Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-09-11
RADICAL ARGUMENT.

A friend has sent US copy of the
speech of Hon. s. Shallabarger at Lon
don, o., Sept. 6, 1870. Mr.. Shsllbarger
is one of the most eminent of the Radical
politicians, and is candidate for re-elec-
ton to Congress. We give the following
extracts from the speech to show the
character of argument that is used in
the Northwestern States to keep Radical
ism in power. 1t is sent to US that we
may say to the Democracy of Tennessee
that the adoption of a platform fully nd
specifically negativing such charges of
Radical politicians is all important 20 our
Democratic friends north of the Ohio.
In abiding to the Qualification and Sc
cession," and rebellious proclivities of
the Southern Democracy, Mr.. Shalisbar-
ger says : -. ...
Take another fact. At the South, to-
day, their candidates for Congress as in
the case of Judge Arthur and Mr.. Jones
of the sixth district of Kentucky, openly,
VIGOROUSLY and unitedy declare the pur-
pose of the Democratic party to defy the
provisions of the fifteenth amendment,
and all reconstruction measures. Take
the fact that they assert the right and
propriety of the reinstatement of the
colored race. Take the fact that the rival
candidates for Democratic nominations
for Congress are now putting forth these
cnptir,1oV1fc q fhAon rr-bfoI
and Southern Democracy not only agree,
but as the kind of sentiments best calcu-
lated to win for the holders nominations
and elections to Congress at the South.
Take that fact, so forcibly stated the
other day by the ablest political writer of
New York, that the Democracy of the
largest State in the Union had Just ''nomi-
mated its judge for the highest court of
the largest State, with the declared ex-
pec'ation that they may be called upon to
array the State against the Union
Take the facts disclosed by still con-
tinuing and numberless assassinations of
colored men and their friends at the South,
Take the fact that secret conspiracies,
such as that called the ''White Brother
hood" still exist there, the ostensible and
best object of which, as disclosed by
James E. Boyd, prominent Democratic
lawyer of Graham, North Carolina, in his
letter of the 29th of July, 1870, to the
people of that State, was 'to defeat en-
tirely the reconstruction act, aud to de-
prive the negro of all privileges as citi-
zen in this country" the fact that An
drew Johnson, when turned to be Demo-
cratic President of the United States, was
''head- CENTER Gas Mr.. Boyd said he was
informed) of an organization which was
so large as to include hundreds, in one
county, of what Mr.. Boyd calls "the best
men of his county, that this society
was, as he says. organized N the interest,
and intended to secure the triumph of the
Conservative Democratic party, and that
one of the means it employed was s'whip-
ping and killing unoffending citizens
to use the very words of Mr.. Boyd. r.
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There stands the Democracy before you
to day, American people demanding of
you that to them, and instantly-this very
year-you shall surrender this your new
government. In the presence of the facts
which thus troop around them, as they
udho GuIS ueI1dHu VI yOuT SuTTeuueT, look
at the prodigiOus audacity of it. They
come telling you that in deciding about
the surrender you shall not name their
resistance of slavery's overthrow because
that issue is "dead, when, at the South,
they are, to-day, demanding elections TO
Congress because they believe in its re-
establishment. They demand you shall
not name secession" because it is
''dead, when they are selecting Supreme
Judges in the largest State in the Union
with the declared expectation that they
may be called upon to array the State
against the Union" They demand that
you shall not name their deeds of nullifi-
cation, when in 1868 they cast millions of
votes to elect President and Vice Presi-
dent who by their letter, platform, and
that vote, were pledged to ''trample into
dust" every unrepealed Reconstruction
act" of Congress; and, by means of
military command of their President,
overthrow both the Legislatures of the