Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-10-15


sprung by the Radicals to engender strife I
Ito divert attention from official corrup ,
lions and partisan profligacy. Without
strife, their party cannot exist. Wei
do not desire to discuss dead issues. TheE
questions incident to the late war, are not
living issues. We have not revived them.
MY competitor charges that these ques-
lions were sprung by US in this canvass
4 deny It. He first raised the cry of Sc
!cession. His lips sounded the signal
During the sitting of the Radical Conyen-
dion that nominated him, and whens
accepting the nomination he charged
|us with being Rebels and seces-
lsionists. He then, and he alone,
lis responsible for the discussion of these
questions, and charge him with pro-
lvoking the discussion. The soldiers who
thought each other desire no such issue.
They would bury these questions in thef
grave of eternal oblivion. The mass of
THE people would leave them where thes
/ war left them. 1t is, neither the soldiers
lnor the people who would infsme theI
country with ordinations and recrimina-
itions of the past. It is the Office holder
land the office hunter who would rekindleI
the fires of discord. Too many of these!
were never soldiers. They declined join
ing the army until the war ended. Tool
imany of them stood aloof from the frayI
while artillery Numbered and missiles of
death sought their victims, and when the
danger passed revived the fight. Such
men would provoke q storm, upon which
to ride into power, although its hghtnlngs:
should burn every leaf of the constitution,
and its thunders crumble the foundations
iof the Government.
The Democratic party of Tennessee,
composed as it is of Federal and Confed-
crate soldiers, Wings, Democrats and
Conservative Union mer, proposes toI
build up rather than destroy. Its mission
lis to save the government from the immi-
lnent danger OF centralized despotism; andE
we will save it We must save it. Who
lever has done wrong in the times past,
let his wrongs be forgiven and forgotten,
Sound political economy and Christian
PHILOSOPHY demand and justify it. The
work before us will be arduous. The
dangers threatening us demand Instant
and united action. There is no time for!
termination. The enemy occupies our|
capital; he has captured our flag; he has
seized our treasury. He must be dis
lodged, and our standards must be re
gained. Then let us marshal our hosts
and make the onset, and never turn back
until our success lie complete. We have
zone country, one flag, and common
destiny. We will save that country from
ithe spoiler, and that flag from disgrace.
I'VE are ready to defend that flag, and
! with our blood and our lives we will de-
tfend it.
frHR SECOND MISREPRESENTATION DIsA-
BTSITIRs.
/ s.tResolved, That all citizens of the
limited States under political disabilities
should be Immediately removed there
Ifrom."
In discussing this resolution, Gen
Brown said, is there any one in Tennes-
see who will object to the removal of the
political disabilities of their fellow-citi
|zens7 We are not yet free, for there are
thousands of men in this State who labor
under disabilities, owing to the enactment
iof the fourteenth amendment to the Con-
istitution. They cannot accept the hum
jblest Office owing to that odious four
teenth amendment. ANY one who held
iofflce previous to the war under the Gov
Iernment and who sympathized with the
Rebellion, cannot even become Justice
sof the Peace, and can any one suppose
THAT the removal of these disabilities by
congress, is opposed by Horace Maynard.
Frederick Random Butler, Sam. Arnell
land Winfield Jerusalem Smith2 But such
lis the case. All we ask is simply that
those thousands l have referred to, be
Relieved from their disabilities.
THE THIRD REsoLUTIoN-THR TARIFF.
a ssResoved, That we denounce the pres
lent tariff, as well as the substitute lately
introduced in the House of Represents
5tives from the Committee on Ways and
Means, as gigantic robbery of the labor
land industry of the country. That they
iare solely designed to advance the interests
|sof few monopolists, and that this should
mot exist, and that no candidate is worthy
.of support who is not in favor of low
tariff, which closely approximates free
ftrade; that in the arrangement of any rev.
lenue tariff, the necessaries of life should
lbe free of duty" .-
Il Who does not subscribe to this resolu-
'ftion2 Who wants q protective tariff that
Hputs tax of fifteen cents on coffee, and
Ia high tax on sugar, salt, iron and many
'fof the necessary articles of life2 And
wet Maynard, Butler, and all the members
1from Tennessee, except Hawkins, voted
to tax sugar six cents, pig iron seven dol.
liars per ton, and other articles in proper.
ttlon, which would take me all day to
'lenumeratei In olden timeG, the old line
lWhigs were IN favor of protection, but
that day is now past. We were then 6
nation of only few millions of people,
Hand it was necessary to build up and pro
'ftect manufactures then. .s.
d We were in our infancy and needed
/ ,protection then, but now We have grown
Gigantic, and / want to know why the
great agricultural section of the Northwes
land the South labor for the benefit OF
New England. We have here cotton anC
|tiron in abundance, and cannot only com
tpete successfully with New England, bu
sell many articles cheaper than they car
furnish them. want free trade and ne
tariff except one for revenue, and that il
,wanted for the South.
1.-THE FOURTH REsoLUTIoN-INTERNAL RIVE
ii NUE..
FResolved, That the internal revenp
I System of the United States is oppressive
Hin its exactions, that it should be RENE.
died; that its annoyances of stamps
licenses and tax upon sales and incomes
should be abolished; that tine tax itsel
should be collected by State and county
I }officers, and that the multiplication o
Federal officers is wholly unnecessary anC
beats out the substance of the people; and
THAT we pledge ourselves to labor for
Thorough reform in this particular"
<rHR FIFTH observation-disclosures AND con
III FIsoATIoN.
II 'Resolved, That the practice of tn
movement in the enforcement of tn
{revenue laws, which authorizes the seizur
and confscation of the property of tn
citizen, aud their imprisonment, aided b,
/ the bayonet, without trial by jury, ami
'7convIction, is subversive of the rights o
/ the people, and in contravention of tn
|! EConstitution, and should therefore b
stabandoned.
II After reading these resolutions, Gen
Brown discussed the revenue system O.
the government and its workings with tn
people, at length, showing that 1t was tax
tax, tax, on everything from our cradle
| Ito our graves.
Only the light of Heaven seems to hav
Escaped. There are twenty THOUSAND
men engaged in the collection of thes
taxes, who enter your houses, demandin
every kind of information in collectin
h your taxes. These men are strangers Il
f;you. You never knew them, and the
are neither native nor to the manner born
IfNow, ask, how it is with a man VIII,
# may violate provision of the whisk
Jaw l-apd 1 speak to you as America
Icitizens whose forefsthers fought agains
}Sreat Britain in 1776, what is done wit
1.-THE man who violates that whisky law