The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-06-29
Bishop Andrews Address.
lCorresPOndence Of the Nashville Union.l
NAsHvILLE, June 81.

] EoopOuueLco OF tle nashville Union
NAsEvILLE, June 81.
The Daily Union of yesterday con
tanned an address to the members Of
the n E Church South by Bishop An
drew, which certainly deserves few
words of comment The apparent OBJ
ject and tendency of this remarkable
discourse is to counsel submission to
the Federal Government, but as the
Bishop styles this a yielding to over
whelming numbers, it might be doubted
whether the submission was to continue
longer than the coercive force was APP
piled, were it not for other passages in
which the whole secessionist doctrine is
virtually rea6irmed.
1t is worthy of note in passing that
his Reverence ignores the existence of
any member of the Church who has
been loyal throughout the contest, and
assumes to speak for all in alluding to
the 'OrOHgs noe haze safersd, and our
hope Of obtaining distinct nationality as a
people, dc. Az. -F
But the Providence of God seems
to have ordained that we shall again
be united in eir1 compact with our
former associates of the North"
Compact" is well chosen word for
the Bishop and his followers. limos
cent in sound, it has, nevertheless, had
charm to awake thirty years strife
between brethren, ending in four years
ofmutual slaughter. When John C. Cal
houn advanced the proposition that
the Constitution was ''coapact be-
tween sovereign States" which might
be annulled by one or more of. them,
let us hope that he did not foresee the
result of his teachings. His aim was
the establishment of Southern aristo-
crstical government of which he should
be head. At that time. the people,
thought with the mind of Webster and
acted with the right arm of Andrew
jackson, and treason skulked back dis
comfted to its den. But the work of
Calhoun did not perish with him
When the Providence Of God removed
him, he had made the most of that sub
ject Of diseord which civil war alone
could heal The measure of his crimes
was full; divine vengeance would not
grant him the chance of repentance on
beholding their terrible consequences.
But is it possible that conscious
and intelligent traitors" cannot see
whose teachings have brought them
into their present situation Conquer
ed in the arena of argument, notwith-
standing the eloquence of " bully
Brooks" they betOok themselves to the
tented field, and there they met Grant,
Sherman, Sheridan and Thomas, those
great expcunders of the Constitution.
What now remains Do they renounce
their doctrines? Not at all "OYer-
whelmed by superior number"
PEELED to yield" they have not succeed.
ed in breaking the compact this tine,
and they are therefore advised to for
get the CrOngs iohich they have suffered,
and earnestly address themselves to
the task of reconstsunting The government"
with unchanged principles, with hands
still bloody from the attempt to impose
those principles on others, with every
species Of hellish cruelty, the will now
grasp the ballot and trust again to po.
liticsl ehicanery.
And their reverend pastors will pray
God to "give our rulers wisdom and in,
tegrity," and desire bushwhackers and
guerrillas to desist FROM their butohery,
whatever seeming apology there might
have been for the practice during the
wsrr'
Friends and relatives Of the murder
ed, outraged loyalists of Tennessee
will you not invite the presence Of this
man of God to exercise the spirits of
the departed, who seem to arise from
their bloody graves to point the way Of
duty2 Or wiz you tell the rulers and
high-priests Of secession to keep their
unhallowed paws from this great
work Of reconstruction; that the tools
of despotism and slavery shall never
be employed to build the temple of
Freedom BETA