Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-05-16
THE RESTLESS RACE.
A Gathering Of the COIOred Clans
Yesterday.

Election OF Delegates TO the STATE
Emigration Convention - Leading
Orators Express Their Views-Mut
teriDgs OF DiseOatent.
A eOlOred convention was held at the
courthouse yesterday afternoon, to elect
| delegates to represent Davidson county in
the State Emigration Convention in this
city next Wednesday. About one hundred
and fifty eOlOred people were present, and
the meeting proved to be Of more than or
dinary significance. w. A. SizemOre pre-
sided and Benz. n. Holmes acted as Sec.
retary.
The representation, according to the re-
port Of Committee on, Credentials, was as
follows:
First Ward-Thos. Winstead, BENZ.
Singleton and Charles Anderson.
Second Ward-W. II. Williams.
Third Ward-Samuel Coleman and Abe
Smith.
Fourth Ward-W. NJ. Butler, R. D.
Campbell, B. N. Holmes, Ralph PiOner,
Giles Glenn, George Banks and Charles
Emory.
Fifth Ward-Jobn CockriI, George Sim
mons, l. (. Aeken, Daniel Drake and
RObt. Banes.
Sixth Ward-A. Mcconnell, NJ. Hopkins,
Il. Glass, A. Hall, 5. II. Robinson.
Seventh Ward-RObt. Miller and Chas.
Max6eld.
Tenth Ward-HenTy Keel.
IsTRCTs-SecOnd, David DObbins;
Fourth, Henry Owens; Thirteenth, Sam
LOwery, d. L. Lapsley, DR.. John White,
Horace Scales, John Cox, BOYD johnson
and Green Scales; Fifteenth, A. ClarkslOn
and J. c. Halfacre.
No resolutions were adopted, but speeches
were made by the following delegates and
leading spectators, showing the temper of
the convention: Nelson Walker, II. Hard
ing, W. NJ. Butler, A. w. Mcconnell, John
COckrill, Sam Lowry, Ben Singleton, w.
A. SizemOTe and others.
By the names we have now given, it will
be seen that the Cedar street politicians
figured cOnspicuOusly in the convention,
but we have no assignable reason to doubt
that they reflected the sentiment Of the col
Ored population of Nashville. Not to par
ticularize-the speeches delivered were
about in this strain: That iG was
the interest Of the cOlOred people Of
Tennessee, and especially Of this locality,
to emigrate; because they could not get
work to do, OF Just compensation for
what work they performed; because neither
the laws nor their enforcement were adc-
quate to the protection Of the negroes in
their rights; because there was little or no
hope for the prosperity and happi-
ness Of the COlOred people in this
State. The recent lynching Of Reed
was cited with Indignation, and
denounced by some of the speakers. The
deed Of murder perpetrated by Reed met
with their strongest disapprObatiOn, but
the official neglect, which permitted him to
be mObbed, was an outrage on the cOlOred
people, and demanded the seyerest con-
demnatiOn.
Such was the character Of the complaints
raised. The best remedy, il was generally
agreed, was to be found in emigration. No
one proposed a better country, but it was
declared the interest Of the cOlored people
to get out Of this. Calmness and delib5ra-
tiOn were advised in the prosecution of the
measure before the cOlOred people. The
object Of the State Convention was alluded
to as being TO devise some systematic plan
of exodus.
The following delegates were elected to
attend that Convention:
Wards, Benjamin Singleton; ?, II. W.
Williams; 3, George Brown; 4, r. d.
Campbell, William Butler and B. NJ.
Holmes; ), 1. Z. Aeken; 6, 5. II. Robin
son; Z, Charles Maxwell; 6, A. W. Nc
COnnell; 4, j. /. Brown; 10, Allen Butler;
4, II. A. Napier.
District-3, Milton Shane; 4, p. A. Ew-
ing; 5, y. Anderson; g, William ThOmp-
son; s, Robert Page 8, George Primm; o,
Willis Mcclellan; i, J. Crowley; IS, ID.
L. Lapsley and II. G. Scales; II, William
Greer; 10, DR.. J. G. Halacre; 16, William
Etherly; Il, W. 4. SizemOre; Is, Benia-
min East; 10, Alexander Petis; 20, Val
Drain; Is, Samuel Lowry; %, Wallace
Shelby; "A, William Dismukes; p, Drew
Tanning.