Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-12-04
THE FOURTH DISTRICT.
w. A. Caruthers. Of TrOusdaie. No
Longer n Candidate for the Nominal

w. A. Caruthers, Of TrOusdaIe, No
Longer n Candidate for the Nominal
ton.
To the Voters Of the Fourth Congress
siOnal District: At the earnest request of
tried and valued friends, announced my
intention Of being a candidate for Congress,
to fill the vacancy from this district made
by the death of Col. Head. AT that time 1
had reason to believe there would be few
aspirants to the position; and, as the Forty
fourth Congress does not convene until the
first Monday in December, 1875, l. in COM
mon with the people of the district, sup
posed that sufficient length of time would
be-given before the election to enable gem
tlemen who aspired TO the honor of repre-
senting thirty thousand voters to canvass
the district, make themselves and views
known to the people, and learn something
of the vast territory for which they expected
to legislate. In both suggestions | was
guilty Of an egregiOUs error.
The election has been ordered with an
indecent haste that precludes ali possibility
Of candidates learning anything Of the peO-
pie, or the people knowing anything Of the
candidates, and virtually removes this leg
islative agency, so sought after, from an
election by the whole people 10 an ap-
pOintmenJ ~ 4 few. here viii be less
number Of voters debating your next Con-
gresham than there are candidates in the
field to-day; and yet submission 10 these
few under present circums' ances seems the
duty Of every patriot voter opposed TO the
oppressive iniquities and centralizing ten
denotes Of tie party which has held the
reigns Of government for tie last thirteen
years.
A great upheaval of public virtue and
brotherly kindness in the North has wrest-
ed one branch of the legislative depart
ment Of government from this sectional
party OF hate and plumber, and turned it
over, on probation, TO the great Democratic
party of Justice and constitutional liberty.
A general rejoicing at this revival Of good
feeling and return to honesty is now felt
all over the land, from the rising of the
sun to the going down thereof. In this
general Jubilee, there should be no sOTTOw-
ing in our dOwn-trOdden section. In the
late election We carried nine out Of ten
Congressional districts. In the vacancy to
b. filled let no selfish amb tons, mop ivate
pique intervene 10 destroy harmony in our
ranks, and jeOpardize the success of our
principles. In the late election in this dis
trict there were 10, 229 votes cast for POr-
ter, and 2,9SS for Maynard. IL is reason
able TO suppose that there will be a much
smaller vote at the special than at the gen.
eral election. The Radical vote in this
district is something OSeT five thousand,
when all pOlled. IL is an organized and
we'll drilled party. Every voter in it has
his ticket now in his pocket, ready to vote
as ordered fIOm headquarters. They ex
pect a small vote, and stand ready, by solid
front, to avail themselves Of the advantage.
The least division or waveTing in our
ranks gives them victory.
There are to-day twelve Democratic
statesman in this district, ready and will
ing to sacrifice all the pleasures Of home,
the ease of private life, the beauty Of
Sabine fields" and, for the paltry eOnSid-
eratiOns Of five thousand dollars per an
mum, leave friends and joy asd home
behind, and 90 to that city Of denominations
and expense, the Federal capital, there to
toll for their cOuntry's good, Offering health,
happiness, private fortune, and their
sacred honor upon the altar of public
veal. There are twelve Democratic candi-
dates for Congress in this district One, l
understand, is to be Independent Of con-
ventiOn. am unwilling longer to be an
instrument EOf division, however humble
the instrument or small tie division. In
the grand anthem of joy now being sung
throughout the length and breadth Of the
land by the patriots Of a common country,
| would not throw a note Of discOrd. Let
the chorus swell in grandeur and harmony
until the Legislatures, catching the patriot
ic fire, shall redeem the Federal Senate
f,,u, 2 ho clutches of the eor1T1ufiOniSfS and
Oppressors, as the people have redeemed
the representative branch Of Congress.
Earnestly thanking my friends for the
support so kindly rendered, | withdraw my
name from the list of candidates, forever
preferring private life to contributing one
vote TO the success of RadiealIsm.
W. A. CARUTHERs,
HARTSvILLE, Tenn, Nov. 80, 1874.