Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-11-01
RADTCAL TREACHERY.

ment. It has been often quoted, Out Is
worthy Of being reproduced, and should be
kept constantly before the minds of the
people:
Resolued, That the present deplorable civil
war has been forced upon the country by
the disunionists Of the Southern States now
in revolt against the Constitutional Govern
ment, and in arms around the Capital-that
in this National emergency, Congress,
banishing sll feeling Of mere passion or
resentment, will recollect only its duty to
the whole country; that this Oar Is not prose
clod on oar part IN any spirit Of oppression nor
for the PURPOSE OF CONQUEST OR
| SUBJUGATION, nor for The purpose Of oUer-
tirotging or interfering Nth The rights Of estab-
lshed institutions Of those States, but TO defend
and maintain the SUPREMACY OF THE
CONSTITUTION, and all lars made IN Pltr-
suanoe thereof, and % preserve the Union WITH
ALL THE DIGNITY, EQUALITY AND
RIGHTS OF THE SEVERAL STATES
UNIMPAIRED, and that as soon as these
objects arc accomplished, tie ioar ought to cease.
1t was adopted in few days after the dis
astrous defeat at Manassas, July Dist, 1851,
when the officers Of Government at Wash
ington and the whole Northern people were
in the midst of the depression caused by
that event. 1t was moved by men adher-
ing to the cause of the Government who rep
resented Southern States, and was given by
the representatives Of Northern States, as a
solemn pledge to the Unionists of Maryland,
Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, West Vir-
ginia, and wherever in the Southern States
any such might be, that there was no pur-
pose to pervert the object Of the war into
crusade upon the reserved constitutional
rights of the States or upon, their social and
domestic institutions. It was received as
such by them, and by the great mass Of
Democrats and conservative men in the
Northern States, who, while they had OPP
posed the election Of Mr.. LINcoLH-the
prominent cause Of the war-were yet will
ling to uphold the integrity of the national
territory, and the inviolability of the Con-
stitution as the paramount law. These are
historical facts that cannot be successfully
gaiusaid. This resolution was formal APP
peal by the war-making power of the Gov
eminent to the Constitution, in behalf of
their right to prosecute the war, and the rec
titude of their intentions in doing SO. It
was, as we have said, an emphatic assevers-
ton and pledge to the people of the coun-
try.
If this public and solemn attestation of
the Republican majority in Congress at the
time spoken Of, had not been given, and had
it not been confded in by the Conservatives
of the North, and the Union men Of the
Border States, no more legions for the war
could have been levied, and the contest with
the rebelling States would have gone by de-
fault, and dissolution would have been n
fat aocompi before January, 1862. This re-
solution saved Maryland, Missouri and Ken
lucky to the Federal cause, whose detection
at that junction would have been fatal 1t
kept alive a Union party in Tennessee,
Especially the Eastern portion and in the
Western portion of Virginia, whose presence
crippled the efforts of majority of the peo-
pie of those States against the Government.
II brought to the support Of the war measures
of the Republican majority, the conserva-
tive Democrats in Congress, and sent to the
field hundreds Of thousands of their con-
stituents who else would never have gone
there, except upon CONSUMPTION and draft.
In the very crisis of the nations fate this re-
solution came to the rescue. To it more
than to any single cause, Is the Government
to-day indebted FOR its existence. 1t was the
Border States that turned the scale in favor
of the Federal cause, and it was this regis
tered and oath-sanctioned assertion of fidelity
to the Constitution and to the rights of the
States, that determined their attitude in the
summer of 1861.
The conservative men of the Northern
and of the Border States have long since
learned the hollowness and insincerity of the
men who beguiled them under cover of the
true and brave words of that resolution. 1t
is evident now that a majority Of the Re
publican party had no intention to adhere
10 it. The very men who came to their re-
lief land whose heroic attachment TO the
Union in council, and whose valor in
the field saved the nation from partition,
and them from ignominious defeat, are now
denounced as traitors and sympathizers with
traitors Having, before the close of the
war, perverted It TO the destruction OF slave
ny, and prolonged it until that object was
securely attained, the deliberate falsifers of
July 81 now turn upon their record, and
declare that they did conquer and su6jugate
the Southern States, and that it is their pur-
pose to upturn their institutions and inter
fere with their internal policy, and destroy
their dignity and equality as members of the
Federal Union.
Does The history of the world present such
another exhibition Of hypocrisy and treach-
cry? is it possible that the Conservative
men of the country will permit a party 50
craven and contemplate in ITSELF so false to
their pledges and honor, so fatally bent on
mischief, so regardless Of the principles OF con-
stitutional liberty to permanently seize the
control of this government and mould the
destinies ofthe American people? We cannot
believe it.
The people of Tennessee are the most