Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1872-05-23
President Grant Endorsed and
Hon. Horace Maynard
Recommended!
NO NOMINATION. FOR GOVERNOR.
THE DEMOCRATS AsToNIsHED AND
DON'T UNDERSTAND THE CASE.
a CHEERING LETTER FROM
SENATOR BRowNLow.
Full Report Of the Proceedings.
NASHVILLE. Tenn.,)
MAY 18th 1870

l Tenn.
May 18th, 1872.
The convention was called to order at
twenty minutes TO one O'Clock by Ii. Ii.
Harrison, Chairman of the State Central
Committed.
Prayer was offered by Rev. X. F. Pat
ton, OF Robertson.
Colonel Thomas Waters, of Davidson.
and DR.. a. w. Hawkins, of Carroll, were
| appointed temporary secretaries.
The following committees were appoint
| ed by the chair
| On Credentials-H E Hudson, of Shell
| by; II A Kercheval, of Davidson I; Will
liam Rule, of Knox; A III Pettibone, OF
| Greene.
On Permanent Organization-First Dis
| trict, Jno X Miller; Second District, John
Ii Brownlow i; Third District, w 81 viii
hottie; Fourth District. Lewis Tiilman /;
Fifth District, q w Emery Sixth Dis
trict, G w Blackburn ; Seventh District,
DIR A w Hawkins; Eighth District, John
X Poston; Ninth District, Barbour Lewis.
The convention, at five minutes to one
l O'Clock, took a recess of thirty minutes,
| after which Colonel John b Brownlow,
Chairman of the Committee on Perina-
lei Organization, made the following
report which was unanimously adopted:
President, Joshua b Frierson, of Maury.
Vice-Presidents-1st District-R X But
Ter; I'd District-Geo Andrews; Sd Dis
tilCI"HNbASttA I&td ~ III
Bosom ; 9Th DistrIct-H III Harrison: 9Th
District Nj Dickinson; 7th District
L A Smith ; Sth District-P Mitchell (;
9th District-Benjamin Paine.
Secretaries-Dr a w Hawkins, of Car
roll, w A Gavetr, of Davidson, and L L
Cate, of Bradley.
The President returned thanks briefly
for The honor conferred upon him by the
convention, and read the call under
which the convention hadL assembled.
The Committee OF Resoluti 1ns, con-
sisting of one delegate from each Con-
gressiOnal District, was appointed, as fol-
lows LIST District, II Il Butler 2nd Dis
trict, Horace Maynard Sd District, II S
Kindrlck; 18th District, Jas Mnllens; 9Th
District. John Temple; 9Th District, G
w Blackburn; 9Th District, w w MUIR
ray I; Sth District, ID & Lacy 9th Dis
trict, X + Patterson.
Hon. Horace Maynard declined to serve
on the COMMITTED, and Judge Geo An
drews, of Knox, was appointed in his
stead a
The following committee was appoint.
ed to select delegates to the Philadelphia
State at Large Is. District, n Hacker;
I'd. VIM Rule; Sd. O Cate; 4th, w Y
Elliott; 9th, Ill III Hacker; 9Th. j NJ
Dickinson; 9TH, ) c Wheeler; Sth, WI
Poston (; 9th, j. + Dyer.
While the committee were preparing to
reports. Tue ITcsiuenI cdlltu OH non. bar
bour Lewis to read the following letter
from Senator Brownlow:
SENATOR BROwNLOw'S LETTER.
KNOXVILLE, May 18th, 1879.
To the chairman and members of the State
-RepaJyicdn Convention of Tennessee, in
ConUentjoa assembled
FxLLow REPUBLICANS: L hail You as the honor
ed Representatives of n noble party, whose deeds
alike in Tennessee and throughout the Union,
have made the history of our country so illustri-
Gus, beyond precedent, cmbodying the principles
OF the Declaration of Independence into the Ma
tional Constitution, and throwing the protection
of equal laws over all classes of our citizens.
Notably in Tennessee has the record of the Re-
re-erecting and re-cstablishing the fabric of the
State Government, which had been laid in ruins
into opera ton the railroads which had been worn
out in the service of the. rebellion, and at length
seized by the United states Army in maintain
ing the credit of Tennessee by paying the interest
which had accrued upon her bonds during the
war in inaugurating the best systems of public
schools which the State has ever had and all
this under the most formidable obstacles and
difficulties. Nor has the sphere of your political
innuence been confined alone to Tennessee.
Eight years since the electoral vote of Tennessee
was cast foe the martyr Presidehf, the noble, Ia
mente ed Lincoln -Four yesr ago IL war cast for
the distinguished General whose armies stamped
out the rebellion and who has SO honorably, use
fully and acceptabiy occupied the Presidential
are not only willing 10 give him a new lease of
Office for four years. but we are determined to do
so. That they will succeed 70 as morally certain
as that the American people are capable of Ere
cognizing honest merit and re~nrding urninch-
Tbis honorable record OF the State Republican
party should be but the incentive TO continued n
deity toits principles 1t should inspire with
zeal all ats members to seek to recover at the car
hest possible moment that political asccndancy,
wrung from IL in a moment Of discord and divis-
ion, by the late seif-disfranchised rebels of Ten
nessee. The sad experience OF Kuklux Demo-
cratic rule shows how djnicuif IL iE for many 81
those who have been inimitai to the Saticnai