The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-12-31
From WASHINGTON.
Correspondents Ofths Nashville Union.

CarEesponscnoe Of the Nashville Union.
WASHINGTON, Dec. p. 1855.
1t is 8 difficult task for a speaker o.
writer to arrange his thoughts in tn,
mind 50 that when be begins to speak
or write, the attention Of the minds o.
those addressed may be engaged and
liked. To express matters in a solemn
tone and style viii please only those
who feel in that mood. To be Joyous
joyful, gleeful even &c be Joyous Of q
conquest early won, when we may
have thought that there was 8 longin 2
for that conquest, will be pleasing to
those only who chance to be in the
proper mood
Ithss occurred 10 the writer, that with
any other form and spirit of govern
ments than the ones We have, the ef-
forts made in the five last years to dis
solve them, would have succeeded in
their overthrow and ruin, and in the
mighty fall have crushed the hope Of
liberty. There is q divinity that
shapes our end, rough hew it as we
may" The triumph Of the cause of
the Union is not the triumph Of one
section over another but it is the VIC
tory Of truth and Of happiness; it is the
radical netamorphosing of the ideas
and sentiments Of the vast mass, aggre-
gate and individual, in each and every
section It is no matter how radical
this change, 80 that liberty, individual
and cOngregsted, and the power and
strength, capacity and virtue of COVER
ments, and integrity Of the people, are
preserved either wholly or with the
power Of reforming and purging an d
cleansing The South has conquered
itself Has brought itself into subjec-
ton 70 the great principle Of obedience
to that high law Of yielding 10 cOnsti-
tuted authority. Why not rejoice that
we have been saved from total RUM
Why not shout in mournful gladness
that the laws Of the United States have
been restored, and that ere long our do.
l-.'stic affairs will be reconstructed on
the pad basis Of equal rights, and the
SapAcity local governments TO act in
harmony VIA, the more general and
extended gover,,ept,
Never in the histoi If this country
has the office of Chief .l,gistr.to ..
the Union presented so mucl. the snac
taole Of the father of a great i.-a,l,,
with experience in the affairs of g.
world, who had met the storms Of life
as at present He sits from day to da,
in the Executive Chamber, and will
patience and dignity, listens to the ap
plications for mercy, responds to thos
applications ss justice, truth and mere,
demand and he also listens to th,
complaints Of erring, petted, and some
times spoiled children, coming to hin
from the East and from the West, thu
South and the North. And if he car
in justice to the other members of tn,
family, he removes the causes of com
paint Even when some intellectual
grave senator will venture to take issu,
with this head of-the family, on mat
tiers Of deep concern 20 the whole PEG
pie, some gentle word from the sam,
party organ, will suggest to that senator
or senators to pause snd beware, les
they are wrong and the head Of tn,
household is right This is not fancy
or Imagination. These are facts. Blu
still further See how the impetuou
and fiery, yet kind-hearted Secretary o
War yields 10 the dictaGon Of thi
father of the family. With what grac,
does the Northumberland respond
TO the interrogatories, and obey all the
commands OF his constituted superior
and when the President suggests Il
the Head Of the Bureau that his war
rant Of pardon carries restitution o.
land, the General Yields and submits tc
authority. This is the great safe guard
in these times Of trouble, that the
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