Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-30
MAYNARD'S MARTYRDOM.
Why He Defies Public Senti-
ment by Advocating
~s Civil Rights.

He Is After the Vice Presidency, not
the GOvernOrshiP-The Inside His
tory Of the Chattanooga Convention.
CHATTANOOGA Correspondence of the New York
Sun.
The Associated Press has communi-
Gated TO the nation tie deliberations of
the Tennessee State Republican Con-
vention which assembled here on the
10th inst. 1t has not, however, given a
history of the convention which would
convey to the general public clear IN
Outstanding of its action on the Civil
Rights issue, and as matter of politi-
cal history 1 have thought the readers
of the Sun would be somewhat interest
ed in the details of its makeup and
proceedings.
More than one.half the white popu-
lation of our city Is made up Of North
ern men, and this number includes sew
eral hundred former Federal soldiers.
OF the capital invested IN business
here at least two-thrds Is Northern
capital, and yet there cannot be found
within the town twenty-five white men
who favor the Civil Rights bill now be-
fore Congress. The result Is that there
was not a single colored brother in the
delegation to the Convention from this
county, and the colored brethren who
came from abroad to attend the Con-
vention, and undoubtedly expected to be
welcomed to the best hotels Of this
loyal town, were compelled to find &C
commodations among their own color.
MIXED REPREsENTATIvEss7
Al oov-a,,+:n,, +baro u-ar-s.,.ay,,.a
sentatives from thirty-nine counties,
and of the delegates present about
twenty were colored men. OF the
white delegates, numbering probably
IS, including the Hon. Horace May
nard, there were only three who ex-
pressed themselves In favor OF the Civil
Rights bill, and one of these qualified
his support by excepting the mixed
school feature. Consequently the white
delegates might have passed at any
time an uncompromising anti Civil
Rights resolution, butthe colored broth
er constitutes such a very large portion
of the party, and is so very earnest IN
demanding the bill, that 1t was thought
expedient to pass strong resolution
which would shake the colored vote,
and the following was, after q great
deal of wrangling and discussion, f.
nally agreed upon as compromise, In
Difference to the colored men, and to
retain their support:
Third-We are in favor of the full
and equal enjoyment of accommoda-
lions, advantages, rights and privileges
by all citizens and other persons within
Al ;o+;o,, of tba TTni4ad C+a+as
without regard to race, creed or color,
and at the same time we deem it I'M
necessary and unwise to sattempt, by
Congressional legislation or otherwise,
to compel, as between such races,
creeds or.eolors, the Joint exercise of
such accommodations, advantages,
rights or privileges. But we recognize
the principle, which is older than our
Constitution, that every mans house is
his castle, and that under our Govern
n1ent every citizen, white or black, has
the right to bear arms IN conformity to
law, and to express his opinions with
out interferencc:or molestatiOn.
After the platform had been adopted,
as had been previously arranged, Hor-
ace Maynard was nominated by accla-
nation for Governor, and, on taking
the stand, proceeded to address thepeo-
pie, and In the course of his remarks.
which occupied about two hours in de-
livery, he took particular pains TO place
himself squarely before the people as
in favor Of the principles of the Civil
Rights bill, and predicted that he
would be elected Governor by sweep
ing majority.
MAYNARD A CANDIDATE FOR VICE
PRESIDENT.
Now, a more hopeless race than the
one upon which Maynard has entered
has never been attempted. Because if
he ever had any strength politically,
the advocacy of the principles of the
Civil Rights bill on the night of his
nomination, lost him the white vote of
the party and made his overwhelming
defeat foregone conclusion; and the
effect of the speech is very fairly Illus
trated by the remark of a prominent
Unionist who was in attendance as
delegate, and stated to me that Mr..
MAYNARD would not receive fifty white
votes in his county. Butwell-lnformed
politicians do not think Maynard hopes
or cares for an election, but wants to
place himself on record in favor OF
law which is odious to Union men as
well as rebels, with deliberate inten-
ton of winning defeat in order that be
may 90 before the next National Re
publican Convention as the great mar
tyr statesman of the South, and ask
the Northern vote for Vice-President,
on the ground that he is theonly prom
inent Southern politician who has dared
to advocate the bill, and should there
fore be rewarded by the party for his
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