The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-04-15
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WIN. CAMEBOS d CO.. Publishers.
SATURDAY, APRIL Is, 1866.
From Washington.


From Washington.
fcorres ponden-e Of the Ma hvHe U-ion
WAsHHGToS, April stb, lS6s.
| "stilI live, but will refrain from q
detail Of the causes which have pre-
vented my writing for 80 long period
Such detail would not be interesting
to your readers.
But the time has arrived when uni
versal loyal nature speaks, and amid
the confusion Of sounds, and the tenn
porary relaxation Of business, am
making an effort 70 quiet the uphesying
of all my feelings and drop you a line
appropriate to the occasion.
There is something of the love Of
home brooding over my feelings this
morning / look over the list of mem
bers of the new Legislature of Tenn
essee, and while l find some names
which are new to me, find many that
are old and familiar known to
the history of Tennessee before the re
belion, but which have become doubly
honorable and illustrioas from having
endured to the end" and fought this
wicked rebellion with a courage that
has known no tagging. No man can
charge that the loyal government of
Tennessee is "a hatched-up Yankee
concern" On the contrary, it is graft
flying 10 knew that it is entirely in the
hands Of 5onafds citi8ens-men who
fought treason from its first inception,
and who, when driven from their
homes by its violence, returned with |
guns in their hands to contend for the
majesty and supremacy of their gov
eminent |
The latter thought. ] stated, vas graf |
flying, and while thai, ;s eminently true, |
it leads to another thought which is
humiliating-th thought that we have
in our midst large party of srtreuie
loyalsts (the appellation is probably
original with me, who would deny to
those patriotic men the right of re-
establishing in their owh way and time
the government which they vaiuly
strove to uphold. They are not willing |
to admit the power or right Of 5 State
TO secede, but civil government having
been temporarily oyerthrown, they
seem to regard the State,-if a State at
all, as in a state Of suspended animation,
nor to be invigorated OF terminated by
anything short of the powerful arm of
Congress, and not by the latter un-
til their peculiar notions Of vengeance
and humiliation shall have been &C
commodated. They seem to lose sight
of the fact that the loyal people Of the
State have already been the victims of
vengeance enough!to appease even the
wrath of the angry gods.
But, notwithstanding this faction is
to be met I see nothing to discourage
the good people of Tennessee in their
noble work When the fight comes,
they will not only have President and
Vice-President to vindicate their right
of self-government, but they will be
represented here by men of character
and ability to contend for the impor-
tant truth that as State cannot Sc
cede, Tennessee is not out of the Union,
and that by four years of battling |
against treason and in favor of Consti-
tutional government, they have not
forfeited the right to govern them
selves.
Such week as this has been, never, |
/ presume, occurs more than once in
the history of a nation. The fall Of
Richmond was announced before noon
on Monday, and the scene that follow
ed beggars description. There was a
spontaneous commingliag of huzzas
from almost every conceivable locality. |
Men from shops, stores and depart>
ments rushed into the streets, and,
forming into squads and companies,
turned their faces toward tho War De-
partment, taking in their way the De
partnents of the State and Interior
Interesting and appropriate speeches
we're made by Seward Stanton, Preston
King, Senator Nye, and others, amid
the roaring OF cannon and the peals of
marshal music.A Flsgs> were unfurled
from windows and house -tops-others
were carried through the streets by the
exblling multitudes, and men, some
from the intoxication of joy, and many
from the effects of something stronger
still. embraced each other upon the
highways
Seeing familiar face at one Of the
windova of F. ?. Blair's mansion, and
being unable TO get within hearing
distance of the steps of the War De-
partment / concluded 10 take refuge
in said mansion and see if there was
not JOY there as we'll as elsewhere. l
had scarcely had time to congratulate
the Vice President upon the glorious
news, before discovered that others
had seen the familiar face, and that a
moving mass of humanity was setting
for the mansion.
Yielding to the suggestion that it
was better to attack in open field than
suffer a siege so formidable in a quar-
ter where ventilation wes limited, Mr.
johnson advanced to the ffont-porch,
4 where, after cheer upon cheer had
been given, he proceeded to address
the multitude in his happiest styl do
ing honor to himself and the occasion.
! His great forte as a speaker IL gener-
ally acknowledged to be IN the earnest
simplicity with which be arrays his
blunt, inconiroyertible fscts; but on
this occasion fancy seemed to have
tinged With her magic pencil an array
Of facts which needed not her embel-
lishments to make them overpow-
ering.
"Tell us something about old Tennes-
see," shouted voice in the crowd, after
the speaker had indulged in appropri-
ate congratulations, and alluded 10 the
causes aud consequence Of the rebel
lion in general; and beginning 81
Memphis, ne carried his sudisncs over
the fertile plains Of West, the besuti-