Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-09-13

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II HuNTrEGroN, Carroll County. Ten
Sept. 10.--DeInocrats, Republicans, Rs
Gals and asprinkllng of colored men met
the Courthouse at noon to-day to hear &c
W. A. 'Quarles, Greeley Eleetor for t
: State ct large, make his second speech
; the campaign. Tonight re goes to LIE
ington, by appointment. The day was g
cessively bot, yet the immense crowd we
held together for two hours by the powerf
J and eloquent speaker.
Gen. Quarles opened his speech with
feeling tribute to the welcome he had ju
received from his old comrades in arm
who focked around him in great number
many Of them not having seen him sin,
the smoke of battle was still rising from q
land. The thrill which be experienced
shaking hands with those who greeted biz
30 heartily, told of deep interest in th
mission he was there to fill. Together the
had hurled the missiles of war and left b
hind them the evidences OF desolating strifi
That day and time are passed, and now W
stand shoulder to shoulder in civil strife {
redeem the liberties of people, and to oil
tain that peace for a nation which Radica
ism cannot give.
He saw before him those who a few
short years ago stood face to face in battle
array, now that their cause of strife wa
ended, joining hands for the common
manhood, q godlike attribute, to forge
L . L. ~ Il 8. 10 Ill p d
ended. You each pledged your lives u
your cause then: do 80 now. You wer'
vigilant then; be vigilant now-for an In
sidlous, inscriptions enemy Is TO be over
come. We have one country, one flag;
and 1t is for US TO advance them TO theiI
grand destiny. Two great party organi-
cations have taken courage from your ex'
ample, have forgotten their minor differ
ences, and for the sake ofthe future, have
formed hearty alliance, by which to
wrest the liberties Of whole people from
the grasp Of usurpation, corruption, nepo-
tism and hate-in one word, Kadicalism.
This alliance is formed between the Re-
publican party such Is 1t was in the days
Of Abraham Lincoln, before 1t became the
new party Of hate and plunder and corrup-
ton, the Republican party which was
willing, and would have accepted the solu-
ton Of our difficulties as suggested by the
soldier-statesmen, Sherman aud Johnston;
before the evil days Of reconstruction,
out of which came all our
woes and degradation, all the odium and
punishment which Radical hatred could
suggest, and which, but for the untimely
taking off of Mr.. Lincoln, one from our own
State could never have thrust upon us. Be-
fore the Radical party was born there was
q Republican party, and it is this party that
to-day has stretched out its hands to u.s.
the people. One portion Of the people, the
Democratic party, accepted the preferred
hand in their organized capacity, and
through their convention at Baltimore, &C.
cepted the leadership of Greeley and Brown.
Other organizations, and the people by
thousands all over the land have accepted
their leadership, and raised the battle cry
Of 'justice and right, peace and good will"
Can Democrats vote for Mr.. Greeley?
Why not ask whether Democrats can vote
FOR John G. Brown for Governor of Ten
hessee? who few years ago advocated a
National Bank and high protective tariff
in other words, was Wing. The issues
hat divided the real Republicans, the Rs
publicans Of Abraham Lincoln's day, and
he Democrats of to-day, are dead or have
been swallowed up in the momentous
question of life and death of republican
Institutions themselves-of liberty, right
md law. 1t is as natural for US to be to-
,ether now as it was that we should have
been apart then. ~ ...... ..
He saw few colored men in the hall, and
wanted to say word to them. They knew
hat he, a few years ago, wanted to keep
hem in slavery, and they knew they did
lot obtain their freedom from the Con-
ederacy; neither did the Northern armies
II the Radical party give you your freedom. |
t was the All-wise God who gave you free |
ON; and when you kneel down at night |
hank Him for your freedom, and nobody /
lse. Don't you know that the leader of |
be party which beGeyils you about your /
otes is U. S. Gran? and don't you
now that when he went into the war he
aid publicly that il the war was waged for
be niger that he would throw down his
word or go over to the Rebels? But some
mes God uses men as instruments to ac-
Omplish His purposes. There is q man
rho for lifetime has been the uncempro-
using friend of you colored people; who
as used his mighty pen TO accomplis
our freedom; and after you gained it, it
'as Horace Greeley who was wise enough
} induce me and thousands Of others who
few years ago held you, or wanted to hold
OH as slaves, to make solemn pledge
lat we would guarantee you all your ac-
uired rights under the law, and that we
ould hold inviolSte the amendments to
Ne constitution by which your rights were
'cured. Some of you will vote against
r.. Greeley Do 80 if you will, but re-
ember that the blacklist crime in the cat-
ogue of crimes is ingratitude.
In the North many honest men were
ade to believe that the Southern people
ere ready at any moment to start q new
bellion. Hired letter-writers flooded the
,uth in search Of spicy news, and unable
find enough to suit their purposes they
from their fertile brains a
ntinual stream of outbreaks, murders,
SONS, rapes, whippings and Kukluxings.
ne papers were flooded and the Northern
ople had surfeit of crimes hashed up
: them in every issue Of the Radical press.
those days the old white hated philoso
er, Horace Greeley, was invited to deliver
ecture before an agricultural society in l
ixas. He passed through many Of the
Jtricts of the South which had figured I
gely in the "letters from the South" He
scovered the fraud that had been prac- '
ed and exposed it. To his hundred thou
ad readers of the Tribune he told what \
saw and heard In the South, aud lave q
) lie to the letter-writers and denounced \
, men who paid them as carpet baggers, l
lnderers and scamps, and disgrace to '
} nation. Sumner and Trumbull and t
Zens Of others began to see the light. c
t they were not powerful enough with b
esident Grant and his party to have the v
Is corrected. With an honest purpose v
y banded together and grew into party,
'ed upon equal rights, and truth and Il
tice. They nominated candidates for q
two highest offices in the land, and )
ed the people to aid them in purging the h
Vernment of fraud, corruption, lying, v
1otism, gift-taking, defalcation, bribery,
Thousand other crimes. If there was d
tn in the claim of the Old Democratic Il
ty that she was the party of the people 81
uld 1t have been wise or honest to have cl
yed the part Of the dog in the manger.
Mr. Greeley and his party do the work Of
y have laid out for themselves, and let us RI
9 them all the aid in our power. If b
y do their work well, give them their b,
, mead OF praise. Il
dr. Greeley and his friends are wise
ugh to know that no people can be pros n
Gus with one half of them robbed year
wear of their substance He Would re- cs