Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-05-23

penitentiary. In the co8ree 81 his
remarks he said that Il Thomas JEFF
ferson would rise from his grave at
Monticello and find such Democracy
as now existed in The ce.intry, he
would enter q suit against the party
for SANDER. Prejudice in the United
States never had been but a species
OF insanity. One of the Deua ocratic
Presidents of the United States
| had a negro woman for a companion,
and his daughters were raised up un-
der her supervision. If Moses was IN
Nashville in the present new and en-
! lightened age, these excellent judges
would have been imprisoned IN the
penitentiary, for he married an ELhi-
i opian woman, as would be ascertain
ed by reading the 10th chapter of
Numbers. He then read portions Of
| the State Constitution and United
! States Constitution as bearing upon
his views and concerning the inter-
marriage of white and cOlored poo>
pie"
After this address, which was re-
ceived with tumultuous applause,
&C. W. LeYcre, of Knox. was in
| vited to address the convention. He
spoke at some length upon the OBJ
jects of the convention and the wishes
of those whom tho delegates repre-
scented. They wanted their rights
first and their politics afterwards.
They had been too long made the hew-
ers of wood and drawers of water. He
was a Republican, aud would remain
/ such as long as the principles of that
party continued Republican; but as
soon as his'rights and privileges we're
! debarred, and he could not get them
from the Republicans, he wOnld seek
| them elsewhere. If he was a white
man and had n daughter who was in
clined to marry a colored man he
would take it as a neglect on his part
/ to impart to her the right kind of
| training and influence. The daugh-
| ters of his race were not eager aid
willing to pick up any white ma,n
that came along and enter into mar
riage with him If there was any law
needed in the State, it was law TO
protect the virtue of their daughters
/ Black men dared not insult q white
woman; if they did a mob would be
| raised and the cOlored man would be
l taken to the first tree and raised up
by thesneek. They did not want the
white mans daughters unless they
were ladies' and qualified and compe-
| tent to be the wives of colored men.
Thus did the madmen rave and
rant, and we ask every decent white
Radical in Tennessee if it is not about
time for him to quit his colored asso-
ciates and array himself alongside of
his own race? Ed. Shaw & Co. are
making war upon the common school
system of the State. If they are up
held even temporarily and partially
in this contest, the whole scheme of
universal education IN Tennessee will
die and die at once. viii the whites
listen to the demands of few'insolent
blacks who clamor for mixed schools,
and thus destroy the schools, or will
they listen to the voice that rises up
from ten thousand cabins i'll the
State demanding that the school
houses that have been opened for the
children of the poor shall not be clos
ed. 1t is time that THE question should
be settled, and it can be settleti only
in two ways. The white Republicans
must cut loose from the blacks, or
else the free school system of Tennes-
see must perish.