The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-06-22
Aashvillt Alnion.
SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE %, 1862
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lin terrurs, But HOio, an answer sweeps
down from the White House. The history Of
party names would be the most Instructive
records OF mans lttleuess aud bigotry that
spite and maliguity could pen. Wherever
they have had any Significance, they have
been invented aud aflixJd by opponents,
/ either in derisiou, contempt, OF deliberate
/ perfdy, iu order that the party thus malgn-
| ed might have its iutlusuce weakened by
distort d or partial exhibition OF it, actuatiug
motives These slabs in the dark are really
the severest blows thai person or party can
| receive-the method takes such admirable
advantage Of the ignorant tendencies Of the
mass to discard reason for prejudice, 10 fol
| low the dictates OF passion instead ol charity,
to indulge a laugh at the expense OF truth,
and to sneer where they shonld at least ex.
anime, perhaps respect. When some COURT
er, idly lettering about Whitehall, with
brains lose enough to rattle out odd fashiUgs
Of wit, sportively pointed to some passing
PuriIan's close cut hair aud nicknamed hiw
RoiHdhead, who could imagine the terrible
influence to be exerted by the title, the
party passion it was to call forth and quench
in blood, the bitter opposition it would pro-
woke, the human life il would sacrifice
from Hampden to Charles himself?
1t is mt comparing great things with
small but great things with greater, to
maintain that the false application aud un
tair attributiou OF the names 'AbOiitiouist,"
"Radical," Conservative" and the like,
have been the cause Of more jealousy, ieuds,
corruption, persecution, and RELENTLESS hate,
than the imputalion, by unprincipled Gun.
ming, Of any other titles to any other parties
in all political history. The term "Aboli-
zionist fairly implies one who simply desires
the abolition OF something and the great
politicll s mcthng OF our country be-
ing slavery, the tenn has become to be ap.
piled exclusively to these who desire the alb
olition Of slavery. Such special separation
Of the word from it, more general meaning
was all fair enough, because it was made by
common consent. 1t was no stigma il con.
cealed no slur. II It bad rested there, il
simply would have described tue wishes Of
|
Of the South. But it did not ro,t there
Because there was a haudml-the merest
baudiul-ol meu who insisted, with every ia
uaticnl camor, with all intJlerant dogmat-
i,m, upon their particular means as the only
one capable Of reaching the generully.de.
sired end, the world was quickly seized by
interruptions partisan demagogues, and VIC.
lenlly affixed TO those whose opinions aud
acts alike repudialed it, The design was
3 evident ruough-tp oy,TWhelm by SANDER
/ what they could not conquer by honest po-
e Iiucul force yet while the people saw the
a trick mus! have seen through its nayish So
phstry-they suffered themselves TO be gull.
+ ed by It,, so apt is prejudice to rule IN our
{ country, where tree discussion Of politics
+ leads to sharply y.iormed and sharply defended
!, opinions, and so to intolerance and dogma,
/ tism. Thus the term "Abolitionist," 50
harmless in ts genealogical Derivation sC
- Insignificant in its inst application, was at
tached indisorimnately, by the pro slavery
party TO all their opponents. Passion sedu
lously famed the fame that paltry inuigu,
NJ had kindled, and at length whole commu
y nifty thrashed itself into fury over ner
ss name, IN Imagination not having the slight
,rg est basis OF flcI, or at bDst, nothing create
As than a score Of Insignificant ultrsists, IN iulg
o. ing their CocenTicilios somewhere abou
Is Boston
ID With equal srossuess the term " Radical
IIca has been abused and with the same mall
cious purpose Of further hoodwinking thos
4 whose passion spontaneously blinds bel
ig reason. The word is legltlmaIely an adjeC
70 tive signilying that which per,aIus to th
In root Of a matter" and ifit be used as a nou
-e It's only fair meaning IL one who has d trI
dency to 60 to the root Of matter" /
this 10 the light OF It's derivation, the teri
sayors not at all Of cannibal ierocity, nc
implies any horrible aptitude whose iudu
gcnce would upset the weakest nerves,
Is complimentary rather than otherwise
at complimentary to the resolution and fore
by, of once manhood when II Is not content,
tee with a superficial view Of thing, but seeks
iiHl stable basis for opinion But who ever no
OF thinks OF using the tefu iu any such senseg-
no. Who does 20, rather see in It bloody ylsoi
loGI Of political mutiny, violent disruption Of a
or. social aud civic bonds, anarchy aud ever
''op thing that Is nationally horrbleg Aga
.d- are We pract:cd upon by those insidlo
In ringleadcrs who do not scruplo TO pervo
oE' even the fountains Of the language that IA,
the selfish or traitorous ends may be- iostere
uu and the success OF Toe plal can be seen In {
.sr 6I. fac, that one OF ,wo New York journals ha
tod drawn their life, and on extensive life, sol,
fr from adrOis vililoation OF their oppouun
: 10 aud by ringing false changes upon words.
asa Now, 20 is lime this was done away.
r. have had enough Of it We have consent
- to carry on our political wars for years
l.. these weapons, aud we arc nov Gndiug OBJ
II, recoil destructive. They are uuiair, uum
lFs. ly, trgagherogs--sly J5omgangs that rctJ
saA oyerWbeIm their users We have d
been spending oug strength 10 dashug wi
- Qliyotc chIalry, against windmilb
have broken our lances and our beads agai
sail-lke motive powers pudsd Into endlt
e revolution by the breath Of noiscsoms woi
ilH We have actually believed that O spidl
-, '4b0ltiou, " "rdi0alism and an thal