The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-04-29

all eternity, and be did not know ii
/ even this iniquitous measure would ma.
terially affect the estimation ia which
the reople held him.
He advised his hearers to shoot
down those who would enforce the
draft; to insist upon the right of writ
oil h0oeas corpus to resist to the bitter
END the attempt to make the military
/ power superior to the civil and n
| openly arm themselves that thew MIGHT
be prepared for horrible CONTINGENT
oies." w eN-
Henry Clay Dean said:
"And still the monster usurnep (I;n.
coln) wanted more men for his slaugb.
ter-pen- cloud cries of he sban't bsrs
more. The careful husbspdman in
oeadenlng the forest, was aiways care
Ill IN preserving the young growth of
lumber, and IN selecting his swine for
the slaughter, he preserved the youno.
er ones for future use. But The tvre,5+
and despot who ruled his people to de-
s,truction paid 10 regard to age OF con
ol1on. He desired 10 double the wild
oWhood and duplicate the orphans. He
pushed that such a felcn should occu-
Ply the highest place in the gift Of the
/ people. Perjury and larceny were
written over him as often as was one
dollar on the one dollar bills of the
Bank OF the State of Indiana. (Cries
OF the old villain
The press took up aud reiterated
these monstrous partisan cries, day af-
ter day, some of them going still fur
Their and dealing in such language as
the following from the La Crosse wis }
Democrat of the 29th of August last
The man who votes for Lincoln now
Is traitor. Lincoln is 2 traitor and q
murderer. be who pretending to war
TOT, wars against the Constitution Of
our country is traitor, and Lincoln ig
one OF those men He who calls and
ailures men 10 certain butchery, is a
murderer, and Lincoln has done all
tins. Had any former Democratic Pre-
sident wared upon the Constitution or
trlfied with the destinies of the nation
as Lincoln has, he would have been
hurled TO perdition long since And if
he Is elected to misgovern for another
/ four years, We trust some bold hand
will pierce his heart with dagger point
for the public good
And the following from the Beaver
Dam Argus, which copied the above ap-
provingly, and added
History shows several instances
where the people have been saved by
the assassination of their leaders, and
history may repeat itself in this coun-
try. The time may come when It will
be absolutely necessary that the people
do away with such rulers the quickest
way possible"
1t viii be recollected that about the
time these sentiments were uttered, as
the inscription made by Booth on
pane Of glass in the hotel window at
Meadsyille, Pa, shows, a plot was on
foot to murder Mr. Lincoln by poison.
In connection with these things we
beg the reader to call to mind the gen
eral tone and tenor Of the newspaper
press which opposed Mr.. Liucoln's re-
election. We do not remember, at
present, one that did not denounce him
as an usurper and a tyrant, who had
overthrown the Constitution, and YVES
concentrating all the power of the
Government in his hands.
10 will not be difficult when these
things are remembered TO conjecture
the source of Booths internal prompt.
ings
We do not mean to say that all Of
the above mentioned speakers, nor the
OPPOSITION press, as a whole, desired to
produce the assassination Of Mr. Lin
coin. Their teachings, however, were
calculated to encourage such a result,
and TO satisfy a mind inclined to the
assassination that il would be happy
event for the nation.
We trust, as we have heretofore re-
marked, that the death OF Mr. Lincoln
by the hand Of the assassin will cause
the public men and newspapers Of the
country hereafter, 10 be more Just and
honorable IN their comments upon the
character and acts OF those in power.
In a recent speech in New York, Gen.
Meagher remarked that, considering
the horror inspired by the murder Of
the President, - more sacred rever-
ence for the Chief Magistrate Of the
Republic would henceforth and forever
animate the people of the United
Statea." We hope future experience
will not disappoint either the honora-
bic gentlemen or ourself