Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-10-11
CONVICT LABOR


When was in the legislature, | called
attention TO the conflict between penal la
Dor and labor otitside. [Cries Of $50 for
it'll AT that time lt had made some start
and was getting under way. Then difficult
ties prevented lis farther encrOachmeJIts.
Look at the recOrd-it shows what my
course has been IN that connection. L
never vas engaged in turning penal labor
ers out to come in conflict with the honest
iabofsrs Of the country. tCres Of go
ahead."1 Il has been my place in my pub
lie life to stand by the labCTing man-to
stand by the mechanic. l would rather
wear upon my garments the dinge OF the
shop and the dust Of the field as badges Of
the pursuits of peace, than the tassel upon
my hat. or the epaulettes upon my shoul-
ders, or the sword dangling in its
scabbafd By my side, which had been
stained in brothers blood, as
the insignia of honorable and glorious
war. prolonged aPplause.) The highway
which have Travelled in public life has not
been paved with human skulls, or the
bridges over which l have passed been
causewayed or fiOOred with the mutilated
limbs and bodies Of dead men. There are
no GOlgothas on one hand, or POtters
field on the other. The cries and suffer
ines of orphaned children and widowed
salute not my ears with reprOach.
The blood of husbands and sOns is not up
on nv skirts. / anu not responsible for the
strife and angry passions that brought civil
war upon the nation, with all its disasters
and blighting consequences.
THIRD TERN.
10 ola OF
President and United States Senators, re-
affirming that they should be elected d.
rectly by the people, and dwelling strongly
upon the danger 70 be apprehended from
rejoicing Grant for third term.
GOVERNOR BROWN.
On the 22d of last month, the speaker
said, Gov. Brown had made a speech at
Pulaski, i'm which he found this statement,
which he read from the BGaner'S report:
ain some places the Senatorial question had
been agitaied. He told them that they
should elect men NhO were fully cOmpe-
tent 10 ill the position, and not ask them
before the election wheCher they intended
TO vote for johnson or Bate, as if they were
elected, and were qualified to vote on
other things, they certainly ought TO be
able 10 vote for the man, who, in their
Judgment, would best serve the people
Why shOuld Bate and Johnson be sim
eled out? Is Gov. Brown afraid OF the
peCple? Gov. Brown disclaims, in speech
made Yesterday, being a candidate for the
United States Senate, yet he tells the peO-
pIe To elect their representatives to the
Legislature, and say nothing about the
United States Senator. Now, Is 1t not as
l.. MIA
tiyes will vote for Senator, as 10 know how
he will vote upon the funding bill, or any
other important measure? 10 Is time the
people were taking their affairs into Their
own hands.
Mr. johnson then recited the facts, here
tOfore published at length in this paper,
with regard 10 his defeat, as he claimed, by
a coalition Of certain Democratic members
of the Legislature of four years ago with a
Radical minority, to which coalition he
charged that Gov. John G. Brown was a
party.
Referring TO Gov. Browns speech at Wa
verify, Friday, be denied that he had given
Gov. Brown his pardon "grudgingly," and
said that. because he had taken his browns
neck out of the halter and saved his body
from incarceration, he did not consider that
any reason why Brown should seek his de-
struction. He said that whether the par
don had been given grudgingly, or freely,
there was one thing about tit had been
very readily and willingly accepted.
He then spoke of what he terms his
.'betrayar' four years agoby those in whom
he had placed confidence.
At this point there was great excitement
in the crowd with cries Of Savage,
Brown sBate," johnson" ''Oh. My
Andyr' The noise having finally abated,
Mr.. johnson read as follows from Gov
Browns Waverly speech:
'If we suspended the writ Of baoeas
corpus to execute the finding of an unlaw-
full military court, in time Of profound
peace. when the United States Govern
ment had more than 100000 men undei
arms. without an organized battalion Ol
a squadron confronting them-if TO have
aided in levying a tax Of 3 cents per pound
upon cotton, the chief source Of revenue tc
the South, 10 the exclusion Of all farm pro
ducts Of the North and West-h to hav'
destroyed State gOgeTnm snts in order TO
bring them into new life upon a minor