Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-09-24


We publish to-day an account Of the
grand demonstration at Memphis Saturday
apd Saturday night in honor of Gems
ChezthaIh, the Democrats candidate for
Congress for the State at Large. We wit
messed i,snd can say Without exsggeration
that it wasthe largest political demonstra-
ton we ever beheld. We never saw an as
sem6lage listen to speakers with such close
attention Tor SO gieat length Of time.
We never heard fewer Interruptions in any
open air night MEETING. Il was undoubt-
edly, as the appeal termed it, "An ovation
unparalleled in the history of the city and
State.n II such demonstrations be any in
dicaticn Of public sentiment, then Cheat
hams majority in West Tennessee may be
set down as overwhelming.
We regret that our limited space does
not permit the publication this morning of
the speeches Of Gen. Qaarles, Judge
Stephens, and others who spoke. We shall
endeavor to publish Gen. Quarles' speech
in a few days.
Don't raise an issue with a man who is
the choice of the majority Of the Democra-
CO upon his Union record.-B Banner.
So says the Banner. But whoTwas It
raised The issue with Mr.. johnson "upon
his Union reeord?' Go read the Banner
for the last three years and there will be
found column after column enough to make
volume of the coarsest vituperation and
abuse of the BahnsrS present political
deity and all because of his tUnion re-
cord" When did this mighty change come
over the spirit of the Banner?
Was it before Gen. Cheatham
was nominated? No. Then it denounced
Mr. johnson as ''an able but INSCRIPTIONS
man." "to whose inordinate ambition may
be traced much of tie political trouble of
the South since the war" Then, but
few weeks since, it published, without dis
sent, charges against Mr.. johnson of vic
lating the constitution, ridiculing the idea of
his having "StUck to the constitution" res
directing the Imprisonment by him at Fort
MacKInaw, of Gems. Barrow and Harding
and Judge Guild, recalling the imprison-
ment in The Nashville penitentiary of Rev.
Drs. Howell Elliot, and Baldwin and other
elergymen, and bringing up again every
act of bis Military Governorship. Did this
oh la Of 10
upon the nomination of Gen. Cheatham?
No. 1t was not until Mr.. johnson began
his war upon party organization, not until
he declared himself an independent" can
didste for Congress, that the Banner
changed the range of its guns from Mr..
Johnson to Gen. Cheatham. Then it sud
denly discovered that Mr.. johnson was a
marvellous proper man to receive the suf-
frages of the people of Tennessee. Then it
discovered hoH utterly wicked it was to
arraign Mr.. johnson upon his war record,
and how exceedingly righteous it was in
him to SNAKE treason odious, "by stigma
Using the 'Lost Cause" as ga politicians
war;" "a rich mans war and a poor mans
fight" Then it was that the Banner dis
covered that the fact of Mr..
johnson taking Greeley as ga choice
Of evils" as ga crooked stick,n was not
Objectionable, that that squiDt in Mr.. John
sons political eye was really beauty in
stead ola Flemish. Then it was that the
Banners particular friend Col. Colyar, the
simon pure of all the "original" Greeley
men, ceased to preach that it was necessary
TO be an "original" Greeelyite in order TO
secure political salvation, and, after having
served in the Confederate Congress until
the close Of the war, learned how hideous a
horror secession was. We shall begin to
think that Bret Harte was mistaken in say
ing that ''for ways that are dark and tricks
that are vain the Heather Chinee is pecu-
liar" F.