Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-09-30
EAST TENN. UNION MEN FOREVER
GRAND RALLY or TIE PEOPLE
GRANT ENDORSED.
RoU~iug speech from Mnynard-Dem.
ocrRtIc violence Exposed
white League KuISIuN .irecley Dem.
ocrRcy Uumasksd

white League enthusiastically Dem.
ocracy Unmasksd
Br"wnIow Endorses chattanooga Plat
form and Maynard and
ThOrubuTgh.
TO endorse President Grants course on
Louisiana Affairs, met at the Opera
House last night, and was a grand
success. 1t was largely attended and
was so enthusiastic, that it took the
programme in its own hands and car
| ried it through with rush.
Maj. Prosser, chairman of the State
Executive Committee, called the meet
| ing to order in few stirring remarks,
stating the object for which the con,
vention had been called. On motion,
d. p. Class, of Sewer county, was
made chairman and Lafayette Hud.
dleston made secretary.
A committee on resolutions was APP
pointed. AS soon as the committee
was named the crowd impatiently
called for Maynard, who promptly
appeared and without ceremony began
his speech, which was substantially as
follows:
HON. HORACE MAYNARD's SPEECH.
am glad to meet you here tonight.
| see before me men of substance, men
- int al Nvl a of NJ,
out for trivial causes. We have seen
the Republican party differ on matters
of principle and men. Men of earnest
) purpose will differ; but when the time
for action comes, and great issues are
, at stake. they sink all for the great
, cause. ReciIed the great victories OF
the Republican party to show that
ever since its organization it has
, swept on to victory after victory,
The gentleman who called this meet
ing to order said the instruction in
Louisiana was a "little rebellion -
Little in its results, but great in its
, intent aud design. He then referred
r to the attempts made by Southern
leaders to capture Gen. Graut by fiat.
terry. Gov. Kemper, of Virginia, made
speeches during his canvass in which
. he spoke of Grant as not q
Radical. Those Southern men
} became Grant men," but not Rad,
? icals." Mr.. Maynard then gave {
r history Cfthe organization ofthe White
League, which succeeded the kukluS
o. khan, whose organization perpetrateC
| acts that make a darker chapter in the
( history Of mankind than l ever eXpec
to hear again. These White League,
A have been organized fDr.some time
r In New Orleans they attempted 10y
+ force to seize upon the government o
/ a leading State. They drove Governo
i Kellogg from the capitol, and mad
3 him take refuge in the Custom House
. No sooner had this outbreak takeI
J place than all over the South meeting
) were held, aud cut-and-dried resOlu
i tions were passed approving the Whit
}. Leaguers. In Georgia, Gen. Toomb
5 proposed to prevent the passage o
# Federal troops over their soil.
= You know how they talked her
y and elsewhere, that in five days tn,
e Radicals would all be out and tn
Il White Leaguer5 would be in, an
}, Grant would let them alone. Blu
It Grant called his Cabinet and gave hi
n orders, and those folks knew what
lie meant, if our Gay street heroes did no
d Some of them had known Grant 4
II Belmont, at Missionary Ridge an
)r some, perhaps, at AppOmattox.
le The plan was to take Louisiana
l. then Florida and South Carolina an
ID then Mississippi. Who bought Lot
he isiana? The nation, TO give it to fe'
ID men? or TO make 1t part of our Gov
ut eminent? The same leaders who i
" 1860 and 1861 brought on this rebellio
L. would to-day, if they thought the
It. could do it successfully, prompt
at unfurl their old reasonable flag and W
as know there are many who would rail-
be around ii. You need my cOuntryme
he vigilant, wise men on guard who wi
Id protect your Interests. The Dem'
IN cratic party contains some good mel
is. but they are deludsd. 1t has been II
to policy Of this party to denOunce an
=. brand with Odium every Republica
of in the South. 1t has been the polio
,c of this party TO stigmatiZe Republican
NV so as TO intimidate them or drive the
as by Ostracism from their principles. Nj
of Maynard then read Gov. Brown
speech at Pulaski, saying that eve
he Republican attending the Chattanool
zee Convention ought to be in the per
on Tertiary, and he would not purdJ
le them if they were i'm there.
of He then recited some of the mo
he noted cases of murder on account
$50 color or politics. lie read from t.
,at address of the State Executive Cor
,rs miltee, in which they say that {
discussion of the Civil Rights b
caused all this. The answer impli
that assassination, murder and Vi
lence are the weapons of the Dem
cratic party 10 defeat legislation th
does not suit them. They do not Ii
the Civil Rights Bill, 80 they ha
some of their emissaries go and SHOOT
poor colored girl teaching a school
her own race. The Democrats dOl
like the Civil Rights Bill, so they ia
sixteen colored prisoners from the j
o. one Of our counties, and without
trial kill them. This is the argume
the Democrats put forward. I
pistol, the dagger, the bullet are thu
ne weapons. This Is a land Of reason,
argument, where the people reas
together on legislation. Why Il
appeal to the reason Of the people, a
not to their prejudices?