Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-10-24
A GLORIOUS DAY.
The Democracy of Chestlian Aroused.
DfSorxanfxers Nowhere,

| ASHLAND CITY, Ocb' Zls 10 w. ms
| has been glorious day for the Conserva-
| tive Democracy Of Cheatham county. We
| have had feast of rich things to-day.
1t being the first day of our Circuit Court
| there were great many people in attend
ance. Candidates not quite so plenty as
blackberries, but still enough to make it
| interesting, there being one for Congress,
one for Senator and one for the Lower
House.
Gen. j. n. Quarles and Player Martin of
your city having been announced to ad-
| dress the sovereigns of Cheatham to-day.
Many were out, doubtless to hear them.
They falling to put in appearance, the people
were greatly disappointed. To make
amends for the disappointment thus occa-
stoned, Judge Rice consented to make
short speech in favor of and in support of
"HOnest Old Frank" which was well re-
ceived by al present, being couched in
| chsste and appropriate language; and while
he was warm and firm in his support of
Gen. Cheatham, his speech was of that
character not calculated to offend those
with whom he differed. We opne Judge
Rice more readily consented to depart from
his usual course Of not appearing as pub
lie speaker, for the purpose of correcting a
|
] for the last few days-that he was john
son man, it having been announced in the
! johnson organ at Nashville that he would
speak at johnson rally at Franklin
| last Saturday night. This was cause
of great rejoicing 20 the johnson men of
this place. But guess they will no longer
| lay the fattering JUNCTION to their souls,
| that he is a johnson man, after hearing the
| ~ nd ha
was supporting the regular nominee, in
stead of the great ''disOrganizer." At the
conclusion of Judge Rice's remarks, Gen.
Garner being loudly called for, came for
ward, and for about an hour he held the
large assembly spell bound by force Of his
argument and eloquence, nicely inter-
| spersed and spiced with wit and humor,
which ever and anon brought down the
house in rounds of applause. He paid
merited tribute 10 the honest work and
transcendent ability of Horace Greeley, the
! Philosopher and Statesman. Stating that
we had differed with him in the past, but that
the question upon which we had formerly
| differed had become dead issues of the past,
and now, that we and Greeley were agreed
upon the live, vital and practical issues of
the day, retrenchment, reform, the en-
| franchisemeDt of every white man in the
United States, and the restoration of the
Government to the standard it occupied in
the purer days of the republic. In his per-
roration the appeal he made to the people
10 support the nominees of the Cincinnati
and Baltimore Conventions, was truly el0-
quent and sublime, snd he retired from the
stand amidst rounds of applause and cheer
after cheer for Greeley, that W ould indicate
throats and lungs Of brass in the assembled
multitude.
While some are for johnson and almost
all for Cheatham, some ara for Golladay
and few for Brien, yet we are almost
unit for Greeley aud Brown.
At the conclusion of Gen. Gamers
speech, Col, Stark was loudly called for,
and with his maiden modeSty, Characters
tic of the man, reluctantly came to time;
and after announcing that he was no longer
a candidate for Congress, and perhaps he
would never again be a candidate for any
Office, he went into a lucid examination of
our national policy. He spoke of the enor-
1hous public debt, piled mountain high up
on the productive industry of the country,
and of its incompatibility with republican
| institutions and that they would not har
monte. He spoke of the manner Of its
contraction, and gave his views as to how
| it should be paid. He said the boDdhold-
ers, by drawing their gold interest senli-an-
nuany, were taxing the people of the
! Uoited States annually Sl25, 100000 to pay
! the interest on the bonds, without them
selves contributing one cent toward the
expenses Of the government, while at the
same time the bone and muscle Of the hon
est industry of the country were taxed to
this enormous amount for their exclusive
| benefit. He said it was time this drain
upon the energies of the people was stop
! ped by the redemption Of these bonds in
the legal currency of the country-green-
backs. His arguments were cogent and
upansWerable. He made deep and last
! ing Judgment in the minds of all who
heard him. Although have hitherto been
an admirer of Col. stark, and thought that
| | had to some extent estimated his caliber,
yet must acknowledge that his speech to-
1 day long way excelled the highest esti-
mate l had ever put upon the man, and
raised bin in my estimation at least fifty
per cent. feel incompetent to give syn
opsis of the speech, and shall not attempt it.
Next in order came Jacob Luck, candi-
date for seat in the Lower House Of the
Legislature from Chestham, Dickson and
Houston counties. Jake is having an easy
time running by himself, and still he has
some fears of being beaten, as, he says, he
| never has electioneered so hard before in
his life. | only heard the conclusion of
JAke's speech, in which he put in some
mighty heavy ticks for Old Frank, the man
who never made war on women and chill
dren nor on the defenceless.
VIM. g. Brien next entered the list, and
presented his claims to the people of Cheat
ham county for a seat in the next Congress,
and not being much on the independent
candidate system, l did not pay much at
tention to what he had to say for himself,
as We down here are for G0llsday to beat
the 'Bald Eagle of the mountains, the hero
| of the head waters of the Calf Killer" in
other words, Senter's 'Sweet William"
T. L. Smith, of Waverly, candidate for
Senator from the 10th Senatorial district,
next took tilt at the good people Of
Cheatbam. He made very nice and chaste
talk. He very warmly espoused the cause
of Greeley and Brown, and in reply to q
question as to how he was on the Cheatham
and johnson question, said he never was
ashamed nor afraid to say whom ne was
for, but said he would never cast a vote for
any man in the doing of which he would
write ''infamy" on the tombstOnes of his
| Eallen COInTAueS III the "bOSG CAuS6,
or inscribe ''traitor" on the brow of his
surviving associates in the same enterprise,
and said, palsied be his right arm and dumb
be bis tongue before the one should be
raised to elevate or the other to sing psalms
of praise to the man who would thus SLAM
der the living and the dead. And this, he
said, was all he had to say on the subject.
Attorney General Mulligan being called
came lively up to time, and for about 45
minutes entertained the crowd in one Of
his happiest efforts in behalf of Gen. Cheat
ham. At the beginning there were some
very noisy johnson men present, some Of
whom had, perhaps, had too well enter
tanned thst ''5hief that men sometimes let
in at their mouth to steal away their
brsins," who seemed disposed to interrupt
him; but he poured hot and solid shot and
shell into them so fast that their batteries
were completely silenced. His speech
throughout was well received. Upon the
whole this has been glorious day for the
friends CT constitutional liberty. Little
Cheatham will give handsome account OF
herself On the 5th Of November. Before
the August convention she would have
voted for johnson. She sent her delegates