Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-01
THE STRAIGHT TICKET.
A Timely Address From the
County Democratic Execu-
tive Committee.
What is at Stake i'm Tuesdays
Election+Stick to the Conn
promise and Repndiate
Radical Guerrillas.

the ecti0n viii be held for members q
Congress, members of the General Assem-
+ bly,, and Governor OF Tennessee.
You have seldom had such momentous
interests at stake. The apathy Of the Pe0-
pie OF Davidson county under these CIR
cumstanees, is indeed remarkable, which
fact has induced this earnest appeal for the
Democracy 20 shake of their lethargy and
march up In solid phalanx to the polls on
next Tuesday, in favor of the "Suaight
Democratic ticket.
1t is well understood that in the Guber-
material canvass our victory viii be over
whelming, and if we are united in our ef-
forts in the support of our nominees for
Congress and the General Assembly, the
Radical flag viii ignobly trail in the dust.
Our brethren in the West have spoken
in thunder tones of victory across the
waters of the Ohio. Indiana, Ohio, West
Virginia and Arkansas have redeemed
themselves from their political vassalage 20
R3dicaliSn, by tremendous majorities IN
eachEtate, thus making b avy numerical
gain in Democratic Congressman.
Let us return their greeting by sending
the gallant Col. House, in lieu OF the Rad
ical leader, Horace III. Harrison, to the next
Congress, while we send to the next Legis-
latu.e our worthy and patriotic nominees,
Mai. j. ID. Wade, Judges Lea and East,
Col. Anderson, and Messrs. Giers and
Buchanan.
The Radicals of Davidson county have,
through their Executive Committee, nom
mated John Alex. Campbell, Esq, and DIR.
Jones, the former for the Lower House, aud
the latter for the Senate. They have,
through sinister motive, also placed on
their ticket the name of three of our nom
inees, MeSSrs. Lea, East and Glers. 1t is
the policy Of the Radicals to foment strife
among us, by casting into our midst the
| apple of discOrd-tO introduce the Trojan
| horse into the Democratic camp, and thus
win by deceitful strategy, what their puny
army could not carry by assault in honest
warfare.
When our County Convention, in a spir-
it of harmony and compromise, presented
us the legislative ticket we How advocate,
the political honor of every Davidson
| county Democrat and Conservative was
pledged TO their support. They were NOM
mated IN that liberal political spirit, which
| ostracised no member Ofthe party on ac-
count oG his adhesion to the Stars and
Stripes or the Cross of ST. Andrew in days
gone by. The man tch0 nOU deserts the
Democratic standard iR this contest 10 sap
port either Of the Republican nominees,
'rhO are battling to-day Under the black
fdg Of RddicGljsa, riOidfes hiS political
fdith ald suIies his political integrity,
'rhae he stamps himself a guerrilla IN PO-
Hticdl l,Grfdre.
Let us, fellow-citizens, buckle on Our
armHr and light Va iantly upon next Tues
day in behalf Of our entire Democratic
tIcke,.
In union there is strength; in dissensiOn
and division lies defeat.
In view Of the resent mOnStrous legisla- !
tive acts of the Republican party, culmi- |
mating in their aboFtive effort TO make that |
political mOnstrOsity, yclept civil rights |
bill, part of the laW of our land, the peO- |
pie throughout the great Northwest and |
South have determined to haul from power |
the Republican party, and restore our |
Government to its pristine glory, and 10 /
cOnsecrate anew TO constitutional liberty /
our glorious banner of starlight and beauty, /
So long polluted by the miie Of Radical
ism.
Shall we of Tennessee falter when the /
great work is at hand? Have Tennesseeans
forgotten when Republicanism, like an upas /
tree, exhaled its bsleful aud poisonous in-
fuence in our midst? Yes, that dark hour
when, under Radical rule, tmee-fOurths Of |
the sovereign white voters Of Tennessee
were DISTINGUISHED and ineligible TO any
State or national office of trust or emolu-
ment. This g0EiouS old Volunteer State
had then passed from the hands of her
Bell, her Hatton, her Gentry, her Browns
and her immortal ZOllicOlfer, under whose |
lead she was the brightest star in the pOliti-
cal armament, into the power of a Stokes,
Horace Maynard and a BrOwnlOw. She
stood shon of her dignity and sovereignty,
stript other every constitutional right; her
courts no longer halls of justice, for in most
instances, sat enthroned partisan Judges.
BrOwnlow's appOintees, (JOhn Alexander
Campbell was oneO her legislative halls
converted into a prisOn-house for represent
tatives who dared exercise a freemau's
privilege of refusing 10 sanction the in
famous acts of oppression passed by the
Radical majority of the House under the
bayOnet law; her Judges who issued the
writ of habeaS corpus, rs in the case of the
incOuuptible Thomas \. Frazier, were i'm
peached and hurled from office; her press.
in many instances, muzZled, and no longer
free; her nObleSt citizens prescribed. and
under the ban of outlawry.
The spirit of liberty was crushed ts earth
in this State, oppressive and unconsiitu-
tional legislation was enacted by a Jacobin
mob thrust into office by the bayonet. her
laws perverted, her nOblest sons enslaved.
the purity of the ballot-tON trampled i'm the
mire and a tyrannical deSpot presided as
Governor who had
.sPut ON the livery of Heaven
To serve the Devil in
Her sister State, Kentucky, proudly arose
TO the majesty Of the occasion when The
bugleS sang truce to the mighty conflict :
passed, and reiterated the immortal princi-
piles which had cen the sheet anchor in
the glorious past, ''all governments must !
rest upon the consent of the governed /
Tennessee-poOr down-trOdden Tennes-
in the majesty of her SOver-
eign attributes, have arisen and rent in !
twain the manacleS that fetteTeds her fair
limbs, and in thunder tones that would
have caused a thrill of terror to strike The
hearts of her traitOrOuS and unnatural SONS
like barbed steel, re-echOed the immortal I
principles enrInciated in the Declaration I
Df Independence. But, alas, her power was
gone, and she stood, Ni0be-like, her brow |
encircled by the glory of the immortal past, '
ler form draped in the historic beauty of 4
her ancient renOwn, with her mighty soul 7
bowed IN humiliation, in the agony of I
)rayer, as the human fiends, who had trait {
lrously usTped her powers, heaped upon S
her insults the most OdiOus and infamous,
md raviSEed her in demOniac glee of rights :
he most sacred and in iOlable. e
The spirit of iberty,her face veiled in d
orrow, seemed to dwell weering hermit,
,yer the grave of the lamented hero of the o
hermitage, and in voice of virtuous in 0
iignation to cry aloud, ''Strke out the star y
hat glitters in beauty to the name' of Ten d
lessee, ''but leave the stripe, fit emblem of a
Ter degradation" b
The thrill of ecStatic joy can never be n
orgotten that pulsated ia every true Ten p
heart, as, on account of the L
'enter-Stokes imbrOgliO, the golden bowl d
# Radicalism was broken, and the mid
night cloud rIfted, when the glorious sun L
e constitutional liberty once more, in full b
rbed splendOr, shed its falo about the /;
ion-hearted Democracy of Tennessee. b
Let us never forget the lesson that it was
My by reason Of the division in the Re
ublican party, that their lease OF power in S
tennessee was lost; and let us beware that a
re endanger not our own lilsrties by rea- Q
on OF strife and diSsension in our ranks, n
nd thus restore the reign of terror in Ten v
eSsee.
Then rally to the Democratic standard. -
THOS. j.. DODD, I