The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-28
Friday Morning, May asIh, 1879.
CURRENT EVENTS,

ANSiNiNAAN NAtsiFit Is preparing 10
move TO Long Branch
Hon. John u. Bright ex-Upited
States Senator from Iudiana, died at his
residence IN Baltimore, May 2Oth, AGED
63. he was expelled from the L. S. SEN
ate in 1851, for having written letter TO
Jefferson Davis, then President Of the
Contederacy, recommending a friend "a
his favor.
Mrs. Lincoln, widow of the murdered
President, recently made an attempt at sui
eide, and has been placed III an insane
asylum.
The Mcclllcnburg Centennial, May
10th, was celebrated in various cities in
Tennessee, and on "A grand scale in Char
lotte, N. G. Besides the chosen orators.
addresses were made by Coy Chamber
lain, of S. c., Gov Hendricks, of Indiana,
Ex-Gov. Walker, of Va, Hon II NJ
Polk, of Tenn, cN-GOv. Vance, of n. G.
and others. Forty thousand people are
supposed to have been present. An old
man, aged 40 years, was on the stage.
The republican party is bringing
out Its prospective candidates for the
Presidency in 1879, and airing their
claims. Nobody seems courageous
enough to be for Grant and yet all fear
that he will be nominated. lie can car
~ the entire vote Of the South, in the
convention The two most prominent
meu are Blaine aud Couklmg. If Grant
does not ret it one OF these viii, although
Vice President Wilson will get a strong
vote from the conservative wing of his
party. Blaine has been spoken of for
years, and has a less objectionable re
cord than Conhing, aud will probably
get the nomination.
"A few colorpd politicians met In con
vention at Nashville last week, claiming
to represent the negroes Of Tennessee.
Their OstcHsIblc object was to meet tOge-
Their and deyise means for the entire black
population leaving the State; the real oh
Ject was to create political capital for
home and foreign consumption. In their
preamble and resolutions they dcuOuucc
the white people of the State iu uumeas-
ured terms. They say: 10 the white
people of Tennessee, and them alone, are
due the ills borne 10y Che culurcd people
of this State. The general government
has enacted laws looking TO our mutec-
ton and tn. enjoyment Oi our privilege
as citizens, yet these CuaCtmcuts are a
dead letter. The culurrd line is so closely
drawn as not only to prevent as from sit
ting on jurICs, where whites are interested,
but also from sitting ON those eases where
only our own people are interested
While It Is true that the laws Of the State
promise Justice to all without distinction
as To race, yet IT is :tu established truth
that no culurcd man appeals to these
courts for q redress ul grievances. know
ing that the appeal would joe but "a mock
cry and altogether I'm vain Commits
siOners were appointed from each county,
who Will select agents to find out the best
localities To cml-raic 10. Rev. Balaam
FrIersOn. Of Columbia, wJs appointed
Commissioner from MaUry The whole
thing IS an elcCtjouccgug programme, or
else the negroes arr dupcd by railroad
men and land agent. ufthc West
The General Assembly of the South
ern Presbyterian Church was ia session
last week at St Louis, and the Northern
General Assembly met at the -amc time
in Cleveland, Ohio. The TWO Assemblies
appointed committees to adjust the diff
ferences between the churches. DR..
Brown, Of the Southern Committee, sub
mitted that It she Northern Assembly
would admit that the ObuuNious thugs
it had sand of the Southern Church had
been uttered IN times oIgre;J excitement,
and that the impulatJuus then cast upon
the Southern Church are now djsapprcv-
ed, the end of the difficulty would end AT
once. DR.. Nichola, chairman Of the
cOmmItte appointed by the Northern
Church, refused tu make this recommcu-
dation to his Northern Assembly, but
some one In that body offered a rcsolu-
ton withdrawing these injurious deliver
anccs, indirectly or 10y way of Inference,
inasmuch as .hcy were passed during the
ayciti,1fr gr,rrle of the. Igf, v.tr The r,--