The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-03-02
80 RamIlr Onerrel.

/ Our readers must not suspect that we
give the party, which lately advocated
/ peace with entire unaninity, any credit
4 for conscience. In the hope Of success
they all united; the vallandiehams,
the Woods, the Seymours and the
Coxes bat the verdict Of tho people
last fall taught them that treason did
not pay; and the Immediate result was,
an interesting family quarrel, speci-
mems of which we have already given
our readers.
We rather enjoy the spectacle of this
political Donneybrook fair; it is anus
ing, but viii not last long. The out
spoken peace men will get control of
the organization Of the. party, at the
Chicago National Convention; and
those who pretend to favor ''constitu-
tional war will be whipped in
We gave, yesterday, the fat, as it
went forth from the great Vallandig-
ham organ of the West; and to-day we
furnish our readers with an extract
from the Rochester Union, a Seymour
paper, whose editor is one Of the dele
gates to Chicago. That paper says:
"These things all belong to tho past.
The Rebellion followed close upon Lincoln's
election, The rights Of the States,' the
balance Of power the barriers VII ich pro-
tected Us in our personal rights and the
SOutherners in theirs-that TO hold slaves
being conceded to be among them-are all
swept away. For the time being-we know
not how much longer-they are all gone
but a wreck remains. Il is the proper mis-
sion Of conservatives of every partisan de-
signation; it Is the duty of every good
citizen to endeavor to restore and restablish
the old barriers but it is not our mission
nor our duty TO re-establish Slavery. 1t was
not our business, nor while the Constitution
remained in force was it our right, to de-
stroy or TO modest Slavery. We have not
DESTROYED ii We are under no
obligation, we have no desire TO re-
establish Slavery or 70 protect the wreck
of it from surrounding perils. We have
nothing to do with it specifically one way
or the other. IF it falls IL falls not by our
fault. We desire the emancipation Of the
States from Rebel thraldom, the restoration
Of the authority Of the Constitution and the
re-establishment Of the States in harmony
Herewith To the States thus restored, and |
not to Us, the Constitution as it is RENTS /
that question. We tried to keep the peace
between the two extremes who, in contempt
Of the Constitution and Of the laws of good |
neighborhood, were determined to make it |
the case Of contention and bitter strife. We
failed. But we did our whole duty in the |
premises. Accordingly, we owe neither of
the extreme parties, as such, any further I
TO save them or either of the them from the /
consequences of their own wickedness and |
folly. That is our position to-day as we
understand it."
The ayowals contained in the ex-
tract, however, are extremely mild,
compared with the determined posi- |
tons Of the unequivocal peace men
and the editors Of the Union will quail |
in the convention before the McLeans
and the Pendletons Of Ohio They !
must and ,oiH yield to the Wood faction;
they must surrender politics, and hope
Of political position, at the bidding Of
Vallandigham, who has now become
the iron heel is upon them
their spirits are enhanced; they dare
not resist.