Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-30

powers which are not granted To- it BY the
| Constitution" This high judicial authori-
| ~ was not necessary then to secure acnui-
essence in a rule of construction univer-
| salfi Recognized; but its Observance now
| by the Republican administration of Gen.
Grant, cannot 0e secured. not because of a
doubt Of its prOpriety, but because it inter
feres with the personal aims and purposes
Of party leaders. In Louisiana tie char
| tered rights of the people have been tram
\ pied under foot by a military chief. the
voice of the people has been silenced by
| the corrupt interference of a Federal Judge.
| and government administered by Garnet
bagsers and thieves have been established by
the central power at Washington. sNever
has there been more terrible condition
imposed upon fallen people. For an
| Italian TO feel an Austrian over him, for a
| Pole to feel a Russian over him, has been
| bad indeed" but it has been left for the Do
litical animosity of the Republican party to
| subject the citizens Of Louisiana to donafu-
ion from the African, who was yesterday
his slave. The condition of affairs i'm Lou
isiana, Mississippi and South Carolina. the
recent threatened Interference in Virginia:
the recent demand for interference at
Eicksburg; all illustrate the fact that the
\ Washington government does not look to
| the Constitution as its guide, but that it is
| guided by considerations, such as are dis
| closed by Grants henchman and brother
] in-l4w, Collector Casey, of New Orleans.
/ when he urged his master TO sustain the
infamous order of Durell. 1t "will save
the Republican majority, and give LOuisi-
/ ana Republican Legislature and State
government Ii is against these crimes
against the State that the people do, and
must protest; it is these acts of fraud, usur-
patton and oppression, that have the seal of
Federal APPRECIATION. These you must de-
nounCe and condemn through the ballot
! box.
SOCIAL MGHTS.
The position occupied by the Democratic
party of Tennessee Onfhis grave question
is well defined and cannot be misunder-
stood, and has my unqualified Endorsement;
| but am not opposed to the bill now pend
ing in the Congress Of the United States
because Of any opposition / have to
doing full justice to the colcred people.
When a member of the Legislature of
Tennessee, / voted against a bill. to expel
the free negroes from the State, when such
Union men as Senter and Trewitt and 9th
ers of East Tennessee, were the earnest ad.
had no voice in public affairs then, and my
action was simply the result of a DISPOSE
ton then as now, TO do Them Justice. II is
true that the temporary chairman Of the
convention, that nominated my competitor
stated, and thrice repeated the statement,
that if the Democratic party was restored
to power, it would "remand the cOlOred
man back to slavery" and I refer to it to
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paItiZan malice and whether intended or
not, is a gross Islander upon a party COM
posed of men more loyal in every sense of
the word than their detractOrs. My eompe-
titOr was present, when this SANDER was
Published, and it is for him to say whether
he consented to it. The purpose of this adj
dress was to arouse feeling of emnity on
the part of the blacks to the whites, in or
der to enforce party discipline, and impose
upon the credulity Of the black man, and
blind him, if possible, 10 his true interest.
and TO the disposition of his real friends.
What more than this do the eolored people
want? If they are wise or thoughtful
they must know, that mixed public school
in Tennessee is an impOSsibility. While
they are now full participants in the bene-
fits of our common school system, the ae-
ton IF the Superintendent of Public In
strUction during the last summer, in sUs-
pending the entire system, when it was be-
lieyed that the pending bill would become
a law, must have taU1ht the oolOred people
that while the taxpayers of the State, gem
erously admitted them TO the full part lei
patton of the benefits Of the common
schools, they would destroy the whole sys-
TEN before they viii be made the victims
Of the Congressional Social Rights bill. /
repeat, that do not oppose l,his bill be I
cause of my unwillingneSs to see justice
done this people, but the reverse.
do not want to see this gross act Of
injustice put upon them; | believe
that the two races if let alone,
can, and will live tremendously, for l can
not forget that s.through four years of W ar,
no hand of revolt, seditiOn, mutiny, was
lifted up by.them. They thus demonstrate
ed to the world that their eight million of
masters were not meTciless despOts, and
that, contrary 10 all outside views kindly
feeling did exist between the two races"
and / believe that when cOlOred people
learn 70 appreciate the political prostitutes
and pet-baggers, by whom they are now
influenced and controlled, ''the whites and
the blacks will live alongside each other
with mutual good will and good Offices
The people of Tennessee will resist the
passage Of this bill, and its execution if it
becomes law, in eyerT legal way possible,
for they are slow 20 believe that it is COM
petent for Congress to gulate our schools
or to determine how our hOtel-keepeTs shall
beStCw their guests, or By whose side We
shall sleep after death. But unless our
people are united, and sentiment of OPP
position created that will be felt at Wash
ingtOn, the odiOus bill will be passed in
December, and approved by the Presi-
dent. He has already recommended
''the enactment of a law to better
secure the civil rights which freedom should
secure, but has not efieciually secured, to
the enfranchiSed law and Senator Morton,
Of Indiana, the Republican leader of the
Senate, denOunces the ''nischievOus i'm
preston" that has been made in the South
that the President would veto the bill as
being without foundation. The Republic
an party everywhere is fully committed to
it. In Tennessee, the cOlored man has all
the civil rights that are secured to the white
man, and no party seeks to interfere with
their enjoyment. II is true that the late
Chattanooga Convention undertook to
dodge the question, but it is fact that the |
element that forced the nomination of Mr.. !
Maynard upon the party was fully commit |
ted to the doctrine Of social equality; and |
his nomination was their triumph, as was |
evidenced by the gleeful remark Of a dele
gate: sThe white delegates got the plat
form, but us niggers got the Governor"
The doctrine of social equality is Re /
publican party question. The bill now
pending before Congress- passed the Senate /
by party vote, and one of its champions,
Senator Sherman, of Ohio, in the recent |
convention al the capital OF his State ex-
pressly avOwed that he voted for the bill /
because it provided for mixed schools, and
Mr.. Summers intention in framing the bill |
was to make this feature the basis of il; his
colleague, Senator boutwell,, when the bill |
was before the Senate, in constituting the
bin, stated that this principle was Settled
by it.
/. That all men are created equal in all
respects, aud that there is error in any
other doctrine,
?. That this theory cannot be taught in
families or in separate schools.
3. That for this reason separate schools
for the tworaces are both inexpedient and in
tolerated. Mark that word "intOlerable."1
4. That in the public schools, where
children of all classes and conditions are
brought together, this doctrine of human
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