Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-10-14
1OOLUMBIA.l
The Senatorial Campaign.

The Senatorial Campaign.
The Ex-Presfdent Addresses n Large
AudIenee-COI. Savage Pays His Re-
speets 20 Ben Butler, DiIates on the
Currency and ExcOriates a MauFy
County Radical.
Special to the Union and American.
COLUMBIA, TENN, Oct. 13.-Ex-Presi-
dent johnson addressed a good sized au-
audience on the north side of the comt-
house this evening for about three hours
and half. He repeated his Franklin
speech, and made only one or two new
points. In connection with his defeat for
the United States Senate four years ago, he
again paid his respects to his Edmund and
Henry and Gov. Brown. He read extracts
from Gov. Browns PULASKI and Wayerly
speeches-read the resolutions offered by
Gov. Brown in the Democratic Convention
of 1865; also, an extract from the speech
of ex-Gov. Neil S. Brown, delivered at that
Convention. He read a lengthy editorial
from the UNION AND AMERICAN of Sept.
IA, 1866, while F. c. Dunnington was its
chief editor. The article referred to was
in regard to an attempt to mob him (John-
SOM while on his way from Washington
home
As there is no hall large enough to hold
Mr.. Johnson's audience, be was compelled
to speak in the open air, which was much
to his disadvantage, as he is suffering from
cold, but nevertheless, he spoke longer
than usual, and was frequently applauded,
and made many new friends.
COL. SAVAGE
did not have as large an audience as MIR.
johnson. He addressed his audience in
the County Court room, commencing at IL
o'clock. He was introduced by Col. Bow
ling Gordon, of Hickman county. Col.
Savage said that he was honored and hap
py to appear before the citizens of Maury
county. To consult with each other upon
the common welfare was the highest tTibu-
nal under heaven, and on such occasions
he strove TO diyeSt himself of all private
griefs and sink them out Of sight. To de-
ceive, flatter, mislead or speak falsely to the
people, was the highest crime among men,
and any such politician should be held an
objectionable offender. He felt hOnored i'm
visiting the homes of Nicholson, DuBning-
ton, Thomas, John V. Wright and others,
men that he associated with in better days.
He particularly mentioned James X. Polk,
for whom he did his first political work and
who, if not the greatest Of public men of
the age, yielded Only-tO the cvershadOwing
name of Andrew Jackson. Nearly forty
years ago he niet there Gordon, Pillow,
ZOllicOfer, Frierson, Davidson, Lipscomb,
Mayes, Brown, Houston and many others
in the swamps of Florida, and with them
heard the Indians wild scream OF battle.
Some Of those men still survived and were
dear TO him.
lie paid his respects TO Ben Butler by
saying that United States Senators were
capable of welding mere power than Rep
reSentativeS in Congress, but occasionally
men like Ben Butler, who had been made
great by the people calling him Beast and
Spoon Butler, could accomplish something.
The stronger the Southern people hated
hiIn, that much stronger would the North
ern people lcye him. He said the office of
United States Senator belonged to the peo-
pie, for from the Senate came aid for them.
He referred to the bill for the relief of
the soldiers of 1872, which he got passed
by the House While member, and charged
Andrew johnson with its defeat by letting
il slumber in the Senate. He said he had
no fellowship for such a man, because be
believed be would betray his country by
fighting with a strong North against a weak
South. After making some further re-
marks about johnson, he said he would
drop him for the present, but would give
them history of johnson after while. He
said Andy was sweet mOTsel TO discuss.
He then at length discussed
THE CURRENCY QUESTION,
the National and State debts and the
Civil Rights bill. He prophisied that the
National debt would not be wiped out in
200 years. The people being bound to
paw that debt, would be nothing but slaves
mortgaged for its payment. He said that
any government that collected more than
ten per cent. of its circulating medium
was tyrannical and was administered upon
incorrect principles. he advocated the
payment Of bonds In greenbacks, and was
in favor Of brushing out with one brush all
of the National Banks. If he had
the power, he would have
law passed to make it a
hanging ofiense for every man that would
establish a bank, and also a hanging Ofiense
for every man that borrowed a dollar and
signed his name to bond to pay for it.
He was in favor of making banking as free
as merchandising or any other honest trade
| or profession. lie was in favor of making
| the bond holders the last on the pay list.
| He would disarm the State of Tennessee,
so that she would have no more power to-
collect taxes to pay the bond-holder, than
any citizen has to collect their private debts
! due them from individuals. In regard to-
THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL, =
| he said that it was a historical, moral,
/ social and political fact that the negro and
white man would never live together as
| equals upon the same soil, without eternal
! disturbances, riots and bloOdshed. If they
separated the negroes from the whites, he
| did not believe there was a white man in
! the South that would lament it. But,
rather than have the negroes turned loose
! among the whites, to degrade their name
and race by a vile cOmmingling of the
races, to have the Southern people dragged
| down TO ruin by the brutality and lust OF
| the negTO-he had rather see Temes-
see blOtted out forever from the
maps. He had made the same re-
marks in a speech while representing
his district in Tennessee, and il was his
doctrine now. He gave J. II. Gregory, the
| Republican nominee for State Senate, of
this comfy, a general Overhauling. He
said that if he Gregory considered him
self no better than a negro, or was willing
! to sleep, eat, drink and marry with the ne
\ gro, he wanted him to distinctly under
| stand that he did not want his vote. If
| that mon GraUorv uould Oo nm in the
\ mountains where he lived and talk that
| way the old women would beat him with
! brooms and scald him with hot water. His
| idea of such man was that he was far be-
low the level of the negro and compared
him to the poisonous viper and scorpion.
Mr.. johnson and Col. Savage left to-
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