Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1874-08-13
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week was q great day in Blountville.
The July term of the Circuit Court was
in session the show was in town can.
didates were flourishing, while a very
large number Of the good citizens of
old Sullivan were present participating
in the events of the day. At the ad.
journment of court for dinner it was
announced that as soon as the good
people had an opportunity Of visiting
the show and gratifying their curiosity
there, the present aspirants for Con-
gress would present in a brief manner
their positions, views, &C., upon the
leading questions that would necessari-
ly be discussed during the coming can
vass.
At about three o'clock, P. NJ, the
speaking began. The Hon. r. r. But
Ter, our present Representative, opened
the discussion. His speech consisted
principally in a justification of his
course in Congress. He claimed to
have discharged his duty 8 a Repre-
sentative of the people during his Con.
gressional career; that while he may
have committed some errors that they
were the result not Of desire but Of
that frailty to which all mankind are
more or less subject, he endeayored to
represent them as fairly as he could.
He gave his views upon Our present
Revenue SYSTEM suggesting some mod
ifications thereof, as also the Banking
system gave his reasons for voting
against the taking up of the Civil
Rights Bill, &c, &c. The citizens had
assembled in the Court House, where
the same was crammed, and marked
attention was given to the remarks of
Mr.. Butler.
After Mr.. Butler had closed his
speech the Hon. +. +. Gillenwaters
TOOK the stand and spoke for about an
hour. He began by telling the people
that although he differed with many of
them in politics, yet he intended to
deal honestly with them, that he would
talk with them, not for the purpose of
decebhng them, but with the view Of
directing their minds in search of those
great truths and principles that lay at
the foundation of our Government,
and whose light will be the only sure
guide to the prosperity and happiness
of our people as a nation. Hetouched
briefly upon the different subjects pre-
senting themselves as he necessarily
had to do in consequence of the time
occupied by Mr.. Butler in his speech.
Judge Gillenwaters' views upon the
subject of our currency, the banks, the
oppressive system Of taxation, and the
advantages which the bond holders
possessed and exercised overthe labor
ing man were all sound, clear and con-
elusive. and every n present was able
to fully comprehend them. His views
on the Civil Rights Bill were in full
accord with the sentinRnts Of the great
mass of the people, and many were
surprised when the Judges position
upon this great and absorbing subjects /;
many reports had been put in circula-
ton that Judge Gillenwaters was in
favor Of the Civil Rights Bill and
would advocate its provisions but in
his speech he told the people that he
was not in favor of the provisions of
that Bill as presented to Congress ;
that he professed to be and was a true
Republican that It had been the poll
cy Of that party to give the African his
freedom, to place him in such a condi-
ton under the laws Of the land as
would keep his race a distinct race and
as a distinct race elevate it to that posi-
sition that when they gather to the
lands Of their fathers they may take up
the banner of civilization and religion
given them by the white mar and upon
the soil of neglected Africa plant them
as signals to their own race in the
grand march of nations ; that the desti-
ny of the colored race in America was
not to mix and mingIe with the white
race /; but as a distinct race preserved
in the hands Of a wise aud Gracious
God as the instruments GoEthe redcmp