The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-10-24


you were incapable Of Judging 70
: yourselves, and thus you wer
} fools.
) On the oath of October, 1866
while addressing an immense erowt
of negroes at Nashville, he said, g
, am no Agrarian; I wish to see &c
cured to every man the fruits of hi
honest industry, etc, But
through an UBIQUITOUS system
Islavery] vast amount Of wealtl
has been secured ia the hands o
one man, then that result is wrong
It is wrong that Mark CockrilI anC
W. @. Harding by means Of forced
and qtnpaid labor [slayeI should
have monopohzed so. large a shar.
Of the wealth of Tennessee, and !
saB if their plantations were, di
vided up and pageeyisd oal
tamongs5 4 number OF free and bon
est farmers. it would give more
good citizens to our State" etc.
Here we have perfect and uno.
quivocal enunciation of the doc.
trine, less elegantly expressed, in
the saying, "forty acres of land and
a mule" Asserting that he is nc
Agrarian, he, in the next breath,
gives it the lie by proposing to par
Gel 0a5t the estates of those who
had accumulated wealth by means
of slave labor. Yet, forsooth, he
it is to whom We are indebted for
all we have! Had the moral sense
of the Nation been so low AMI dull
as his, an opportunity might have
been afforded him of carrying into
practice his two prominent ideas OF
of DEATH and rcoNFIscATToN. Yet
he it was nwhp, saved us from, rpin
I'Such imbecility breeds contempt.
There was certainly never presented
a more humiliating spectacle than
that of an Ex-Governor and q. S.
Senator of a State standing with
in the sacred precinct of its capital,
on the spot halEowed by the .recol
lection of-manya a proud triumph on
his part, when a whole people. in
the delirium of mad existence and
JOY, paid him the tribute of every
honor, and, from there, harranging
a miserable,. degraded. ignorant
mob, appealing to their low sin
stincts and melting them to hostili-
ty towards those for whom his bo-
som should have 5expanded with
gratitude for making him all that
he had been. Calling gentlemen
by name and branding them rs 'sIeb-
els, who in the wantonness of wealth
wrung from the sweat and sto5oa
wages of othors, had given millions
of dollars in aid of the unholy
cause; referring to "High street,
where those aristocrats dwell, whose
sons are now in the bands Of. cut
threats who prowl and ROD and
D3urder around the city," and
winding up by @arrogatfng to him
self a commission from High Heav-
en- to lead the negro to freedom
and happiness. He says: 81 wish
a Moses might arise" The mob
shouts, "You are our Moses" He
then says, 'FGod no doubt has pre-
pared somewhere an instrument for
this great work, and in due time |
your Moses win be revealed to |
you" "We want no Moses but |
you,' shouts the crowd. "Weli |
then" replies he, "I wiz be your
Noses" Asserting in one breath |
that God would prepare the instru-
nent," and IN the next he would be /
t, he arrogates to himself the
chosen agent of God for the accom-
2lishment of his ends. a great
writer has said, "Irreverent mock
Try is worse than gross blasphe-
N.Y. From Bristol to Nashville be
has borne the bannerr of disorgan-
cation and possible defeat to Liber-
.lisals and standing again where he
vas nominated by mob, he reiter
ties. even more emphatically and
lnequivocally the burden of all his
speeches. so far, that he was right
md every one engaged in or in any
way friendly to ths "Lost Cause"
vas wrong, and demands that by
their ballots for ham the
people shall so declare; thus brand
ng, by their own acts, themselves
md their cherished dead as worthy
# the fate which he. had declared 1
vas justly due them, namely: "7He
)" '.PoUerty," social deg
'Gdati0a." Already is the party
90 much distracted by this old
PREACHER Of tho "GOspeI of Hate"
nd SuddenIy-u6l0 enemy Of Con
-entiens. Already do division and
.jndepeadehce'i Ia new name for
.hronio greed of Office threaten rs
nth another eign of that blasting, /
IesOlsting simoo on-RadIcalism.
The only guarantee of success is
nifty Of action. Organization is
be safeguard against defeat. Then,
tand by the proven friends of
and your State. whether
q the snnshine Of prosperity or the
Icon Of desolation, and put the
eal of your condemnation. emphat-
e and irrevocable, upon him who,
OF four long years, sought to eject
our ruin and your woe, and would ,
ow have YOU disbonor the. cause so
ear TO you, with al its sacred