The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-08-02


TIE Blehnand EIeetlon-oommer,s or
The Richmond Republlo-A Warning.
The Richmond Republic Is the only
paper in HAT city that Gin make any
~PretensiOns to loyalty. It comments
thus on the recent municipal election
in that city
In reference 10 the election Just held
in Richmond, Il mastered nothing per
scnally whether Taylor y S~iurdivant
Was elected; but Il does signify
much that Taylor was defeated, because
he announced himself as q Union man
az all times, and that ~Sturdivant was
c ected. because he IS not and has not
been such IS Taylor, and has been a
soldier in the armies that Tough!
against the Union. It IS Of vital sig
nihcance that large numbers Of men
who would have voted for Taylor
changed their determination when they
saw his card putting himself on the
Union platform IL ali the elections in
Virginia r made to turn pon such
issues, and if they result as the Rich
mond election has done, the conse-
quences viii be more disastrous 10 this
Commonwealth than even the fearful
war through which We have passed
The Republic then presents the
Northern view of restoration, as fol-
lows:
The great work which the American
people have nOw in hand Is the restora-
ton Of the Union. OF this work the
States and people who were successful
in the late war, are resolved, from a
feeling Of necessity, to retain the absO-
lutte control and direction. They as
sumo. and assert and mean to exercise,
the power Of deciding when, and how,
and under what conditions, the States
which seeded from the Union shall re-
turn to it. They have a great stake in
the Union. They own the great nation
al debt of three thousand millions
They hold s vast number of other mis-
celsneous stocks, equal TO the national
debt in amount The value of all
these securities absolutely depends up.
on the preservation and prosperity of
the Union. They are owned not by the
rich alone, but by the poor-not by Re
publicans alone, but BY Democrats as
/ Will IA ANENAEE Vi HEAAAA ia &LkA
person in the North is greater than that
in any other country in the world.
They are not only the wealthiest people
on the earth, bot their wealth IS more
disseminated. Every man ct the North,
Of every political party, has a direct in
terest in the Union as q pecuniary in
vestment, beside the interest he has ia
il IS a citizen, an American, and q ma
tive Of thesoiL The depth, the strength,
and the vehemence Of their deteTmin-
alton to support the Union, above all
other interests, IS sufficiently proved
by the determination and perslstenoy
with which they prosecuted the raj
for It's preservation.
They were successful IN war, and now
have IN hand the business OF rest0ra
ton. It is an insepsrable incident Of
al governments directed by a popular
majority, that the voting constituency
shall be divided into parties, and diYi-
ded in such q manner that these par
ties shall approximate equality. The
North is, by q law Of the human mind,
divided into parties nearly equally
poised To admit the South into the
Union as a political power, under these
circumstances, is to admit q balance
power which ieaguing Itself with the
one side or the Othvr, viii have power
: to govern that very Union which for
: years she has been endeavoring to
overthrow. This is the Northern view
of the question Of reconstruction. To
admit the South into the Union, IS to
give her control Of the Union
If we send men to Congress elected
upon such (secession) principles, We
insure their exclusion from its halls,
and we supply 70 the radical party
there the very excuse which they are
seeking for setting aside the orgsnizs-
tons which President johnson has set
on foot in the Southern States, and re
ducing these States 10 a provincial con-
ditien. 1t il natural, therefore, that
President johnson should himself feel
8 great interest in the Southern cleo
tiOns, and we have positive information
that be regarded the municipal cleo
tions in Richmond with sOlieitu6e.
3 What could be more natural than such
a feeling2
II the Southern States should be
Q denied admission into Congress, and
reduced to territorial dependence, then
Congress, regulating the doctrines Of
squatter sovereignty, which were q
licentious exaggeration of the doc
trines of State sovereignty, will pass
enabling acts providing for the forma-
ton of State Governments in the South
These acts will prescribe the qualihca-
D ton for voters, and the oaths 10 be ed
ministered to those who take Office.
We warn the Southern people not %
prepare the way TO such q state OF
= things. II is mournful TO reflect that
the men who profess the most thorough
devotion to the South are doing all
-, they can 10 p~recipitate her into the
Z most d~eplorable destiny.
. II our elections prove that there IS
. no such popular feeling ia the South as
loyalty to the Union, it they prove thas
on this test question of Union, there il
!. a division between the North and the
South as wide and impossible Is that
fixed gulf which separates Lazarus and
= Dives; if cur people protest by their
ToteR that their allegiance TO the Union
Is mere lip service, in which their hearts
and principles hsye no part-then let
l them accept the inexOrable logic OF
! such a vote, and the inevitable infer.
ence that must be drawn from it let
them know that there will be no vel
come Ia the Union for them; that they
e will be regarded and treated 81 intru-
ders in its territory, that their lot Is the
. sad and ~deplorabEe q Of expulsion or
determination and that this fate is
deliberately voted by themselves upon
Z their own devoted heads.
Z
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