Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-02-01

IL recent editorial, the New York Times
complains of the bitterness of feeling exist
ing at the Sonth and specially marks ont the
clergy, the women AID the editors as expo
nents Of that sentiment. In reply 10 which
the Richmond Times very pertinently asks
what are the Northern people doing to allay
that sentiment, so natural after four years of
bloody war, in which numbers and resources
have prevailed against the South Wepick
up Northern periodical--it is filled with
libels upon our fellow-citizens, representing
them as cowardly, ignorant and brutal We
read the organs of the Radical party-they
clamor for the blood of our trusted and be-
loved chieftains and demand that our wives
and our little ones be turned cut of their
homes. We examine the debates in Con-
gress, and we see nought but determination
ON the part Of the radical majority to hold
the South as conquered provinces until the
present generation of men have passed away.
Are these things calculated TO restore good
feeling between the sections? to allay bit
terness3 to rebuild what was once the Amer
lean Union? We think not. And the South
ern people feel bitterly the position in which
they are Could il be otherwise with people
who have displayed such valor and ardent
devotion to their Loot cause Kindness, mag
nanimity and the course proposed by Gen.
Sherman at Johnson's surrender would have
done much to harmonic and fraternizet hetwo
sections. President Johnson's policy, if ear
ried out, will effect wonderful change, and,
We hope, restore amity and comfy. But,
from all appearances theparty controlling the
Government seem to care little about such a
result and the bitterness ola few, that should
be buried, seems still 10 rage in the bosoms
Of Radicals. Our good or bad feeling, our
love or hatred, seems TO make but little diff
ference to them--they have got the upper
hand. and evidently intend to treat the eau
casian OF the South as they choose. We
have desparingly hoped that the able and
patriotic man who fills the Presidential chair,
would have stayed this torrent, but we fear
Congress is too strong for him-they endorse
him, and then ride to the Capitol eovertly to
oppose him and defeat his plans-a singular
support truly. As for ourselves, We can
answer, our sympathies are with our people
and their fate, yet not one word displaying
III feeling or hatred Of the Northern people,
as a mass, have we ever penned. There is
not Northern State, we well know, in which
there are not thousands ofnoble, true-hearted
men, for whom we have the highest regard,
and whose hearts beat in unison and sympa-
thy with our own. At the same time our
hatred and contempt for those fanatical
Jacobins, clamorous for the blood Of our
leaders and the eonfiscation of our property !
we do not attempt to disguise IL would be
in exceeding bad taste, after being conquesed |
in battle, for MS 10 resort to feminine wea-
pom, and with our tongues pour forth dia-
tribes upon the Northern people. But the
wicked plans of the Jacohins, ard the knaYe-
~ of fanatics, it is perfectly right and proper
we shonld denonnce; they are legitimate
objects of attack.