The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-04-03


Congressman should not take up this
bill with the Presidents objections
thereto, for reconsideration, in q pas
sion. 1t is q measure that won't do for
a test Of loyalty and we respectfully
invite members Of the House, who ex-
pect TO be candidates for reelection
next fall, TO make a careful examina-
ton OF it in regard to its fitness for a
platform to run upon.
Politicians must admit that there
still exists, In some quarters, among
white folks, a prejudice against colored
people. This may be a mean thing 20
appeal TO, and we don't appeal to it,
but we mention the fact The prejudice
of which We speak is developed in OBJ
jections TO allowing negroes to our pews
in the churches, or 10 seating them
selves, without consulting the color of
their neighbors, in churches, concert
halls or theatres, in the dining-rooms
of hotels, and elsewhere in the congre-
cations of the people.
COlored schools are established, and
there are persons, who are not traitors,
who think it would not be well to mix
the white and black children in. the
same school rooms We do not know
that either would be hurt by the pro-
cess, but the prejudice against such e
mixture Is, perhaps, pretty strong.
How many wards of Cincinnati, for in-
stance, would cast large msjorities for
the re election of General Hayes and
Benjamin Eggleston to Congress, upon
the ground that they had assisted in
passing over the Presidents veto q
measure hat opened the schools where
the white children are being educated
to the blacks, and not only opened the
schools, but the churches, theatres and
hotels, making all distinction against
color anywhere, according to the estab-
lished customs Of our society, q crime,
punished with severe penalties2
We simply dssire to invite the stten-
ton of those whom it concerns to the
probable value of such a measur as
this, as an electioneering document.
Our apprehension is that it would be
found a very effective mean of elect
ing those who were against it to Office
especially of filling the next Congress
with members expressly pledged to vote
for its repeal. We understand how
much the people have been educated
up" but many who have conquered
their preiudices still retain their senses;
and among that class we believe there
is q decided opinion that the majority
in Congress are not with, or of, their
day and generation. Possibly they may
be ahead, and if so, We fear they are
so far ahead that the living masses they
have left toiling behind, Will refer them
to posterity for appreciation, and take
up with persons not so rapid.
We are in favor of the protection of
the civil rights of the negroes, and Of
giving them fair play in all things, but
we protest against the folly that would,
by a law as odious in its details as the
Fugitive Slave LaW-ofWhich Infamous
statute it is indeed a clumsy copy-at-
tempt TO crush out the independence
of the State Judiciary and summarily
reform customs of the people that are
| stronger than the Law. The law pro-
poses a meddlesome espionage, backed
by arbitrary power, and to hx in our
form of government a system Of imper-
tinent and rasping despotlsm of the
most intoleTable character.
Gentlemen in Congress, w are OPP
posed to the policy Of setting up as the
true party tests, measures that the
Union and Republican parties have,
upon all occasions, when going before
the people, been charged with faVoring,
and which they have thus far steadily
: pudiated We are opposed TO making
such tests of loyalty, that nobody will
be loyal except the old Liberty Party
and the negroes, for in our judgment,
if the country has to depend upon such
a loyal party exclusively for its support,
the day when We shall all have a real
iziug sense of national salvation IS in
definitely postponed,
Few Of the Radical persuasion seem
TO think it worth while to speak re.
specially of the Presidents message
The denunciations heaped upon him
are fast and furious. And yet it must
be admitted by candid men that the
objections urged by the President are
neither trifing in themselves nor often
siye in the n of their presenta-
ton and the concluding paragraphs
of the veto message are not only hap
PLY expressed, but conceived in an ad
mirable spirit that will commend itself
to the country. They embody, too, an
overture for reconciliation with Con-
gress, that the rash managers of that
body cannot afford TO treat contemptu
ously-CH Com.