Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-01-13

From the Memphis AEalazrhel
l The people ef the South must stand By
their friends The men that have been tried
aad fsund faithful are. the men 20 Be trusted.
Those who risked all-losf all+-should be
| preferred % those whe shirked all If We
lived North We would sooner elect ts pf7;ce
those outsqoken, honest men. who fou,,ht for
principle they loved, than that Siass Of
men who timidly excused taemsslve YES from,
sharing a common danger. The Northerp
people are sustaining the men who offered
their lives as 3 sacrifice for the pFe5ervation
| of the Union, and the same ennobiinr feeling
Of gratitude viii induce the southern people
to stand by those who offered themselves a.
martyrs 10 q cause which had been espoused
| with such singular unanimity and enthu-
siasm. The effort being made % disfran-
chise and TO brand with infan1y. the brave
men' who rushed forward with their live, Il,
their hands and sfroye to mako triun,phant
the edicts Of the people, and 70 give the
South over 10 the sueaks, will prove dis
graceful failure. The late rsbellicn was the
spontaneous uprising of the people. Et was
nes, however, the sudden impalss Of mad
dened passions, for the. people Of the South,
tor thirty years. in their public meetings and
through their Lesislatnres Threatened the
very thing which has occurred, in the event
OF the election OF 3 SECTIONAL candidate 10
the Presidency. The people 9ere she Lead
ers-all parties aud all classes went into the
contest with y;m and enthusiasm that
swept over the country like mighty whirl-
Wind. But few votes were given In any
Southern State against secession. All are
alike guilty and the effort TO make a few
men responsible for the war Is scandalous
il il shameful, il is disgracef,l. ~
But we sre reioiced to see and kno,r that
this effort 10 degrade these true men az the
South, emanases mostly from little class of
small-fry demagogues, who hope to retain Of
fee, or to lift themselves into power, by war
ring upon theeherished idols of the Southern
people. In fact there il q general rattlinr
among the dry bones Of the old fogies. The
fossil remains, the picked skeletons Of old
Consolidation Federalism,- men who
never had throb of sympathy with thepeo-
Pile, are turning over in their mouldy collins
snd scrambliug 10 gee out. Sems Of these
spawned hacks have already craxied oct.
and Is they bask in the sunshine Of fancied
power, they hiss at the true men Of the South
with all the venom Of iafuriated vipers. But
these tooshless old crestrres are knawing a
file. The people of the South have been de-
feated-they propose no further resistance
TO the enforcement Of the laws and TO the in
tegrity of the Union; but that is no reason
that they should spit upon their true men,
and foster that class whose only recomnen-
dati0n is their. nOthingness. They shorld.
aye, they will prefer men who bravely fought
for a principle, and then gracefully surren-
dered when il was no leuger possible 20 de
fend that principle ON the bastlefeld, 20 the
contemptible trimmers whose pluck shrunk
within interest, and whose vaasted Ieyal-
ty was only the virtue of wanting oour-
age to encounter danger. IngratinIde
is the meanest trait in the human
character, and the South Is not base enough
to join in this unholy effort to brand with
shame the men who have sympathised with
her people in the terrible struggle through
which she has passed--the men who have
suffered with them in the agonizing defeat
they have endured--men who fought brave
ly, but have honestly accepted the conse-
quences of defeat. and renewed their LOYALTY
to the Union. The Government has moth
ing 10 fear from such men. Indeed. II the
present Congress was composed Of soldiers
who stood the shock of battle, we would
soon have union and harmony between the
estranged sections. The Federal soldier
has shown a high-hearted magnanimisy,
while every effort to persecute the South has
emanated from men who never smelt "vil-
lainous gunpowder;p and this proposition
10 degrade the Southern soldier comes from
a contemptible little squad Of noisy, fnssy
squirts, who hope to reach power BY ira
ducing those whose only fault consists in
having been true to a cause in the defense Of
which the purest blood of the South has
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