Speech of M. P. Gentry, of Tennessee, Vindicating His Course in the Late Presidential Election
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Excerpt from Speech of M. P. Gentry, of Tennessee, Vindicating His Course in the Late Presidential Election: Delivered to His Constituents at Franklin, Tennessee, November 20, 1852 Fellow Citizens: I thank you for your presence here to-day. I have requested you to honor me with this audience, that might have an opportunity to vindicate the course which I have deemed it my duty to pursue in the late presidential canvass, both before and after the nomination of General Winfield Scott, as the Whig candidate for the Presidency. I opposed his nomination, and, withheld from him my support after he was nominated. In a speech which I made two days before the Whig National Convention assembled. I announced, that if General Scott should be the Whig nominee I would stand aloof and take no active part in the presidential contest; and I further declared, that if I thought one mans vote, or one mans influence, was necessary to cast the vote of Tennessee for Pierce and King, my voice and my vote should be given to them unhesitatingly. I did not, at that time, nor at any subsequent stage of the canvass, believe that the State of Tennessee would vote for General Scott; and consequently, I adhered to my purpose as declared before the nomination, and remained passive and inactive; abstaining from speaking in the canvass, and from voting in the election. The Whig press of Tennessee, and numerous eloquent Whig orators, have labored assiduously for nearly six months to convince my constituents, and the people of Tennessee generally, that the reasons assigned by me for my conduct in the speech to which I have referred, were founded in error; and quite a number of less conspicuous politicians have been industriously and unscrupulously engaged in efforts to infuse into the public mind the belief that I have been governed by petty, narrow, personal motives, rather than by conscientious convictions of public duty. During all this time I have been silent, relying confidently upon the intelligence and justice of my countrymen. But I find that these one-sided arguments - these false and unjust imputations, urged perseveringly, without ceasing, for so long a time, have been, to a very great extent, successful. Many of those who nearly twenty years ago, when I first became a candidate to represent this county in the State Legislature, met me with a confiding and generous friendship; and who have, since that time, steadily! I supported, shielded, and upheld me meeting me - always with gratulating hands, and countenances beaming with friendship and confidence, now greet me coldly, or turn away from me altogether. Under such circumstances, fellow-citizens, you will believe me sincere when I repeat to you my thanks for honoring me with your presence here to-day,, and giving me such an opportunity of speaking in my own defense. But, fellow-citizens, I hope you will pardon me for saying, that conscious of having been faithful to the principles which I have professed and proclaimed, and which you approved, or seemed to approve, I feel in finding myself under the necessity of thus appearing before you to plead in my own defense, like a soldier may be supposed tot eel, who, at the close of a bloody day, having stood bravely to his colors, comes all covered with the smoke and dust of battle, wounded, bleeding, I faint, and weary, into the presence of his commander, expecting those words of approval, so dear to the heart of a true soldier, but instead of such words, receives a notification that he is cashiered for cowardice, and that other soldiers, who without firing a gun, ingloriously surrendered the citadel which they had been posted to guard and defend, are approved, applauded, and promoted. The charges upon which I am condemned are so multifarious, that I scarcely know how to proceed in my defense. That one, however, which seems to have exercised the greatest influence in bringing the public mind to erroneo
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