Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-20
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lie halls from the State of Pennsylvania,
and is a devout follower of TEADDEUs
STEVENS. His political life is sustained by
the crumbs that fall from the table of TRAD
DEUS. He is one of the scullions who do
the dirty work of the Radical kitchen. He
serves up the dishes with which his masters
entertain their guests, and provides the In
gradients which give them their unctious
and aromatic favor. To furnish these he
occasionally resorts TO the country-bringing
from distance the precious exotics that do
not flourish at home. In this way he sell
dom fails TO make savory dish-aibeit he
has corps Of faithful hlIcksters to gather up
and transmit from all the highways and by
ways Of politics those choice bits and scraps
upon which the Radical appetite most de-
lights 10 feed.
IL is this person who is our guardian. Our
Governor has given him the letters thereun-
to qualifying him. When the President, in
December, announced his purpose to admin
lister the Government upon the Constitution
as his sole guide, and followed it up by
pardoning few more rebels, and in
endeavoring TO make the whole country
unit as well as a Union by iusfand patri-
otto line of administrative policy, ourexemp-
larry Governor despatched our guardian
aletter. When the President had vetoed
the Bureau bill, delivered his 22d February
speech, and, on other occasions, denounced
the unconstitutional, unpatriotic and unwise
course Of the latter day disunionists, aud
after the 22d February mass convention in
this city, and the abrupt termination of the
proceedings Of our State Legislature, the
Governor indites another epistle to Hon.
VIM. d. Kelley, guardian, etc. This letter
contains some rare and dainty tit-bits for the
Radical cuisine. Take the following for
example:
DEAR SIR I send you a copy of my PROCLAIM
ton, from which you will learn that faction Of
twenty-One disOrganiZers here, in the true spirit
OF the late ubiquitous rebellion. have Withdrawn,
and reduced our House of Representatives below
a quorum. / need not add further remarks, as
the proclamation fully discusses the point at issue
On Saturday last the election of county officers
took place Throughout the State, as Clerks. Sher-
ifs, Justices Trustees and Tax Collectors; and in
Middle and West Tennessee the Rebels have
made clean sweep. turning the Union men out,
and electing their own candidates. who election
eered for Office on the ground that they were
Rebels, and had either served in the Rebel army,
or in some other capacity had given their infu
ence 10 the cause Of treason and traitors.
When L put the President in nomination at
Baltimore for the Vice President, / felt that he
had so thoroughly committed himself TO the Union
nd had ly ad NV he
bes, II was impossible for him ever TO get around
70 them again; but give him up as lost TO the
Union party, and as the man who is TO head the
rebels and Democrats. Every rebel in all this
country, every Mcclellan man, and every ex
guerrilla chief. are loud and enthusiastic in praise
Of the President.
There is twice the amount Of bitterness and
intolerance in the South to-day toward the Union,
and everything Northern, that was at the time of
Lees surrender. Abuse of Union men. of the
Radical majority in Congress, and self-assumed
superiority ion the part of Southern ehivalry,
have arisen to such a height that loyal men can
not travel on a steamboat. or in a railroad car.
why, sir many of them are expecting the
President To dlSperSe Congress with the bayonet,
as Cromwell dispersed the long Parliament. The
Southern heart is rapidly being fired to deeds of
war; and all this, and more, as believe. has been
caused by the mistakes of the President. His
plan of trusting rebels with the State Government
has had an effect exactly the opposite of what he
intended. IL has ruined the prospects of the
Union men, and they feel that there is no safety
for them, unless Congress shall choose TO protect
them"
This was dated on the Sth of this month,
and with the rest gSes duly up, smoking hot,
to the Radical tablesiat Westinghouse be
redistributed throughout the North.
The positions of Congress and the Presi-
dent are so well known, that the design of
these gubernatorial letters to Mr.. KELLEY
cannot possibly be misinterpreted. That
their design is to array the people of the
North against the President; to keep up strife
and discord in the South; to perpetuate the
Government as a mere party machine, and
as a charitable Institution for the benefit of
a set of place-holders, who have no real or
legitimate hold on the popular sympathy,
there can be but little doubt.
1t is within the power of the Governor at
any moment to change all this. His fellow
citizens of this State who fought for South
ern independence, are as true to the consti-
tutional Union of the fathers as he can pos
sibly be. They are law and order people.
If need be they will protect and defend his
authority in his present Office. If he will
do them justice and cease the calumnies that
he is perpetrating upon them, he might yet
obtain their respect and even their conf
dence. Most of them give him credit for
honesty of burpose-but ali know he is most
egregiously in error. More than three
fourths of the people of the State are oppos-
ed to Radicalism, and are the supporters of
the President; but that does not make them
any more disloyal than others, throughout
the whole country, who take the same view.
Gov. Brownlow is fighting phantom for a
reality. 1t is the scene of the wind-mills
re-enacted. If he is as wholly infatuated as
Quixette, argument is thrown away; but we
cannot help saying that he is doing himself
and his faithful squires the greatest harm,
and nobody any good.