Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-05-03
LOYALTY" PHOTOGRAPHY BY
COL. GARRETT.

From the card of Col. GARRETT, an officer
Of the Federal army during the war-one
Of the members Of the late House of Repre-
sentatives who opposed the Franchise bill
and now the legally elected Senator from
the 10th Senatorial district, we extract the
| following excoriation of some of the Radi-
cal notabilities of the Senate and House of
Representative. If it were worth while, we
might say, 'Let CALLED jades VINCE" but we
are inclined to think the men referred to,
are, for the present, beyond the wincing
point 1t will come one ofthese days, how
| ever:
All these 0utrages, fellow-citizens, are
committed upon your rights and privileges
in the name and under the cloak Of loyalty
TO the Government of the Uuited States. To
prove the falsity of which, it is only neces-
sary to inquire who the leaders of this Rad
ical party are, and what they were doing
during the war.
Where was Mr.. Arnell? Tanning leather
for the Confederate army. Where was Mr..
Mullins, and what was he doing? Making
speeches to the Confederate soldiers. Well,
MI. w llta1t NlAtTt M6It NOu L WIS uOhH
Clarksville, drilling rebel soldiers and militia;
but-but-I did not fight any body. Where
were you, Mr.. Patton? Oh, have been in
the Federal army. Well, but where were
you in 1862? Well, | was in the rebel Le-
gislature, voting to remove the assets OF the
Bank of Tennessee to Georgia to keep the
Yankees from capturing it, and when l
heard that they were coming into Nashville,
I elraloIlIol 10 Mop1rI;, Il to,lr tba
TO support the Confederate Constitution for
the four dollars per day and mileage, yet
am the true grit, and every one that did not
get out as soon as ] did must be disfran-
chised for life, and l mus: help to do it; be-
cause if they are not dislranchised we can
not hold the offices, and we must do that
you know. Well, probably you will, for a
short time.
Well, where were you, Mr.. Senter? Oh,
/ had TO come down from East Tennessee
with Mr.. Patton, and help him to get the
assets ef the Bank of Tennessee out of you
Memphis to help pocket the remainder Of
the school fund And so on. The history
of almost the entire Radical party in this
State, if traced out, will show that they have
ever been found clinging to the party that
Mercer, the editor of that dirty, lying
sheet, the Press and Times. Where
were you, Mr.. Mercer? Oh, | went right
up to Louisville and got an appointment
under the United States Government, and
used the seal of my office to smuggle qui-
nine through for the use of the Confederate
army. Just liulc BIT, as a matter of specu-
lation. / didn't do much of it; and just so
soon as your fellows came down and took
possession of Nashville and fortified it, and
made it safe for little folks came tearing
right through ON the first train to Nashville,
and started me printing Office, and went in
to cursing the rebels l had been trading
with; and have been cursing rebels ever
since, and trying to elevate the negro above
the white man. So | am now editing the
only loyal newspaper in the State. Mercer,
you are too small game to shoot at, and l
shall waste no more time with you; but if
you ever get in my way, l shall simply
brush you out.
If the honest soldiers in the North, who
fought for the restoration of the Govern
ment to its former position, only knew the
character of these radical men, who are pre-
tending to be 80 terribly persecuted here by
rebels and knew where they had been
during the war, and what they had been
doing, they would wonder that their SIdnder-
O1ts tongues had not been pdlSied ere this good
day.