The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-03-18

"Vhere is a destiny that shapes our
ends" Prejudice is yielding to patriot
ism. Hearts long closed TO the appeals
of suffering country are responding to
her calls. He who shall write of this
era in after times will speak of it in the
beautiful language Of Dryden, and say,
'Nen met each other with ererted look,
Tho steps we're higher that they took
Friends, 70 congratulate their fieuds would haste,
And long invetersie foes sRluted as they passed"
Evidences of this improved state of
things steadily multiply. The stream of
loyalty flowing from the inexhaustible
fountain in the army of the Union is
rolling it's purifying course through every
channel of society-obliterating party
feeling and Christening thousands who,
only few short weeks ago, were pois-
ened with hatred of their country's
cause. And yet, as l read the proceed
ings Of the lower branch of the Legisla-
ture of Pennsylvania, on Friday last, l
could not restrain the feeling that
there are men who contemplate the
national woe with the heartless indif-
ference of the murderer who takes the
life Of his sleeping victim. Thirty-two
legislators;t hirty-two democrats, DELHI
erately refusing to allow Andrew john
son, of Tennessee, and Joseph A.
Wright, of Indiana, permission to speak
in the hall of the Housed OF course,
they knew what they were doing. OF
course, they contemplated the height and
depth of the insult they were inflicting.
The insult was not to Republicans or TO
AbOlitionists, but to two of the most
consistent and illustriOus Democrats in
the Republic; Democrats whose whole
career has been crowded with examples
to the poor aspiring youth of our coun-
try. Andrew johnson is of the growth
of self-made men--a man who never
went 20 school, never knew the advsn-
tages of early culture, but from his tenth
TO his present fifty.fifth year has toiled
along the rocky and perilous path of adj
versty until he now stands on an emil
nence which has made him one Of the
most conspicuous and sublime characters
of this sublime epoch in the worlds bis
tory. His life has been a struggle with
aristocracy. He has been ameng the pi-
oneers of every progressive movement in
the South the champion of common
schools of the adopted citizen; Of re-
ligious liberation, and that great and lib
eral system by which the public lands
are donated to the INDECENT and enter
prising of our race; of pnblic improve
ments; and, therefore, of radical and
everlasting freedom. His efforts against
the rebellion in Tennessee have been so
successful as to save most of that splen-
did empire from the traitors. Hun
dreds of his friends and many Of
his kindred have been imprisoned and
slaughtered for adhering to his opinions,
and he, himself, has repeatedly risked
his life to prove his devotion TO the good
cause. His eloquence in the Senate, and
before the people, against the enemies of
human freedom, has classed him among
the most effective of all those orators
who, from the time OF Saul of Tarsus,
have pleaded against the tyrant, and in
behalf of the dOwnlrodden millions.
His contemporary and friend, Jos. A.
Wright is only less distinguished be-
cause his opportunities for distinction
have not been so numerous. The fact
that be was born In PennsylvAnie did
not rescue him from the opprobrium of
the thirty-two Democrats Of the Legis-
lature Of Pennsylvania, nor that, for
more than thirty years he has been the
honored recipient and depository Of the
confidence Of the people Of the State Of
Indiana. Tho crime of these patriots
in the eyes of those who, in attempting
to dishonor them, have only made them
selves infamous, is that they have loved
"a A a
Let their names be remembered so that,
when they are again presented 10 the
people, they may be reminded how they
sought an opportunity to show their
contempt and their hatred for the Gov
ernmont and the war by this outrage
upon two Of the ablest aud most self
sacrificing patriots Of the times.
OCCASIONAL,