The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-07-23
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Ine Issue Before Tue rtOpie.
There is no Disgusting the fact, that
there is an element Of deepest interest
70 the people OF Tennessee and the
Union connected with the approaching
congressional election in this State
For four years past our country has been
involved in q conflict, more sanguinary
than auy war known TO modern times
We have only to look around as, TO any
quarter Of our broad land 10 see the
direfui evidences of the calamities
which have been visited upon US as a
people. The nation has incurred a
debt more siupendous in lie proportions
than had ever been dreamed of by our
statesmen. Our commerce has been
crippled cur fertile fields have been
desolntcd by the blackening track Of
war Cur towns and cities have been
lighted up by the lurid glare Of eonhagra-
ton. Go where you will upon street or
highway yoa see in the MANNED bodies
OF your countrymen evidences pair fully
palpable OF the shock Of war Upon
every Hill and in every valley you
stumble upon the little grass
grown mounds where sleep the
bodies Of our noble young men who
marshaled under one banner or the
other, fell as heroes fighting for the
cause which they had espoused. Our
churches and our houses are filled with
our sisters decked in those sable weeds
which oulwardly symbolize the woe
which the widowed heart can feel, but
can utter only in the intelligent ear Of
the widows God. From oneend off
land TO the other The public ear must
hear tie cry which increasingly comes
up from the hundreds of thousands of
orphaned oues who are henceforth the
children Of the State" These are
some Of the effects Of the strife through
which we have passed, and which ali
good men must hope is ended. All
progress in human events is at the cost
Of labor and suffering. The war Ehich
has desolaied our land has established
certain facts and principles in our social
and political systems, which the slow
progress Of many years Of peace would
have been required 10 evolve. Those
facts snd principles have been establish
ed, but if we would have an end Of the
strife, IL We would have q return TO the
era OF peace, We must accept those facts
and principles az established To resist
the conclusions 10 which the war has
led us, is 10 continue the strife. To
continue the strife Is TO invoke again
the bloody abitrsment Of IhS sword and
she stern exercise Of power. No sane
man can suppose for one moment that
the national authority viii ever be
Withdrawn while there is semblance
Of opposition 10 that authority. Among
the facts, is the extinction Of slavery
The issue row 10 be determined
by the people is, Shall these conclu- |
siOns be accepted Those who have |
srrayed themselves Egainst the ad- |
ministration in this contest in
wife the renewal Of strife, or at |
least invoke the continuance Of mil
itsry power in the country. They do
this BY resisting the conclusions 10
which we have referred. Resistance
Al this day, whatever il may have been
heretofore, is nothing but madness and
folly. What end is 10 be attained BY
ity What can be accomplished there.
by3 Nothing but 10 prolong those sue
ferings which have already fallen 50
heavily upon the country Then in the
name Of that country we invoke good
citizens everywhere 10 cease that fac
tious opposition, which can only be
productive Of evil and Is besides as un-
manly as L is unwise.