The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-03-23
FRIDAY, MARCH %. Is6S.

Mr. sherman, Senator from Ohio,
made 8 speech at Bridgeport, Conn,
on the evening Of the 18th inst In
the course of it he spoke of President
Johnson's speech on the 22d nit. as the
unfortunate speech" In tie opinion
of Mr.. Sherman the speech may have
been unfortunate but when history
records its sober, deliberate Judgment,
1t will pronounce the speech most "for-
tunate." 1t was not made in a moment
Of excitement or passion, but coolly
and deliberately and to accomplish
q certain purposes. The President
knew when he made it, and remarked
Immediately after he closed, that it
would give offence in certain quarters.
Critics affecting oyer nice taste, and
men who did not agree with him; 9TH
ers fearful to speak boldly lest some
one might be hurt, would object to it,
but the great masses, the com
mon people"-the "bone and sin
CIV" Of the nation, the men who do
the fighting and the greater part Of
the voting, they would understand and
appreciate it. Men of this class, for
whose reading the speech was made,
will not, like Senator Sherman, regard
the speech as unfortunate" any more
than they regarded the visiting of the
rebels of Georgia and South Carolina
by General Sherman with fire and the
sword as unfortunate" Wade Hamp-
ton, Bob Toombs, and other chiyAlrous
knights, who could see nothing wrong
in rebellion and treason, in hanging
Union men and destroying the pro
perty of adherents to the National
cause, thought every thing Gen. Sher-
man did unfortunate from the time
ne moved upon Atlanta till he swept
down to Savannah, thence TO ka
leigh, and received the surrender Of
Joe Johnston. Well, what he did
was unfortunate" for them and their
followers; and, IN the same way, the
speech Of President johnson. was "an-
fortunate for Mr.. Sherman and the rad
icals who are in rebellion against the
Constitution of the United States, and
against the beat interests of the Gun
try.
President johnson has been noted
al his life for making just such '%'unfor-
uunste speeches. He did it whilst in
the State Legislature, again whilst IN
Congress as q representative from the
Greenyills district in his canvass for
Governor an 1859, when he threw of
the trsmmels Of party and went before
the people on his own policy, and
again when he astonished the school
men, and college bred writers by the
"condities Of his Inaugural. And la
TER, when in the United States Senate,
he measured arms with the secession
leaders, and won the plaudits Of the
common people by his heroic defence
of the Union and the Constitution.
lie contracted the habit early
and it is too late for him
Il reform now. Mr.. Sherman must,
therefore, excuse kim and when,
hereafter, the President unfortunately
denouuces treason as treason, rascahty
as r~ascality, and declines to waste am
munition on deceased game, he must
consider his tendencies to the "unfor-
tunate and palliate them by the re-
Election that although the learned and
the wise. the nice and the s%crupulous,
the elegant and the fastidious may
very gravely criticise, the common herd
the poor whites and all who
aprung from them-aPprove, and that
their appreciation is worth more than
dat Of ali other classes combined.