The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-06-30

] from the tone Of their opponents The
New York World, the Cincinnati lEn
qnirsr, the Chicago Tines have not
meEeE discussed the speeches Of the
President without the scerbity Of criti-
cism usual 70 them, but they havs
openly claimed him As a Democrat
and pretended TO End IN his recent
declarations means to reconciliation.
Even the New York News fell IN With
this party, and panied the country by
praise OF The President Prominent
Democrats went to Washington in del
egations, and we're received 10 a-to
say the least--not pnfriendly way,
though their mission was wholly 3 20
litieal one Yet the. Republican press
has not whisper Of apprehension,
but looks on With complacenee and ap.
plause. When the Cooper Ihstitdte
meeting Of week before last sFas called,
tae World indignantly asked, 9 Who
are the Republicans that they should
assume to be specially the supporters
OF this Administration Does not Mr..
johnson mean to be the President Of
fhelEh6se eo1nEy But veal know
that when = Democrat begins to talk
shout the whole country" he means
the Democratic party, and no more Il
happened also that the Cooper Inssi
tate meeting was rather cleverly taken
Possession Of By the Diaper win z Of the
New York 2 Republican,, VINO, il not
RsdicaL STE not Weed men. and under
their guidance passed a pretty good /
resolution on the suffrage question. /
The meeting was accordingly de
nounced by V;rtuous Democrats Jour I
nails as not at sll an Administration /
meeting -and they we're rieht to q Ger
tain extent Bet right or wrong, the
essential and alarming fact h the Re-
puolicans il the apparently oficious yet
possibly authorised interference of
the Democrats in matter which
Of right was wholly Republican
The leaders in this Democratic move
Inept are men Who during the war were
intsnssy hostile to the administration
Of Abraham Lincoln, and to the prose.
sntion of thew They are the men
VINO for thirty years have been the
Wiling tools of the slave oligsrchy that
'uled the South and the Nation They
passed the Missouri Compromise in
81 they stood ready 70 back tyulli,
lcation in lS3 +; they dug the pit into
which John Tyler flung himself head
ong "a 1871; they helped annex Texas
nd engineered the Mexican war; they
elected Pierce aud Buchanan, and
ave the latter Howell Cobb and FLOYD
nd Thompson for Secretaries. They
we're the Copperheads, pure and aim {
lie, of the last three years, the anti
oercionists Of 1861; the McClellanites
I'D Chicago Conventionists Of the last ,
'olitical campaign; they are the men ,
7ho mean and expect to renew the al
lance between the Northern and the /.
outhsrn Demoefacy, and 70 make the
'oTth again, as for forty years it had
cen, subservient to the S5uth. They
lean to regard the war as not fought,
nd they are conspiring to cheat the T
alton of its victory. They are the Z
len who viii be found in Congress- bal Z
ncing with representatives from the 4
RECONSTRUCTED" S ates between as 4,
lmption of the Confederate, and repu- !
iation of the National, debt They
ave won and they know it, the first I
lick in this game, and they count
pop winning the last by help Of this
ame Andrew Johnson, whom six weeks
90 they expected TO find their most '
ssolute enemy Yet The Republican t
srty goes to sleep, while It's sstute in {
efatigable, tireless enemy thus takes {.
Of the President, and threat \
IS to oEerturn the Republic by his !.
clip before the Nation can be heard
ext December in Congress. Is il too .
ION to rouse these slVggards to their !
Anglers ? May it not be almost too {
.te2 The hope that remains 70 US is ?
most wholly in Congress and it is to {
reserve and perpetuste the true Re >
lblicsn majority in that body that we
Use ct this moment this warning voice 4