Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-30

al TO bring his case before the Supreme
Court of the United States, forthwith, and
.hat this convention recommend the citi-
sens to raise the means to pay their fees,
aud that they employ such assistance as
they may need in the ease.
And whereas, Hon. w. @. Brownlow,
United States Senator from this State, has
declared himself opposed to the civil rights
bill, or that portion OF it t:.at gives the col
ored children the right to be educated 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 haye so often
reposed so much confidence as a true friend
Of tile colored race.
The resolutions, offered by Samuel Low
cry on Tuesday, also submitted by the
c ,mmittee as part of theil report, and the
following were also adopted:
Resolved, that we recommend 10 our col
ored friends throughout the State not TO
vote for any person for office whose duty it
will be to select, designate or appoint ju-
rors, either in civil or criminal cases, with
out first obtaining the pledge Of such per-
son not to discriminate on account of race,
color, or previous condition Of servitude.
Resolved, that We, the cOlored citizens
of Tennessee. will ever commemorate the
name Of Charles Sumner and recognize
him as one of the nohlest, purcst and best
SONS to whom Massachusetts has given
birth.
Resolved, that we recommend the COL
ored people throughout this State 10 edu-
cate and fully prepare our females for the
labor OF teaching, as they constitute an in
auxiliary to our civil rights.
Resolved, that the Hon. Horace May
nard, Representative from the State at
large, be furnished with copy of the reso-
buttons passed by the Convention, and that
he be requested to call together the Ten
nessee delegation in Congress and urge
their cooperation in the passage OF the
supplementary civil rights bill,
L. y. Rankin discussed at length the i'm
prisonment of Galloway in the peniten-
tiary. In the course of his remarks he said
that if Thomas Jefferson would rise from
his grave at Monticello and find such De-
mocracy as now existed in the country, he
would enter q snit against the party for
Islander. Prejudice in the United States
never had been but a species of Insanity.
One of the Democratic VIce-Presidents of
the United States had negro woman
for a companion, and his daughters We're
raised up under her supervision. If Moses
was in Nashville in the present new and
enlightened age, these excellent judges
would have been imprisoned in the peni-
Tertiary, for he married an Ethiopian
woman, as would be ascertained by read
ing the 10th chapter Of Numbers. He then
read portions of the State Constitution and
limited States Constitution as bearing upon
his views concerning the intermarriage of
white and colored people.
The resolutions proposed By the commit
tee were adopted.
W.T.. Yardley offered a resolution re
questing Horace Maynard TO call the
Tennessee Congressional delegation to-
gether, with the view Of urging the pass
age of the supplemental civil rights bill.
Adopted.
L.W. Lavici of East Tennessee, was in
vited to address the Convention. He spoke
at some length upon the objects Of the Con-
yention and the wishes Of those whom the
delegates represented. They wanted their
rights first and their politics afterwards.
They had been too long made the hewers OF
wood and drawers of water. He was Re
publican, and would remain such IS lOngas
the principles OF that party continued re
publican: but as soon as his rights and priv
ileces were debaGred, and he could not get
them from the Republicans, he would seek
them elsewhere. If he was a white
man and had a daughter who
was inclined to marry q cOlOred man he
would take it as a neglect on his part TO
impart to her the right kind Of training and
influence. The daughters of his race were
not eager and willing to pick up any white
man that came along and enter into mar
rage 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 white woman; II they
did mob would be raised and the coiored
man would be taken &c the first tree and
raised I'D by the neck. They did not want
the white mems daughters unless they were
ladies and qualified and competent TO be
the wives of colOred men.
The Convention here took recess until
2 O'Clock.
. Afternoon Session.
Abe Smith. Chairman of the Committee
on Resolutions, submitted resolution re-
commenting the appointment of commit
tee to raise funds to conduct the case OF
David Galloway in the United States su-
preme Court, also a resolution recommend
ing the appointment of an executive COM
mittee, consisting of three members from
each division of the State, to prepare an ad-
dress setting forth the grievances and wants
of the colored people.
The resolutions were adopted and the
following were appointed as the Executive
Committee:
s. Lowery, Abram Smith, and III. III.
Thomson, of Middle Tennessee; W. F.
Yardlev, George W. Wassom, and --
Gwinn, of East Tennessee; II. \. Rankin,
Ed Shaw. and J. i. Baugh, Of West Ten
neSSee.
Nelson Walker was called upon for
speech. He said that if their appeals
would strike the ears oftheir white fellow
citizens it would do more good than all the
laws that could be passed. Let public SEN
timent and moral influence irown down
upon the Determinations unjCstly made
upon them on account Of their color. So
long as he lived he would never give his
vote to any man, Republican, Democrat, or
what not, if he was not willing to accord
to him equal Justice. 1t had been init
mated that he was to be the leader of
black mans party. Such thought had
never entered ehis mind. II would be a
mockery for $1,000 citizens to array them
selves against 100000. He had said, and
wound say now, to those who would come
tn him asking his vote: Gentlemen, are
Won willing, when we have given you our
votes. TO accord to us, i'm proportion to our
an equal share of rights and
iustice." He would like to see men in the
next Legislature of every hne and thought.
II had been said that the two races could
not live together. He would deny that
fact. They had lived together, were raised
nm with each other, dined with each other,
and had been associates of each other nearly
all of their lives The Constitution OF
tennessee was the rOttenest thing ever
framed or promulgated by any set Of men.
I'D. \. Rankin, w, F. Yardley and
Samuel Lowery, were appointed to conduct
fine case of Daniel Galloway.
The erection of a monument to the
of Charles Sumner was left with
tbe Executive Committee.
WE. Yardley and Edward Shaw deliv-
cred addresses embracing points that had
been brought before the Convention.
a resolution was adopted returning
thanks 10 the officers Of the Convention Tor
the manner in which they discharged their
duties. and to the reporters Of the press for
their accurate reports.
PRAYER was offered by James Thomas, OF
shelby, after which the Convention adj
iourned sine die.
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