Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1865-07-24
The presldent,s PoIicy-Tcnnessec.


We clip the following portion of con
tribution from the Nashville Union, of the
goth inst. It appears in loaded type, and
would be considered an editorial if IL had not
been printed over tho nom dc pinme-'one
of the people, .." ... -. ' Nh
At no time in the history of Tennessee has
so much of interest to the people been con-
nected with congressional election as with
the approaching one. Hitherto, whore our
people have been called upon to select Con-
gressmen, our State has occupied clearly
define position and relation to the Govern.
ment. Now, after four years Of rebellion
tionship destroyed. II is true Tennessee is
not, and has not been, out Of the Union.
But IL is equally true, that there is in the
Congress large party who maintain that
our State can mover be readmitted TO repre-
sentation in that body, until certain terms
and conditions which they seek to impose
are accepted by us, '' ~ =, - H..
Upon this question our Chief Magistrate
occupies a position upon which every loyal
Tennesseean should rally. Candidates for
Congress who oppose his Administration do
so because Of their hostility to the measures
by which the rebellion was overthrown.
They claim to be, and may be Union men;
but such Unionism would never have crushed
out rebellion. While Northern impracticables
and fanatics seek, upon one hand, to embar.
rass the reconstruction policy of the Presi.
don't, and to impose upon US conditions not
Of our choosing, these men, If elected, will,
by making war upon him in their own direc'
tion, become the efficient allies Of the fanat
les Of the North. But it is ever the case
that ''extremes meet"
Giddings and Hale and Sumner could never
have affected the security Of slavery but fol
the aid given by Yancey, Rhett, and Wig
fall. The President stands to-day as the
great exponent of conservatism in recon-
struction. What we, as loyal Tennesseaus,
need to do is TO sustain him To do this we
must elect members of Congress who will
| support and not Hssail him Suppose that
Gov Campbell or Emerson Etheridge should
be elected. OF what earthly use could they
be to the people of Tennessee? What senti
ment would they represent The scntimen
only of opposition to President johnson
And does not every person know that nine
teen twentieths of the men in Tennessee VIII,
are to-day opposed to Johnson's reconstruc'
tion policy are, or have been, rebels! .,s..
| But what can Campbell or Etheridge nc
complish for even such men as thesel They
denounce President Johnson's policy Of re
construction, consequently cannot be expected
to act with him. All in Congress, save tn,
radicals, accept the Presidents policy. Ii
making war with them upon this policy, they
necessarily cooperate with the radicals
Should negro suffrage be imposed upon us, a
prerequisite to representation in Congress
against our will, it will be because the peopl
have failed to support the President in tn
position he has taken, and the policy he ha
inaugurated. We must needs bo practical
We need men in Congress who will sustain tn
President on this question; men who ar
qualified by their position to wiold an inar
enco in that body.