Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-20
A GLORIOUS DAY.

These corrupt organizations and combi
nations invdaed the very temple of IN
government itself. They involved me,
high in authority raen rho. BIZ tbei
power, were shspihg the conduct of tn.
government and directing public admins
tration. They came to these men and
| involved them in their meshes and
made them parties to their plundering. and
when exposure came, people were surpfised.
but they should NOT have been. They
should have expected them. Such schemes
are not The result of chance
Do you know that there is such an Or
ganiZation in our country as Congression-
al lobby? know you do not know what
Il is. Its powers are so artful and seductive
that the people are never safe where a lobby
is allowed to exist, and is brought into ex
1stence by the logical and inevitable work.
ing Of public policy and public laws, which
hold out inducements to the formation of a
lobby which offer It plundef and which
foster it. There is a lobby now Which has
been infesting all the approaches to Con-
gress for twelve or fourteen wears. There
Is tariff lobby, a railroad lobby. a Brazil
Steamship Company lobby, subsidy lobby.
and God only knows how MANY more there
their agents are legion. Sometimes their
agents are women uwasgoing to say ladies,
but VIII not say that), artful, Ginning.
fhsesyS1 Come With AT the Establishments of
social position and culture, and they un-
dertake to influence the representatives of
the people to enact these wicked and op-
pressive laws, and though they tec ofter
succeed, they are always wrong, and there
is no country between heaven and earth
that fosters so enormous, so powerful, and
so irresistible lobby as does the American
Government to-day, and there is no gov
ernment that is so much plundered by
these Unholy combinations tha: are made
among its own people, as our.
In conclusion, let me me say that en-
dorse all my distinguished friend has said,
and l must state, in Justice to my own
feelings, that profoundly regret he is not
to be member Of the FOrty-fourth Con-
gess. EApplause.l Above all men whom
THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE
has retired from the public service this
year, one of the most valuable, end 6ne
whom the country could less easily dis
pense with. Is Jaitles b. Beck, Of Kentucky.
[ IApplaose.
Endorsing everything he has said, now
appeal to yOu 10 bear constantly in mind |
that although these victories have teen |
very great, are very comprehensive, ex- |
tend TO the T1filotest parts of our country |
and Bring so much Of hope and gladness to |
the hearts of all the people, vet they settle |
nothing, but only bring US grand Opportu- |
mites for the future, not alone fcr cut nsrse, |
(Which is really matter Of listie eonse- |
4uence,) but Tor err country. The results |
Of the recent victories are TO be determined |
in tins future by the conduct of the men |
who have been placed in power.
l appeal, therefore, to them, whether |
they be representatives, or Gevsrluir OF |
States, or men filling very Subordinate |
places, to rally in all their manhood, in |
all their patriotism, in all their intelli-
genee, and so to demean themselves as to |
see to it that they not only commend them
selves personally to the people, but that |
hey show themselves TO be the representa- |
lives of the great DemOCratic-C Conservative |
parry Of the country that Ia. elected them
and which is ia be hefiore the people for fI- |
-ure endorsement. The people want the |
results cf right condact; they want |
.he results Of patriotic, intelligent |
and competent action on the part of |
heir servants, and then our future triumph |
will become complete. ICcntinued ap- |
Dlause.1
As Mr.. Kerr retired, Capt. Ewin, Chair
nan of the County Committee, announced |
hat this would close the exercises for the /
LfternOon, but that there would be fire
works at the Exposition building at { q. II.
md that the speaking would be resumed at
o'clock. The erewd then dispersed.
At Night.
Long before seven o'clock the crowd be-
,UIn to assemble in front of the Exposition
'uilding, Notwithstanding the threatening
haracter of the weather. Nor was the
rOwd drawn by the attraction Of the FIRE
works alone, for as the hour set for the
peaking approached, its numbers were in
.reased by hundreds and thousands, until.
y half past eight O'Clock, there were Ger
ainly four thousand people gathered within
he building among whom a large proper
ion were ladies. At eight O'Clock, the
peaking began with the Introduction by
iov. BrownOf
Hon. j. Proctor Knott,
7hO spoke as follows:
Fellow-citizens of Tennessee: | have
Ong desired to visit your beautiful city. 1
ave long been anxious to mingle with a
enerous people, of whose hospitality and
e6nement have heard from my earliest
yet l congratulate myself that
ave never had an opportunity of doing so
i'll now. l am glad that my first coming
mong you is at a time when my own
cart beats high with mingled emotions of
xultation and hope, and the faces of all
round me are beaming with the bright |
miles of happiness and joy. l am glad
bat my first mission in your midst is to |
ejoice with you upon the prospect of q
righter era in our country's history-an |
ra Of honesty, economy and justice in tee
of our government, and of
eace, prosperity and progress in every sec
ion of our Union. [Applause.l
That we should hail the promise of such |
n era with the widest rapture, that we
hould welcome its earliest dawn with
very demonstration CT gladneSS and graft
Ide, is as natural as it is for us to breathe
ne atmosphere around us. We could not
void il if we would, especially when we ,
,ok back upon the horrors of the long and
ismal night of oppression and wrong
-hich we trust is about to pass away never
} return.
/ would not advert to the gloomy history
our country during the last few years ,
II the purpose of waking the slightest as
Gritty Of feeling in this hour of general
" and thanksgiving. Nor would | be un-
erstoOd as intending TO wound the feel
lgs or impugn TIE personal integrity of
ny who may honestly differ with me in
Olitical opinion; but 1t is impossible for
on TO properly appreciate the blessings
OH anticipate from the return of your gov
mment to purcr principles of public poll
7 without contrasting them with the per-
dy, corruption, licentiOusness, and op-
ressiOn which have characterized the ad-
Illustration of that government under the ,
IspiCes of the party now in power.
/ allude TO none of the causes which led
our late disastrous war, nor to anything
lat tranSpired during that terrible strug- |
e. l concede everything to the fierce pas
Ons Of the human heart when stirred to
leir lowest depths by the surging biliows {
{ internecine strife. / could forget the {
eluge Of paternal blood that poured its {
.imSon tide over the fairest section of our {
.untry; / could forget the hurricane of fire
nd sword which swept with its whitening
-eath the lOveliest portion of the earth,
aving its thousands Of blaekened ruins 10 s
ark where once were the bright abodes OF q
sace, and hospitality, and domestic JOY; |
,uld forget the sombre habiliments Of woe {
lat draped a million hearthstones in
Ourning and the wild wall of anguish t
lat welled up from millions Of grief-strick- |
hearts: | could forget all-all the crimes | I