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

; the coming Presidential election. tbousan
OF honest, patriotic men, who are still q
iuded by tie foe, will rally TO our glOriol
I standard, and march shoulder to should
with us to the snblimest triumph ey,
Z achieved for human liberty.
VIII these, my fair country-wOmen, pc
init ME 10 return tie thanks OF the DE-
moeracy and 70 assure them Of my prt
found gratitude for the charm they hav
lent by tteir beauteous presence tothepre
ent occasion? The ladies are always right
and, had they had the right Of suffrage, th
democratic party would have been in DOW
er long ago. tApplause.l But, as dev0ut
~ and as long as / have desired that con
summation, have never seen the momen
that | would have been willing that Il
should be done at such sacrifice. Polite.
IS not woman's sphere. 1t is 10 disparage
ment to her 10 say that the administra,
1--we faculties are not hers. She leads
no embattled hosts to the fray, TO con.
! quest or to death. She guides nc
navy across the storm-tossed deep in
night and storm. She tries no grand ex-
periments in government; nevertheless her
influence Is potent. That influence Is not
exerted at the hustings, nor in the gave
deliberations Of Senate. The Homestead
IS her temple-the heartlist0ne her altar.
her influence upon man is like the dew
and the genial sunshine which clOthe the
oak with verdure and beauty and give
strength and vigOr to its form.
need not ask the ladies Of the South to
exert that influence, Omnip0tens as it is. In
i2Vor Of the Democratic successes and re-
rlsi.-r,s s,.,ise - Government, of liberty and
plause, and waving Of handkerchiefs BY the
ladies.1
Gov. John MeEnery,
being introduced, said:
Ladies and gentlemen, fellow-citizens
of Tennessee: come before you tonight,
a representative Of the Democracy of the
State Of Louisiana, TO join you il jubilee
of that great and transcendent triumph
which now and in all time to come is to
pefpetuate the principles Of the COnstitu-
tirn and the Union. No better place than
Nashville could have been selected for that
national jubilee. Right here near the
tombs Of two illustriOus dead-two men
who had filled the Chief Magistraey of this
great republic and illustrated in their pri-
Yate and official lives their devotion to the
Constitution, snd the Union under the
Constitution. Applause. From my
dOwn-trodden State, fellOw-citizens, not
only come to join you in this great jubilee
of our national Democratic triumph, but
come to pay homage to these illustriOus
men.
feliowscitiEenss like my friend from In
diana, come not among you to triumph
over fallen fee. | mean by this that l
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downfall Of any particular individual, but
/ do say here, and / will say everywhere,
that could join you in jubilee over the
D .rsOnal downfall Of such q man as Butler,
whom | regard as the persOnifcatiOn Of
everything that is corrupt in the Govern
menl; but I came TO jubilate with you be-
csnse cf the downfall Of that long line of
carpet-baggels that haze ruled and ruined
the South. Gentlemen, my feelings to-
night are mingled not only with personal
triumph, but the triumph of great con-
stitutiOnal character. These men are the
personi6catiOn of hatred toward us Of
the South. Since the reconstruction
under Radical rule we have thought that
ve WE'RE IN TIE UniOn-Sinee then eleven
States-which had been engaged in this in
ternecine war with the Northern States had
failed in their purpose, and reconstruction
had taken place under Republican auspices
we had imagined We were a part and
parcel of the Government of the United
States, and that we were entitled to the
same consideration g sny other State.
Down there we have had victory alter VIC
tory. We had one in 1872, aud now We have
another in 1874. In 1872, had the honor
Of beiiis the Standard bearer Of the Dem
OcIacy of that State, ami defeated my
competitor by a majority Of more than ten
thousand votes, but that verdict Of the peo-
pie was set aside by drunken judge, in
midnight Orler, and to-day the man | dc
feated occupies the place to which L was
elected.
The speaker then gave an extended ac-
count Of the Louisiana troubles, with
which our readers are familiar. lie then
continued
1t was believed by great many PEOPLE
in the United States that the people Of
Louisiana were quick and reyengeful. 1t
was said, when this move had been made,
when We had exhausted every appeal to
Cor greSs and the courts, and had done ey-
erything that freemen should do, and then
appealed 10 the God of battles for the vim
dicatiOn Of our rights, that we were a reyO-
lutiOnary people. Il Is a great mistake.
The people Of that state are fOrbearing
people. They have borne burdens that
no other people in this Union would have
done, and we bear them to-day, and It
seems that the last feather has been put
upon the camels back.
When this conflict was commenced in
Louisiana, it was thought that the negroes
would be murdered by the wholesale, but
when the citizen forces had taken posses
sion, and every member Of the new ad-
ministration had been installed in position,
not a single negro was harmed, and thus
we diSarmed the Radicals of their strongest
argument.
Well, we had another election on the
2nd of November, and yet we do not know
who is elected. We know-for we kept
tally sheets-that the State Treasurer, and
a large majority of the Legislature and
members of Congress were elected by our
party, but the result has not yet been de-
temined, and probably will not be before
the year 1876. The returns have to eObefOre
an irresponsible Board of Registration
which sits in New Orleans with closed
doors, clothed with power to throw out
such votes as they choose. How long would
Tennessee, or Ohio, or New York, or any
other Stale in the North, stand such out
RACES as these? The rascals who perpe-
trated them would expiate their crime up
on the nearest lampPOst [Applause.l
But we have to submit to it. We cannot
do otherwise. If we did, our action would
be material for the Outrage Bureau at
Washington.
From the consideration of the Louisiana
question, turn now to national politics.
do not think that the victory we have
achieved is purely a Democratic vic
tory. l believe that dissatisfied Republi-
cans and Grangers in some Of the States
have contributed to the glorious results.
Grant SAYS it is no funeral of his. There
is one thing certain, it is no funeral of the
Democratic party. [Applause.l But how
ever the faithful may settle the cause of
The defeat in their ranks, one thing is sure,
the late elections have set the seal of de-
upon the Republican party. Zap
plause.l
1t is an interesting study to trace the
causes which have led to the defeat of the
Radical party. The SanbOrn contracts, the
Credit Mobilier combinations, and, above
al, its ruthless policy toward the South,
have all been potent influences for its de
feat. Why is it that the industries Of the
great old Stale of South Carolina are !
paralysed and her people buried under a
mountain of debt? Why IS the State of
Louisiana, the land Of the orange and the
magnolia, the land of delightful climate |
nj Italian sL-iaa vvhara the soil Is so fertile