al despotism at Washington. The power
to prevent this great work of mischief
| is in the hands of the people, if
they would rise up like strong
man, and hurl from place and Office the
DljScredntS and cOrT1tDtiOaiSts who are
building up their own fortunes, to the
detriment of the liberties of the people,
and the welfare of the country. The
issues and questions of the past, are dead
and buried. We are dealing with the
living questions of the present. Already
the great work of reform has commenced
in Oregon, Connecticut, aud the great
State of New York, and may we not
indulge the hope, that in November next,
it will eliminate in. the defeat and over
throw of the Radical party in the popular
branch of the Congress of the United
States. JOSEPH MOTLEY.
LEBANON, July Is, 1870.