Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-07-07
CIVIL mems sTILLALIvE ISSUE.

A reporter of the A1anta Herald.
interviewed Senator Gordon, a few days
since, and obtained the following state
ment of his views on topic in which
Tennessee is vitality interested:
Reporter.-"Do you think the Civil
Rights Bill will pass the next SEES
sion?"
Gen. CT am almost sure of It.
You see it failed last session only be-
cause it needed a two-thirds vote to
bring it up. Mkt session it can be
taken up In its regular order and car
ried by simple majority. 1t had six
ty-nine majority In the House on its
issue last month. With the same Con-
gress to vote on it next session, think
it viii certainly pass.
Rep-Will the President veto it?
Gen. G.-His inclinations will cer-
tainly lead him to do it. The party
pressure though will be very strong in
favor of his signing it, and l fear he
will not resist it. He is very self
willed though, and there is no saying
what he will do. l believe if it could
be STAYED off until the next Congress
was elected, it could be beaten, for /
am confident that in the next House,
the majority will be reversed.
Nothing will be gained by ignoring
the fact that this 'sum of villanies" is
still an issue pending before Congress
and the country-an issue made up by
Radical leaders at the dictation of the
negroes. 1t may suit the Maynardites
to ignore the matter for the while, but
it is not good policy with Democrats to
do so. Grant is a very uncertain
quantity, and it does not become free
men TO let such a matter hang on the
tickle will of one man, so long as they
can act themselves in other ways. AS
the measure is now pending in Con.
gress, the people of the whole country
should pass their Judgment upon it,
particularly in those States which
would be socially convulsed by
its operation. Tennessee should not
fail of her duty in this respect. Nor
do we limit the duty to Democrats. If
East Tennessee Republicans are sim
cere in their denunciations of this
"quintessence Of denominations, they
should give in their verdict at the bal
lot-box and elect no man holding the
views of Horace Magma I'd.
Apropos of this question, and in re-
ferring to the Black-and-Tan ticket
nominated by the Radical caucus
here last week, the Memphis
AUaIaTche says with great truth and
force: According to the equities that
the negro race should have had more
than three of the nine places on the
ticket. In all essentials, that party in
both counties is colored party. Its
leaders in convention at Nashville
few months ago took a position on the
Civil Rights bill which forced the
whites to 60 into the now opening po
htical campaign with color as the
dividing line. They forced the issue
against the earnest protests made for
years by patriotic, rejecting men of
every shade of political opinion. The
whites have been compelled to accept
the ISSUE and in notonly Shelby coun-
ty, but throughout the State, the
candidates on one side will be
men opposed to the Civil Rights
bill, while on the other they
Will be men who indorse that
iniquity. There can be no middle
ground in the contest. The Repubi-
can party in Shelby and Davidson
counties indorses this bill; and, no mat
ter whether openly or tacitly, its nomi-
nees for public Office must indorse it
also. They must make up their minds
to be Judged by the company they keep.
This is logical. There is no escape
from it
Let the voters of Davidson county
that every man who supports
NJ. NJ. Brien, Jr., for Chancellor en-
dorses the Civil Rights infamy as en-
phatically as if Brien had committed
himself to it on the stump and were
the race on that issue alone.
The line has been drawn and beyond it
the Democratic and Conservative vo-
tiers Of Davidson county will not 60.
Whatever a candidates antecedents, |
however brayely he may have fought |
for the Cause that was dear to us all, |
his utilization with the enemy in this
contest viii mark him as an open and |
avowed traitor to the people and their
most sacred rights.