Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-04-26
A FACT AND IFS LEssoN.

Political schemers are wilfully and wick
edly delaying the work of reuniting the
people of the two sections lately at war with
each other. This has been said hundred
times, and is being exemplifed from day to
day, but it must and shall be repeated until
the people can free themselves, and rising
in their might, put down the unprincipled
men whose chief employment is the concoc-
ton Of plots to prolong the evil the people
are laboring 20 remove.
An illustration Of the tendency to frater-
nal forgetfulness of dissension and strife, and
the temper in which the true-hearted SOL
diers on either side of the recent contest are
disposed TO manifest, was brought to our at
tention yesterday, and we note il that those
higher in place, and wiser in their own con-
ceit, may learn a lesson from ii. In an es-
Enlistment in Georgia for the manufacture
Of artificial legs and arms, there are working
side by side, two young men, both of whom
lost a leg at the battle of Antietam-one
fighting under LEE, the other under McCLEI-
Ian. Both of them use artificial limbs
made in the factory in which they are en-
ployed. The misfortune they are the sub
lccts of compelled them 10 skill Themselves
in this species Of mechanism to earn liveli-
hood. They fought, and bled, and suffered.
Theymet once as foes. They now mingle as
friends. At one time Mars being in the as
cendant, their effort was to destroy each
other. Under the star of peace, whose reign
they thought inaugurated when armies were
dispersed, they mutually forgive and forget
luminosity, and join their labors in relieving
the calamities which befell themselves and
their comrades. They once made wounds
Now they bind them up.
What relief this anxious nation would
experience if those in control Of public af-
fairs were possessed Of the same spirit that
actuates these two soldier-boys. Simple
hearted and earnest when hurtling squad
rons rushed to conflict, they are simple
hearted and honest now in attempting to
make the peace which they fought to obtain,
as perfect as possible. No distractions about
the rights Of man"-no stuff about the ne
cessity for protecting "loyalists"-no non
sense about the 'life of the nation being
yet imperilled at the hands of rebels-no
questions about new guarantees to "civil
rights no concern about the negro as the
pet child of government or thought of him
other than the knowledge that he is free
and only as free as they are-no de-
sire for anything in the restored
Government of the country other than it
was before the war, vexes their minds, or
halts, so far as they are concerned, the work
of making this nation what its people want
it to be. And what is true of them is equal
ly applicable to the people in every section.
The third-rate men that the last few wears
have foisted upon the country as its law-ma-
kers, and who are sensible that state of
peace, and the soberness of the public mind
which attends it would promptly eject them
from the places they are unfit to fill, are the
studious and malicious contriyers of the OBJ
stacles to peace, concord, and unity. The
great duty of the people, if they would pre-
serve their Government and its blessings for
themselves and their posterity, is to banish
these men from place, and thereby give
tranquility to the popular mind, reinstate
confidence, reestablish credit, and reunite
man to man, family to family, State to State,
and section to section in the triple bonds of
interest, affection and duty