Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-29
TENNESSEE.

A Protest Against Reconstruction,
The Board of Trade of GAINESVILLE,
Tenn, have sent to Congress an energetic
protest against the Brownlow Senter re-
construction conspiracy. We subioin an
extract:
GAN is now quiet; peace and harmony
now prevail; all classes are well satisfied,
and with cheerfulness and good degree
of energy, are pursuing their daily avoca-
tons; law and order are supreme, no out
RACES occurring here nor in all the section
| of country trading at this point, nor in
the State at present. as far as we are adj
| yised, and less crime than for many years
past, and in every Instance perpetrators
of crime are held strictly amenable to the
laws; no one is misused or maltreated on
account of his political opinions or &C.
tons; all our people are quiet and law
abiding; life, liberty and property are Sc
cure.
"We beg to assure you that any action
of Congress calculated to unsettle our
State affairs, and take from the people
their rightful control of State questions
of policy, and impose upon them officers
and taxes to which they are repugnant,
without allowing their voices to be heard
through the ballot-box, will prove most
disastrous to every interest and all classes,
whether white or black. Agricultural,
commercial and manufacturing interests
will be destroyed; the industry and ener-
gy of the people paralyzed; their hopes
blasted; their peace, quiet and harmony
now prevailing changed to strife, conflict
and collisions; individual bankruptcy will
become common, and State obligations
remain unprotected.
''The people have, by majority of
more than sixty thousand, ratified the
new Constitution, which is thoroughly
republican in form, as well as in letter and
spirit 1t establishes universal manhood
suffrage-makes all men equal before the
law; they have in good faith accepted the
situation, and only ask to be let alone that
they may work out their own salvation
and restore the State to its pristine great
ness and position among the States of the
Union.
"This Board of Trade, composed of
gentlemen of all shades of political
opinion, submit the above as fair, can
did and honest statement, and would most
respectfully and earnestly urge that your
honorable body will decline to adopt a
policy that will destroy our prosperity
for the qualification of few men, whose
only object and purpose is to keep them
selves in office, contrary to the wishes of
an overwhelming majority of the people. "
SUPREME JURGESHIP.
At meeting of the Winchester bar,
held on the 22d inst, the following MEM
bers being present, to-wit: Col S Marks,
Col John V Wright, Lewis Metcalfe, lobe
Turney, w II Brannon, J B Fitzpatrick,
Il d Gregory, II W Newman, ] L Syler,
w Il Francis, Jr, Col Jesse Arledge, A G
S ewart, Judge J N McCutcheon, Capt II
T Carr, Col L Estill, ] II Sawyers and
w d WattersOn.
Lewis Metcalfe was called to the Chair
and W. d. Wattcrson was appointed Secre-
tary.
The object of the meeting, as explained
by the chairman, was to obtain an express
sion of opinion as to the selection Of a
proper person for Supreme Judge of the
Middle Division of the State, and the
proper manner of selecting candidates;
whereupon, on motion of Col. A. S. Marks
it was unanimously
Resolved, 1. That the Bar of Middle
Tennessee be requested to meet in Con-
vention in Murfreesboro, on the first day
of June next, for the purpose of selecting
candidates for Supreme Judge for the Mid
die Division of the State.
Resolved 2. That having full confidence
in the ability and fitness of Col Peter
Turney, of Franklin county, for Supreme
Judge, that he is our first choice for that
position.
Upon motion, it was requested that
these proceedings be published in the Home
Journal, the UNION AND AMERICAN, and Re
publican Banner.
LEWIS METCALFE, Chairman.
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