The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-06-29

During the troubles Of 1892, he warmly
seconded jackson and, throughout the
whole of his subsequent honorable ca
reer his eminent ability has been ear
nestly devoted to the enforcement of the
law, the best prcservative of the Union
and the Constitution.
Here was the very climax Of treasona-
BILE suggestion. But mark how promptly
il was rebuked by the spontaneous ut
terance Of the unextinguishable loyalty
of Jackson. Being called on for vol
unteer toast, within few moments after
the close of Mr.. Wayne's speech, he rose
slowly, as it is stated by living witnesses
Of the scene waited till complete silence
reigned and then read, slowly and dis
tinctly, the memorable sentiment:
"Om Federal Union; IL must be preserved
The United States Telegraph, a paper
which was regarded as the semi official
organ of jackson, but was even then
damning him with faint praise, daily
growing fainter, and with slow but sure
steps was creeping toward the camp of
the advocates Of notification said in its
issue of April 23, 1880 that this toast
was written at the table in pencil, ON
the back OF. a slip of paper on which the
regular toasts had been printed, and that
the original, in the handwriting Of the
President, underscored as printed, was
sent to the Telegraph office by the COM
mittee who had prepared the proceedings
for publication.
In the Nsiional ntelligencer Of April
A., 81
nent of Gen Jackson's POLITICAL measures,
but equally earnest in his devotion TO the
Union, made the following excellent
criticism upon his toast:
"The sentiment which it conveys is
one which it would be very unnatural for
a President of the United States not To
entertain but there is something en-
! platte in it, under the circumstances
| which preceded and attended il, IL was
as much as to say, in reply to the authors
of some of the preceding sentiments.
You may complain Of the tariff, and per-
haps with reason ; but so long as it is
the law, il shall as certainly be main
tanned, as that my name is Andrew Jack
SON"
Shortly after the dinner it began TO be
whispered about that this toast had not
been published as Jackson had written
! it. The Philadelphia Sentinel, a Demo-
cratic paper, said that the toast, as Of
fered, was: "Our Federal Union; IL must
and shall be preserved" and it charged
that what il termed "imperious shall'
was left out by Mr.. Green, the editor of
the telegraph, The Richmond Wing, in
noticing this statement by the Sentinel,
said: "The toast was considered rather
distasteful TO the South and the multi
tiers, and we imagine was reformed by
higher authority than Green's.p
This charge of alteration is sustained
| by the testimony of a reliable gentle
man, then and now a resident Of this
city, who himself proposed a toast which
appears in the proceedings at the dinner,
| published in the United States IsleraDh
Of April II, 1880. lie saw and heard
Jackson very distinctly when he used
the words "and shall"
Until very lately we had been inclined
| to think that jackson, knowing as he
! did so well the force of brevity, did not
dilute his toast by adding TO the power
full and comprehensive word must" so
redundant an expression as "shall, ~
which would seem only uselessly TO
lengthen the sentence, without increasing
its strength. We wer9 confirmed in this
view by the journal in which the pro-
ceedings were published by authority.
But we may have been mislcd by tax
ing only partial view Of the case, leav-
ing out of consideration the peculiar cir
cumstances attending It, 1t may be that
the toast was altered as charged, and
for the reason alleged; or il may be that
it was actually written as it was pub
lished, but that on the spur Of the mo-
ment, with a sudden foresight Of the
false construction that might bc put
even upon the lorcible expression
which he had written, Jackson interpo-
lated, in the reading, the additional
words, in order that there might be no
possibility Of installing or misreprcsent-
ing hismeaning, although it was already
sufficiently indicated in the original
manuscript