The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-09-26
Gen. Cheatham at Chattanooga.


We publish from the Chattanooga
Times a much fuller report Of Gen.
Cheathafu's speech at Chattanooga.
Gen. Cheatham said:
Fellow citizens-Ladies and Gen
tlemen-I appear before you to-day
for the first time ia my life to make
Il public speech, but I do not pro
I'"se TO rake yOn a set speech, !
simply propose TO talk TO you in my
own way. am no public speaker.
! was born and raised upon a farm,
sad public speaking has never been
nay occupation. / stand before you
as a candidate for a seat in the Con
gress OF the United States for the
State at large, nominated by the
Democratic party at State eOnven-
uoH held at Nashville on the 2lst
day eG last month. That nomina-
ton seems TO have created quite a
stir throughout the country with
Gen. Andrew johnson and friends.
Gea. johnson has he'll Office IN this
State, / reckon, for the last forty
years, and tor almost every office
WhIch he has held he has been nom
mated 10y conventions belonging to
tlIe same iarGy which / nov repre-
sent GA this door. / don't know
what change has come over my hon
oCahle competitor, that nc now pro-
pOscs to run against the nominee of
the very party 70 which he claims to
belong. Well, so Ear, so good
While ! submit my claims to the
people OF Tennessee, he says / am
u General. Well, who made me a
General2 never received a militia
ry education. started as a private
in Nashville in 1916. / carried a
mu5ket as a volunteer, and / have
gone through all the gradatiOns OF
rank from the lowest to nearly the
highest in the army. In 1876 my
State called for volunteers for the
Mexican war. volunteered and
was with the army then for two years,
aud I tried to do my duty. In 1860
the war commenced, lived in the
South, in Tennessee. My State cast
sler fortunes with the South. be-
longed to her and I went with her,
and in so doing l thought I was
simply doing my duty. Applause. }
In the four years j was with the ar
my never thought Of anything else.
! never sought position, and what
positions ! did hold were given me
t'v my superior officers, who, / sup
pose, thought did my duty. Gen.
L.
speech, tries to render the COnfed-
crate suldiers antagOnistic to their
commanders. The war was then
over seven years, and 1 thought
every man in the country wanted
peace. / live in the country where
1 talk and live in peace. When
meet the immigrant I take him by
the hand and encourage him TO set
tie among us. have met the
Federal officer and have met with
the Federal soldier, aud we never
quareled. They said 70 me, ave
lived in the North aud went with
the NORTH and l said, Il lived in
tho South and went with the South"
We shook hands aud both were Of
everything tO promote peace and
put down strife among all classes
Go to Nashville where l live and
tie people there will tell YOU the
same thing. This bringing mp Of
oil ISSUES / do not approve, and
will not pursue il, even although I
NV competitor tries to create bad
feelings between the Confederate
s"idicrs aud his officer, the officer
Who faught with him, who fed him,
who clothed him. These soldiers
never took any risk that l did not
take. ! never said "GO forward, |
lHNa," ! was always willing % lead. |
"a plnuae.) But / say now let
th"He dead Issues 90; let the |
dad past bury thc dead. / do not |
lH"tnac ~ make o speech, for I sim /
IlY pot up 10 order that you may |
sfr ms. This h. the first Office I /
bavs ever snught, while my compcti /
~, Gen. Andres johnson, has held l
'iffs tH the stats for over thirty /
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