Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-04-29
SENATOR FOWLER.

One Of the Senators elect TO the Congress.
Of the United States from Tennessee, 10.
sEPH 5. FOWLER, umquhile professor o.
mathematics in several colleges and acade-
mics Of this State, of local repute, and pre-.
vious to the turmoil in public affairs which
began 10 bring unknown and inferior men
into high positions, quiet and decorous
citizen, doing his humble, but serviceable
chores, passably well, has written letter tc
brother Radical in this city, which has
been published. We had thought to print
what manner Of man we have for a Senator
for it affords pretty accurate measure Of
his capacity, having in it about as much
sense and craftsmanship as one might find
on opening at random upon a page of the
rhapsodic foolery Of Ralph Waldo Emerson
or a paragraph from one Of the speeches Of
Carl Schurz, which procured him the com.
mission of Major General, at the instance oil
the crew Of moon-struck abolitionists who
manipulated such appointments, but re-
reading of this weak dilution of nonsense
better said by ADLER men, deters us from in
hicting it on our readers. The mass of the
people of Tennessee have very little inter
est in what Senator FOWLER may write, or
say, or do, either now or after he shall occu-
Ply his place in the Senate. They know that
he is given over to Radicalism, and is a
latter-day saint Of Republication. So
far as they are concerned with him, the
vacant chair in that floor would better repre-
sent the State, and they are only solicitous
that his term may expire. 4 seatonce filled
by ANDREW JACKSON, HUGH /. WHITE,
JOHN BELL and FELIX GRUMPY is a world
too wide" for men of the calibre of Mr..
FOWLER and if he is not conscious of it,
the people are. The wonder is that such a
man should consent to shock the public
sense of propriety by presuming to aspire to
such position, but having witnessed this
piece of assumption, they are not surprised
that he should attempt to lecture them in
the style of the letter referred to.
We can no more afford to comment at
length upon this ridiculous farrago Of non
sense, than, publish it. 1t may suffice to say,
that it lauds the Radicals Of the Legislature,
and exhorts them to continue in their mis-
chievious ways, and for their delectation and
encouragement, informs them that MOSES
and PAUL MARTIN LUTHER snd GROIN
WELL, nay even, that the SAVIOR OF MEN,
JESUS CHRIST, was a Radical. lie says
this Legislature is the first that ever assem-
bled in this State to act for the people-all
previous bodies of that sort being shams and
impostures; that a new and immortal life ="
is now to be given to the State; that its
members were appointed to do jus
tice," and TO shut their eyes and
stop their ears to all suggestions of
compromise. Justice, too, which has here
tofore been symbolized as a blind female,
with balances in hand and sword untitled,
he describes as the thunderbolt of Jove,
purifyingand blasting, and thereislittle doubt
that in such hands as his and those of his
fellow-radicals it will do more blasting than
purifying. lie makes the astounding an
nouncement also that there is such a being
as mana real being-transient in this
world, but in the universe Of God, everlast-
ing" Most people were aware of the fact
before, and many have been under the i'm
preston that this world" was itself a
part of the universe Of God" but if this
portion Of it continues much longer under
the rulership Of Radicals, the sapient Sena-
tors view of the case may prove correct.
He states another fact that is somewhat
calculated to alter heretofore accepted views
Of things, and that is, that the war was not
fought for territorial integrity or vulgar
dominion, i. e. .he dominion Of the Con-
.titution and the laws, but for the interests
Of man :" and upon this point he makes his
nonsense antithetical and sublime after this
fashion,-"on the one side says he, ''wasl love
Of dominion over man; on the other love of
humanity 1t was false utility against real
excellence"
But it is time TO stop. Absurd rigmaroles
written or spoken by weak men trying to
grasp the shadow Of vague thoughts pro-
icctcd, perhaps in lunatic moment, from
some really great intellect, have a climax,
and FowLER's attempt to describe the late
war as a contest between false utility and
real excellence" is one Of them.
Mr. FOWLER has the reputation of being
good at fl CURES" and he is doubtless more
apt in analytical geometry than in solving
the problems presented in affairs Of Govern
ment lie can make character by cultiva-
ting the genius Of silence and during his
senatorial career modestly admitting the
mediocrity to which Nature has condemned
him.