The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-09-20

eANAeANH " MAt-NaA ..N Er a-'N Nt~ N-tsN-'@ @ 4. O
buue, Is an Indication o, their intentions.
At rHE EUBIcoN.
President johnson has gone far enough 0.
! get his feet wet Iu a Eubic1u which we nope
he VIII not cross, for If hc proceeds it vii
! prove % Red Sea o. him aud his small host
lhc plain question before him Is whether
| he Will cross 6yer t1 the rebels, now called
! southern Juionis.-, or keep faith with thy
/ Union men who elected him. That there
| may De uo doubt what we mean, we viii
state what acts Will ba regarded by thu
| Union men generally as crossing ove- % the
/ r1tel-
| ]. Recognizing the rebel armies of the
] varioH- rebel States. under rebel officers, o.
preserve order between the freedmen and
| ihe wli rebels who alone commit the dis
order, thus substantially anuulIng Mr.. Lin
/ coins emancipation policy.
.. Ius sting that Southern rebels, as soon
l as they have O. ked pr5sideus JOhusCn's par
| don, stand on the same footing as Northern
I Uuiouis,s. aud that their inch0ate State or
gauizIlious, as soon as they have called a
! convention and formed "a constitution satis-
| factory 90 the President, are to De considered
as iuII-1ej-ei States, having all the rights
of States, though not yet acknowledged as
sucn by Congress ,-thst our armies are 90 De
withdrawn, while the late rebel armies are
| TO reassemble and occupy their places, aud
that the freedmen are 20 have no rights and
no protection lu such States, more than
these quasi State governments may enact.
9. Speaking and acting I'M a manner that
plainly indicates that he regards those who
e.ected him as fanatics and fools, whose
views are "Clam0r' and whose utterauces
are "pestileut and malignant" while the
support of the classes lately in rebellion,
ana their Northern svmpGthIzsrs, are all he
deems necessary TO his administration.
These course Of action viii speedily lead
to such results as VIII demonstrate that,
while in the United states a President has
great powers DO is impossible for him So TO
exercise them as to prove that they do not
exceed those of tho people. There is
certainly no desire ON the part Ot the
Union party of the North to have any disa-
greemeuJ with the President whom they
elected. II such disagreement arise it VIII
be his fault not theirs. But If he expsct5
that cur four years Of war are % have no
other effect than 90 restore TO power the ele-
meuJ8 which constituted the late rebellion,
then q disagreement between him and his
party is inevitable. That which crushed
out the rebellion can hardly quail before a
single mau-th0uEh he be Andrew johnson.
There is nothing iu the political situation
90 tempt President johnson into the great
error OF forsaking the support Of his party
in order 20 C0algsee with the miserable wind
broken rump OF the Northern Copperhead
politicians who dg-pis3 him, and whom he
has every reason 90 despse, and the still
more fatally used up rebels of the South,
whose ideas can no more be expected 90 rule
this country again than the Atlantic Cable
can be re urrgctal from its ocean depths.
Yet they are cuJdluE him with honeycd
words of harl0t love, as if they hoped, like
the Philistines, t1 lld out the secret OF his
strength, and anon 90 present him 90 the
world q shOn, blind sampson. The secret
Of his strength lies iu the confidence of the
Union party. Cut that of aud they have
indeed triumphed-
ON the other hand lee that remain uuim-
paired. let President Johnson appreciate the
ideas which formed the Union party, which
mderlay the last taur years war, which
crowned Abraham Lincoln with an Imm0r
ta.ity of fame, and gave liberty 20 -FOUR mll-
lions of an oppressed race, and let hlm move
on 90 compIeJe universal liberty in uuIvers
oil suffrage, and Lewil find that Mr.. Lin
colin left fun haIioi the great harvest o.
fame standing for mis- successor
A true saraeitv. even with rcgG-d only to
his own fame ana the success ot his admin
istratiou could dictate bus one course Co
President Johnson, viz: to make himself
the standard bearer of the American people
ON tine question o.. Universal Suffrage, as
Abraham Lincoln aIJ on tho question of
Il he pursue -auy other
course it "a because L.s Hagacity IS not cgua.
o. his UUuHrLlU.Ggs.