The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-01-11
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WIN. CAHEROS q CO., Publishers.
TEuRsDAY, JANUARY II. 1896.
sOv. Andrew and the Rebel Leaders.

they ought to be prevailed upon L
participate in all measures of reorgan
izatiOn, because they have the conf
denoe Of the masses, and can win then
to the support Of any proper polio.
which the Government may regard a
necessary to secure indemnity agains
future rebelions We make the fol
lowing extract, on this subject, from
his farewell address to the Legislatur,
of his State:
And would have all these questions
save the fifth-the disposition of which
is regulated by the Federal Constitu
tion--put to the vote Of the People them
selves We should neither be satisfied
with the action Of the conventions
which have been held, nor with what
is termed the loyal vote We want
the popular vote. And the rebel vote
Is better than the loyal vote, if on the
right side II it is not on the right
aide, then fear those States are inca-
pable at the present Of Reorganization;
the proper power of the Union GOV
ernment is not restored, the people OF
those States are not prepared to assume
their original functions with safety 10
the Union; and the state of war still
exists; for they are oontumacious and
disobedient to the Just demands of the
I nion, disOwning the Just conditions
! precedent to reorganization.
We are desirous of their reorganiza-
ton, and to end the use of the war
power. But l am confident we cannot
reorganize political society with any
proper security: l. Unless we let in
the people to cooperation, and not
merely an arbitrarily selected portion
of them ,. Unless we give those who
are, by their intelligence and character.
the natural leaders of the people, and
who surely will lead them BY and by,
an opportunity 10 lead them now.
/ am aware that it has been a favorite
dogma in many quarters, ''A0 Rebel
Voter" Butt is impossible in Ger
tain States to have aHy voting by white
men, if only loyal men II e, those
who continued SO, during the rebellion,
are permitted to vote. This PROPOSE
ton Is so clear that the President
adopted the expedient Of assuming
that those who had not risen above GER
tain civil or military grades in the rebel
public service, and who had neither in
herited nor earned more than certain
amount Of property, should be deemed
and taken to be sufficiently harmless
to be intrusted with the suffrage in tie
work Of reorganization. Although there
Is some reason for assuming that the
less conspicuous and less wealthy classes
of men had less to do than their more
towering neighbors in conducting the
States into the rebellion and through
it-still | do not imagine that either
wealth or conspicuous position, which
are only the accidents of men, or at
most, only external incidents, affect the
substance Of their characters. / think
the poorer and less significant men who
voted, or fought, for Southern Inde-
pendence had quite as little love for
''the y ankees, quite as much preiu-
dice against the Aboitionists," quite
as much contempt for the cNlored man,
and quite as much Gisloyalty at heart,
as their powerful neighbors.
The true question is, now, not of past
disloyalty, but of present loyal purpose.
We need not try TO disguise the fact,
that we have passed through a qrsat
popular rerolHi0H Ersrybody IN the rebel
Statss igas diSloVaL Nth exceptions zoo tee
and far bet5gseu 70 comprise loyal force,
sufficient TO constitute tie STATE, ers7i Holc
that ths arBliss Of the Rebellion are oUsr-
tbr0,0a Do not let US deceive ourselves.
The truth is, the public opinion of the
white race,in the South was in favor of
the rebellion. The colOred people
sympathized with the Union cause. To
the extent Of their intelligence, they
understood that the success Of the
South meant their continued slavery;
that an easy success OF the
North meant leaving slavery Just where
we found it: that the war meant, if it
lasted long enough-theiF emancipa-
ton. The whites went to war and
supported the war; because they hoped
10 succeed in it, since they wanted, or
thought they wanted separation from
the Union, for Southern Independ.
enee.' There were, then, three great
interests-there were the Southern
whites, who as 3 body, wished for what
they called "Soutaern Independence
the Southern blacks, who desired eman-
cipation; the people of the loyal
States" who desired to maintain the
constitutional rights and the territorial
integrity of the nation. Some Of US in
the North had a strong hope, which by
the favor of God has not been disap-
pointed, out of onr defence of the Union
10 accomplish the deliverance Of our
fellow men in bondage. But the "louaE
idea included emancipation, not for its
own sake, but for the sake OF the Union
if the Union could be saved or sery-
ed by it. There we're many men in the
those known as loyal
who did not IKE to incur the re
spousibility Of war against the Union,
or who did not think the opportune
moment had arrived TO fight "the
North" or in whose hearts there was
"a divided allegiance. But they were
not the positive men. They were, with
very few exceptions, not the leading
minds, the cOursgeous men, the i'm
pressiye and powerful characters,-
they were not the young and active
men. Aud when the decisive hour
came, they went 70 the wall No mat
ter what they thought or how they
felt, about it, they could not stand, or
they would not stand--certAinly they
did not stand against the storm. The
Revolution either converted them, or
swept them OF their feet Their own
sons volunteered. Taey became in
yolyed in al the consequences of the
war. The Southern people-as a peo-
ple-fought, toiled, endured, and per
severed, with s courage, = unsnimity
and a persistency, not outdOne b. any
people in any Revolution. There was
never an acre Of territory Abandoned
70 the Union while It coLld be held by
arms There was never a rebel regi-
meut surrendered 20 the Union arms
until resistance was overcome by force;
or q surrender was compelled by the
stress of battle, or Of military strategy.
The people OF the South, men and
women. soldiers and civilians, Volgn-
teers and conscripts, in the army and
at home, followed the fortunes of the
rebellion and obeyed its leaders, so
long as it he'd any fortunes or any
leaders. TheiT young men marched
up to the cannon mouth, thousand
times, where they were moved down
ike grain By the reaPers when the
harvest is ripe. Some men had the
faculty, and the faith in the rebel cause,
to become its leaders The others had
the faculty and the faith to follow
them
All honor to the loy1 few But do
not regard the distinction between
loyal and disloyal persons Of the white
race, residing n the South during the
rebellion, as being, for present pur-
poses, s prGclioel distinction.
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