The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-10-14
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Candidate for the Legislature.
SrRING HILL. Tenn. Oct. Hth is;

ofhlNu Hill, 1ENN., OChs -1ttH 1CfU
MIR, J. w. ALEXANDER, JAMES A.
SANDE.Rs, ESQ, J. G. COOPER, C. c. Tuck
Err, THOMAS CLERK, L. c. OvERToN, j..
d. TUCKER, J. w. COOPER, E ENFIELD,
J. D. BLAIR, w. r. CAUsEY, and many
other citizens of Maury County: q
GENTLEMEN:-I received your call to
day, asking me to become candidate to.
represent you and the people Of sMaury
county, in the the Lower branch of the
next Legislature, through the Columbia
paper, and that was your choice, and
many Districts East of Columbia and
mary other citizens of the county, that
You desire me to confer with you through
the columns of the HERALD whether !
would accept or not, and my views upon
the policy of the State. Gentlemen and
fellow citizens OF Nfaury county, permit
me to say that from the many solicita-
tions made to me from many voters of
the county before I received your call
through the paper, caused me to give the
subject my consideration, L had consen>
ted to let my name come before the Con-
vention which was to be held ON the lst
Monday in October, believing at that
time there would be a Convention. But
as that was defeated by some means or
other, 1 had partially declined to become
a candidate, but sincet that day 1 have
hbeen solicited so strongly by many vo-
tiers, and your call through the paper,
stating that it is the swish of the Districts
East OF Columbia, and many other vo-
tiers of the county, for me to represent
the county in the next Legislature,
prompts me to accept the invitation and
become candidate in behalf ofthe Dem
Ocratic party. And in consenting, gen..
tlemen, to become candidate to repre-
sent YOU in the Lower branch of the next
Legislature, no assure You that I do so
feeling the responsibilities of that Office,
and the wishes of the people, and I'fear
not the consequences, if elected, to dis
charge the duties of that office faithfully
and respectfully, to the best interest Of
the whole people. 1 am aware that it
takes the best talent that we have among
us to defend the people in their rights
and liberties, and more especially at this
time. / would have been proud that
the people of the county had met in Con
yention on the day set apart for that bus
iuess, and by their voice have chosen o
proper man to have represented them,
and by that means have united the DEM
ocratic party together, and have elected
Democrat tothe next legislature. Ire!'
gret the multiplicity of candidates In the
Held for the same office, and if there ever
was a time that every one opposed to
Radicalism ought to be united, 1t is now,
and / fear,.if the people do not unite upon
the abl( ct and best qualified candidate in
the field, that we will fail to accomplish
tho great object that we are struggling for.
/ fatter myself, gentlemen, that L ana
eligible and qualified to fill that office, If
elected, as a lawyer, farmer, and mechan-,
ic, three OF the main bulwarks in, the
State in the state, IN building you up
and making you happy, free and indie
pendent. % The farmers and mechanicsof
she State stand higher In my estimation,
than any other branches Of business, and
should be protected by alfmeans, as we'll
rs the merchant aesI
;, i endorse the platform of 1868, offered
and made by the National Convention
held at Nashville, as settlement of the
doctrine of secession and the slavery
question forever. Since that time the
States have been reconstructed and have
made new Constitutions, and in these de-
claring that all people in the State are
free and equal, without distinction, Of
race or color, and or course have the same
right to be protected under the laws of
the same. 1t is true, fellOw-citizens,
while the struggle was going on in the
United State, It fell to my lot to take. up
arms i'm defense Of Southern Interests.
I had to shoulder my musket and march
to the conflicf. i gave them the best tight
could, believing honestly that our
rights were invaded by the North and
that we had to resort to arms, and de-
clare final separation from them in or
der to relieve ourselves from the wrongs
that were imposed on us. We believed
that from the organizations of the gov
eminent from the compacts of the States
that the Constitution guaranteed to the
States republican form ofgovernment,
and that form of government was to be
in said State as.to. whether or not it should
be slave State, and il admitted as such /
in the Union, it was then to be protected
In the enjoyment of her domestic in
stitutions, with all other States. But in
1860 the Black Republican party being
put in power under platform of prinei-
pleslderogatory to the State institutions of
the South, the people of the South be- |
came Jealous Of their rights being pros
trated by them, and hastily declared
their Intentions to fight against all such
legislation, or principles, and therefore |
declared their separation, which was the
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