The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-08-20

l Letter from DIR. Edmund SON
! Mr.. EDITOR:-I have read in the CIT
IZEN several communications in
the last and one In a previous issue-
commenting me in very complimentary
terms TO the voters Of this Pictorial Dis
trict for Legislative hOnors- And while
l am deeply sensible 0f rhe compliment
and honor conferred, and profoundly
grateful TO my friends for their good
! OPINION must be paFdoned for not an
nounelng myself candidate as request
ed. The Democratic and Conservative
party-ot which l am an humble, but
falthinl member-haye called a conven-
| llon on the fret Monday in September
Tor the purpose, in part, of nominating
candidate for this Office, and am uu-
wiling TO do anything that will in the
ieast ernbarrass the convention or ieop-
ardise in any way its peace and harmony
should, however, this convention, of its
own free action and without any agency
OF my own, designate me as the eandi-
date, l could not then decline, but would
accept and do my best as a candidate,
and II successful, afterwards as a repre-
sentative, to merit the confidence be
slowed. Thanking those gentlemen
most heartily for their manifestations Of
confidence, / am, sincerely,
Z. EDMUNDsON.
Pulaski, Aug. II.
Now, Mr.. Editor, having answered
the communication referred to, / ask
permission, while writing, to add few
words to the general reader, being
prompted solely by the interest of the
Democratic and Conservative party.
We have recently passed through
some hard and bitter words were used,
tending somewhat to divide and distract
the party. Early in the canvass it was
deemed proper by members of the
party, in order to avert the election of
radicals, TO organize by calling a con-
VentiOn and make nominations for the
different offices, thereby making certain
the defeat of the radical candidates. In
however, many OF our par
ty friends did not share, and they took
no part therein alleging that the con-
test was only for county officers and al
together nOn-pOlitical in its nature, and
therefore they disregarded the action OF
the convention and supported their IA
vorites, believing that they were rem
dering support to men who were true to
their party. While we convention folks
took different view from these gentle
men and supported the convention tick
ct throughout, we should have no quar-
rel for those who honestly entertained
diverse views and acted in accordance
with those views. We should remember
that this was the first convention ever
held in Giles county for county offices /
and we should not have been surprised |
to find those who would not give in their |
to its action.
We are now however, about engaging |
in a contest altogether different, being /
wholly political and of a character /
where party lines are closely drawn, and |
pardon me for saying, that If there was |
ever a necessity for these lines to be so /
drawn, that necessity exists u0l0. Every /
element and atom of the opposition to |
Radical Republicanism, should now be |
and concentrated, not so
much for any particular party as against
that hideous monster, the darling pet-Oi !
The Northern Radicals-SUmner' Civil |
Rights Bill, No irritating word in the (
late canvass, or any paragraph written
before or since the election, should for
an instant stand in the way of unity and
narmRny in the ranks, and all Demo
Gratis and Conservatives, Independents
and Old Line Wings, and all of any and
every name who ''cannot frame to pro-
lounce the ShibbOleth" of Summer, are
called upon to cooperate with the only
party that has no man in all of its ranks,
north or south, but that is opposed to
he measure, and believe it as disastrous
% the interests of the black man as it is
Insulting and degrading to the white.
Come then, to the rescue. Let us show
,he Congress of the United States that
far at least as her white
population is cOncerned-stands in solid
)halanx againstthis measure.
Let us, if possible, then forget the past,
letting by-gOnes be by-gOnes" and
.hrOw open wide the doors of the party
md invite all to come in and be mem
)ers of one united, strong and invincible
party. E.