Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-08-23
VOLUME XXXIII.

to be about as dangerous to the country in
peace as JEFF. DAVIS and his party were
during the war. Nor do we see why II is
not a matter for public c5ngratulation that
Confederate Generals and Senators and Cop
perheads Of the North, crowd to Philadel-
phia 10 make, in the most public manner,
recantation Of their political heresies,
aud 30 acknowledge and declare that the
Union is perpetual, the Federal Government
supreme over all, Congress 10 be obeyed, and
slavery never to be re-estabIished. We
think IT, on the contrary, great victory for
the principles winch the Republican party
supported IN 1860, and also a most important
national event. because it excludes hence
forth from party politics these yexing and
and exciting questions
Instead Of scolding the Philadelphia Con-
vention, the Republicans should initiate 1t;
they should make haste to hold a great Ma
tional Republican Convention in Charleston,
or Atlanta, or New Orleans.
We hope the Southern loyalists, when
they meet in Philadelphia on the 18th Of
September, will put the Republican party
leaders TO the test, by beseeching them to
hold a National Republican Convention in
Charleston, or Memphis, or New Orleans, at
the earliest possible day. We do not I'M
derstand why the Republicans should mod
estly wait for such request but they APP
pear very much inclined to do so, and it may
be well for the Southern men TO wake them
up TO the fact that this country being now
at peace, and to be governed by elections
and not by military rule, it is advisable for
even 50 powerful and successful an organiza-
ton as the Republican party to make an
effort.
From the New York Tribune. Rad.l
If this platform is sound, then ANDREW
JOHNSON, whom it immeasurably lauds, is
the most gigantic usurper the world has
known, for he compelled the whites Of the
South TO ratify the anti-slavery amendment
and repudiate their rebel debts, and do
other things most distateful to them, all of
which, on the COwAN platform, he had no
more right to do than TO compel them TO
Join the Roman Catholic Church. He dealt |
with them for months as though they had
forte ted every right by treason, and could
only regain them through national grace,
when, according 10 COwAN, they might
have challenged his right to the Presidency,
and insisted on a new election forthwith,
wherein they should all vote. The eX-
rebels in the Convention assented to many
most distateful propositions in order to pro-
cure a concession to the main question, that |
IF their assumed right to do as they shall
see fit within their respective States. Il is
he ancient Democratic right Of every white
10 larrup his own Niger that they are in
tent on, with such notifications as the |
change Of circumstances have rendered in |
this CowAN q Co. readily |
,oncede. The States are supreme over all |
internal matters is the sum and substance,
The gist and marrow of the CowAN platform. |
The Unionist who assents to it bellies those |
who helped us in our necessity, and the !
blood Of the innocent wantonly shed, and to |
be shed by malignant, revengeful rebels, |
will rest heavily on his soul.