The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-07-23

OAl.E. hEAEr NNAAcoCh1 a -...-.
August %, 1865.
: Tos. WALLACE CoSs, ESQ.,, President Of n
Young Meas Democratic Unios Cub, Ne
Z DEAR SIRs Yours of the 14th instan
reached me most opportunely. Bsfor
I this you will have seen that the Rich
moud Examiner has handsomely &C
: knowledged its mistake. 1t is vel
, perhaps that it mistook your meaning
Z and mine.
Attention has been drawn 10 you
= noble and patriotic purpose, and they
: viii be approved, and be assisted BY the
I entire Democracy of the South
: Those who love and would abide by
the wise Federal Constitution and the
sacred Union of our (''sisterhood of
erased) States in the South, know and
, feel that we have I" host Of freedom,
which is the hostof God for our friends
in the North. We will not tolerate the
idea Of 3 separation from you for an
instant; and we vil depend upon your
faith and your devotion to cooperate
with US in defending the good work of
our Fathers against internal as yell os
external foes.
i We will, North and South, defend the
rights Of the States and the most pre-
cious of these: the right of each State
to the blessed Union of the States.
! We will defend the Constitution of
the Union as the only Standard of
State Rights, and we will defend thein-
dividual and inalienable rights of man.
His rights of property and his person,
all his finite rights, which pertain to
poor mortality and above all, his inf
mite rights, the only one not of the
earth earthly, his right of religious lib
erty, his freedom of conscience-his
right 10 easement in the way to God
Thus understood you-thus ] took
your greeting, and thus greeted you
back.
Carp whowill, 1 viii grasp your hands
as brother, upon the pledges to these
rights, for which ara willing to stake
''life, fortune, and sacred honor" But
no one will object
Petty jealousies will be lsid aside,
manly patriots viii summon sober reas-
on to their side, and We win triumph in
the right
God grant our country and its friends
His guidance and His rule.
Yours devotediy, with all my head
and heart, HESRx A WISE
New ChspteF In American History.
From the London Times, July 5.
The birthday of American Independ.
ence was duly celebrated yesterday,
and never, since the 4th of July, l776,
has that famous anniversary been
ushered in by events SO gratifying to
national pride. During the last four
years, the most sanguine of American
patriots must have welcomed its recur-
renee with mingled feelings. However
robust his faith in the destiny of his |
country, he could not shut bis eyes to
the evidences Of actual disruption and |
laid by Washington, Franklin and JEFF
ferson had been violently displaced, |
and no one could predict, with conf
dence, that they could ever be restored
to their original position. No wise
man would, even now, commit himself |
to such a predictions but experience
has abundatly proved the extraordi-
nary strength of the fabric.
So far, those who believed in the
native vitality Of the great Federal Re
public have q right to exult, but We
venture to think that one or two speak
ers at Willis Rooms, last night, some
what misstated the nature of their VIC
tory. 1t is not Democracy that has
vanquished AristOcracy, but Federal
ism has triumphed over State sover-
eighty, and established the subordin-
alton of all other constitutional rights
to those of the central power. The re-
suit must be the reconstruction Of the
American Union, and it is difficult to
believe that any future secession can be
more formidable than that organized by
j Jefferson Davis The Federal tie will
probably be strengthed, a1d the Ameri-'
can people may gradually become one
and indiVisible, but it remains to be
shown whether that unity can be recon
ciled in practice with the principles laid
down in the Declaration of Independ-
ence.
The subiugation Of the South, how
ever, is as much fat aecOmpi as the
Declaration of Independence itself, and
a new chapter has thereby been opened
in the history of the United States
Henceforward other battles, sieges and
ospitulations, will take the place of
Bunker Hill, Saratoga and yorktown
CORVALLIS and BurgoyHe will be dwarf
ed by jackson and Lee, and il will not
surprise us If Lincoln occupies a pedes-
tai of equal hight with that of Wash
ington. If, indeed, the importance of
be determined by their !
scale, the War of Independence hardly
admits of comparison with that which
has just terminated The forces coils
lected on either side, the distances
the lists of killed and wound
ed, and the ruin wrought in the former,
are as nothing by the side of the late civ
il war. The tales of outrage and havoc
inflicted blythe British troops. which
have horriied three generstions of
are already being supersed-
ed by more recent and vivid memories,
and the heroic age of America will soon
be transferred from the eighteenth to
The nineteenth century.
For years to come noYelists will lay
their plots in this revolutionary period,
and orators will draw their most excit-
ng materials from the same source
Nor can it be denied that the issues at
stake were in proportion to the magni-
.ude and desperation of the contest
Whether or not there should be bal.
lnce Of power on the North American
continent and whether slavery should
be accepted by modern civilization,
we're questions inevitably involved in
{, though thrust out of sight by more
)btrusive motives. Upon these cues
ions, and upon the further question
whether the sudden abolition of slavery
vas 70 be desired for the sake of the
negroes themselves, opinions may still
iitier, but that the settlement of them
will be the effect, if it was not the OBJ
eot, OF the war, admits of no reasona-
bic doubt If the French Revolution,
With all its manifold influences on So
,iety, was the indirect consequence of
American independence, no one can say
what changes may hereafter be traced
back TO the crisis now in course of de-
relopment
The army sent to Texas is not so en-
'rmous as some Of the sensational peo-
pie have reported. A heavy column of
'aEalry is on its march through the
State snd from twelve to fifteen thou
and infantry are making their appear
,nce on the Rio Grsnde 1t was neces-
aFy 10 make q display Of the military
'ower Of the Republic on the plains of
!