The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-08-22
Mashrille Aaion.
TUESDAY. AUGUST %. 1866.


Cen. Fitzpatrick On southern Affairs.
A telegrRphic dispatch from Raleigh
says Gen. Fitzpatrick expresses the fear
that the Provisional Governor expert
nent of President johnson win prove
@sfinle, and gives its his opinion that
the work Of reconstruction was com
meneed Just four years too soon. He
thinks the Southern people have not
been sufficiently subiugated TO respect
the authority Of the Constitutional
amendment prohibiting slavery, or to
provide, willingly, through their Rep
resentAtives in Congress, for the pay
ment Of the public debt -Four year,
longer of suffering under the tender
rule Of the military authority, and the
people Of the South might become suf
fcientiy abased or debzssd q submit
70 anything; and it may not be dis
honorable in any American citizen 10
desire to visit them with this degrade
ton; bat, IN The meantime, might not
the powerful North get tired Of carry
ing the public debt on its own shout
ders sIcneG Night there not come q
financial collapse, with general bank
ruptcy and repudiA6oh in It's train ?
1t appears to US that there is more
danger 10 be apprehended from keep
ing The Southern people in 3 condition
Of suspense, uncertainty and humilia-
ton, than in q speedy restoration to
all the rights and honors of citizen
ship It is 30 the interest Of the North
ern States to make the South At as early
aperiod IS possible 3 producing region
TO have her cotton, rice, tobacco and
sugar, increasing the wealth of the ma
ton, and bearing theif ~proportioB o.
the taxes necessary to pay the interest
on The national debt, and to provide .
fund for the extinguishment gradually
Of the principal ezIuAI
But there is another view Of this sub
ject worthy Of consideration. Genera
Fitzpatrick probably believes that it il
of vast Importance 70 the country Il
retsin the administration of the gov
ernmert IN the hands of the represen
tstives of that portion of the people
that elected Messrs. Lincoln and John
son BE has net forgotten, so soon a
this, the tremendous ehorts which wer'
found Absolutely necessary to proven
the defeat Of those gentlemen-or hoV
small really was their majority on tn.
popular vote. Night not an attempt 4
further degrade and debase the peopl
Of the South, and to retain the South
eTn States as provinces to be ruled b
military satrsps, cause g reVnlsion !
the feelings and views Of just and ger
erous men who supported and vctedfo
Lincoln and johnson, believing the
success the surest road to peace and
restoration of the reyolted States
the UnionY The American masses az
not Yindictise-they do not cherish II
sentiment They love justice, and al
meyciful Whenever they are Gale
upon Z pass judgment upon th
opinions Of public men, who 81
prompted by motives Of ~veneeanc
or who seem to desire to Cypress e sul
dued and disarmed people, they will
Z 10 their principles and their ma1
hood NopArty which proposes to biol
tbs South for four years under militaI
rule can survive an election. If IL
Republican party would retain its s.
premacy, itmust be magnanimOus III
policy Of reorganization adopted
President johnson, has been accepts
hy the Southern people, and they haT
gone 10 work under It, determined fai
" md honestly 10 observe it Let Il
party stand by this policy, and upho
President johnson in its administr
ton, and all will be well 0therwis
divisions must ensue, and ultimate
defeat
Ia power, men are apt 10 forget The
responsibility TO the people. Fc
tunasely days Of reckoning are not T
apart The voice of the great State
New York will be heard in Novemb
next and then ultra partisans and e
tremists will see the necessity Of mo
GRAFTON.