Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-08-01
Tue BARBECUE at Bosley's Springs

!, TnE BARBECUE at Bosley's Springs,
in Davidson County, ON the 18th inst,
was attended by about four thousand
OF Davidsons best citizens, who are
rallying to the support of the white
man S ticket. Inspiring speeches were
made by distinguished orators. The
following is an outline of the speech
| delivered by our distinguished towns
man, Col. John +. House: m
My fellow citizens-It gives me a
pleasure which am unable to express
In words to meet SO large concourse
| of the bone and sinew Of the country
here to-day. 1t is the most healthful
sign of the times that l have witness
ed, that the people-the real people of
the country, who, almost ever since
the war, have retired to their homes
and ceased to take any interest in DO
lltical affairs, have at last recognized
the fact that the time has come when
they have a high duty to perform in
the selection of their agents.
We have lived, fellow citizens. in
an eyentful time. One of those great
calamities which, sooner or later. over
takes all nations in their history has
overtaken US, and we have had war
among ourselves, the like of which
history does not record, We have met
and we have fought each other upon
the ensanguined field of battle. But
nearly ten long years have elapsed
since hostile band has been seen In
this country But, my countrymen,
although war has ceased, peace has not
been restored to this distracted country.
The party who are in power, who have
controlled the destinies of our land
who are claiming all the loyalty, all
the patriotism, all the humanity in the
country, who have had free control of
this country, who have owned it as.
farmer owns his farm, have been guilty
of oppression and corruption. b
Look over this beautiful South.
Look at South Carolina; look at Texas;
look at Mississippi, and behold the
fruit of this tree of reconstruction
which the Republican party has plant
ed What has been the policy of the
party that has had control of this
country? Have they tried to pour oil |
upon troubled waters? Not at all. |
There was but one statesman in the |
Republican party. That man is dead, |
but it gives me pleasure to bear testi-
mony to the pure motives by which he |
was actuated. That was Horace
Greeley. No sooner had the dreadful |
sound of war ceased in Virginia than
he recommended conciliatory measures.
He stands solitary and alone In all
the acts of the Republican party with |
reference to this country, there has
been nothing but hate and vengeance
toward US, though the men of the |
South who bore arms in the Southern |
cause are citizens of whom any gov
eminent might be proud. {Applause.)
'As said the Republican party has |
been unrestralned its power has been
so unconfued that they have done |
whatever they saw fit to do The his
tory of the Republican party since the
war has been but another illustration |
of the fact that two parties are needed, |
III all free countries. One must be a |
check upon the other. If you belong
to one party then stand by it-not be-
cause it is party but because it rep
resents your principles.
The Republican party has gone on
and on, passing one measure after
another-all intended to degrade, ex-
cite, exasperate and ALLEVIATE the people |
of the South. Look at those States to |
which have alluded, they have taken |
hold of the eolored man and given him
whole States to play with, as a wealthy /
father INDUCES his pet child with cost
ly toys And still they are not happy.
Laughter.) Still the colored man de-
mands more. But he is not to blame
fer it. We of the South are not to
blame for it. This Republican party
has gone on until it has eliminated in
this Civil Rights bill. And the color
ed men of this State have met in con-
vention; they have accepted the issue
which has been made by their North
ern friends. The man who has money
enough to send his children off to
school can snap his finger in the face
of the public schools, but the man who
earns his bread by the sweat of his
brow must educate his childaen in the
public schools, or not educate them at
MI. The government of the United
States has said to the Southern man,
IF you want to educate that daughter
of yours, with her fine sensibilities
and delicate feelings, she must take
her seat by the side of the-colored boy
or not be educated at ALL" (Groans.)
II am glad that this demonstration
to-day evinces the fact that the people
of the South are becoming aroused to
the dangers which beset them Many
of the Republican party in this State
and honor them for it-recogniZe
the gross injustice the Civil Rights
bill was intended to inflict upon the
people of the South, have had the
manhood to denounce it, although it
was passed by the Senate of the United
States. The men who passed that bill
we'll knew that none of their children
would be injured by its enforcement.
They were preparing an entertainment |
to which they knew their children
would never be invited.
Gentlemen, you have staid at home
you have stood aloof until the Re- !
publicans have taken possession of |
every thing. They have well nigh |
ruined our country; they have made
slaves of the most chiyalrous, the most
honorable men and women God ever
permitted sun to shine upon. Gap
plause)
This Civil Rights bill will bring |
about a contest which every good man
must deprecate contest which every |
man who desires the welfare of his |
race and that Of the colored race,
must desire to avoid. If it comes to
the worst, the contest will be short,
sharp and decisive, and it will not stop
until every drop of Anglo-Saxon blood
in the South boils with Indignation.
prolonged applause.)
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