The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-12-05
The southern Press.

ne Soulhern Press.
We have Of late observed with no HtIe
concern the remarks Of the press IN tn
States South Of Us, aud we must confess b
no small degree OF modification az their
| general lone. Our Southern Contemporaries
! appear determined 10 pursue course calcu-
! lated to drive every conservative Union
man Of the Border States into the ranks ef
the Radicals. They forget that they are in-
I debted ~ the conservative element Of the
country for their very existence. They
torget that il il had not been ior she con
servatism Of Abraham Lincoln aud An
drew johnson, every single dollar Of their
I estates would have been confscatei l0uE
siness and that instead OF losing negroes
only, they would have losl everything else.
Now all this IS Hrong. Our hitherto rebel
/ friends in the southern States oaght 10
remember that the consorvaIve Onion
element Is the only wall between them and
destruction; and that il is their duty as
well as their interest 70 strengthen the bonds
Of this element by a willing acquiesceuce in
things IS they exist. But Instead Of d1iag
this they pursue different policy. A man
in the southern States, who has been a
Union man, has no chance whatever 90 Be
elected u Congress or any other position.
Upon The contrary, most, 10 not an,
the candidates recently elected 70 Con
gress in the Cotton States were elected
solely upon The ground that they had
been ardent and useful Rebels. Even in
South Carolins, although not q candidate.
Hade Hampton, a rebel Lieutenant General,
came very near being elected Governor OF
that StSte over Mr.. orr, who was suspected
Of having entertained Union pr0ciivities
during the war. 10 Mississippi, too, the
Governor elect Of that state was rebel
General, and so anxious was President John
son 70 render him eligible that he pardoned
HIM the moment he was announced as a
candidate. And yet the moment he was
inaugurated he pursued such a course as %
render it necessary for the President 90 send /
General Thomas % look after him. Why Is /
thisg Can ID be possible that the cotton |
States only await a mose convenient saa- !
son TO again rebel % We hope not And I
yet our convictions are daily becoming |
stronger that a conservative union man Ia /
but litlle chance in the hitherto insurrec- |
tionary States for place or power. Even in I
Tennessee in certain localities anionism Is /
not much recommendation 10 candidate |
for office. And it is these startling facts |
which strengthen tie hands Of the extrem- 1
lists not only in Congress and the Nsrth, but ]
in cur own Slate Legislature. The papers i
south Ofus are continually clauoriug against
Gov. Browniow and WhaI they call Che Rad
icalism Of the Tennessee Legislature, and 4
yet they persist in q policy calculated, il J.
not intended, to make that radicalism still |
more intense in our STATE. We feel sure
that neither Gov. Brownlow nor the Legs
lature viii make the slightest concession TO
the hitherto enemies OF Jhe government 80
long as they .persist in a course which
creates the impression that they have 10 re-
al NnlnHr sHaHa u
would be Just and polite therefore If our
Southern friends would adopt a different I
aourse. Let them stand up manfuiiy for
the Govrrnment Of the United States and /
those IN authority. Let them cease their
talk about the glorious Constitution. Such
ak from the rebels is In bad taste. III it IS
A good Constitution now, it was always such.
And vet they were not content with il, aud
attempted TO make separate government,
IN which they sigually failed. We beg
hem, therefore, 20 cease their rawlings about
rights, etc, aud beseech them
% pursue such a course as will strengthen
he arms Of Andrew Johnson and the great
conservative Union element Of the country
lgainst raGicalism.
If they don't do this the hitherto rebels
n Tennessee will whistle long time before
hey get to the ballot box. ID so happens
hat what our rebel friends call radicalism
$ nov in authority, not only in Tennessee
put every where else, and they ought 10
1now that they can never displacc these
-sdicals without the aid Of the conservative
Inion element which they can never OBJ
ain 50 long as they persist in so fool
sh a policy as that referred 10. We 1
znow that Andrew Johnson is a conserva-
i've man, but maidej By that element he
$ powerless, aud should he so far forget
q O.. i. q
hose who would elect a rebel over a union
nan, simply because he was a union man,
40 would soon and himself ia a hopeless
minority. II
II therefore behooyes our hitherto rebel
friends to stand by the conservative union
llement Of the country; for on that element
llone depends their deliverancs from the
Unfortunate predicameut iu which their
Wn folly has placed them. This is so plain I
hat it seems 70 us every sensible man ought
o see It.-.SheibyUiiiC Uiu0u. n