The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-05-08

lty with his privilege as an American cit
lzen in the land of his birth, with his heat
LOYAL to the flag of his country-an ex-fed-
eral soldier who fought to sustain during
the war the Union and Government of the
United States, but who since he returned
to civil life, has been outraged by the judi.
| cial farce of a trial in two courts of Ten
nessee and deprived of his liberty and d.
| vested of his manhood and of the enjoy
inert of his personal rights; therefore
Resolved, the we, his fellow citizens,
feel bound with him in the outrages he
has received, and do pledge our efforts to
\ raise sufficient means to employ counsel
| to bring his case before the Supreme
Court of the United States, forthwith
| and that this convention recommend the
citizens to raise the means to pay their
fees, and that they employ such assistance
they may need in the case.
And whereas, Hon. W. G. Brown
| low, United States Senator from this State,
has declared himself opposed TO the civil
rights bill, or that portion of it that gives
the colored children the right to be educa-
ted in schools with the white; therefore,
Resolved, that we deprecate the depart
ure from the principles of humanity and
justice of one in whom we have so often
| reposed so much confidence as true fried
| of the colored race.
The resolutions, offered by Samuel
Lowery on Tuesday, also submitted by
| the committee as a part of their report,
| and the following were also adopted:
Resolved, that we recommend to our
| colored friends throughout the State not
to vote for any person for Office whose duty
it will be to select, designate or appoint
jurors either in civil or criminal cases,
without first obtaining the pledge of such
person not to discriminate on account of
race, color, or previous condition of ser
vitude.
Resolved, that we, the colored citizens
| of Tennessee, will ever commemorate the
| name of Charles Simmer and recognize
him as one of the noblest, purest and best
sons to whom Massachusetts has given
birth.
Resolved, that we recommend the col
| ored people throughout this State to edu-
cate and fully prepare our females for the
labor of teaching, as they constitute an
indispensable auxiliary to our civil rights.
Resolved, that the Hon. Horace
Maynard, Representative from the State
at large, be furnished with a copy of the
resolutions passed by the Convention, and
that he be requested to call together the
Tennessee delegation in Congress and
urge their cooperation in the passage of
the supplementary civil rights bill.
t. N. Rankin discussed at length the
Imprisonment of Galloway in the peni-
Tertiary. In the course of his remarks
he said that if Thomas Jefferson would
rise from his grave at Monticello and
find such Democracy as now existed in
the country, he would enter suit against
the party for SANDER Prejudice in the
United States never had been but a spe-
ces of insanity. One of the Democratic
Vice-Presdents of the United States had
a negro woman for a companion, and his
daughters were raised up under her super
vision. II Moses was in Nashville in the
present new enlightened age, these excel
| lent judges would have been imprison-
| ed in the penitentiary, for he married an
| Ethiopian woman, as would be ascertained
by reading the 10th chapter of Numbers.
He then read portions Of the State Consti-
tuition and limited States Constitution as
bearing upon his views concerning the in
termarriage of white and colored people.