Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-07-11
VOLUME XXXIII.


ents, and they have no plan Of reconstruc-
| ton" Would he dare TO say it? No he
would not dare 10 ayow IT, The Republican
press dare not stand on the platform before
| the people Everybody, from Maine TO the
/ fuuhest village Of the West acknowledge
that the Republican party is defeated unless
it enters the canvass with a plan. What
then? When the canvass is opened, when
the caucus is assembled in November, when
the speaker mounts the rostrum, when the
audience ask him, Have you plan 2" he
is obliged 10 answer Yes, Congress has
plan; there it is. Ratify that amendment,
and South Carolina takes her seat in the
Senate" He is obliged to say it.
/ venture 20 say that from Massachusetts
Bay, back 10 Iowa, every stump orator, and
80 out Of 100 Republican presses before the
10th day Of October, will hold this as the
Congressional plan Of reconstruction. If
they do, what then? Why then the negro
Is given back, defenseless with an uncovered
head, with an unprotected liberty, into the
hands Of the white race, Then, infamous
beyond all WORDS mean beyond all descrip-
ton Congress deliberately gives up its
friends into the hands Of its enemies. De
clares the war ended, and the loyalists of the
rebel States under the iron heel of the reb-
els. ] may say +" the loyalists," without the
use Of the word "black" / had an interview
with Col. Stokes, of Tennessee, month ago
when he said he was In Boston, and he said
"Send back the ballot to the hands Of the
white race only, and not only the negro, but
i, and those like me, cannot live "a hours in
the State of Tennessee
SINCERITY OF THE LEADERS.
know SUMMERS sincerity; know GEORGE
BoUTwELL's sincerity; / know HENRY
WILsoN's duplicity, as well Applause ] l
know the man who, having studied the his
tory Of compromise for 80 years, has learned
nothing and made himself the tool of the
enemy 10 defeat his own party in the matter
Of Colorado-making Massachusetts herself
the tool by which the foulest insult was Of
fered to the record Of the war. You and
know that Of Henry WILSON. Here, the
announcement that no man could trust him
a. far as he could see him would be received
with no great surprise But off in Indiana on
the pragies Of Illinois when a speaker stands
there to-day, and says to his audience.
"Don't be discouraged Congress has not set
tied on that amendment il is only a tub
20 the whale; when it is rejected we are 60
ing back into Congress, and we will pass an
impartial ballot-bill over the President; the
Radicals will be strong enough to do it"
some man in the audience says, Where is
your Radical number one?' "Why, HENRY
WILSON Of Mass" And possibly, at that
distance, one man in ten believes him.
But we know that to call him "a broken
reed would be a compliment. Yet, in the
great West, the radicalism that Is to save
the Republican party after the demoraliza-
tion consequt on the discussion of this amend-
ment hangs on men like HENRY WILSON.
How do you know that the radicalism of
the prairies, on which you rely, the radical
ism Of New York, on which you lean to
secure this result, after the elections, may
not be as weak, as superficial, as little trust
worthy, as the radicalism Of the Senator
from Natick Oh, no, my friends, it is a
close game We are playing. II is a keen
effort TO hit between wind and water. 1t is
an attempt to beat the Devil with his own
weapons. hope the Republican party will
succeed. / know no other channel, this
summer, in which TO work. ] cannot tell
you to desert the Republican party l know
no where else for you TO go. But my advice
is this: Open your eyes wide. Understand
that your leaders neither wish nor expect the
of this proposal. Understand
beforehand that they only put it as a stalk
ing-horse to cover their real design; that the
only men in the party whose opinions are
worth mentioning rely upon going into Con
gress unfettered by it, with the hope of WELD
ing such a strength as will checlmate the
President with his own weapons, and keep
the rebel States still in the hands Of the
army. When you go mp and down, when
you attend your caucusses, when you speak
at town meetings. remember that the real
Republican batte-cry is, No rebel States
readmitted without the ballot land and
education for every loyal man in it,"
I Loud applause "No rebel State admit
ted at al for the present." Renewed APP
plause. 1t is idle TO disguise the matter it
is very idle 20 blink the issue; it is worse
than childish to shut your eyes to the large |
Jobs we have to DO.
THE DANGER AND THE REMEDY.
You have got to hold the rebel element by
force until il has worn out its hatred, and |
the great elements that mold nations have
made it over. Why, We have had experience |
in this matter. Il is very true that ignor-
ant men, learned men, good men, selfish |
men, all kinds Of men, have an influence in
molding the character Of a government;
but YOU can hardly count within any definite
short space what their influence viii be, be
cause the human heart is a bundle of prelu-
dices and passions But there are certain
things, certain great elements, and you can
their influence as exactly as an
astronomer calculates the motions of a star.
Land, education, capital. the ballot-these
are things as durable as the North Star;
their influence Just as ealculable as that of
the moon. In 1889, when our farthers at
tempted to weld together civilization and
barharisln, in the kindness of 3heir hearts,
they trusted men. They trusted the pas
sions, the selfshness, the good nature the
ambition, the State pride of men, what Is
the result? Aftersixty years of compromise,
came a war that shook the glboe, and what
has that war taught us2 Never TO trust
men any longer That is the lesson Of the
war. Trust things Trust capital, trust
the ballot, trust the land, trust enlighten-
trust man. Tell me what
ALEXANDER STEPHENS thinks, tell me what
ROBERT PRYOR believes, tell me what Gov
enor ALIEN has been whipped into,-l do
not carer n rush for it II want the land Of
South Carolina on my side. Applause.l
/ want the ballot Dor Of South Carolina ON
my side. / want the capital of South Caro-
lima on my side; want the same elements
that made the West pledged to make the
South in that image.
| know YOU think am talking apprehen-
siyely to-day but as that same EDSiUND |
BURKE said Of his party in a similar crisis,
Undue apprehension is a far lesser evil
than that confidence which in its undue re-
lance loses a good cause know | am
apprehensiye. Not Of the absolute future,
for l believe in God and in justice; but my
apprehension covers the next dozen or six
teen years. 1t covers that epoch when the
still powerful white race Of the South, rich,
educated, influential, is 10 regain State ma
chinery, and WELD il against the possibility
of national peace. My apprehension is in
State sovereignty, which is LEFT strong enough
10 commit dangerous treason. ! would cut
down State sovereignty by Congressional act
or Constitutional amendment, SO much as 10
allow the Federal Government to arrange
the political rights and 70 protect the civil
privileges Of its citizens within the several
States. NJ apprehension covers these dozen
coming wears, when Northern brains and
Northern capital are to be barred out with a
worse than Chinese exclusion, from South
ern cities and Southern plantations, and the
race 70 which we are bound by such ties Of
gratitude is 10 be left 20 be ground up under
the terrible tread Of their former masters.
Send back 20 your leaders, I repeat this
message. "Admit no rebel State for the pre-