The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-06-04

child OF policy, ready to Halter and to
please, stands with It's feet upon the
sands, the quicksands1if if you please
its head IS covered with the temporary
glory OF popular applause The other
| (the minority bill), in its face is some
what stands forbidding, but its fee
are planted upon a rock, and above it
head are eternal lsplendors-sOf far apart
DO we nttsnd Our bill sets forth thai
there re such virtue as loyalty, and il
oughtis to be recognized; that it is 3
| high patriotic duty to mark broadly
the distinction between virtue and trea-
son and as a practical question, that
the power of the Government ought To
remain in the hands Of its friends until
fully established and secured.
THIS, we believe now, is in accordance
with justice, in accordance with true
political philosophy, in accordance with
! broad, practical statesmanship, aud in
harmony with that spirit of high and
pure humanity that flowed out in Abra-
ham Lincoln. shall proceed now to
consider
THE PRACTICAL BEAzINGs OF THE sUBJECT
Mr.. Speaker 10 more difficult prob
lem'ean beproposed for human solution
than the settlement of a-State after a
protracted internal strife The pro
foundest resources of statesmanshipa are
always tasked to their utmost capaoili-
ties in its elimination. Often the great
arbiter, Time, a principle which we re-
cognize in our bill, has to do the work
rh1lsNrv AsIra.. hrVrN,av, ola -
shut in by the horizon. For the settle.
ment of our disorders, we ought to EN-
ploy, and l claim that that we do pro-
pose to employ, the most enlightened
opinions. But while ] would be care
full to avoid the reproach applied by
Lysander TO Philocles, that he had de
praved, by his legislative advice, the
minds of the people, and had given
lessons of cruelty to all Greece y while
| would do no violence to the spirit Of
the age, yet, in accordance with the
practice Of the freest nations, some
times a veil should be drawn for awhile
over liberty, as it was customary to veil
the statues of the gods ~ --
A CONTRAST
After four years of desolating war,
perhaps it would not be improbable %
review the whole feld-to gather into
our minds an impression Of the circum-
stances which surround us. 1860 found
us the happiest people in the world en-
Toying almost Arcadian felicity Our
barns groaned with plenty our fields
Iabored with their burden of wealth
Flocks and herds came home in the
evening time with tinkling bell and
prancing hoor, 10 their masters crib
and the feet Of the west wind danced
not more gleefully upon the tops Of the
tasselled corn than did the heart Of the
husbandman rejoicing in the yield aud
wealth Of his possessions. Each mans
home was = citadel, and q king must
ask TO enter. Young men crowded our
streets and married our maideus, and
the State, the great Republic, zone and
inseparable," reioiced over her chill
dren like the Roman Cornelia, who,
when presenting her sons, exclaimed,
these are my Jewels There was
neither war nor belief of war in the
land. Yet, what do we see to-day
The barn is empty; the Aocks and herds
have been hunted down and killed;
the fields are unfenced and uu.UrTOw-
ed the old homestead stands out on
the common and dismally rattles its
broken blinds; the 'old folks talk to
YOU in low hushed tone about their
boys in the grave, and it needs no spo-
ken voice to tell you that their wealth
has taken 10 itself wings and disappear
+ 20 A,rt q
crouches on her low stool and bushes
her child to sleep, but with no promise
of the father coming-he died in GeOr-
gia or Virginia Blank despair. gaunt
famine are starring her in the face. In
vain she tries to hide these hideous
spectres with the manly form that stood
by her side on the marriage morning.
but the recollection of now and then,
the sense of loss overcomes her, she
breaks down, her eyes swim, and she
prays in her agony TO the only friend
left-the widows God DrOves Of
homeless ohildred flock our streets,
asking you openly for charity-asking
you silently, by the dear love of broth
| erhood and the love of God for home
and education. Our public cslamities
are even greater than our private mis-
fortunes. Schools have long since ceas-
| ed to exist, and as to churches, we
might cry out with the anguish Of the
Alban women, when they passed their
temples going to Rome: The very
| gods seem captured. The Courthouse
| stands in our towns with sashless eyes,
no longer Temple of Justice, but
bar. The highways are infested with
armed banditti Confusion, terror and
anarchy, overspread the land. Moth
ing is safe or stable. Nor is this, Mr.
Speaker, the height Of our misfortunes
| The man who steals property Is a petty
| thief, but he who steals the public NOR
ais is the highest of all criminals He
steals the soul and leaves only a worth
less body, that it IS blessing to have
/ die. Material losses can be repaired,
but tell me who can mend moral bank
ruptcy? Alas poor country
l have drawn distressing, a heart
rending picture; yet have not paint
/ ed half of its hideous realities Now
who produced this wide spread desola-
| tion3 What demon, shot from hell,
| changed this Paradise into q Hades of
/ devastated homes, decimated families
| and multitudinous graves The Cali
| ban of secession. embodied in the forms
of men-men who live among us %
day with no apparent hoOis and horns
to warn Us of their presence-men who
! tell us TO our teeth that they would
| repeat the visitatiOns if in their power
-epitomes Of original sin, labelled
! Original secessiOnists. Yet IL is prO~
| posed 10 admit such men 10 all the
| rights and privileges Of full citizenship
equal in all things 10 the loyal iuha-
/ bitants Of the State, who passed.
through the fercest fires Of persecution
FOR their devotion TO their country
I Permit no such persons, high or low
with their reeking bloody hands and
blackened souls, to carry the ark OF our
I liberties Yet for this adherence %
the national cause, we are called "yiu-
/ dietive for this noble jealousy for
cOunpry We are dubbed
\ E1ucuE
Well, Mr Speaker, 20 my ears, no OF
fence is in that word General Bous-
sesu, in his Shelbyville speech, tells us
that q radical is q man vino has forgot
ten every consideration but that oi
country. Hence / gladly accept the
4 appellation Gentlemen honor us
overmuch" But the party OF radical
ideas is no new fedged bantlng. 10
began in the long Parliameut--.t came
\ into existence in that renovation of
! British power which made England the
| mistress of civilization. It was abused
and vilifed, called despot and snar-
chist and England herself in Crom-
wells embrace, the champion of radI-
calism, was thought accursed and God
| forsaken Seen IN the light of other
times-in the completed grandeur Of
I impulses then impaired, since devel-
oped, il was only Hebe in the arms Of
Hercules. Radicalism il the friend Of
progress Il strips old abuses OF their
disguises, no matter how respectable or
attractive the garb they wear 10 feels
no reverence for moses and Echens,
though they be one thousand years Old
and hide q wrong It IS an eternal
4 child ur,on whose forehead "timp can