The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-11-15
hon. George Bancroft on the Re-

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Hon. GEO. BANoAofT, recently wrote a
letter, declining Congressional nomina-
ton, in the Eighth District in New
! York from which we extract these earn
eet and eloquent words n Qjl u j r.
The only possible chance for a speedy
end OF this war is its instant and vigor-
GUS prosecution. Hesitation brings
chaos, and prolongs the strife indefinite
tly. There must be one soul in the Pres-
Iident, the army, and the people, or She
contest will drag along under the dis
fractions Of conflicting and uncertain
opinions; aud the short-sighted desire
to gain peace by submission may change
it into seven years war, or a thirty
years war, or war for generations,
Quick, united action can alone bring il
to an early end. ,.I r.re .1'
y Are our merchants prepared TO wean
themselves from the free use of the
Chesapeake and the Mississippi Will
they, after having won back these great
highways, give them up to ConfederAcy
which is the child ofrebellion and which
from inherent causes will, in case of it's
separation, be necessarily hostile to us =?
True, our interests are bound up with
the South. But is the surrender Of the
Cspes Of the Chesapeake, and Of the Tor
tugas, and of the Mississippi, TO restore a
profitable commerce Will the relin-
punishment forever of vast tracts of coun-
try-the Italics Of the United States, un-
surpassed for beauty, fertility, and
] haa f,rl ha hos of
promoting o the exchanges of domestic
products ? Will the bar Of custom hous-
es, stretched across the channels of our
mighty rivers, help internal navigation ?
To let the revolted States 20 from lon
ging for their trade, 10 10 die through
fear of death; to renounce the old in
tercourse entirely and forever because
Today it is interrupted. hr .r
The Tory party of England, all the old
hereditary enemies to the perfect devel-
opment of oar free institutions, have
been from the beginning eagerly hoping
to see our beautiful flag rent in twain
forever and have been unremitting in
their advice to us to let half of.the Union
go. Shall noe adopt them for our co,nseLOrsf
It's one of the saddest things, in this
time of general sorrow, that an effort is
made to persuade eur fellow citizens of
foreign birth to give their votes in the in
terest of the very party of the English
aristocracy which from generation to
generation, oppressed them at home. -
The party at the South which has made
this rebellion is not and neve, tOaS a demo-
cratic party it ,Oas and. is the most ensbittered
hater Of democracy ii rests on the most mar
roso and the most selfish of oligarohie', ,Odjch
by tie very necessity of its nature seeks ID En-
tinyutsh the democratic principles, to crush
the Uno0n and the po,Osr Of the people. To
sYmpathize with them is 10 sympathize
with oligarchy in its proudest and most
corrupt form They laughed among them
se'ves at tie very thought Of boing called dem
ocrats. To call or to have called Slidell
and Benjamin and their like democrats,
to have invited them among as to teach
who should and who should not be
held to be members of the democratic
party, would be superb and unqualified
jest, if it had not been followed by dead.
ly consequences.
Complaints are made against the Adj
ministration; there never was and never
will be an Administration that does not
require TO be watched. But the people
have chosen their Presi dent and we who
perferred another public servant most
now consent to give vigor to the man who
is the President under the Constitution. |
To harp upon what is past and gone and |
irremediable, would be useless; the
graver question affecting personal liberty
must be settled in such wal as to |
leave no dangerous precedent. Mean.
time, we cannot suffer the country TO 90 |
to pieces, because the President has COM
mitted errors. Let, then, the voice of this
district and this city be distinctly heard
in favor of an Immediate, vigorous prose-
cution of the war. hr R.
For one, ] notvWill give vote for any
man whose election would be an encOur- |
agement TO the Rebellion TO hold out. /, |
for,one, will not consent TO send our sons |
and brothers to the battlefield and then |
betray them at the polls.
Mr.. BANcRoFT has been a lifelong
democrat he is believer in the divini-
ty Of free government, as far as any
human institution can be said to have a
divine origin. He understands fully, |
that the present civil war is contest
between democracy, and Z" a most narrow
and selfish Oligarchy," and that either
the one or the other must perish in the
struggle Fellow-citizens, these are the |
words of statesman, philosopher
who has made the United States and |