The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-06-05

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FRIDAY MORNING. jose 1885
The Louisville Deqto-ra' i, violently OPP
posed to me Union party. Il says that
the name means nothing except the
mere desire for Uaion D fhs Sia'o'"
We are ofthc opinion that the Union Of
the States is me very thing We 're at
ter, the sole object Of the war We arc
ready to act with that party whichrhas
the restoration Of the Uoion for iis main
object, and after that great works done,
then there may be occasion for new po-
liiicsl organizations to carry through
other neasurse.
But the Democrat takes a very strange
position, for a paper claiming TO be pat
riotic. 1t says: 1.-THE Uuion would
have been dissolved twenty years ago,
had il not been for the Democratic par
ty. We believe civil war will remain, ii
that party does not obtain power in the
Federal Government. Between the Re-
publican party aud the South there Is an
irrepressible conflict, that win grow
worse with time" #.
This stuff is q poor interRiion 81
Breckenridge's aud Dayis's ssditious
speeches. They were willing, nay snx-
ious, to stay in the Uri1n 60 long as.
their party, the Southern Democracy,
was kept in power, but the moment that
party was defeated, they were deter
mined not TO submit to the laws. They
seeded. The Democrat, in occupying the
position Of these rebels, virtually saya
that they acted right. There is not the
differences Of feather bet Reen them
No patriot vii say that the country
must perish unles his party can cOutrol
it. This counuy has bad Federal, Ma
tional r publican, Democratic, and Wing
Administrations, and prospeted under
them all The Democrat in thus tramp
ling under foot the doctrine that the
people shall rule through the ballot. box
and the legally elected Off GERS shall ad ;
minister the offices Of the Government.
shows that II is no Democrat, but only q
seditonist and anarchist in the gsrb Of
Democracy We say, submit to the de-
cision of the ballnt.box We will obey
the duly elected .magis!rate whether we
voted for or against him. And he who
refuses to do 50, is 40 Dsn'ogat, yerare
not what he NAY an binse!f
"ORIGIN or AbAuNG NEGboEs" - Under
this head g correspondent of the Mem
| phis Bulletin writes ss follows:
The following cOpi, Il tom the Mem
phis Avalanche and 1gpeal, of May 9th,
10th and llth, 1861, / asse, {, without
fear of successful contradiction, was The
first authoritative oppression Of puthc opin-
ion upon tie subject, North or South:
"ATTENTI N VOLUNTEERS. = Resolved
by the Committee of Safety, That G..
Deloach, d. K Cook and VIM. 3. Green
law, be authorized to organize a volun-
teer company, composed Of OUR PATRI-
OTTO FREE MEN or COLOR of the city of
Memphis, FOR THE SERVICE OF OUR COM.
MON DEFENSE. All who have not enroll d
| their names will call at tue office of w.
B. Greenlaw 8 Co.
-.t I. "F. TITUS, President
"E W. RoYsTER, Secretary" "a.
Here, indeed, was the first attempt to
arm the blacks in this war, and thai, too,
under the oiIlnal sanction OF body OF
| gentlemen, who, at the time, were the
very embodiment of Southern chivalry,
policy, aud sentiment.
If il was suspected that citizen dis
approved of the reasonable doings of
these times, he was immediatel Y arraign-
| ed before these gentlemen.
If they pronounced him "sound," all
suspicion Of his unsoundness" was
wiped away; if they (, Ii constrained TO
| withhold that boon, he was at once es-
corted to the depot or wharf boat, and
required to take passage for the North.
The correspondent of the Bulletin is
correct we presume, in saying that the
above was the first authoritative ex-
preston of opinion as to aiming me-
groes," if he refers TO the pending civil
war only. But as far back as Sept. 81,
1914, General Andrew jackson, in an adj
dress ITO THE FREE coLoRED INHABIT.
ANTS OF LOUISIANA" said: "-. ..
Through mistaken policy you have
heretofore been deprived OF participa-
ton in the glorious struggle for NATIoNAL
RIGHTS in which our country is now en-
gagged. This shall no longer Be the case.
As IONS OF freedom, on are now called
upon 10 defend our most inesumaole
blessing. As Ams'ioanS ("Amerlcan cit
izens CT African descent "-Llncoln,)
your country looks with confidence 10
her adopted child en- for valorous support.
10 every nobis-hOptsd, generous If enlan Of
color, volunteering to serve d ,riug tue
present contest with Great Britain, and
no longer, there vii be paid he same
bounty IN money and lands not0 received by
he iUhits soldiers Of the United States
"ANDhEW JACKSON,
"Maj oo- General Commanding"
See Niles Register, Vol. VII page 2U5.
General Jackson was practical man,
aud true patriot. He was a man de-
voted to achievement Of results, not to the
painting of theories upon the clouds, II
he were alive to-day, we have not =