Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-10-18

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due the State is paid by hiring to ms The
labor of 100 men each year, leaving some
800 convicts to work for the lessees, ana 1
see there are now reported over 9Oo con-
victs in the penitentiary.
THE COMPREHENSIVE.
In the fall of II, when the Legislature
came together, there was great struggle
for the COMPREHENSIVE. MIR. BLACKBURN
had been the Radical Comptroller, ana ne
had managed bis Office so well that he gpt
many votes. At that time the ofhce naa
salary of g, 700, with certain commission
on bonds issued. They finally elected
man named Hobbs-a man We never hes.fu
of before. A prominent candidate for the
Office was man named House, from VIII
Hanson. He polied a very large vote.
This man House was owing DEBT OF
$500. IL was necessary to get this man
off the track, and House SAYS that man
came to him in the hail of the Capitol and
thrust package in his hand, which pack
age he found TO contain his own note for
LOO and 81 800 in money.
Hobbs was in the Office but a short time
when he resigned, and Mr.. John g. Burch
was appointed TO the place by Gov. Brown
What else? IL leaked out after Hobbs
went home that he was telling il around
that he had received, some say $lO,OO0
Others $4,000, to vacate the Office. This IS
a matter which ought to be looked into,
and the only way to do it is t0put in new
set Of bOok-keepeTs. | say, il your Legisla-
ture will give me financial officers w1h
heads on their shoulders and brains in their
heads-men who will not sell Out--I pledge
you | will make your credit good.
'sBLOODY AUGUST"
| hack n tho dark and dismal mnutN
of August, and you will find nearly every
day masked men were engaged in house
burningS, church burningS, killing old men
and young girls: persons were taken from
the control of the law, ant, helplessand de-
| fenoelesS, were shot 10 death. OILERS were
killed and tied 20 RATS, and sent floating
| down O. c rivera river purple with blood
running TO the sea. What is the cause of
all this My competitor said at Greene
| vile, that It was Republicans who hired as
sassills and sent them out to kill men OF
their own color. | was shocked at the
| charge. But il is noticeable fact that
these affairs always occur in strange Demo
cratic settlements. | will give you my So
luton: Whenever il seemed that the
Democratic party was coming into power,
you have seen the Southern ski es light up
with burning School-hOuses; you have
heard the shrieks and cries of murdered
men and women. So il was in 1865, when
they thought that Seymour was going to be
elected, and so it was after the Stokes and
Senter cOntroyerS1ry.
CIVIL FIGHTS.
So far as the Civil Rights bill is con-
cerned, il has never met my approval.
Have sou ever studied the history of the
| Civil Rights? 1t did not originate with the
1 L IL L.,
two wears ago, as the Presidential election
began to loom up, our Democratic fellow
citizens began TO study up how they should
beat Grant and the Republican party
| There were two prominent gentlemen who
had belonged to the Republican party, but
had fallen out of it. One was Mr.. Gree
lev, and one was Mr.. Sumner. Our oppo-
nents conceived that they could use these
two men as levers to GUST the Republican
party. They wanted TO use the darkiss.
Mr.. Summer introduced his Civil Rights
bill, and made a speech upon it in April,
1872. The next day, Greeley used this
language:
ain the Senate, yesterday, Mr.. Sumner
introduced bill securing equal rights, re-
gardieSS of color, in cars, steamboats,, pub
lie halls, schools, etc. This is right. We
trust it may prevail"
The Liberal Convention met in Cincin-
natl in May, and adopted Mr.. Greeley as
its candidate for President. Then our
| Democratic friends in Tennessee had a
meeting. If my competitor was not there,
why am glad to hear il. (Laughter.)
But his people were there, and they passed
a resolution instructing their representa-
tives in the National Democratic COnven-
ton to support MIR. Greeley for President.
| They went to Baltimore and adopted their
platform, in which they say that 'the fol-
! lowing propositions are essential to good
government One of these propositions
was the equality of all men before the law,
in the enjoyment of equal rights.
EMIGRATION AND IAINnGRTION.
Gentlemen, these are questions | hope
YOU will look at There is another aspect |
to these outrages spoke of, which ] can
not forbear TO notice. 1t was estimated |
| that last wear 5000 white families left your |
soil. Gentlemen, this living stream is go
| ing the wrong wayl Wewant men to come |
| here, to build up our industries, build up |
our towns, people the large tracts Of cOun- |
/ try that are now unOccupIed. But, gen |
/ tlemen, until you cease TO brand every |
man VINO comes amongst us from other |
States, men will pass by on the other side. |
| Why, they don't do this in other States. |
| In 1865 il was estimated there were not
| less than $4,000 Southern men in New
York alone. They did not point the fin
ger Of scorn at these men and call them
''carpet-baggers," but they gave them work.
DUELLIsTs AND DWELLING.
Ny competitor was member OF the last
Constitutional Convention, and | find tbat
he voted in favor of poll tax qualification
| for voters; he voted IN opposition TO the
measure proposed to encourage the estab
| Iisbment of manufactures in your midst
by an exemption from taxation, for few
wears, of the capital invested in said manu-
factories, and he voted against the PROPOSE
ton TO disfranchise a man convicted Of
fighting duel within the boundaries Of
our State.
CONCERNING CARPET-5AGGER
referred while ago to the carpet-bag
question. and want to call your attention
to a clause put in the constitution by WasE-
ingtOn, guaranteeing that the privileges OF
citizenship shall extend to every man born
in the United States. That means that
citizens of Tennessee have rights of citizen
shin i'm New York, Ohio, or Pennsylvania
1t is a great constitutional right we III
hsrited from our fathers, who intended to
make us one people. In the census Of
1860, of the million of people who had been
born in Tennessee, One-third OF them We're
found outside the limits Of our State, and,
gentlemen, the man who would stamp them,
or any other man with the badge OF intamy,
because they are from the South, North,
East or West, is attacking one of the grand
est privileges of being an American citizen
If that spirit is fostered and kept up the
result Will be that your own sons will leave
yOu-your best young men will depart from
your soil. They will 60 to cOmmunltl.e;S,
more liberal in their views, and you VIII
have none to take their place. "lchabod,
'.Ichabod,'' will be written on your walls
But my competitor reminds me that my
time is up. l thank you for your atten-
ton.
Judge James ID. Porter was then intro
duced by Capt. j. l.. Rice, chairman OF tie
Democratic aud Conservative Committee,
and his appearance was greeted with rounds
: of hearty applause. When the enthusiast
lad subsidized, our next Governor said:
Speech Of Judge Porter.
Fellcw-citizens: / have to thank my
5 friend Capt. Rice for his courtesy in pre-
e senting me to you to-day, but at the same
: time feel that | am no stranger to the peo-
pie of Nashville, or of Davidson county.