Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-05-22
SOUTHERN AID TO NORTHERN
RADICALS.


RADICALS.
There can be no question that the Revo-
lutionary party in Congress, known as Radi-
Gals, would soon pass into oblivion If not
furnished pretexts for inilaming the passions
and silencing the sober judgmsnt of the
Northern people. From the assembling of
the present Congress they have made war
upon the constitution and the essential priv
ciples Of popular freedom. To make it eff
fectual, they have availed themselves oftheir
only resource willful and malicious per-
version of the feelings and conduct of the
Southern people. They have employed emf
saries to come among us to write false and
disparaging letters, to mistate facts and TO
give undue coloring to every act and event
occurring in the South since the close of the
war. These lying letters were embodied,
either in part or in whole into Congression-
al speeches, and circulated breakfast over
the North. They were promptly exposed
and their true character shown. The Jaco-
bins are now ransacking the files of the
Southern press, the utterances of which are
taken for gospel truth as against us, but
wholly discredited in our defence A week
or so ago Senator delivered speech a
great deal Of which consisted of garbled ex-
tracts from Southern newspaper articles,
showing the greatest hostility TO the Gov
eminent. The entire articles FROM which
they are taken will never reach the reader
into whose hands they are placed. They are
taken as fair expositions of Southern feel
ings as represented by the press.
1t is useless to attempt to disguise the fact
that the Southern press is thus being made
the chief ally and support of the Radical,
revolutionary Jacobins who are now striy-
ing to overthrow the rights and liberties of
this country. Personally few editors of the
South feel ANY concern about the use made
by SUNkER and NYE and STEVENS and
the rest, of their printed statements and
opinions. Their intelligent readers who,
understand and realize the extent and scope
Of their objects, justify and sustain them.
They know that the Southern press, with
few, if any exceptions, is guiltless of enmity
to the Union; but they are justly indignant
at the gross, cowardly and tyrannical course
of coterie of politicians at Washington,
passing, by sufferance, under the name of a
Congress. The aim of Congress seems to be
directed to produce and foster and infame
discord and bad blood at the Southland
whenever it finds expression in the news
paper, that expression is reproduced with all
the intensiication of Yankee ingenuity and
Senatorial Oratory, to create corresponding
bitterness on the part of the Northern people
This state of things has elected the fol-
lowing very wholesome suggestions from a
gentleman who has been at Washington
since November, addressed to several South
ern editors:
1t is very evident that the Radicals are losing
the confidence Of their constituents and also their
own confidence of their diaboical undertakings
and they now eagerly every line that is
written, and listen attentively 10 every syllable
spoken by the people of the South, in hope of
finding something that can be coined into pOlit-
zeal capital TO promote their designs
You have no idea what an amount of injury the
late ovation in Mobile has done for the poo. OPP
pressed and desolate South nor can you imagine
how much any Ostentatious parade over the late
Confederacy and its heroes, serves to strengthen
the hands of the enemies of the South. | might
particulariZe late instance in the press of your
city. | hope not only that paper, but al the
papers of the South, will avoid utterances that
weaken their friends and strengthen their enc
mics at the turning point in the battle. Remarks
that give a pleasure at the moment, but are
quickly forgotten among you, are remembered and
put in scrap books by your foes here, and used in
the battle against your friends. If you would
not do the latter this disservice let the Southern
press be digniied and reticent as allowable
These are the views of all the conservatives of
this city. who often forced TO lament. because
having the opportunity to see, the injury done to
the cause of justice and the Constitution and the
blows dealt the President by remarks and demon
STATIONS that afford capital for the Radicals.
The contest in which the country is now
engaged does not admit of passion. Certain
grea. underlying principles are at issue, and
it behooves every friend of our system of
government to be vigilant, prudent and i'm
movably firm. Let the enemies of consti-
tutional liberty marshall their strength, but
let us not add to their power or furnish
their munitions. The poorest business that
Southern patriot could now engage in, is
supplying the enemies of the Government
with means to bring him to the halter, and
utterly overthrow the Government.