The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-11-08

Shortly after the chivalFy' COMPEL
ed the hauling down of the old flag on
Fort Sumter, their organ, the Charles
ton Mercury, discoursed thus " Fun.
key is genuine Yankee word. 1t is
only found in Yankee dictionary, and
, is there defined by periphrasis The
great Webster, who understood Yam.
keedom thoroughly, calls it "A term OF
contempt for one who is mean and low.
spirited, perhaps from the Scottish
RunSie, g livery-servant' The word
could not have its origin in land where
the thing itself had no existence The
animal turnkey, is an unadulterated
ankee product Recent events 90 TO
prove that it is not merely the exelu-
sive, but universal growth of that re-
gion. >
: Well, three years and half have
passed since then, and now we hesr
from the Charleston Mercury again in
these words President Davis, who has
been opposed to making any conces~
slons whatever to the enemy, has been
/ prevailed upon to grant an armistice to
the North, pr0oidsd Il Is solicited IN re-
specttiti manner. This proposed armis-
/ WV II THESES Tic DlOChdtlt Ul
land and sea, which viii enable our
! people to lay ia a large amount of sup
lies. Therefore, we lose
nothing by granting this experiment to
10 the Yankees, who haOe openly confess
81 that they are sohipped, by proc!aiming
the war on their part failure. So
here we have it again. Pat TO the pur-
pose, too, if the Chicago platform be
indeed the accepted policy of the North.
1t will be literally true, and we may as
well own it-may set it down in our
school Biographies so that our children
shall understand it-that funkeyism
only hourishes in that part of the world
bounded ON the north by the British
Provinces, on the east by the Atlantic
Ocean, on the south by Mason and Dix
on's line, and on the west by the Rocky !
Mountains.
For that assembly of cravens at Chi
eago and its pusillanimous doings, the |
North is not, as yet, responsible No !
land yet was ever entirely free from |
such out growths of the meanest ele-
ments of humanity. There never was
a cause so sacred, never yet policy so
urgent, as to enlist ali of the people in
its support Least of all could we ex-
pect this war against pro-slavery trea-
son to unite the entire North. The fear
expressed by Daniel Webster, in his
speech at Marshfeld, published in the
second volume of his works. was a Just
fear: 81 am afraid, fellow-citizens that
the generation of 'dough-faces' Will be
as perpetual as the generation of men"
And he meant Northern men of Just
such kidney as those az Chicago when
he said: Such persons are dough faces,
with dough heads, and dough hearts,
and dough souls; they are. al dou IA;
the coarsest potter may mould them to
vessels of honor or dishonor-most
readily-to vessels of dishonor" A
whole generation of the North have
been politically trained to defer to the
master race, and to acqUiesce in every
assumption OF the Save power. They
have been bred to believe :hat they
were only ''mudsills" Of the land; aud
it is evident in everything they do that
they feel the mudsill faint in their blood
and their bones "Flunkeyism" is their
second nature ltinterfuses every atom
of their being; filters from their brain
in every thought; lubricates their tongue
at every word; and crooks their knees
at every movement They are in tor
ture unless they are creeping in the
shadow of the chivalry Such were the
men at Chicago who, as the Charleston
Mercury says, Openly confessed that
they were whipped They spoke for
themselves. They spoke for good
many other just such creatures behind
them But what, we insist, they did
not speak for, is the majority of the
Northern people.
We assert that the election next |
Tuesday will show these insolent trail
tors that the body of the North does
not confess this war failure" and
does not ask for cessation of hostili
tie" that, on the contrary, it will
stand square up TO the mark of all the
grand deeds of Grant, and Sheridan,
and Farragut, and will settle it as firm-
ly as fate that treason shall be smitteA
to the dust II is not possible that a
majority of the third generation from
those men who carried through that
seven years struggle of the Revolution !
should be so degenerated as to give up
their birtbright in this fourth year of a
struggle, when the odds aeai lst them,
were not one-haif or one :
fourth part so great We are no worse !
off than our father were in having fun
kies and craVens among us. They had
their cowboys and tories. We shall no
more give that stripe of men the rule /
than they did We shall keep all pow
sr out Of their hands as they did; SHALL
in like manner, 60 straight on fighting
- though they did not exist; shall !
save them behind buried in contempt,
and shall deliver their memories, too, 2
10 our children as warnings of the fate
that IS sure 70 oyertake all who are false
10 their country in its hour of need
The infatuation of these recreants, =
IN seriously believing that they are
strong enough to make a President, IS
amazing Flunkeyism, we know,
strikes TO the marrow, but it seems al
most incredible that Is should 50 addle
the brain that they can get no better
notion OF the temper of the American :
people Even the cattle of the field
know when the storm is brewing The
spit of the trae people of the North, !
Which has been long and silently Ga
thering wrath, will have its vent on
1t viii sweep the breadth Of :
The land, blasting, as with heavens :
Iightnings, all this trsitorOus pOltFoOnesl :
nv into annihilation.--N J. Tines