The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-11-12
"GLORY.''
Pulaski AblaZe-The PeO-
pie Rejoice Over the
Victory of Right.
s p e e c h e S. Tore n
lights and HaIIeIu-
jahS.
Gov. Brown, Judge Logan, DR..
HarweII, Judge Jones, Col.
Rose and Others Address
the Delighted Multi
tude.

Pulaski gave Judge Porter the grand
est reception he received at any point in
the State during the canvass, gave him
vote increased by 76 over that of two
years ago, and on last Thursday night
rejOiced over the glorious success that
had crowned the gigantic effort of the
PEOPLE all over the land to pull them
selves out of the quagmire of oppres-
sion and to throw OF the mantle of per-
idy and pollution which had been
wrapped in ceaseless folds about our
patron goddess of liberty by our would
be Cesar and his legiOns of campbell
lowers. Pursuant to announcement
through these columns, the citizens of
Pulaski, after having met at the court
house in the evening and perfected ar
engagements, Illuminated their business
houses and residences, and by o'clock
the square and vicinity was bright and
glowing with the light OF thousands of
candles set in every nook and corner of
windows and doors, covering the avn
ings and sign boards, with one on every
spire of our beautiful courtyard fence {;
and transparencies and torch-lights, and
turpentine lights and red lights, and
white lights, and bright lights, and
light lights, borne by men and boys, on
horse back and on foot. in carriages and
wagons, moved in grand procession
through the streets, headed by Prof.
Pitman's COrnet Band, and at 8 o'clock
drew up in front of the Alamo House.
Loud and prolonged calls for Brown
I rent the air, and our noble Governor
stepped out upon the balcony and re-
ceived the homage aud vOciteTOus ap-
plause of ALL his neighbors and friends
of his native town. He commenced, 81
am fOrty-seVen years old, and l was
never so happy before as am tonight"
This first thought struck at the very es-
sence of the feeling that pervaded every
bosom and was received with a Joyous
hallelujah. He then recounted our vic
tories in his own happy way, laudin g
our leaders here, and cOnsigning the de-
funct carcasses of our ignOble OppO-
nents to the Obscurity from which they
ought never to have emerged there,
giving praise on the one hand and Obit-
uaries on the other, gathered up all the
glorious news of victory that had just
quivered over the wires and wound it
up into an incandescent ball of truth
and scattered it over the sea of upturned
faces, which falling like the mamma in
the wilderness brought forth the widest
notes of praise. Judge Jones, Judge
Logan, Col. Rose and DR.. Harwen were
called successfully and each of them
dwelt with animated fervor upon the
grand occasion which called this vast
assembly together, and spoke with
hearts filled with the inspiration which
victory alone can confer, and with
tongues akin to those which brought
four thousand men of old to shout,
"Men and brethren - Such a revOlu-
ton was never known before, and Pu-
laski never before had occasion for such
rejoicing.
Old man Who ONT tho ca,a from, our
thoroughfaTes and drove the wild beast
from our hill-sides, young men who Of
fered their lives 4 shield to their cOun-
try's honor, old ladies and young ladies
who hoped and prayed through the dis
NAL days of woe that impaled our eX-
istence for four dreary years, boys and
girls trained to love their COuntry's hon
or and to rejoice in the liberty of free
men-all these, the natives of the soil,
the builders of all our noble institutions,
the defenders of our liberties, the saints
of our firesides, and the hope of the
land, whose limbs had been shackled by
the iron bands wrought by deSpOts and
whose lives had been sought to be made
miserable by freedoms fOes-su these
Assem- bled around the glorious board
spread fun with feast for freemen, and
with thankful, joyous hearts broke the
bread of deliverance.
Truly, this was an occasion to rejoice,
and right truly did we rejoice. This Is
but the dawninG Of the day so long de-
layed, and as its gray streaks part the
Teceding gloom and our shouts welcome
| the rays of the sun a plotting JOshua
| had made to stand still upon the other
| side of our political hemisphere for SO
many weary days, let not our joy be eX-
ulCing. Let us give magnanimity fol
selfshness, tolerance for oppression, lib
erty for manacles.