The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-02-02
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY ?, 1866.

The Press and Times. of ves,e-5.-
expresses the confident belief thai The
article which appeared in our loosl
columns last Tuesday morning in ub;cb
an extract was made from a letter Of
Col Stokes, one of our delegates to
congress did that gentleman great in.
justice IN representing him as contro-
Ferfmgt the ststements of the memoir
ais OF the Immortal Dozen" Our
contemporary add:
We karc Ue sf,oo.,.f n4s.-o-,s HsfI,
80 nor eeafr0vcrf them, Bat on hc contrary,
@~anttefcs and con fras Nosl, IA erert
es1.iat p0iHf. and that, 50 far from regard
Hg tne anahors as faetionists, he looks upon
mem Ne gentlemen 1ssEsse patriotism T. MOI
- % DOUBTED, nor their MOTIVES inpugueG."
Possibly Col. Stokes may have deemed tbe
puoliesticn Of the Memorials "iaerpedienf'
but we are sure that he-does not Question
eaeeuacyoftbeir leading statements.
A disclaimer Is also ventured in be.
hslEOf- Hon Jos S Fowler, though
nothing Is hazArded respecting Mr.. Nav.
nard Why this difference? Has Mr..
Maynard been too strong in his epis.
atolary confidence for any attempt to
be made to explain away the meaning
Of bis langusge2
But about Col Stokes That he con.
demned the memorials is very evident
from his tetters We have seen several.
sRdin one of them did he substan.
tate or confirm the memorials in
any respect, OF express any opinion
that they were simply einexpedientr
If he had done 50 he would have But
himself in the category, Tin which the
memorials, in the opinion Of the Anti
Slavery Standard, placed Andrew John
son } of sndeaEOring to get Tennessee
admitted under false p~retences." Col
Stokes Is too honorable to be guilty o.
anything Of this character.
We fear someone has been playine
upon the credulity Of our contempora,
y. If he will Investigate closely, he
viii ind out ths. when Col Thomas
arrived in Washington, bearing the
precious freight intrustsd to his care
By the lmmortals, he and Senator
Spence had a consultation with Messrs
Stokes, Maynard and Fowler, and
found that all of them condemned the
memorials, and that President John.
son declared they could be productive
OF nothing but "aisehig, aud ought moi
10 have been sent there. They would.
O. cas- qdgsad. have been gnotiered, al
wOFtheless puppies are, had they moi
been published here in the Press and
Times We doubt whether the authors
have any well founded assurance now
that the ReeonstFuctieR Committed
have been presented with their bant
ling bat, If they have, the fact may be
attributed to its appearance frat in the
newspapers
We have never knoWna more imper
tinent or inexcusable piece of inter.
NEEDING than these memorials. There
Was no warrant for them whatever
Nobody had asked K. them; no one
wanted such things except those who
were eager 10 get an excuse for pro
scribing the State. If they were not
conceived in a spirit Of mischief moth.
ing but mischief could come Of them
And in the expressive language of one
Of our delegation writing from Wash
ington, they did play the very devil
with the chances Of TennesseAns to
seats in Congress, for the present, per
haps for two years.
If Tennessee is admitted this spring
il will be due to the fidelity Of Presi
dent Johnson TO the good old common
wealth which he has SO much honored
and which has greatly honored him
The Marplots here can claim no par
nor lot in the work.