Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-07-25
The Radicals in Council
BOYD. THE TYCOON, MAKES
FLAT!


five hundred and thousand negroes, anC
about q dozen white radicals, were on thu
grounds. A few gentlemen OF the demo
cratic party. attracted by curiosity and ,
desire to hear all that might be said, wer,
also there. The meeting was in the inter
est Of b. p. Boyd, of Brownsville, the rad
ical candidate for Judge Of this Chancery
district. In due time Mr.. Boyd took thu
stand and announced himself a candidate
for Chancellor. He protested TO be a law
yer and not politician. He said that wal
had been made upon him, and those he al.
dressed, because be and they were republf
cans. After announcing that il elected he
would DO his duty, he retired, amid the
most profound silence. The colored men
who from far and near, had assembled to
hear their great champion, as heralded by
| Perkins, were evidently disappointed
/ They had expected a speech, and BOYD
| speedily proved that no such thing was in
him. His effort was a miserable fat, and
/ proved him a silly adYenturer without
/ ability or learning, man that only igno.
/ rance, passion, and partisan hate could
even assume 10 dignity with judicial hon
ors or any public trust demanding ability.
| The very moment that Boyd vacated tho
stand j. r. Alternately, a recent importa-
ton, and whose highest ambition seems to
be TO make himself popular with the ne
groes Of the county, took the stand. He
spoke loud and long, but as his speech was
without any special merit either one way
or the other, we will not attempt to report
II. This, however, we will say, for the in
formation Of colored men, that he lodged
the civil rights bill, and could not be in
duced TO discuss it although it was made
an issue in this and all other canyasses. by
the representative men Of the colored wing
Of the republican party of Tennessee
When MIR. Alternately closed his exceeding
iy pointless harangue, Mr.. Robert Gates,
of the WING AND TRIBUNE, asked permits
sion to PROFOUND a question to MIR. Boyd,
the radical candidate for Chancellor. After
some hesitation the privilege was granted.
Mr.. Gates then said, IN substance
THE leading cOlored men Of Tennessee,
in recent convention at Nashville, adopt
Ell in pant and in whole, Summers civil
rights bill, and issued an address to their
race throughout the State, urging, in the
strongest language, that colored men sup
port no man for any Office whatever who
did not fairly and squarely endorse that
bill. He then turned TO Mr.. Boyd and
said-Sir, you were announced in this
place on Saturday last, by Gee. G. Perkins,
as the especial champion Of the colOred
race, and IS their ezuai date for Chancellor.
la Justice TO them and by the authority OF
the platform adopted by their representa-.
tive men in convention, ask you whether
or not you endorse Summers civil rights
bill? 1t is only necessary for you to answer
yes or no; and as the prOfessed champion
Of these men whose votes you ask as their
peculiar friend, it is your duty to answer
fairly and without cquivocauon."
Mr.. Boyd replied, excitedly-''If the bill
comes before me for construction, and in
my opinion it Is valid, 1 will so declare it,
but it, in my opinion it should be invalid,
| will 20 decide"
Mr.. Gates pronounced his answer incOm-
pTehensible nonsense, and pressed him to
answer eyes or no." He replied that he
had given his answer. Mr.. Gates then re-
marked
"Wen, VIII put you down as against
the bill .
Boyd replied promptIy-"I did not so
state
Mr.. Gates then >aiJ--"I will pu, you
down IS for it,"
To this Mr.. Boyd replied, excitedly, his
words being drowned in a confusion which
opportunely came TO his relief. As one Of
the results of the confusion J. r. Aber-
nathy asked US, whether we endorsed an
article in the GaIlatin Examiner, which we
never read; whether we approved the
Beauregard movement in Louisiana, or not.
and how we stood III regard to the demo-
cratic platform Of 1872, upon which Mr..
Greeley run for President! To all of which
he received prompt answers, TO the effect
that the Examiners article we had never
read-the Beauregard movement we al
ways condemned, and that we endorsed the
democratic platform of 1872 This ended
the controversy, 30 far as we were concern
ed, and colored man from Brownsville,
ore Cont, candidate for circuit court
clerk of Haywood county, like the monkey
in 4 tey box, sprung upon the stand
Cont is an educated negro from the North.
With carpet bag in hand he has been
travelling for years in search of a soft place
where he could handle green backs" uu-
der the shcltering shadow Of the radical
tree. Like "a yulture he pounced upon
Haywood county, one Of the fairest and yet
one OF The most unfortunate, politically, OF
ali her sisters, ami there he proposes to
establish himself Ia the interest OF igno-
rance and passion, and against intelligence,
moral and social worth. Bat this miCrs-
tory iutendiary, this educated knaye, who
makes especial boasts OF his ather's thieve-
~, appeared in Jackson on Saturday last
As the champion OF b z. Boy We could
give his >Tecch entire but il would occupy
more space than it deserves, and hence we
propose only to give brief synopsis. He
painted, in language red with hate, the long
slavery Of his race, and made Southern
whites responsible for the whole thing.
The history Of slavery on the American
continent, the responsibility Of its introduce
tion and the historic facts connected with
its gradual drifting into the Southern States
were never once alluded to. Ii did not suit
MS Ltt1 Pun LiteN u lSlA tue tAUAus anu the
whole truth upon this point. He was here
TO stir up bitter hates and passions, and
faithfully did lie fulfill his dire mission.
He argued that the negroes raised all the
corn and cotton and that the white men
reaped the fruits. Urging that the repub-
lican party was the only friend OF his race,
he called upon all colOred men to stand BY
the men Of that party in all elections He
announced that his children had proved
themselves the superiors Of white children
IN the schools Of Brownsville. Ridicullng
the ignorance Of many of the white men of
the State. he asserted the doctrine of race
equality. Upon the question of social
equality he appealed to the mulattoes be-
fore HIM if that doctrine had not always
been practiced. He said that social equali-
ty he abhorred, and in this connection re-
marked that he had bright-eyed, kinky-
headed boy, that he intended should have
the finest education possible. That when
his boy reached mans estate and he should
fall in love with . white girl and ask his
permission TO marry her, he would oppose
it and denounce his son rs = disgrace 10 his
race and education. lie told his audience
how be stopped young white man, clerk
ing in store in Brownsville, from adj
dressing him as "Uncie." He said that he
entered the store when the young man was