Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-10-02
Judge POrter's RejOinder.


Judge Porter, with great animation, said:
Ny competitor has exhausted an bour
and thirty minutes, out of his speech of an
hour aud forty minutes, in endeavors to
lead me back to questions discussed thread
bare two years ago from Bristol 10 Men,
phis. do not propose to waste my time
about questions that have no sort of vitali-
ty. Concerning the penitentiary lease
had nothing to do. With the funding bill
had Deither agency nor sympathy. Nine
teen of the twenty-four Republicans voted
for It. II was not a Democratic measure.
1t was advocated on the stump by both
Brown and Freeman, and your Republican
candidate for Governor left his business,
went into the lobby, and rs lobby menu
Der worked for the passage OF the funding
bill.
My competitor talks of money corrup-
ton. Let him eNelain himself, not deal
in innuendOeS. | am not the champion of
JohE c. Brown. / am the candidate of
the Democratic party for Governor. Gov.
Brown is not here to be able to answer for
himself, and l never like to hear an absent
man abused, whether he is a friend of mine
or not. When Brown and Maynard meet
they can discuss the matter, but mean
Willie L " III ICdu Mudl NrONs lDIONll SAWS.
wherein he expressly denies all that in
any wise reflects on his personal integrity,
and declares that whoever gives currency
TO such unfounded and understandable in
situations, directly or indirectly, is a liar
and a slanderer.
There is the issue plainly presented.
UheR mig competitor goes to Pulaski let
him eat his cords, or fdce Coz. Brolrn like
a = IL, i
If there is aught wrong in the admins
tration Of the State, the courts are open;
the General Assembly will soon convene.
Come forward, then, with your evidence,
and we will convict, if guilty, as we did
Tweed. We will net do as the Republi-
can National Administration, reward cor
rupt men with offices as in the case of
Bingham and Richardson, the latter impli-
Gated in the infamous SanbOrn contract,
and vet appointed by Grant to the vacancy
made by the death OF Judge Milligan, an
office to which Horace Maynard aspired.
Mr.. MAYNARD alludes to violence in Ten
nessee. l honestly believe that violence
has been brought about by the attempt to
enact the Civil Rights bill intoa law, and
by the agitation of its supporters. The bad
men Of the community have taken adyan-
tace of the agitation. These are the things
that have led to riot.
| charge that Maynard would even now
endea7Or to have the State under military
control. He refers 10 the Butler memorial,
and endeavors to avoid it by reference to
Senter's message. No man ever heard Of
the arrest of a Ku-kluX in Tennessee under
the enforcement act. Peace did come with
Democratic government, and reigned until
the agitation for the passage of the Civil
Rights bill, infamed by such appeals as
Wisener's to the negroes in the Chattanoo-
GA Convention, made in Maynard's pres
ence. and by Maynard, at Knoxville, pro
duced trouble again.
Judge Porter read Senator BrownlOv's
letter to Gov. Brown. 1t is the letter of
man who has the nObleness of heart 10
recognize that Gov. Brown has done his
duty. / am not champion of Gov. Brown.
Every man may think of him as he may.
But he did his duty nobly and fearlessly.
MAYNARD says the Federal military arrested
thirtv-nine men in Gibson county. Yes,
and they discharged all but five Of them,
and only hold them on the evidence Of
Gov. Brorn's grand jury Of Gibson coupty.
The Greeley candidstnre was noted bS
Judge Porter as the best means then avail
able to restore good government. The De