The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-10-06
SOUTHERN SENTIMENT.

GOVERNOR OF TESSESsEE-HIS NIENS on
THE CIVIL RIGHTS BIL.
NASHVILLE, Sept .30.-The speech OF Judge
Porter, democratic candidate for governor, de-
iivered in Jonesboro yesterday, is published in
full by the city press this morning On the
financial question he says that the democrats
are pledged 10 economy in the administration Of
the State government and against an increased
taxation. The great drouth and our present
poverty made II necessary to oppose an increase
of taxation, and the practice OF economy, always
wise and proper, is now our escape from insol-
vency, and in the enforcement of this idea there
Is an absolute necessity that all useless and
unnecessary Offices must be abolished. exees..
collect public revenue held to tbe strictest ac-
countability. The credit and good name of the
and obligations paid. The democratic party can
not afford to be dish nest, IL can not afford 10
police that looks TO repudfation. In four years
of democratic rule In Tennessee the bonded
debt of the State has been reduced fFom 1885,
of Tennessee, amounting TO S2I7 9S7, sic,
has been received into its treasury and
outstanding treasury Wi .rranfs amounting on
October !, 1871, TO s75,24l,727, has been reduced
up to July l, 1874, to s5 2u COL. The loan account
has been reduced since January l, 1873, from
sSO0OC0, TO sl2l0OO, and the country demands that
this good work shall be continued until. this
great incubus is taken from our shoulders. On
the civil rights question, he says that the po-
sition occupied Dy the democratic party OF Ten
nesses on 1 this h gfaye qssstlSn is Is vel defined
quail fed endorsement; but he was not opposed
10 the bill now pending in the Congress OF The
to doing fun justice TO the cJlored people When
a member OF the legislature Of Tennessee he
voted against bill to expel free negroes fron the
State. when such union men as Senter and
Trewhitt and others OF East Tennessee were ear
nest advocates OF the measure. Free negroes
had no voice in public affairs then, and his ac-
N a hon
as now, to do them justice. In Tennessee the.
colored man he'd ali the civil rights that were
secured TO white man, and no party seemed TO
interfere with theirenjoyment. IL was true that
the temporary chairman of the convention that
nominated his competition stated and thrice re-
peated the statement that If the democratic
party was restored to power it would remand
the colored man back TO slavery, and he referred
TO IL to say that IL was made through ignorance
or partisan malice, and whether intended not
was gross slander upon a party composed OF
men more loyal in every sense of the word than
when -lfHDoo 9noel 30 fle.n nIfl Isl r..fII.
rl THIS ISLANDER WAS PUBLIsHRD,
and it is for him to say whether he consen ted to
ii. The purpose of this address was to arouse
feeling of enmity on the part OF the blacks 10
the whites, in order 10 enforce party discipline
and impose upon the credulity OF the black
man, and to blind him, If possible, TO his true
interests and TO the disposition of his real
friends. What more than this did the colored
u
they must know that it Is an impossibility,
while they are now ull participants in the bene-
fits of our common school system. The action
of the superintendent of public instruction
during last summer, in suspending the
entire system when Ii was believed that
the pending bill would become a law,
that while the taxpayers Of the State gener-
ously admitted them to a full participation in
the benefits of the common schools. they would
destroy the whole system before they will be
made victims of The congressional social rights
bill. He represented that he did not oppose
this bill because Of his unwillipgness to see
did not want TO this gross act Of ipiustice put
upon them. He believed that the two races, II
he coaid no forget that thToneh nT SeSrs
war no hand OF revolt, sediti0n, mutiny, was
lifted up by them. They thus demonstrated TO
the word ,nas tnsi5 & elgn. ons d OF masters
TO all outside views kindly feeling did exist
between the two races, and he believed that
cae the political and carOet 70 be
gers by whom they were now influenced
and controlled, the whites and the blacks win
win and good ofiicers. The people OF Tennessee
would resist the passage of this bin and its
execution, If 1t became law, in every legal way
that it is competent for Congress 10
regulate their schools or 10 deter
mine how their hotel keepers should bestow their
death But unless the people were united, and
sentiment of opposition created that would
be felt at Washington, this odious bill would
be passed in December and approved by the
president He has already recommended the
enactment of q law TO better secure the civil
rights which freedom should secure, but has
not effectually secured to the enfranchized
slave; and Senator Morton, of indiana, the re-
publican leader of the senate, denounces the
mischievous impression tnat has been made in
the South that the president would veto the bill
being without foundation, and the republican
party everywhere was fully committed 10 1t.