Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-09-04
THE LOYAL GOVERNORS IN COIN.
GIL AT PHILADELPHIA.

was held at Toledo, Ohio. 1t was period
Of gloom among the supporters Of the Go
vernment The current Of military events
was adverse and many, previously confident,
began to despair. There was "hurrying to
and fro" among the leaders, and the Presi-
dent, "perplexed in the extreme" to all
appearances had left everything TO Provi-
dence and General MCCLELLAN. At this
crisis when the cause Of the Government
was trembling in the scales of fate, this
iunto Of Governors Of loyal States met, and
Notified the President that unless he promptly
| "laid a strong hand on the negro element"
and made the abolition Of negro slavery the
leading object Of the war, they would, in
their respective States, take steps 10 defeat
the measures Of the Government looking TO
the recruitment Of its armies, and thus leave
it paralyzed, and at the mercy Of the adj
yaneing legions Of the CoHfederacy. In the
turmoil Of the times, this incident did not re-
ceive The condemnation it deserved. 1t was
rank, uunitigated treason to the Constitution
and the laws. twas fragrant rebellion against
theGovernment, and none the less so, because
it was successful. 1t was actual resistance to
the authorities, which threatened in plain,
bold terms 10 commit the Government to
destruction in a certain contingency. 1t
was undisguised revolution, wilfully
and maliciously inaugurated, its authors
giving no justifying complaint of wrong or
oppression, and disdaining to offer any reas-
on but their fell purpose to coerce the Gov
eminent to abandon its position OF the year
before, as taken in the CRITTENDENJoHN
son resolutions, and convert the war into a
grand abolition raid upon the institutions
and property Of the Southern people. This
is history but enough Of it.
We were led TO recur TO 1t, however, from
observing the number of Governors assemb-
ling at Philadelphia TO participate in the
traitorous proceedings which commenced
there on yesterday. One briefclause in the
dispatches gayethe names ofnotless than five
or six who had arrived on Sunday, and the
number will beincreased. They aretobeth the
leading men in the convention, and will dictate
its action; and the object of the present
gathering and that at Toledo in 1862, is
similar. AS in state of war, they COM
PEELED the Government to depart from the
legitimate and declared purpose for which
the war was commenced, and embark
| its resources in a scheme for the
propagation Of certain ideas 50, now,
in state Of peace, they propose to inaugu-
rate another revolution, and threaten the
destruction Of the Government if it does
not conform itself to the views and purpo-
ses Of ultra Radicals and perpetuate a
condition Of things which will afford oppor-
tunity for efiecting revolutionary alterations
in the very form of the Government. They
meet to demand that the Constitution shall
be held in allegiance, until Radical selfish
ness shall be glutted with the spoils of one
half Of the nation, PROSTATE from an unsuc-
cessful attempt at revolution, and "loyaP'
vindictiveness shall have wreaked its fill of
vengeance. They intend to organize for
the object of obstructing the Government
Of arraigning, andi possible, of deposing the
Chief Magistrate of the nation; of exerting
an influence to subsidize and overawe the
| judiciary; of retaining the mischievous ma
jority they now hold in Congress; and of
reOpening the lately closed civil strife if it
shall redeemed necessary for the consumma-
ton of theirwishes. 1t is morally and essenti-
ally unreasonable assembly and needs only the
overt act TO make it amenable to the laws,
and bring its members TO condign punish
ment for their violation. It is a conclave
whose cOunsels are seditious, and whose
avOwed purpose is TO prevent the grand OBJ
lect Tor which the Constitution was formed
"a mere perfect Union"-the preservation
ofpublic tranquility-the administration of
justice land the security of well regulated
liberty. The spirit which moved the falsely
called loyal Governors to threaten President
LINCOLN in the dire extremity Of 1862,
with Withholding supplies unless he yielded
to their abolition demands, prompts the
traitorous Governors Of 1866 and their re-
tanners TO array themselves against Presi-
dent JOHNSON, and to threaten his head if
he does not forsake the path of the Consti-
tuition, and give over the conduct of the
Government TO the pernicious principles
which they hold.
The time is coming when a stern judg-
ment will be visited both on the actors at
Toledo, and those now in session at Phila-
delphia. The former forced compliance
from the yielding and timid Mr.. LINCOLN,
but they have man Of quite different
mettle to deal with, in ANDREW JOHNSON.
He has announced, not by way of boast,
but as the utterance Of a deliberate purpose
sanctioned by the solemn oath he swore on
assuming the seals of his high Office, that
he is not to be intimidated by threats, or
driven from his purpose to execute the laws
in the spirit of the Constitution; and that
he intends to make that Constitution supe-
rior to all the antagonizing forces that may
be brought against it, in the North as well as
in the South. This we believe he will do,
and we think, as he does, that the great ma
jority of the people Of the United States
win support him in any measures, that the
Radical disunionists at Philadelphia, though
they are clothed in The gubernatoriai robes
of great States, may by their reasonable
policy, make it necessary for him to adopt
|
JOHN FoRTYTH, Of the Mobile Register,
SAYS
az am able to state, with knowledge, that
the appearance Of Gen. GRANT at .he Presi-
dents right hand, when he received the
committee appointed at Philadelphia TO
wait on him with the address, was not an
accident without significance. Gen. GRANT
~ heart and soul with the Conservative
saegau9fnt aud his inarane. Is nniantial
with all classes here
We are pleased to learn that our old
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