Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-07-23

ment. My reasons for this vote were fully
expressed on the floor of the House, and
| were well understood by its members. But
as we were in secret session and the public
! could not be acquainted with the facts, 1
embodied my reasons in protest, which
was ordered to be spread upon the journal.
Immediately after the adjournment of the
Legislature, l was unexpectedly and sud-
denly called from home, and have been
absent until to day. 1 had taken steps to
have my protest published during my
absence but unfortunately my arrangements
to that end failed. 1t is unnecessary now
to state my reasons at length. They aoere
not based upon opposition to the iRdepeHd
| eltce Of Tennessee, bit upon an honest belief
that Stnte COnUentiOR, md not the pe0-
pile, had tie pO1Cer to diss0lge tie connection
Of tile State NTH the General GOUerment,
My convictions of right, my sympathies
and my interests are with the South.
believe that the honor, the interests and
the safety OF Tennessee demand that she
should separate herself from the North
and unite her destiny with her sisters of
the South, and this belief is strengthened
by my recent sojourn in the North, as a
Delegate to the Presbyterian General As
sembly. As a citizen of Tennessee,
born upon her soil, and ardently de-
her prosperity, shall on Saturday next
vote for Separation and Representation
We must have, in my Judgment, united
South, if we expect to maintain our inde-
pendence and secure peace and prosperity
to ourselves and our posterity. BY the
voice of the sovereign people, expressed
fba Qtl, ir,gk rr1lI Il.
solved all her sons from further allegiance
to the Federal Government, and as one |
of your Representatives in the ensuing |
General Assembly shall take pleasure in |
carrying out your views and speeding our |
gallant State onward in the path of indie |
pendence, which her people have chosen !
June 3, 1861. j. B. WHITE"
To the principles above set forth Jack |
son B. White was true during the four dark |
years that deluged our land in blood, and |
the four darker years that followed their
close here in Tennessee. He was driven |
from his home near this city in June, 1862, !
by the prescription of the very man who /
now opposes him for Chancellor, and who
now says that ''hiS main reason for 6eing
candidate for re-eJectjon IS that lis conduct
during tile acGr may be endorsed By this
community" He was made an exile by
the oppression of the very man whom the
anonymous writer of last Tuesday SAYS
always felt strong sympathy in the well
fare of the people Of this community"
Here is sympathy with a vengeance. Why,
''now in the name of all the gods at once,
upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,
that he is grown SO great, and that so
suddenly in sympathy and devotion to
Southern principles.
Mr.. Whites property was taken from
him by the Federal Government simply
because he was Southern man. For this
reason he was disfranchised up to the
election of last August. Unionisn would
have enriched him, would possibly have
given him PriUdte SecretdTysllip under
johnson, the power to oppress his own
people, and a Judgeship after the war,
whose ermine he and his friends might
have used to advantage in covering up his
own record. Let Mr.. East and his friends
draw the analogy. 1t will be an easy task
for him and them. And yet because Jack
son B. White, Southern man, true to his
principles, opposes for Office, Edward H.
East, forsooth, he must be insulted by
innuendOes. Some must even dare
to intimate that he was untrue
to his native section, and that, too,
by the friends of one who, during the war,
was the prosonptive opponent of Southern
men and Southern principles. Such innuen-
does and intimatiOns are conceived in a
contemplate spirit. Their authors dare
TO make no charge, for facts will not sus-
tain them.
How does Mr. East or his friends now
like ''the war in Africa?" which Tuesday
mornings scribbler threatened. Let them
reopen hostillties, and .facts, dates and
names are ready to show up the lo0r5t part
of the record of their chosen champion.
The Member of the Bar" strikes not in
the dark, and will say nothing by innuendo.
A MEMBER OF THE BAR.
NASHVILLE Tenn Julv o. 1870