The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-09-16
KNOXVILLE.

54.s ECBLLLAAS4 WILL LChECDLdLA u
THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL-TTE
q ANNUAL MEETING OF TIE
EAST TENNESSEE, VIRGINIA
AND GEORGIA RAILRO4D STOCK
HOLDERS
The following was written and mailed
to reach us by Mondays Western mail,
= but it was received by the Eastern mail
$ Tuesday. We don't know who is to
blame, but some one is subjecting us to
a deal of a.afovocation in mail matters.
1t is quite common to receive the Press
and Herald and Nashville papers by the
Buncombe train. If the thing isn't rem
edied soon Wen make public complaint
about it, afx y.., .t sle
KNOXVILLE, Sept. 6, 1874.
To the Editor of the Morristown Gazette;
Your clarion notes, in reply to Broth
er Charltons bugle blast has attracted
much attention, and caused considerable
amusement amongst our mutual
friends in this quarter. 1t is considered
Roland for an Ogioer, and most of our
people cry, Good for Roland!'
The sudden and uncalled for attack, to
which you refer, made by the principal
editor of the Grange Outlook upon Con-
vention, of which he himself was the
most distinguished member from this
District, caused momentary sensation
in political circles about here, and filled
his friends with modification and regret.
I shall be agreeably surprised if Mr..
Charlton himself does not have occasion
soon to feel that he has committed
| great, if not fatal mistake. The Grange
organization, though full of youthful
| enough yet to grasp and control the po-
| litical destinies of this State, or even to
| divide, to any considerable extent, the
honors and emoluments of office, with
the powerful and lately victorious party
which now has possession, and is likely
to hold with the firm grip of selfish
and undisputed authority. If there were
any chances before for the young COR
der" this imprudent and premature er-
pose of their ultimate purpose and aim,
will have tendency rather to retard
than to advance their unreasonable pre-
tentions. Nor will their threatened CO.
alition with the broken and defeated Re
publicans in the hope of crushing the
detestable 4" NdshUaHe Ring and dividing
the spoiIs, result in anything more than
a disgraceful exhibition of impotence
and malice before a scoffing community.
hope our estima BILE friends of the Grange
O,ttgOok will see this in time before plac-
ing themselves in a position where to
advance would be ruin, and to retreat,
modification and disgrace
You know that am no politician, and
hope will excuse me for using this con-
nection to speak of another question,
which has given me no little concern.
thought at the time, and still think, that
our party are disposed to take very er-
roneous view of the true causes which led
to the late extraordinary revolution in
our political status, as indicated by the
elections throughout the State on the
sixth of last month.
Some of our enthusiastic Democratic
friends have ascribed the result alone to
the unpopularity of Gen. Grants admin
istration, and to the notorious corruptions
of his party. Others, still more enthu-
siastic, have not hesitated to declare that
it was owing entirely to the personal
popularity, and great force and ability
of the candidates, whom the party was
furtunate enough to secure as their stan
dard bearers in the exciting contest.
Whilst it would by. gratifying to me,
personally, to be able to flatter the van
| ity of some of our talented and worthy
young candidates, by accepting this last
solution, cannot do SO in justice to the
truth of history. Neither was General
Grant or his administration scarcely
thought of during the canvass at all.
The so-called reCoEutSon was nothing
more nor less than the spontaneous and
unprecedented protest of an indignant
and outraged community, against the
threatened passage Of a single 6tN by Con
gress. ...s..
This (so-called Civil Rights Bill, in
spirit and intent, was, beyond all ques-
ton, the most Infamous and internal
that ever disgraced the table of a civil
lied Legislature. Conceived in the fren-
zied brain of cowardly and malignant
Puritan, applaudcd in grothels by bab-
bling Beecher-Ho prostitutes, and
passing with shouts, and almost by ac-
clamation through the American Senate,
a body composed of negroes, thieves,
BARRIERS, boot blacks and sYphslitic soo,tn-
drels, it isno wonder that it should strike
the sober minded people of Tennessee
with astonishment and horror. 1t was
this then, and this alone, which caused
that sudden and spontaneous uprising of
the masses, which astonished the coun-
| try, and sent thrill of dismay into the
bosoms of the, devilish-hearted tyrants,
who were preparing to crush out the
last spark of liberty and of hope, from
an oppressed and broken-hearted people.
Thousands of true and patriotic Re
publicans-without yielding one iota of
their political or party predelections-
stood side by side with their neighbors
and friends in this manly protest, and it
would be cruel injustice to taunt them
| now with the insinuation that they had
| abandoned the ranks in which they had
so often marched on to victory and to
power, and were bound to- the future
support of a party. against whom they
had been arrayed through long years of
bitterness and strife. I sincerely trust,
| therefore, that cur Democratic Conser-
vative friends viii see this question in
its true light before they commit a fatal
blunder, and drive away, by their ex-
travagant civilizations these thousands
who, in the late elections, stepped from
their party ranks only in obedience to
the commands of patriotism and justice,
and viii return in solid body to their
former allegiance the moment they dis