The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-09-16

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aud all the official machinery necessary
TO hold elections. With this State 10 is .
wholly different We douot know Of |
one legal officer In the state who coulds
hold on election There is rot sheriff, /
nor magistrate, COR officer OF election in F.
any county in Tennessee and before an
election can be held 10 viii be necessary
to appoint the agents and instruments
Of an election. The Louisville Journal,
as igaorant as it is impotent and inn
pudent talks Of eleohag Cohgr, ssmen 10
Tennessee, not knowing that the State
las not been districted, and therefore
cannot elect Representatives, to Congress
until this shall have been done as re-
quired by the laws Of the United States.
A State election will DO held as soon
as possible, aud twill BE- held by loyal
men, and none but loyal men
need expect TO participate in it,
The election will be for the
benefit of loyalren exclusively, whether
they constitute two thirds, OF one third,
or ore tenth Of the voters Of the State
The right Of rebels 10 re assume the con
troll of the ballot box will not be recog-
nized for one moment; they will be ex-
cluded az all hazards. The Press com
plains in apo,hor article on the reorgaui-
cation OF this State, that If a high
standard Of loyalty be adopted, a great
many politicians will be laid on the
shelf. Itsaya that if tie State is 10 be
controlled by those persons only who,
without variation or shadow OF turn
ing" have innexibly and avowsdly al
bcred to tie national government and
refused even TO acquiesee in the rebel
usurpation---.if the intolerant and ox-
elusive Nashville radicals are to be
gralifed then not majority, nor even
respectable minority can claim 10 bo
loyal a.
And il adds:
If the State government is to be re-
organized and as cfices filled exclusively
by loyalists in this senee, then less than
one-tenih of the population viii have
thingNtheir own way.
We don't know how many Union men
the Press imagines it will take to make
"a respectable minority" but we think
that brave, uudiuchiog patriots enough
can be found to rule the State, for a few
terms at least, without calling on broken
down aud faithlcsa politicilns, stho
having p'rjured themselves once nd
betrayed the State, have taken the oath,
after finding the rebellion to be failure.
II zoe cannot haze Union men Of nerve and
fdtltH on gl9m zoe can re'B e7ecteito o9iee,
zoe had better tt De S,a'e continue under
military rule for the next twenty
years. We will never admit the
right sof rebels % control the state.
Suppose John Boil, Moredith 7. Gentry,
Gustavus a, Henry, and nioa Of hat
stamp were elected to office, who would
have particle of condolences in them
They betrayed as once aud they m az
do it again, and All % more easily, Tor
having experience ia tho wark Of botray-
ing, VIII the peoplsiatrust the fuances
Of the State 10 The politicians who aided
and allotted The robbing Of tue common
school fund, The State Bank, and other
public money 2 Will they place the
State aims in the hands Of politicians
who would deliver Them upio the next
JEFF Davis who would whisper hoacye a
words in their ears We think not
There is no need for their doing such
folly. The Press exposes TIA gross ignor
ance Of tho History of this State when it
says that less than one.tenth" of the
people have been ste adGastly loyal East
Tennessee cave 10000 majority for the
Union, Z, $4,000 loyal votes in all, when
| the rest of the STATE voted for disuuion
II 30 600 voters compose but one tenth
of the voters Of the State there mast be
be ever $4,000 voter1 10 Tennessee,
which would be ridieGlous estimate
There are plenty Of straigh Union
men in this State to I'll all the Offices,
and they intend to do il. This is a tx
| ed fact, and he who dashes himself a.
| gaiust it will be broken 10 atoms
Tie nation is rejoicing over the Eman-
cipation of Tennessee from the iron
grasp Of the rebel army. May it soon
rejoice over another Emancipation in
our whole stale--her emancipation from
the thraIdom Of that odious and barbar-
Gus system which is the "chief corner
stono" of the rebel Confederacy.