Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-11-03
T. GALLATIN.
Col. COIyar's Address at GAL
latin and His Reference
to Hawkins Off,
CiaI Conduct.
How Hawkins Called Useless
Extra Sessions at the BE.
hest of the Bond
holders.

GALLATIN, Tenn, 05tober 81
Col. A y. Colyar did we'll in his ad-
dress here yesterday, to impress upon
his audience the absolute enormity,
which amounts almost to crime, of
Gov, Hawkins recent official conduct
A few days before the limit beyond
which it would be too late to call an
extra session of the Legislature was
reached, Gov. Hawkins sought the le-
gal advice of his Attorney General,
and also Of his political friend Judge
Harrison, on very important and vi.
tai question. He called their atten,
ton to the fact that in the late Reap
portionment Bill the counties Of
Cumberland, Rhea and Meigs, of the
Third Congressional district, we're
omitted by the Engrossing or En-.
rolling Clerk. He asked whether, in
their opinion, this omission would in.
validate the act, and thus jeopardize
the admission Of the Representatives
elected from this State to the Forty
eighth Congress. They both answered
that it would, and urged him to call
an extra session to remedy the de-
feet. Thus advised, he turns abruptly
around, and in the meanest, most un-
manly, and most insulting style, pos
itively refuses to issue the CALI Now,
WHAT WAS HIS OBJECT
in seeking the advice of The Attorney
General and Of Judge Harrison? Was
he hesitatiDg, equally poised on the
subject, predetermined, if advised
that Tennessee could alone save her
Democratic representation By calling
the extra session, that he would not
call it2 That he would take no risk
in the matter? Or, did he, meantime,
confer with the Stalwart bosses at
| Washington, and was he directed by
them not to issue the call2 There is
some dark mystery, some stupendous
political rascality in this business, and
Ii ought TO awaken every respectable
| Democrat, Greenbacker and Republi-
can in the State. No such an indignity,
no such an insult was ever thrown
into the faces Of a gallant people.
| Tennesseeans we'll remember Alvin
IS. Hawkins hatred of every respacta-
| bic Democrat in the State; they have
not forgotten that few years ago he
disfFanchised 100000 white votes, and
| what he did then he is none too good
to do now. The next House may have
a majority of only eight or ten Demo
Gratis, and when these eight or ten
present themselves from Tennessee it
will be in full accord with the Radical
villainy to close the door in their faces.
As | wrote several months ago on
| first beholding his lovely countenance
"God forbid that | should ever fall
into that mans power" And when |
heard him on the Public Square last
Saturday declare that he
WOULD NOT CALL AN EXTRA sEs-
SION
because, forsooth, the mistake was
made by q Democratic clerk" his
face recalled to mind the picture OF
the Devil in the Vatican at Rome. /
appeal to every reputable gentleman
in the United States, care not
whether he be autoorat, aristocrat,
Democrat or Republican, if anywhere
in history they have ever read of a
more unblushing, despotic, despicable,
arbitrary outrage than this; or Of a
more shameless reason for the outrage
boldly announced to the very people
he seeks to disfranchise? The enor
nifty of it grows on one as he contem-
| plates isl
understood Colonel Colyar to add
that he, or some other gentleman, had
also got the opinion Of prominent
| Democratic lawyers, notably Hon.
John G Carlisle, Of Kentucky, and
that they concur with Hawkins
Attorney General in the views of the
latter.
Hawkins can call expensive and
worse than useless extra sessions at
the behest of the bondholder; he eau
call an extra session to fasten the 100.
B act and ninety. y.nine years Of slavery
upon a protesting people; he can cal
an extra session for the sole purpost
Of dividing and disrupting the Demo
cratic party, but when it comes tC
I shielding the people from that hazard
which stirred to action the revolu
tionary spirits of 1776, to,wit.
TAXATION, WITHOUT REPRESENTA-
TloN,"
L. he smiles and smiles, and plays tn
villain, mocking at the calamities he /
! Matching for the proud old voluntee
] State.
After this exhibition of the wors
than oloven foot, | ask, in God nam,
} il there is a Republican in Tennessee
= who will vote again for this man /
0 rule over the commonwealth? Is ther
;, o Democrat, is there a Greenhaoke
j, who will give him so much as half
voter can not, | will not believe i
! Business men will find it to the
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