The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-03-12


ing political elevation; from a conscious
mesa that success could only be attained |
by a surrender Of self-respect and their 4.
best convictions Of right, but was guilty |
of the PROCLAMATION of bedraggling the |
hitherto uusullied emblem Of justice and |
reason, the judicial ermine, 10 the cess
pool of party politics; this was the ge-
MUS Of evil, which, perpeiually lowering
about the destinies Of the late Union,
eventually triumphed in its downfall.
The writer does not believe a success
ful Republic impossible, but afllrms that
none has yet been presented he has no
Especial objection TO royalty" and cites
the glorious career of freedom In Eng
land" as proof that royalty and liberty
are not incompatible he prefers to be
subject of the Gear of Russia to a citizen
Of Democratic Government-though it
be in name The finest and best Govern
ment the world has ever seen" He
continues
Republican liberty contemplates neither
the establishment of absolute power, nor
absolute freedom from restraint, nor alb
solute social equality with no preference
for virtue, merit, and the grsces which
adorn the mind and character, over ig-
norance, crime and Vulgarity. IL does
not seek to riot in the corruption of I'M
restricted license, but Acknowledges OBJ
legation TO authority as necessary to
restrain the evil passions Of human
nature ItyieldS obedience 10 law as the
conserVator Of liberty.
Such is the form in which Republic
presents itself TO our mind Toward il,
as an ark of safety, we would fain hope
to see the tendency in our young Con-
federacy. Confederate in form, may our
Government be Confederate in fact. Re-
in reality. First Of all we should ever
keep before US, as the esseStial feature in
the image of perfect government, the
Staes Right theory. That, rigidly ad-
hered to, will avert the danger of CEN
tralization of power. Secondly, let us
seek at once to eradicate every vestige of
radical democracy, every feature tending
to make ours a popular Government,
making ii subject only to the intelligent
and virtuous, and those who are inter-
ested in its successful administration. =
One among the most important sub
iects claiming our attention will be the
standard of citizenship. When the strug-
gle for independence is finished, the door
OF our anus closed in token of the ter
mination OF the bloody strife, and the
laurels Of victory eutwine the brow oil
the youthful Contederacy, we cannot for
get the duty Of gratitude, and deny III,
fullest privilege of citizenship TO any Of
the noble heroes who have rescued nj
from the chains of servitude The gal.
LIANT foreigners who have sustained us in
this pious struggle are all entitled to the
common boon OF liberty Bot no foreign
or who comes among Us after the strug-
gle is over should ever enjoy the electiy,
franchise If we cannot check III,
spread over our torritoLy of that spawi
of ignorance and crimpwhich flows il
endless issue from the prisons and den
Of corruption in the marts of Europe, W,
can at least shut out its cankering efFect
from tho vitals Of our body polite "
salty need, too q property qualification 10
aaiiUs as ,oeH as foreigner. u i8haydiy nee
essary to repeat tie trite argument Of n
greater intereaeiness of Tie property holder
+ IN the successful administration Of he Goyeyn
naeat, than Of hin, wlo has nothing at stalk
We should have, too, ad
ditional qualification of character for of
flee. Offices are too easily obtained. -
There is too much room for demagoguisnl
fraud and corruption. Extremists il
politics should be Stunned as the origin
ators of partisan ranchor and sectiona
strife. Finally, t0e should cuytaH he mum
, Der Of g6ioers elective by the people. These
! and we might suggest others, are some 0
the features in our social organism which
have occurred to us as sadly needing al
teratiOn.