Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-10-13
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| awho refused pardon to Gen. Lees Asl
s'first ward win do good work fol
| THE SQUARE . g-sE afg ~.
was densely packed with people, horses ant
vehicles of every description. Every stree
| furnished its quota to the crowd which wa
increased continually and by the time the
procession had reached the courthouse
there were near
| 1900 PERSONS eeb
assembled. The scene now beggars de
scriptisD, and around the speakers stand
the countless numbers flocked in eagerness
When the procession halted, the enthusi-
asm Of the crowd, who had been cheering
at intervals, broke forth in unrestrainec
might, and long the echoes were heard tc
ring in the distance. A sky rocket was SET
| off and darted
! UPWARD, W
scattering splendours in every direction
and giving the rainbow beauties to the
darkness Of the night. Then Roman can
dies, of every Imaginable color, were let
oil, throwing varied briIliance over the
VAST THRoNG
/ assembled to express their admiration for
one who has ever shown his fidelity to bis
country's interest by strictest duty and I'M
| flinching courage. Owing to the number
| present all endeavored 10 get as near as
| possible 20 the speakers stand, which be-
ing thronged by many gave way aud
HURLED ALL TO THE GROUND.
This caused some excitement, as it was
| feared some person or persons had been IN
| jured. The fallen were extricated and for
| tunately none Of them seriously injured, 9
| little boy named Charles Evers, of North
College, being slightly bruised.
The table BEING placed on the stone es
plan ads, this was mounted by Gen. Franz
Ciea than, the Democratic nominee fol-
Congressman from the State at large
and also by the following - ssefs
SPEAKERS AND DISTINGUISHED GEN
TLEMEN:
Col. Jno. F. House, of GAINESVILLE, Col
W. Fl. Stephens, of Memphis, Col. John
II. Savage, of McMinnville, Gen. VIM. A
Quarles, Gen. James N. Quarles, of Clarks.
vile, Col. III. G. Galloway Of the Memphi /
appeal, Judge Albert s. Marks, Winchester
Col. j. j. Turner, of Gallatin, and quite
a number of others from various parts OF
the State.
General: The pleasing duty devolyes on
me, as chairman of the Democratic State
Executive Committee, to formally receive
you on the occasion. You are here, sir, in
the city Of your nativity, where for mere
than fifty years, man and boy, you have
been known and beloved. Although you have
been away from US for few years, hard at
work on your farm, we have neither forgot
ten you nor ceased to esteem you; and it
seems that you have not been forgotten by
the people of your native State, for they are
calling you from the plow handles, like Gin
cinnstus, to take part In administering the
affairs of State. e7 las sou
We recognize in you hneal descendant,
great-grand son Of ssthe Father of Tennes-
see," and s'the Founder of Nashville;;" for
such Blount, and Haywood, and Jackson, and
Ramsey, and Putnam, and "the truth OF
history appropriately and deservedly calls
your great-grand father, Gen. James Rob-
ertsoD; that pioneer who settled as early as
s1760, on the banks of the Wautauga, and
during the revolutionary war resisted the
entertainments of the Indians and the Brit
ish; the first man who, at the bloody
battle Of Point Pleasant, was
shot at, and the first who shot an
Indian; who in l779, after traversing the
wilderness, settled on the Cumberland in
3 stones throw from the place where we
now tender you this reception; who cut
the cane and fought the red man where
Nashville now stands. In organising the
Territorial government South of the Ohio,
in 1870, the immortal Washington, then
President of the United States, selected this
Gen. Robertson, from whom you are descend
ed, as Brigadier General and commander
of the militia of the Territory. He died in
the service Of his country at the Chicka-
saw Agency, but his remains sleep In yon-
der cemetery. The inscription on his un-
pretending tomb tells US that there rests
"GEN. JAMES ROBERTSON, THE FOUNDER
OF NASHVILLE" and by his side your
great-grand mother, "CHARLoTTE R.,
WIFE OF JAMES ROBERTSON" Those
who have long personally known you and
who from history and tradition, know
him, readily trace in you many of those
characteristics-modesty, integrity, unpre-
tending worth, truthfulness, sincerity,
courage, devotion to principle and TO coun-
try-which made him so deeply beloved
by his associates in all the trials and trou-
bles which beset the early settlers
of East Tennessee at WaUtaugs, of Middle
Tennessee at n Nashville, and of the Western
District near the Chickasaw Agency. His
being soldier in war and General in
rank, did not in the estimation of his com
patriots, render him unfit for civil Office; for
we find that while Tennessee was por-
ton of North Carolina, he was elected a
member of the North Carolina Legislature,
position which ranked as high in that day
as Congressman from the State at large now
does. p.
Your history is too well known to those
now before US to make It necessary for he
to detail the services which you performed
as a gallant soldier and successful COM
mander during the war with Mexico. Nor
need trace your course during the late
civil war step by step, from battle TO battle,
in victory and in defeat, from your first
fight at Belmont to the final surrender on
the soil of North Carolina. We believe you
did what you thought was right, what you
considered to be in accordance with the
dictates of duty and of patriotism. We
know that no ''guarded marquee" shielded
you in that struggle from sharing all the
tolls, the hardships, and the dangers Of the
soldier. Every man who fought with you
knows, and the bullets which your body
received, tell that when the battle came
you ever sought Ga place in the picture
nearest the firing of the guns" We know,
too, General, that, using your own laa-
guage, "when borne down by Overwhelming
numbers, we were forced to surrender, and
the war was ended" you accepted the stu
alton upon the honor of a soldier, and re-
turned to the pursuits of Of pesce;" that, in
your humble way, you "have labored ear
nestly from that day to this, for peace aud
reconciliation, and the great body OF Con-
federates, who shared with you the dan
gers and hardships of that war, have labor
ed to the same end. You feel you have
not dishonored your mother State; and she
will not dishonor you for having discharged
what you believed to be a patriots duty"
Many Of us personally know that long
before the nominations at Baltimore and
Cincinnati, you declared in the interest of
national restoration and harmony, your
preference for the Presidency to be that
great apostle of peace and recon-
Citation, Horace Greeley. In accepting
your nomination, you said, 81 am man
of peace; have proclaimed it for seven
long years; endorse the grand movement
in the United States in favor of peace and
reconciliation; what desire is peace, peace,
peaceI Those were your words, and we
know that, as you then said, your word was
"eyerything to you in this world-every-
thing" 4aE 4Elz