The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-10-07

riotous scenes of those dark days re-en-
acted?
Are you willing, after the lapse OF
ten years of immunity from the horrors
| incident to the rule of the BrownlOws,
the Hawkinses, the Maynards and the
Stokeses, to invoke upon your own
heads another experiment of govern
ment at the hands Of these men?
Are you willing to risk the re-enact-
ment of the scenes witnessed upon your
streets, around your beautiful temple of
Justice, aye, at your Notwithstanding
the never-to- be-forgotten election of
August 1867. You then saw a battalion
of hireling militia, at the behests OF their
master-himself the candidate-sur-
round your ballot-box, AMI with fixed
bayonets drive the men who expelled
the Indians from these fair fields, fclled
the forests, erected your school-houses,
builded your temples to the living God,
made your county what it is-from the
ballot-box, for the sole reason that they
were not republicans.
Have you forgotten the case of Book
er Shapard, one of your best citizens?
Can you recall to recollection the
treatment received that day at their
hands by that valiant soldier of the war
OF 1912, and FOR half a century min
lister of God-Dr. Gilbert Taylor?
Aye, sirs, and let me admonish you,
as one who would give his life for Ten
nessee, not to take any risk in this cri-
sis. Support the regular ticket and
you are safe from the rule of radicalism.
Vote for Wilson, and the effect of your
vote is to increase the chances OF Haw-
kins. l know you who are supporting
Wilson cannot desire so dire calamity
as the success of the republican candi-
date. But it is not the question of
what-you desire. The question is, what
may be the consequences of your &C
ton.
Who is Judge Hawkins? | need only
say that he was one of Brownlow's Su-
preme Judges, and sustained the admin
istration of Gov. BrownlOw throughout.
What is more, he has never repented.
He has never confessed the wrong. He
has never repudiated an act OF that adj
Never. Will you ele-
vate this man to the executive chair of
this great state and entruSt YOUR inter
ests, your honor and your liberties to
his keeping. God forbid such a ealam-
ity. Democrats of Giles county ,wheth-
er "low-taX" or "state-credit," l be-
seech you in this parting hour to open
your eyes to the cunning and insidious
schemes of your enemies; to unite on
the platform OF common hatred of re-
publicaniSm and check its onward
march to the executive seat and legisla-
tive halls of your state government.
THIS can only be done by supporting
the regular organization of your party.
In conclusion, felIow-citizens, permit
me to say that it has not been my inten-
ton to wound the feelings or rasp the
of any man among you. In
the ranks o + the low-taX party are as
honest men as ever breathed-men
whose character 1 honor and admire,
and for whom L cherish feelings of the
warmest friendship. Far be it from
me, now that l am about to depart
for distant state, perhaps never to re-
turn, (fOr life is uncerCain), to leave
in their breasts a barbed dart
to drive from their hearts, as an unwel-
come guest, the memory of me when L
am tar away. Mere differences of Opin-
on on political questions cannot shake
ny faith in the honesty of their convic-
ions or in the excellence of their inten-
ions. What l have said has been
evoked by love for the people who have
fitted me to high places and embellished
ny life with proofs of their friendship,
md the words that have fallen from my
fps are born of an earnest, and | trust,
patriotic desire to see them remain true
o the principles of the democratic party
lpon which rest all their hopes of flu
ure prosperity. Fellow-citizens; al
hough my home must be for a time in
mother state, the ties of affection are
90 strong for me to sever my citizen
hip with Tennessee. She is my neither
for her L have shed my blood, and to
ave her pang my veins would pour
erth the crimson flood again. When
eath, the heritage of US all, summons
ne hence, want my bones to repose
mong you-to rest in the soil that l
ave watered with my blood, but, oh,
nv ceuntrymen, L would not have that
oil defiled by the hand of the stranger
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