The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-09

whenever his country's good demanded
! constitution was next in his affeetienl
| to the Sermon on the Mount. There
were but two parties in the Countrywide
| Radical and Conservative. Both haC
| some good elements and both must have
an existence. The Conservative party
| was slow~going party, and lived In
the past-wanted things as they used &C
be-in fact, didn't believe in changes @
any sort. The Radical party on the 9TH
er hand was an On-gOlDR, progressive
party, not satisfied with the days work
= believing it can do q better work to-
morrow. 1t was the pioneer party that
opened up the country, cleared away
the timber-and then the Conservative
party occupied and claimed it-in fact,
was always stealing Radical thunder.
The difference between the two parties
was broad as the difference between
day and night. A good deal had been
said about Radicals. Men often got
mixed on the subject. They called Lin
coin a Radical, but he was Conserva-
tive; that he never said anything about
abolishing slavery until it became nee
essary war measure. he would name
some prominent men who were Radi-
calls Thomas Jefferson was one. He
wanted TO abolish slaY cry. Abraham
was one, Socrates was one, Buddha, Mar
tin Luther and Oliver Cromwell were
all Radicals, because they chung to their
particular creeds and faiths regardless OF
the worlds opinion. He said that the
Democratic party was continually
charging them with corruption. He
thought IL came from them with poor
grace. That in the great Credit MO6iL-
Ter swindle, two men were caught,
Cakes Ames and James Brooks, one Rad
zeal and the other Democrat, and the
investigation was carried on by Re-
publican Congress; that he had once
heard Brooks make a speech of two
hours to prove that negroes were
balloons; that ThaddeusStep
TO him in five minutes by quoting one
passage from the Bible, and offering
TO introduce Fred Douglass to answer;
that when afterwards Brooks was saved
from disgrace by some negro votes, he
walked across the Hall and shook hands
with them, and promised to ne yer OPP
pose them again. His own party had
bad men, but always punished them;
that the Democracy in this State lived
in glass houses, and ought not to throw
stones 1t had the Hobbs matter to dis
pose of. II was charged that Hobbs
sold the,comptrOllersbip forS 900, and
that the present comptroller's salary
would be $50, 900 year. That the Dem
OCIdAS aus" SOlAlOhb WIN
"nigger in the parlor and Civil Rights
Bill" He said he was in favor OF the
Civil Rights Bill; but did not under
stand il to mean what great many
people did. Mixed schools meant that
there should be schools for blacks as well
as whites, and not that they should sit
in the same room. That the COnstitu-
ton of Tennessee fixed that matter, and
could rot be oYerridden by an act of
~ tIn nnFo &c No
be uneasy on that point. He referred
10 Fleming's card published last sum
Iner and said that the whites were so
much opposed to educating the negroes
hat they were willing to keep their
own children in ignorance to cut the
negroes out OF an education. He said
that Congress- could not pass law to
enforce social equality--that every
man was master of his own castle, and
could select his own companions. He
said that the HERALD AND MAIL had
done him injustice in insinuating that
he had been instrumental in getting
up Outrages-that he had always coun-
seled peace and good order. He claim
ed that the negro ought to be allowed
20 sit on juries, especially to try their
own color That they should be furnish
ed with as good accommodations as the
white man, on railroads when he paid
as much money. That his party wanted
to apply christianity to government
especially the golden rule. That the
Democratic party would be willing to-
bankrupt the country and bring about
a war of races to carry their points.
That the black man was peaceSble and
did not want to hurt ybody. He
here read a long list OF crimes commit
ed against negroes in this State during
the month of August. He said that the
term Radical had been applied to him
opprobriously; but go far as no was con-
cerned he didn't care. When he was
dead, he wanted these words On bis
tomb, Here lies Arnell, the Radical,