Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1874-10-08
Synopsis of the Address
Of the Democratic Ex-
ecutiVe Commit
tee of TeunnSSoo
tee OF I6UneSSo0,


The Democratic Executive
Committee Of Tennessee issued
their address, of which the fol-
lowing is synopsis:
eve are aware that attempts
have been made, and will con-
tinue to be made, to create a
prejudice against the Democrat
ic and Conservative party Of
Tennessee because Of acts Of
lawlessness which have taken
place in some parts of the State;
but when it is remembered that
every effort has been made, and
will contiue to be made, by the
proper officers of the State to
bring the oAen,ierstojustic that
throughout the State these acts
have been condemned not only
by the public press, but by the
various Democratic and Con-
servative conventions which
have met, without a single dis
senting voice; that in no part
Of the United States are acts of
lawlessness more discounten-
anced by public sentiment than
in Tennessee, ali fair-minded
men will say that it is ujust to
attemptto throw odium up to the
whole State because ofthe acts
oFa few reckless, bad men, which
they could not prevent, and for
which they are in no wise res
ponsible-and this, too, for the
purpose Of making political cap
ital to secure the ends Of a sirk-
ING party. We condemn,as thor
oughIy as any one, ali acts of vi
olencc, committed by white or
black. We feel determined to
defend all persons, OF every race
or color, in the enjoyment of
their legal and constitutional
rights,a TO secure TO them am
pie protection for their persons
and property. Our object is to
peserve friendly relations be-
tween the white ard colored ra-
ces, because in so doing the well
fare and happiness Of both will
be promoted.
''In this State, under Dem
ocralic and Conservative Ad-
ministration, negroes enjoy as
many rights as they do in any
State in the Union, and there is
as little prejudice against them
on account Of color as in any of
the Northern States. By our
State laws they have the right
to vote, to hold Office, to testify
in courts, to sit on iurles, to ac-
quire and hold properly, both re-
al and pesonal, and to enjoy all
the benefits of thecommon school
system established and paid for
by the white people of
the State. If let alone, there
would be entire harmony be-
tween the races. and general
prosperity would be the result.
But unfortunately it seems to be
the desire of certain parties to
subserve personal and political
ends, to engender stife between
them just previous to anelection.
The Civil Rights Bill, so-called,
seems to have been intended to
bring about the unfortunate state
of affairs which now exists in
many of the Southern States,
our own among the number.
The object of that bill seems to
have been to poison the minds
of the black race, and infame
their passions and prejudices, so
as to bring them into antago-
nism with the white race, with
whom they had been living on
terms of friendship and'good will.
It has produced its legitimate
fruit-frst, by arousing the pas
sions ofthe negroes soas tocause
them to utter infammatory sem
timents and to form unlawful
combinations and conspiracies;
and then it has naturally excit-
ed the white people to such an
extent that some reckless men,
1isregarding the obligations of
law, have been induced to COM
nit acts of violence, bringing re-
proach upon the State, though,
as we feel, most unjustly."
One of our farmers informs US
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