Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-12
BILL SNYDER.
His Views Of Matters and Things I'm
General and some Things I'm Partie-
MARA "trip 60 GAINESVILLE and what
He SAW There.


ular-A "trip 20 CiarksvIIIe and what
He Saw There.
@Better DAYS are like Hebrew verbs, they
have no present tense" Yet It may be
added. not unlike these same verbs they
have that, by way of recompense, where
with 10 supply their place, and in the
praiseworthy spirit Of our constitution,
provision is made for all vacancies. He
who has to any degree been accustomed, at
times stealing away from the fatigues OF
the day, to abstract himself from the busy
hum Of the world, and turn his thoughts
within TO the current Of his own soul,
whether be dwell with a long, lingering
look upon the sOmbre shadOwings Of the
past, or relapse into the visionary dream Of
futurity, will recognize in that which has
been and that which is to be the only true
pleasurable seasons in the race OF life.
Dark as has been the horizon of the
SOuth for the past four years, r'pulsiye as
has been the government aided by Federal
tyranny, there are bright spots in the bleak
waste now looming up to our view IN the
dim distance of fUturity like the light
house to the ten peSt-tOssed mariner,
around which are clustered all the hopes OF
| his heart. The last election has told the
| y
| Tennessee have slipped the yoke Of Radi-
| calism from their neckS aud announced to
| the world the fact that social equality Is a
thing never 10 be listened tofor amoment-
a word not in the Southern vocabulary.
"Niggers to the rear IS the watchWord oil
the South now and forever more. Amen.
| slipped OIL last week and paid visit to
| Clarksv:lle, (the only thing have paid for
| Ia a
that quiet, social, intelligent and moral
city busiIy engaged in manipulating the
wires for an cleo ion.
Party politics were not in the canvass,
but with two or three exceptions each Office
had numerous applicants, each one of
whom was diving 20 sacrifice himself upon
the altar Of his country. Every man was
confident Of his success, even until the
close of the polls. l see from your dis
patches that those who worked most faith
fully to gain the negro vote were defeated,
which is righteous visitation and warn
ins 10 all who engage in such degrading
! system Of elecfioneeriug. The vast and
motley band for whicht lac benefit of the
Civil Rights bill is intended possess neither
knowledge, judgment nor property, and are
usually worked upon during election ex-
| elements by a few low criminal white
men who are but a little removed from
the class upon whom they operate.
Instrumental in gaining their confidence
is the bane Of American custOms-medR
,rhiSkU. Common decency stands awe
struck when she COntemplates this hoTid
picture, and until ls disgrace TO the
American ballot is removed, the people Of
the South cannot consistently urge theiI
objection to the passage Of the Civil Rights
bill. We must have the black mans party
and the white mans party, black hotels
and white hotels, black churches and white
T churches, white wives for white men and
black wives for black men-nO swapping
, around or BeecherizjRg. This must bt
the most prominent plank in our platform
with no knOt-hOles or places affected with
. the dry rot. Until society puts her foot
down upon any tranSgressiOn against TIN,
order Of cOnSistencies, she has no right tC
cayil about social equality. But l diSress.
GAINESVILLE had a public meeting the
night before the election. The canvass
had centered on the candidates for Judge
TYLER and Merritt. The Courthouse was
, filed to overlooking. If a sovereign, II
! the iubIian.y of his soul, said Tyler, an
other one was heard to say Merritt, and as
some one was continually saying Tyler
: We could hear nothing else but Tyler. ant
, Merritt, until friend Of one OF the canoi-
dates arose inside the bar, who was so over
; come, either from his devotion to his man
; or to his whisky, that he could only wave
, his hat gently over his head and allow IN
body to assume that position which his
. spirits suggested. In this condition Pc
| liceman grabbed him. This was contrary
: to the soyereign's idea Of free government
and at it they went. don't know how II
leaked out. but it spread like wild mr.
through the crowd that a pistol was in th'
: case. Did YOU ever see a congregation
. | leave a house at the alarm OF FIRE? II YOU
\ | did not. Just imagine a case and you VII
: have a correct idea of the stampede men
T ton.
, | saw AN attache of one Of the Memphis
I papers set down his bee gum on the foo
, and dodge behind it. Lew, of the Courier
, Journal was closely wedged in between
. two fat Civil Fighters who had made thei
: dinner off of raw onions. | was Tunnin
over in NV mind several bits Of poetry suit
f able for obituary notices, as l saw hin
q heave his pOndsrOus bosom, place his liner
: ta0EchOfy to his nose and roll back his eye
. Ikea diving calf, showing all the symp
4 toms of asphyxia-when all at once h
shot from between his Scylla and Cha
3 rybdls like the pulp of a grape through
n tiny puncture in its skin. Reaching tn
: air he gave one gasp, shook his huge alb
dominal proportions to see that no bone
were broken, and then and there took al
4 oath on a pocket dictionary, that he wOul
never again attend public meeting. Th'
row was quelled-peace was declared.
The pistol proved to be the gable end
an umbrella, and the mObOcratic cry o
aTyler-Merritt" 'Tyler-Merritt" wa
y continued until | was informed by m
: haekman that it was train time. l wa
anxious to return here to vote, so | LEI
) thoroughly impressed with the belief tina
1 II that was public speaking, the dudienc
: did Il all, and if any other speech wa
d made but "TylOr and Merritt" with tn
Il exception Of the word 'pistOl," alluded