Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-12-17

no. as a means IF party destruction.
Quoting from campaign speeches of the
liberal candidate for Governor, Crate
Brown, to show his antipsthy to the Re-
publican cause, the speaker dismissed the
subject with the remark: "He has gone
to the Democracy. And may the Lord
have mercy on his soull" daughter.
In answer 10 the assumption that the
party faith was pledged to enfranchise-
ment, he said the general amnesty resolu-
ton of the National Republican OonveR-
ton of 1868 was merely the expression
of an opinion that disabilities should be
removed upon the happening of con-
tingency, to-wit, when they were no
longer required by public necessity; that
such an expression could only have q
national bearing, and was of no effect in
regulating the internal policy of an indi-
uidual Republican State like Missouri.
Among the probable consequences of
his colleagues course was the election of
a Democrat to succeed him Drake, and
possible Republican defeat in the next
Presidential election by the loss of the
electoral vote of Missouri.
In regard to the Presidents interference
in Missouri politics, he (Mr. Drake)
cheerfully accepted the responsibility for
his advice to the President in the matter;
that he believed no man had right to q
position under party while warning
against it. -------
Upon the question of a new party he
understood his colleagues position to be
that while the Republican party was dead
in trespasses and sin it contains the ele-
msnts of regeneration of a new party.
This reminded him of a county that
wanted TO build q new jail and passed
resolutions, one that they would build a
new jail; second, that they would build il
out of the materials composing the old
one; and third, that the old one should
stand till the new one was built. Great
laughter.
Who was to Iegenerate the Republican
party9 Possibly that was the purpose of
his colleagues mission TO America.
After refutation of the charge that
he had ever spoken disrespctfully of the
Germans, Mr.. Drake added that his col
league, in his recent bolt, had carried
with him almost the entire German vote
of Missouri, and he believed his col
leagues intention was to carry that vote
over to the Democratic party. He also
believed his colleague had conceived the
more daring thought of becoming the l'o-
litical director of both the Republican
and Democratic parties through his con-
troll of the German vote in this country
in both parties. This was the secret of
his colleagues bold self-confdence.
In conclusion, Mr. Drake took formal
farewell of the Senate, preparatory to
entering upon his new office as Chief Jus
tice of the Court of Claims. For years he
said he had been representing On the floor
a noble State, and it was not unfit that his
last effort should be addressed to the Re-
representatives. of that State in this gloomy
hour of their betrayal by these whom
they had trusted and honored, as time had
proved, too confidently trusted and hon.
ored.
He expressed to his colleagues his ap-
probation of their many evidences of per-
sonsl friendship and partially, and closed
with an alluSon to the sincerity and fidel-
ity of his efforts in behalf of the polit-
ical principles upoa which he had bee
led to this body. His concluding remarks
were delivered with some emotion and
were received by the Senate in profound
and respectful silence.