The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-05-28

( sS-ruult 10 lld amendments 70 on
constitution was not OF full effect, theI
the ordinance of secession holds good
That cannot be, for the ordinance @
secession v-s a fraud from It's very IN
copEolr and no man could sustsin j
without sustaining fraud The gentle
men on the other side are not satisfe
with ordlnsry tesGniony-to prove thar
the rebels do not want 20 vote III.
one OF their assertions that rebels IL
net want 10 vote That Is Just ss tru,
as the notion Of the women and ehil
oT-n IN scna places respecting the Van
KEGS wearing horns. These reoel.
nave not expected to be allowed 10 vote
1t Is asserted Their leaders so groosIy
deceived them that thay believed the
United States will deal with them with
/ harshness only, If they should ever get
them into their power. Such lies as
! tins hHYe Kept many good men in the
! rebel army by the power Of falsahood.
/ ms expectation of Yankee severity
and Injustice, is brought lowaru rs evi.
( deace that we ought TO disfranchtss
( those who were deceived
But the gentleman goes further. he
/ tells us thai the fact that they did no.
| expect % be permitted to vote is evi-
dence that they are whipped; granted,
/ but # they are defeated and have CIV
eu up. w12t 10 You want 10 humiliatc
| them for might acknowledge the
necessity oi dealing harshlv with q
msu before ha was whipped. bat after
ha con uered sud admits it, l see no
reason for continuing the harsh lrest>
/ men-I and pounding his humbled head
then. The letter of General Sherman
sea published in this mornings pa
pers, hlts "a heap of folks, for when the
General strikes he hits-I Will read
portion Of IL, IL may have an apphca-
tIou IN some case not far OIL
IL IS amusing 10 observe how brave
and hrm some men become when all
danger Is passed. I have noticed en-
the held Of battle that brave men ney-
er insult the captured or mutllate the
dead, but cowaTds and laggacds always
DO. cannot now recall the auolati on.
Dut Shakespeare records how Door FaI-
stan, the prince OF towards and wits.
rising from q figured death stabbed
again the dead Percy, and carried alOft
the dead carcass in triumph 10 prove
his yal0r so, now, when the rebellion
IN cur land is dead, many Falstaffs ap-
pear to braudish the evidence OF their
val0rl and seek to win applause and
appropriate hOuOIs for deeds that ueY-
er were done.
/ resd that for what it is worth.
apply 10 to no one, but simply want 10
70 60 along as a part Of the history of
the times when Tadicllism Is popular,
well remembering the period when
there were gentlemen who said they
would join the rebels if Mr. Lincoln
should iszUs his proclamation resu-c.-
ing a-avery. We can all be radicals
now. Then iJr-qulre6 nerve and pat
TiOlsu, and lJ was not so easy 10 find
radical ss 10 is tO-day But We SIRE
told that the governor will do so and so.
IdihsC w.sh, him the governor tgkss h.s
course auA / take mjue-tuat Is all
tHoge is in that matter. Why we have
been told that JeH Davis could come
here lGOu Virginia. and after sax
month residence could vote for any
thing there is in the majority bin 70
hinder him las the gentleman read
tust DE.y Does Le not see that ID en-
puau0a.Iv declares he could do moth
ing o. the kind
Mr DJcau. Is does not.
Mr. Hood read portions of the bill.
and proceeded. \ on see by the 9TH sec
tjon tho. no person could vote VINO MSS
helds higher rank than Colonel an the
rebel army. ,laa excludes Davis, i0r be
was Commander .u-CLlei Bat ne is
excluded a.o by the Sther provision,
for be deserted hi- seat i'm the United
States Senate. There are, there lore.
two direct imueaimeuts in this bill 10
JET DAVIS voting ia Tennessee, and
the same bill would also exclude Isu1m
d.. hau-s from exercising the same
privilege have not 10 This. CT any
thing else. u represented sac gentle
man Let me tell yOU that on tie aav
Booth committed hls iendizh assassin
aliol he was @ v0.erIc Maryland. aav
INK never r1IuCd the rebel a.my. ard
there ore Ee continued 70 possess the
rights and privileges ot cit 2 o
that State At-5gT5ri. II he had lived.
heCc-ia GCs have voted there of Courss-
no nor could he nave been p5r,Iittaa
% hrerhe tre breath Of Ito in auy
spot where g. maa resided who lad
American Blood flowing ia human
/ veins But, notwj gasta2d ali the gems
/ ,leman has said, there is % great didsr-
/ euce between MARYLAND and Tennessee
| Maryland never vas claimed as belong
/ Ing to tbe COliederacu il had no rsu-
/ rescn-auOn IN the rebel Congress, and
/ for long time 40 citizen Of Maryland
. w3a cgulSriDted The Richmond pa-
/ Ders l-ad 20 IeprOach Maryland citi-
( gems with loatug about that city, get
uug money, or drinking and gambling,
but non e'o.uing the army
The constitutional amendment OF
thsJ State was adopted while the war
was raging, when the cohorts OF the
enemy we're near I could hsve voted
for the change cheertuliY. You will
find that the further YOU 20 South the
more eErIsa5le the people were in
/ joining me rebellion, for they could not
know what was going on ~ those dld
who lived further y NOrih. Oar national
/ Dec.a-slrIou asserts that al men we're
/ created free and ecual-sacred words o.
Z a#".a el-A4f.4a ~ To are We haI
TO 60 and say to our brethren-I au
better than YOU This bill Of the MI
uOr.ty does violence TO the very prInci.
! Piles on which Jhis government was es
| taU.ished. can excuse gentlemen for
their Uusound argument only on the
ground oil the badness OF their Csuse.
i have already said that the hill o
the majority, B. properly perfected, Il
/ decidedly preferable to that of the min
/ ority, i SAID this as q radical union
Dau, ss q member Of the radical Unior
party determined 10 sutate this oues
/ ZION until Justice is done 20 sll, pre5u
/ dice removed, and all men declared
equal before the law. Lei Va LOOK, fof
"a moment, ag their bill I cay that +
. you will perfect the bIll Of the gentle
mau from Bedford il vii distvaucbiss
men wl7 would be permitted 10 vol,
hy the bill o. tie minority, men ssh.
were among the glIGesg Of those ca.
. gsEeC no this war. I say that a. the
election before the last, some Of ths
uesTest rebels in this State voted, AL,
you will properly amend tho BAL o
the majority, such men VIII never vo-.
BgsIu- These men became conviura.
Jhs, they had invested laeIr stock ~
poor concern, and they quietly drev
oU. of .t leaving better men than tuem
selves 20 tiEh. suls. JeH Davis. who's.
tau...es were starving Many of Laeu
would have starved u this civ. bad no
Andrew johnson made an assess men
for lhe.r aid, on these kind Of men
These men slu vote under the minority
bill, vale thelr deceived aud betrayes
victims cannot be allowed 70 vote TIA
mean ar.st.eraay, tlsIch tho mos
guilty, wound escape because they kep
Jgf at r1s army
bT .le JLl OF the gentlemen from
Eaury the rebel from South CaroIua
ii me can ges somebody % vouch Tor hi
a.fy-laj you zuow now easily EN-
I such vurchiur is obtaiued-lau com
up and .s-e, i0r the oil provide Ila
persons from other Stste- may vote
a.ses due residence, OF giving proc. G
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