Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-20
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THE REFORM MOVEMENT IN TENNEssEE.
" NASHVILLE, March 9.-The Reunion
and Reform Association of this city have
called a mass meeting to assemble here on
May 18th, for consultation as to the best
means to be adopted for the support, in
this State, of the nominees of the Cincin-
natl Republican National Convention"
THE STATE CONVENTION.
But few days ago the State Central
Committee of the Republican party called
a State Convention to be held in Nash
vile on this same 10Th day of May, which
is now appointed for the assembling of the
so-called Liberal Republican Convention.
The postponement of the assembling of
the State Convention of the regular and
only Republican party of Tennessee un-
til the middle of May is regarded by
Tennessee Republicans here, their
friends, as unfortunate as to time.
Indeed, it is considered great blum
der. Before the middle of May nearly,
if not quite, every State and Territory VIII
have held its convention, and the question
will have been decided as TO whom the
nominee of the Philadelphia Convention
shall be. That nomination Will, in no
wise, depend upon the action of the Re-
publicans of Tennessee, and it is not be-
cause Tennessee Republicans here suppose
it will that they object to the lateness of
have to this long postponement is the up
pedrdnce it has of trimming, of lodging
the responsibility of declaring our prefer
ence until after every body else has done
SO. / know this was not the purpose of
our State Central Committee, but such is
the criticism to which they are subjected
by those who are not familiar with their
views. fe-..r-..--r 81
Iwould avoid any and all appearance of
Sinking responsibility in this matter, and,
therefore, would designate as the time
for holding the Convention of the Repub-
lican party of the State, the 18th day of
April, proximo. The birthday of the inn
mortal Henry Clay is fit time for the as
sembling of Tennessee Republicans, whose
principles are substantially those so long
advocated by the Usage of Ashland"
PRESIDENT GRANT.
Let the Convention resolve what
it may, there is no misgiving or
doubt with the Republican masses
of Tennessee as to their duty in
the premises. OF the sixty-five thou
sand white and forty-five thousand colored
Republican voters of Tennessee, there are
not five hundred who are not for General
Grant, first, last and all the time.
They are for him not because anybody
in another State is for him, but they are
for him because his administration has
been in accordance with their views of
what Republican administration should
be. They are for him because they believe
him honest, patriotic and to be relied
upon to administer the Government for
the best interest of the whole country and
for the protection of life and liberty in the
rebellious South. OF all the leaders and
statesmen of the Republican party Gen
eral Grant is, in the estimation of Tennes
see Republicans, prominently qualified
to hold the helm and pilot the ship o
State. ~ o. '-'A4 ~. r..
The real people in Tennessee, as else
where, believe in him. They have no
been alienated from, but rather NOR
strongly attached to him, by the q cam
paign of SANDER upon which his enc
mics have entered and so long persiste,
in fighting him: By every committee o
investigation which is called for he is win
dicated, after the most thorough investi
cation, from all the assaults OF his viru
lent enemies. The unfounded and mali
cious charges of corruption against Gran
and his Cabinet do not bear the light O
investigation and truth and end in smolx
and the discontinue of his enemies Thu
it will be until after the next election
when the country viii hear no more O
the electioneering accusations. ~
He will be re-nominated at PHILADELPHIA
by reclamation, by one of the largest
ablest and most enthusiastic convention
that ever assembled to nominate a Presi
Dental ticket. And he will be reelected
no matter what may be the action o
whom the nominees of the Cincinnati
conclave or Democracy.
THE so-CALLED LIBERAL REPUBLICANS
l trust no Republican of Tennessee viii
be deceived by this delusive appeal of so
called Liberal Republicanism. / have n
fears that they will be. The treaehery O
the rebel-Demoeracy of Tennessee Is to-
fresh in their memories. They have no
forgotten the proscriptive legislation of tn
Democracy of Tennessee, and their viola
ton Of pledges in rejecting the Fifteenth
Amendment aud turning the kulxlux loos
upon the colored people when through di
visions in the Republican party, a Legisla
ture was inaugurated in 1863 processing
the largest degree of liberalism and con
servatism.
Who are the men in Tennessee who, 70
the most part, are applauding and support
ing this movement of so-ealled Liberia
Republicanism
And who are the men who, through tn
press and otherwise, are aiding in gettin
up delegation to go TO Cincinnati? The
are the same Liberal Republicans" VIII
supported Mcclellan as against Lincoln
1854. They are the same men who SUI
ported Seymour as against Grant in 1855
And they are the same men who are no.
for "any body to beat Grant,
To presume for a moment that men wit
such antecedents could influence the II,
publican voters of Tennessee, would be
assume that these voters are fools TIL
real issue before the country is whether II
party which put down the rebellion sha
govern II or the party which inaugurate