The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-05-25

sci TO the TACT that they were fed on
beef that had died of the rinderpest
They allege that many barrels of the
rinderpest beef were sunk to avoid ex-
posure Of its character to the Health
officers.
Speech of Hon. w. II. Seward, at
Auburn.
AUBURN, n. Y, May %
Mr. Seward addressed a large meet
ing Of his fellow citizens as follows
Ny Coon FRIENDS Since we last met
the national condition has undergone
some changes. We were then on the
verge of a series of elections through
out the States. The leaders who so
perniciOusly ceased to be Democratic
organized with their customary ma
chinery. They had wisely ceased to
denounce as a failure the war for the
Union, which had at last become a glo-
rious success. They thought to under
mine the distinctive party of the Union
by affecting a newborn admiration for
its chief, Andrew johnson. They
seemed anxious TO prove their devotion
to ours by committing themselves to
support him as a candidate for the
Presidency in 1868.
They inscribed our notices on their
newly-wrought banners and reorganiz.
ing their struggling lines as we'll as
they 80 hastily could, charged onward
for partisan, not a patriotic victory.
What led the Democratic leaders to
make this charge was the striking, l
may call it, the marvellous phenome-
non which was Just then exhibited on
the scene of the recent rebellion.
The whole dislOyal community in
that blighted and desolated region, &C
cepting the conditions of partial am
nesty and the invitations to return to
allegiance which were proclaimed by
the Administration, all at once re-
nounced the principles, practices and
! policy of secession and disunion, ten
dered US a new covenant of loyalty,
sealed with their oAths. They brought
forward with alacrity the remains of
their long cherished institution of sla-
very, and cheerfully threw them to be
| burned upon the constitutional altar
which they had so newly restored.
These unexpected changes in the atti-
tude of political adVersaTies once so
obstinate, naturally enough excited
suspicious jealousy and apprehensions
among loyal and tried Union men.
1t was the old case Of William of
Orange, who having in civil war put
down the forces, afterwards found it
necessary to cease refusing Jacobites
and Papists the right of citizenship
| 1t is the case which has ever occurred,
and which must forever more occur at
| the end of a successful resistance to
! rebellion. How could Democrats and
rebels be converted to the support Of 81
! triumphant Union administration
! This was the question everywhere put
by the Jealous leaders of the Union
party.
IL was at that moment that | an
swered that question by asking others,
namely. How could Democrats and re-
bells avoid being converted2 Is it not
their conversion that you contended
for, and that you now desire2 | ex.
pressed the opinion that the condition
of peace with new responsibilities,
would thenceforth be in good faith &C.
copied. l advised prompt and COM
plete reconciliation, with the restora-
ton at once of the constitutional sym.
metry of the Union, rejecting the un-
| generous suspicion that the rebels and
their Democratic abettors were only
changing their political strategy with
traitorous purpose.
| argued that with few and marked
exceptions, they were now to be re
ceived and accepted as fellow citizens
and brethren. | argued that this would
be safely done if only the tried friends
of the administration, remain united
and harmonious, and thus retaining
their Justly acquired prestiges, should
themselves promptly and magnani-
mously secure to the nation, the en-
iOyment of ardently desired peace and
indispensably required prosperity.
For time the friends of the Union
acted upon that policy. Elections ev-
| erywhere resulted in the defeat and
ton, and placed the Administration of
Andrew johnson beyond the reach of
danger at home or abroad. The work
of reconciliation has outrun expecta-
ton. Indeed, it has never had a par
allel in human affairs. With internal
connections and disturbances less seri-
GUS than those which sometimes at
tend popular elections in a free coun-
try in times of peace, the heretofore
disloyal people of Virginia, Tennessee,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Geor-
gia, Arkansas, Mississippi, louisiana
| Florida and Texas successfully, nay,
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adopted new Constitutions in con
formity with the Constitution of the
United States. They upturned the re
bellon with all its faTspreading roots,
and all its pernicious functions, and
they accepted and ratified the then
pending Congressional amendment to
the Constitution of the United States,
which abolishes slavery thenceforth
and forever The people of these States
have, at the same time, chosen for
| themselves, by free and uncontrolled
suffrage, Governors, Legislators, Judi
cial and Municipal authorities.
Between the Federal Government
and those restored and reorganized
! State Governments there exists now a
more complete and practical harmony
than has ever before prevailed between
the Union and so many of its members
since it was first established Within
the same time, the Executive Depart
ment of the United States has assumed
/ its place among the people of the for
mer disloyal States. The State Depart
ment speaks for them, with their con-
sent, TO the prlncipalties and powers.
The Treasury collects the national i'm
posts and taxes there, and the War De-
nartment distributes its forces when
ever and wherever il seems Necessary
The navy of the United States rides
| freely in all their reOpened ports and
harbors, and the post Office circulates
/ through every State the knowledge
which is the reyiving blood of united
republic; the Interior Department pays
/ pensions, sells lands and detrays the
expenses of the judicial administration
The Attorney General prosecutes tral-
| tors and other distuTbers OF the peace
| there before the Federal courts
All this has been done with the &C
tive concurrence of the people Of these
| States, absolutely free from military
control, while the army Of the United
States, instead Of being increased, has
been reduced from a million and a half
Of men to some sixty or eighty thou