The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-10-01
speech OF the Democratic GahernatS-
rial Candidate Of Tennessee.

bpeeen OF the Democratic 6uDeebeto-
rial Candidate Of Tennessee.
NASHVILLE, September 3O.-The
speech of Judge Porter, Democratic
candidate for Governor, delivered in
Jonesboro yesterday, was published full
in the city press this morning. On the
financial question, he saysthe Democratic
party is pledged to economy in State
Government, and against an increase in
taxation. The great drouth and our
present poverty, made it necessary to
oppose an increase OF taxation, and the
practice Of economy, always wise, is now
our escape from insolvency, and there
ia an absolute necessity that
oil the useless and unnecessary
offices must be abolished, salaries reduced,
and the men who control and collect the
public revenue held to the strictest ac-
countability. The credit of the State
must be maintained, and all its Just debts
and obligations paid. The Democratic
party cannot afford to imperil its good
name by the adoption Of any policy that
looks toward reputation. In four years
of Democratic rule in Tennessee the
bonded debt of the State has been reduced
from $S0,O52, ,628.66 to $40, $50, ,85l .25; the
old issue of the Bank of Tennessee
amounting to s2,l79,395.20 has been re-
ceived in the treasury and cancelled;
the floating debt, consisting in part Of
outstanding treasury warrants, amount
ing October l., 1871, to $752,4l7.27, has
been reduced, up to July |, 1874, to
$237, 7,06G.0l; the loan account has been re-
duced since January ], 1873, from $780,
600 to s12l 900, and the country de-
mands that this good work shall be con-
tinued until this great incubus is taken
from our shoulders.
The Civil Rights Question.
He says: "The position occupied by the
Democratic party of Tennessee on this
grave question is well defined, and can-
not be misunderstood. and his my un-
qualified endorsement, but i am not op-
posed to the bill now pending in the
Congress of the United States because
of any opposition l have to doing full
justice to the colored people. When the
Legislature of Tennessee voted against
bill to expel free negroes from the State,
such union men as Scnter and Trew-
hitt and others Of East Tennessee were
earnest advocates of the measure. Free
negroes had no voice in public affairs then,
and my action was simply the result Of
disposition then, as now, to do them
justice in Tennessee. Colored men have
all the civil rights that are secured to
white men, and no party seeks to inter
fere with their enjoyment. 1t is true,
the temporary chairman ef the Conven-
ton that nominated my competitor stated
and thrice repeated the statement that if
the Democratic party was restored to
power it would remand the col0red man
bnck to slavery, and refer to it to say
that it was made through ignorance and
partisan malice. Whether intended or not,
IL In q Gross Slander
upon party composed of men more
loyal in every sense of the word than
their dctractors. The New York COM
retitor WAS present when this SANDER
was published, and il Is for him to say
whether he consented to II. The plir-
poses of this address was TO arouse . feoS
ing ofenmity on the part of the blacks to
the whites, in order 10 enforce the party
discipline, and to impose upon the cred
ulty of the black man and to blind him,
if possible, 10 his true interests and to the
disposition Of his friends. What more
than thi, do the colorcd people want?
If they are wise or thoughtful they must
know that is an impossibility while they
are now full participants in the benefits
of our common school system. The
action of the Superintendent of
public instruction during last summer in
suspcnding the entire system, when il
was believed that the pending bill would
become law, must have learned the
colorcd people that while the tax payers
of the State generously admitted them TO
full participation in the benefits Of the
common schools, they would destroy the
whole system before they would be made
victims Of the Congressional social rights
bill. Ircgret that do not oppose this
bill because of my unwillingncss to see
Justice done to this people, but
the reverse. do not want to see
This Great Act or Injustice
put upon them. | believe that the two
races, if let alone, can and will live har-
for ! cannot forget that
through four years of war no hand of re-
volt, scditiun or mutiny was lifted up by
them. They thus demonstrated to the
world that their eight millions of masters
were not merciless dcspots, and that con-
trarv to all outside views kindly feeling
did exist between the two races, and |
believe that whenever the colored people
learn to appreciate the. political prosti-
tutes and carpet baggers by whom they
are influenced and ntr,.lled, whites and
blacks will live alongside Of each other
with mutual good will and good off 'es.
The people Of Tennessee will resist the
passage of this bill and its execution, If 1t
becomes 4 law, in every legal way posi-
BILE. for they are slow to believe that it
is competent for Congress to regulate our
schools, or To determine how our hotel
Keepers shall bestow their guests, or by
whose side We shall sleep after death.
But, unless our people are united and
sentiment Of opposition created that will
be felt at Washington, this odious bill
will b. passed in December, and
approved by the President.
He has already recommended
the enactment Of law TO better secure
civil rights which freedom should secure,
but has not effectuslly secured, to- the en-
frsnchised slave, and Senator Morton, OF
Indiana, Republican leader Of the SEN
ate. denounces the mischievous impress
sion that has been made in the South,
that the President would veto the bill.
as without foundation, and the Republi-
can party everywhere is fully committed
10 it,
Railroad CoIlision.
PITTSBURGH, September So.-Ahou'
noon to-day collision occurred on the
low grade division Of the Allegheny
Valley Railroad three and half miles
east vi New Bethlehem, Pa between
a I'D th.. Trn,nht