Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-08-22

convention come TO order.
LOOKING To ORGANIZATION.
Ex-Gov. Harris, of Shelby county, then
presented the following resolution, which
was unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That the chairman Of this con-
vention appoint the following committees,
to be composed of one member from the
respective Congressional DISTRICTS
1st. 4 committee On credentials.
I'd. A committee on permanent organiza-
ton.
Sd. A committee on the basis of repre-
sentation.
In accordance with this resolution the
chairman appointed the following gentle
men to serve OF tie committees:
COMMITTEE ON CREDENTIALS.
/. q. Harris, g. n. Gibbs, W. Wall, L. z.
Polk, Thos. BoyerS, J. B. Fitzpatrick, T.
n. Vandyke, VIM Morrow, John Blevins.
COMMITTEE ON PERMANENT oRGANIzA-
TON.
Gen. W. B. Bate, fifth district.
Thos. O'COnner, second district.
VIM q Payne, third district.
Erasmus Carnes, fourth district.
Richard Bullock, sixth district.
II. NJ. Doak, seventh district.
w. r. Handy, eighth district.
NJ. d. L. Stewart, ninth district.
Hon. James White. first district.
COMMITTEE ON BASIS OF REPRESENTATION
J. W. Newman Of the fourth dstrict.
f. G. Reeves, Of the first distfict.
NJ. e. Dibrell, OF the second district.
Col. Tom Murray, Ofthe third district.
S. p. Cunningham, of the fifth district.
Hon. II. McAdOo, of the seventh district.
a. D. Bright, of the eighth district.
E. A. Cooke, of the ninth district,
TEMPORARY SECRETARIES.
Col. john Hickman of Davidson, moved
that f. NJ. Woodall, of Davidson and E. B.
Wade, of Rutherford, be requested to act
as temporary Secretaries, which motion
prevailed.
DESIGNATIONS.
The Hon. Jas. White, of Hawkins county,
then said that honor debarred him from
serving on the Committee on Permanent
Organization to which he bad been ap-
pointed. He said he would be doing an in
justice TO the voters Of his county by be-
longing to any committee. He did not feel
as if be could serve and do his duty, so his
resignation was accepted, and Mr.. Speck
appointed in his place.
Col. Reeves of the GreeneVille Sentinel,
also rendered his resignation as member
of the Committee on the Basis of Repre-
sanitation, saying that he had no desire to
serve.
DR.. VIM. Morrow, of KUox county, who
was appointed on the Committee on Gre
dentials, resigned on account of official
business, and Samuel Rsmage, of Knox,
was appointed to fill the vacancy.
Hon. John u. Savage, chairman % the
Committee on Credentials said that Col.
Thos. Boyers wished to be excused from
serving on that Committee as he found that
Andrew Johnson was not to be before this
Convention as a candidate, AMI he had in
structions not to serve unless he was. Hon.
George B. Guild OF the county of David.
son was therefore appointed in his place.
The committees then retired to their re-
spective rooms, and loud calls being made
upon Hon. John Fl. Savage, that gentleman
spoke as follows:
SPEECH OF COL, SAVAGE.
FeTowc-itizens and Gentlemen of this Conven-
ton:
Having been out Of the harness for the
last twelve years, having been deprived of
the rights Of Il citizen, come before you
to-day, believing it to be my duty to tell
you what we have been dong during these
long twelve years. stand here, but am
not freeman. 1 cannot say that l am
not one of the so-calleQ freemen of the
South. am and have been slave. Ten
loug years have elapsed sine that glorious
cause, to which nv life has been devoted,
has ceased TO be--years that to me have
been ones of peculiar sadness. l am no
great admirer of JEFF Davis, he is not nv
,,,l -,
whom the South needed in their dire
trouble. Bat against him / can say moth
ing, although | believe there were ADLER
men who might have held the position
which he held, and who could have done
It with better satisfaction to all parties con-
earned.
There is a great deal of public sentiment
aroused in this, the State l have been
brought up in, respecting the coming cleo
ton, and if l can trust the integrity of the
Southern people they will not submit to the
yoke OF tyranny and usurpation which the
present administration has forced upon
them. For Horace Greeley l have I'M
bounded respect. 1t was my fortune
to represent a portion of the vo-
tiers Of sold Tennessee" at the
Baltimore Convention, and while there
voted for him aud for the Cincinnati plat
form, not because | thought that either the
man or the platform were the best that
could be found, but because recognized in
both new and | hope successful ally to
the future freedom of the South. Who
was it, when war had ceased, and the leader
Of the South WAS ia prison, that willingly
came, and with his own honest hand broke
the chains that fettered him, but Horace
| Greeley? loud applsuse.] VINO was it
that extended amnesty to The South and
said ''you are my erring brothers and am
willing to forgive you, and restore your
rights? = Wasn't it Horace Greeley? loud
applause ]
That good old Democratic party
proud of its part, still recognizes
that there were grand patriots on
both sides. Those brilliant heroes
that clustered as stars in the political frma-
ment have many of them passed away, but
still there was cluster at Cincinnati ii
May, who rivalled in brightness some of or
noblest statesmen whose names are all tIA i
we have to know them of. That achieVe-
ment at Cincinnati is one that viii live fsr
all time, and when those who were COZ
nected with it are dead and gone, there via
remain record Of glory and purity the
equal of which the world has seldom seen.