The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-30
PokTENTOUs.
The North Awake at Last to the
ViIIainy of Grantism.
1t is Not a Subjugated South
but the American People
They Deal With.

istered to the administration
through the resolutions and speech
es shows how tue wind is setting
among our northern brethren, and
it affords infinite encouragement to
the over burdened people of the
South to see that the right is to be
maintained By the honest people up
there. The meeting was addressed
by Hon. Geo. H. Pendleton, Gen.
Thos. Ewing, Gen. Geo. w. Nor
gan, Gen. Durbin Ward, Gen. Aquil-
la Wiley and Others. The speeches
were vociferously applauded by the
vas5 assembly. A few extracts be-
low will strike our readers as very
suggestive and decisive, pointing
out the course that will certainly be
pursued if Grant and his gang at
tempt to consummate the frauds
they are contemplating. 1t is the
American people that are speaking
now, it Is American liberty that is
being outraged, it is the perpetuity
Of the Union that is endangered by
the men who are under oath to pre-
serve it. The following is
GENERAL EWING's PERoRATIoN:
The most monstrous declaration
vet made in this crisis, is that
( which has been attributed without
contradiction to Gen. Grant, that if
| Hayes is given States enough by the
Returning Officers he shall be inau-
gurated, and that a judicious use of
the army will prevent all disputes.
He is already massing troops in
Washington to execute, I suspect,
this covert threat. He seems to IN
tend that the acts of the Returning
Boards, however fraudulent, shall
not be banked or brought in ques-
ton by the action Of the House of
Representatives Let him beware.
| Applause. He is not dealing with
a subjugated Southern State, but
the American people. Applause
Go on, go on. Give it to them, -
was shouted by the crowd. No,
no, gentlemen, [ do not want to go
on. 1 have but one more word to
say, and that Is, that have faith
enough in the free spirit of the PEG
pie and in the destiny Of our repub
lie to believe that the House of Rep
resentatives will never be cowed by
President until long, long after
the memory of Grants civil career
shall have sunk in a kindly oblivion.
| Prolonged applause.
Gen. Morgan concluded as fol
lows: If an armed conflict comes II
will not be brought on by the Demo
cratic party. IT it comes it will be
forced on the people. 1 think an
armed conflict viii not come. Were
the men in power to retain power
by fraud they would be buried at
the next election so deep that theil
resurrection would never come.
We read of the action Of Cromwell
when he dispersed the House OF
Commons at the point of the bayo-
net. No such thing will occur in
this country at this day and genera
ton. While I have doubts, while ]
believe those who haye the power
) would perpetuaCe it by fraud, they
dare not come before the people in
that way. 1 need not counsel pa
tience. Look confidently to the flu
ture. The proudest object is the
preservation of free institutions.
SPEECH OF GEN. DURBIN WARD.
Gen, Ward spoke as follows: Mr.
President and Ny Fellow citizens-
In this emergency it seems to me
persons ought to have few words
There come times when words are
acts. We have chosen, as we be
Iieve, a President of the United
States by Il majority of more than
three hundred thousand popular
votes, and, as we believe, by a ma
jority of more than twenty of the
Electoral College. The great ques
ton to day is, shall he be inaugura
ted? My fellow-citizens, 1 am one o.
those who believe in the observance
of law. When you choose a Presi
dent you exercise the highest of the
functions of sovereignty. You who
do it soberly and patiently InYesti
gate before you vote, and investi
gate every vote afterward with cool
ness, calmness and discretion. Nc
wild threats, no undue abuses O
our opponents, a full recognition O.
the right Of every citizen to thinl
and act for himself, and then we
should go and examine the returns
of the election. They should b,
scrutinized by the legal authority
We should use every resort known
to the Constitution and the law tC
5 secure fairness, We have nothing
to say of any Interior purpose OF
measure, but if the time should com,
when we have used all legal means
if the time should come when the
deliberate judgement of the Ameri
can people, or any part of the Amer
lean people, is that they have been
defrauded or defeated by fraud o.
force in their choice of President
there will arise for settlement ;
question that is too solemn to dis
cuss in a public meeting like this
I hope, my friends, that that tim,
will not come. l believe it will nol
come. 1 believe that the Return
ing Boards dare not count out the
legally elected President of the Uni
ted States. Applause. They vii
not dare to do SO, because the Re
turning Board of Louisiana is infa
nous in the eyes Of this nation and
of all the civilized world, and it vii
not dare to do so in the face of the
short hand reporters that are taking
down what is done and said there
as they are taking down what i;
done and said here. Gentlemen,
say quietly and soberly to those
who hear me, thai I hope there is
manhood enough left in the Ameri-
can people to see to it that no such
fraudulent or violent means to sub
vert the will of the people shall sue
eeed. [Applause.] counsel peace
/ counsel order, SO long as peace