Year: 1870

did not mean that he would violate con-


stitutional rights to put any of them


under disabilities. 1t is treason to


liberty for every freeman not tc


do all in his power to make Their


acts Infamous. HE had walked


down the streets Of his old town when


they were black with voters and yet he


was warned not to go near the polls
With such picture as this staring him
In the face he could hardly respect man
who would come to him and ask him not to
affiliate with the Democratic party.


When he returned home from the war,


how was he met by this Republican
party. He was denounced as a rebel,
traitor, and insult after insult was heaped
upon him He would fight under the


democratic banner as long as God per-
United him to live. Some men say they
DO not like the name. He liked any
name upon Gods earth that is opposed 10


tne Radical party. The people of Tennessee


nave tnelr destiny In their hands. As
they had heard to-day, they were on the
eve OF new era The day-break of a
better day has already begun to purple
the horizon with its luminous lights.
which will bring the State back to a
greater prosperity than she enjoyed before
all these evils fell to her lot. He then
thanked the Convention for its attention.


VOICE FROM SHELBY.


Judge T. w. Brown, of Memphis,
spoke substantially as follows:


CITIzENs-I feel that the Genius of
Liberty is in our midst. Toe renewed
verdure and abounding fields of peace
full agriculture bear witness that the rosy
feet of this divinity have touched our soil.
But more than all, this sssemblage of
freemen, bearing from 8 great people
delegated authority, and their credentials
to consider and determine grave public
questions, attest her presence. The bay
onet no longer affrights from her altar
willing worshippers The tyranies of
riv1 war have at last yielded to the law.
If guided by wisdom we may at no dis
tant day realize in our federal relations
the same freedom that now belongs to our
domestic affairs. But we must remember
that if liberty flies from the rude alarms
of civil war she hides in shame her face
when faction divides her Votaries. Hith-
ertO united by common calamity and
to II sist the same hard for
tunes, the partial success already achieved
offers no reason to renew past antagOn-
isms or to indulge old feuds Our
nOblest citizens are vet excluded
by OdiOus disabling statutes from
participation in the government
military menace still lowers on peaceful
States. Capitalization threatens 20 over
throw local self-government and corrupt
administrations, destroy the virtue and
waste the substance of the people.


In face of such untOward circumstances
we cannot yet break the locked step
of the Macedonian phalanx. The
divisions of the past must not
impair our unity or interrupt our harmO-
ny. What matters it, what war cry cheers
on that advancing ranksl whether it be
that of ''Huntly or Home" memory
10 seeking for an apt illustration of how
q good cause may and ought to unite the
good and true in its defense. Whatever
may be their past or present diversities of
opinion or race, with a loose rein sweeps
backward over the lapse of some centu-
ries-and presents vividly a scene beneath
the walls of Acre under the burning skies
Of Judea. For the rescue of the Holy Sc
pulchre the united hosts Ofmany and oft an
tagOnistic nations are msrshalled with other
inde pendant bands on those barren sands.
There floats the pennon of AustTia's
Duke, the banner and lilies of France,
and the ampler standard of the great
hearted Plantagenet, all side by side. The
defiant Allah II ALJGh of the Moslem is
by a THOUSAND different war
cries from the Christian ranks. But those
ranks move in mutual support Of each
other against the common fOe-blended
in harmony by devotion to one
all absorbing cause, while in the
enthusiasm of an earnest conviction they
that phantom cross blaZed ef-
in the air above their charging
the sign of victory for them
over the Payuim foe. For US the Holy
5epulchre is the Constitution, and for its
rescue we are now embattled; while our
phantom cross is liberty, which, if we
but do our deUOir right manfully will, ere
ong, be for US a living essence, a ''bOdied
shape" United and harmonious, we will
Ioon give to old oppressed Tennessee a
riumph over her foes, such as never be-
fore in her history might wake her songs
If JOY.


OTHER REMARKS.


Judge Brown was followed by Col.
Savage and Messrs. Anderson, Avery and
who made brief speeches en-
lorsing the platform adopted by the Con-
Vention, and speaking in high terms of
the nominee.


VOTE OF THANKS.


A vote of thanks was extended to the
Chairman for the able manner in which
he had presided over the deliberations,
md also to the secretaries for their faith
ful records of the meeting.


VACANCY TO BIZ FILLED.


The Chairman was instructed to fill at
lis discretion the vacancy caused in the
National Democratic Committee by the
leath of Mr.. Leftwich.


The Convention then adjourned sine
die.