Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-10-18

cradle fiasco that miserable convention has
been? Have you heard from Ohio2 Have
you heard from Indiana These Outrages
were manufactured by DIR. Maynard and
his friends to affect those elections, and
you have heard what the result of those
elections Las been. The facts and figures
show that within nine years YOU have put
upon the market more than p ,OOO, 600 bales
of cotton, besides tobacco and other pro-
ducts, and the Northern people know that
a people engaged in this work have had but
little time for committing Outr1ges.
SOCIAL EQUALITY.
The questions which to-day excite more
interest in Tennessee from The mountains
to the Mississippi than any other question,
which has been before the people for the
last ten years, is that Of social equality. 1t
IS question paramount to everything else.
You know its effect, and that Mr.. Maynard
and It's political friends are seeking to over
turn the law of God himself, and to break
down the customs and prejUC ices Of three
hundred years. / aTaign MIR. Maynard
further, that he seeks by this bill to bring
about war between TIE races. lie seeks
10 inaugurate policy that viii result in
the destruction of the common school SyS-
tem- We have common school system,
which is free 10 all, black o. white You
have system in The city Gf Nashville, ere
ated by the liberality Of your people. You
are furnishing the means yourselves, and
this system will be destroyed, as well as
the State system, if this policy IS adopted.
COMPOSITION OF TIE RADICAL PARTY.
Here is the description Mr.. Maynard gave
OF The Republican party in Congress in
1851:
"AIr. Speaker, do not design TO be un-
kind. l shall try % be serious, and mean
to be respectful. | beseech YOU, gentle
men, TO look at your own party, if you have
never done so, and see of what heterOeene-
Gus elements it is composed. Old Wings
and old Democrats; followers of Thomas
jefferson; admirers of Alexander Hamilton;
friends Of Jackson; friends Of Clay; MasOnS,
anti MaSOns5 barn burners 'hunkerS;;'
renters 'anti-renters;' 'woOly-heads,' sill
yer grays; Now NOthings, Americans, for
eigners, Catholics; protective tariff men,
free trade men; bank men, bullion men;
Radicals, Conservatives; men of strict con-
aud men of no construction; men
Of unquestionable political honesty, and
men whose honesty | will not venture to
call in question; men of all grades of POI
litical sentiment, all shades of political
opinion, all bedded together, heads and
heels, covered with a single blanket, and
that woven of African wool. Such is the
dapple hue Of the party that has inaugura-
ted itself to the head of public affairs, and
is about TO take the Government into con-
troll" tLaughter.l
"wE's GOT DE GUB'NER."
My competitor lodges the Civil Rights
bill-says be never approved it. But l
have challenged him to come up and show
wherein he has approved it and wherein he
has disapproyed it. l challenge him for
the fifteenth time to come up and tell this
people where he stands. Fellow-citizens,
L will tell you where he stands: In the
first place, you know he is the
candidate Of the sOcial-equality wing
of the party. When they met in
the city Of Chattanooga, there were
many men of sense among them, who
knew this measure was unwise, and they
succeeded in adopting a platform that
lodged the issue. But Mr.. Maynard's
nomination was a triumph for the social
equality wing. Don't you remember that
after his nomination was announced with
what enthusiasm it was received by the
colored delegates from Shelbyyille, one of
whom got up and said, "You white men
have got de platform, but we niggers has
got de Gub'ner." (Laughter.) They knew
the man, and that his nomination was
their triumph. Yet he comes to us to-day
aud lodges the issue.
In a speech Mr.. Maynard made to his
own neighbOrs and friends, he told them
that this was not Mr.. Summers bill, but
that it was Mr.. Frelinghuysen's bull. In
the same speech, Mr.. Maynard stated that
Mr.. Frelinghuysen, the author Of the bill,
saws il ''dOes not mean mixed schools"
and that, when asked the question, during
the debate on the bill, if it was intended TO
compel the education of the races in the
same schools, he stated distinctly, 'sNO,
of course it does not compel the education
Of the races in the same school. Ii is not
a compulsory school bill. No man, black
or white, would be compelled to send his
child to school, But under the operations
Of the bill the schools would be mixed. or
one race or the other would have to suTen-
der their school privileges; and it was to
that caused Senator Sargent to offer the
provided, That nothing
herein contained shall be construed to pro-
hibit any State or school district from pro
yiding separate schools fT persons Of diff
fereni sex or color, where such schools are
equal in all respects to others of the same
grade, established by such authority and
supported by an equal pro rata expenditure
Of school funds" This amendment was
to, Mr.. Frelinehuysen voting with
he nays, and the question was settled by
himself, by his own vote, that the bill did
mean 'smixed schools
During the canvass preceding the August
election he made a speech at Thorn Grove,
Knox county, and said: ale thanked God
that he had the manlineSs TO come up aud
meet the issue squarely, and defend the
action ofthe Republican party; that he was
in favor of the Civil Rights bill; but for the
reason that there was so much prejudice
against public schools and SO many ditfi-
culties to be overcome, he thOdght it
best TO say nothing about the mixed school
clause, and let that regulate itself"
MAYNARD AS A I;ECONsTRUCTIONIsT.
l do not believe that the people of Ten
nesseee will ever give TO my competitor and
his political associates the control Of the
State Government. They cannot forget
that after the elective franchise had been
restored to the people of Tennessee; when
peace, quiet, and fraternal feeling prevailed
IN this State, Mr.. Maynard, true to his hos
tility TO the people Of Tennessee, went to
the room of the Congressional Committee
on Reconstruction aud privately placed IN
the hands of its chairman, Il. T. Butler,
the following propositions, to which ne had
obtained the signatures Of FIVE Of his cot
leagues, Arnell, Stokes, Pn)sser, Tillman
and Smith:
WASHINGTON, Feb. ID, 1870 Hon b. r.
Butler, chairmaL Reconstruction Commit,
tee: As Representatives from the State OF
Tennessee in the FOTty-first Congress, ID
behalf of ourselves and our constituents,
we submit the following propositions, and
earnestly press their immediate considera-
ton upon your committee:
II. We submit that the power now con-
trolling the State of Tennessee is wholly
illegal and revolutionary, brought about by
fraud and violence, in cOntravention OF the
Constitution Of the State, as recognized by
Congress.
49, That the present State government
Of Tennessee is wanting in the great and
essential requisite Of good government,
without which peace and happiness are i'm
possible, to-wit: the proper protection OF the
property and lives Of its citizens.
G3. The State government OF Tennessee,
as now constituted and reyOlutiOniZed, has