Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-06-11
A TERRIFIC BLAST.
BrovnIow After Bartlett Aysin-The
Fighting Parsen Advises the Teach
ing Parson to Retire from Politics,
and Promises 20 Do so Himself

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ing Parson to Retire from Politics,
and Promises TO Do 80 HimseIs.
Knoxville Chronicle, June Q.
I wish to notice letter from Presir
dent Bartlett, of Maryville College,
and which is intended as a reply to my
last letter on 'Civil Rights" Mr.
Bartlett says he had never read the
civil rights bill when he delivered his
address assailing me for opposing 1T
and further, since reading it, he says
that she could not vote for it without
more light as to its bearing upon other
constitutional rights" And yet the
greater portion of his letter is maudlin
sentimentality upon the duties of .
Christian and what he characterizes as
''unchristian" conduct In my denounci
ing the bill as the "sum of villainies.
Over this expression he INDUCES in lu.
gubrious walls.
In view of Mr. Bartlett's admission
Of the unconstitutionality of this act,
all this talk OF. my "unchristian" spirit
and all his impudent and egotistical
assumptions of Christianity. and of his
being actuated by the spirit of ''fol-
lower of our Lord Jesus Christ, is the
merest can't and hypocrisy. and the
'poor white trash of East Tennessee"
have sense enough to see it, and will
regard it In no other light. Mere
empty HEADED conceit excites theirpity,
but ostentatious professions of piety
excite their disgust. My idea of such
canting and hypocritical follower of
our ''meek and lowly Jesus" is 60 much
better expressed by the great delineator
of human character than can express
it myself that / quote the words of
Dickens. Here follows an extract
about the moral book. keeping of hypo-
critics from Nicholas Nickleby, chapter
A.
So much in reply to Mr.. Bartlett's
censure of my conduct as "unchristian"
and his own loud professions of piety.
When the people of Blount county re-
feet upon his professions and preten-
tons in this regard they may conclude
that they have among them "a wolf in
sleeps clothing"
NEGRO SUPERIORITY.
In my former letters l have given
various reasons In proof of the charge
that the effects of the bill were to make
the colored man the superior In law of
the white man, and since writing those
letters the organ of the National Re-
publican party, the Nelc York Times,
has come to my aid and fully endorsed
me by saying that ''the bill conferred
privileges upon the colored race which
no other class of people possessed, and
that nobody would dare propose bill
granting such peculiar privileges to
the Irish and German races" But
l have now stronger evidence:
Three weeks ago the Congress of the
United States debated whether the
Territory of New Mexico should be
admitted into the Union as a State
On all hands it was agreed that the Ter
ritory had more than sufficient number
of inhabitants ito entitle it to admission
into the Union as a State. Several
members of Congress, who are con-
spicuous advocates of the Civil Rights
bill, opposed the admission of the Ter
ritory as a State. Prominent among
these was Mr.. Hoar, of Massachusetts,,
who gave as his chief reason for op-
posing its admission that FIVE
seventies of the population could not |
read and write.
The theory of MIR. Hoar and other
advocates of the Civil Rights bill, is
that the colored people of the Southern
States who cannot read and write shall |
have every civil and political right, |
with mixed schools thrown in, but the |
white men of New Mexico shall not |
have civil and political rights because
they are not able to read and write. A |
man advocating this doctrine places
the negro ADORE the white man, and l |
call him negro worshiper."
THE MILLENNIUM.
Mr.. Bartlett hopes that the day may
come when all the people of the coun-
try shall be so imbued with the ideas
Of equality and hatred of race distinc-
tons that they will embrace everybody
in fraternal relations without regard to
color or previous condition of servi-
tude," when the partition walls of So
ciety and denominations shall be thrown
down, and we shall all be of one faith,
one creed, one baptism, and so well
come all to our bosoms, to our fresides,
and all that, perhaps these things
ought to be. But. that is not ques-
ton to be regulated by the Congress
Of the United States, or by any legisla-
tive body on earth.
THE NEXT sENAToRsHIP.
Mr. Bartlett expressed some solicit
tude to knewmy position in regard to the
election of my successor, to the Senate,
and intimates that l am a candidate
'or reelection. In reply have to say
hat will not be a candidate under
any circumstances. There is no Office
within the gift of the people, or their
Representatives, which desire, and l
will never again be candidate for any
,ffice.
In conclusion l would advise Mr..
Bartlett, for his own good, to keep out
If the political arena and diligently
levote himself to the task of teaching
he young idea TO shoot" in Maryville
College.