The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-03-10
The Observation-Disclosures and Their
Calling.


The Mischief Makers and Their
Calling.
The other day, when the President
made an Informal speech to some of
his neighbors, New York was flooded
with Washington kilograms, announe-
ing a terrible party earthquake. Sen
sible men had met here on that occa-
sion (the 22d of February to give a
formal public expression to their thor
ough confidence in the President and
his policy. The Secretary of State was
present; the Postmaster General was
present; the best men of the party that
had stood by the Government through
out the rebellion were present The
meeting was one of the most rcmarka-
bic, in point of numbers and influence,
that ever assembled in New York, and
its declared object was to express con
fdence in the honor and integrity of
the Chief Magistrate Of the United
| States. and in the loyalty and wisdom
of his administration. To disturb the
harmony Of such q meeting here was
impossible by any local influence, or
even by the importation of the entire
herd of f~actionists from adjoining States.
A bakers dozen Of honest hands would
not have been raised against the reso-
lutions proposed and carried at that
meeting, even if so many dissentients
had found courage to declare
themselves. But what could not
be done under a local pres
sure and by partisan influence here
was attempted to be done by kilograms
from interested party witnesses in
Washington. The Geographic wires
were surrendered, during a portion of
the evening, to q horde of foolish or
perverted newspaper agents, who pro
claimed in the shIbboleth of the radi-
cal faction, that the President had de-
serted his party, had disgraced himself,
and was about 10 'Iylerize" his admin
istration. The sWindle of this report
was too apparent to have deceived even
the commoner order of party politi-
clans. 70 the view of the men who
presided at the Cooper Institute meet
ing, and who gave tone and character
to that assemblage, these incendiary
kilograms were estimated at the proper
value and the grand effect of the
demonstration was only enhanced by
the full report of what the President |
had actually SAID and done, which came to
hand before this journal (at least) had
gone to press On the following morning.
Yesterday-from what cause we do
not pretend to diyine-was devoted to
a revival of the same sort of radical
sectionalism. Early in the day we we're
beset with kilograms, announcing the
candidature of Gen. Meade for Cover. /
of Pennsylvania in the interests of
the Democrats, and seih the approval of
tie President one of these incendiary
missiEes informs us "conidentially'
that there was the devil to pay" What
that might mean, we didn't attempt 10
guess. Gen. Meade is only known 10
his c~ountrymen as q gallant, true and
brave man. To the profession which
he adorns, he is only known as the
most thoroughly scientific soldier in
the United States.
What his politics are or have been we
do not Think very many hundreds of
his fellow-citizens either know or care
to know. If there were any political
position which he would prefer to the
distinguished post which he now holds,
we venture to think that his aspira-
tons in such a direction would not
alarm any considerable section of
his eount-ymen. In the minds, how
ever, Of the professional alarmists
at Washington it seems that the com.
mander OF the glorious old Army of
the Potomac, the hero of Gettysburgh
where the rebellion received its
death-blow-is associated with a con-
servatism which is their terror by day
and their nightmare by night They
have heard, OF they fancy they NAV
have heard, that Gen. Meade supports
the President, believes in the Presi-
dents policy, and is averse to being
trotted out And thereupon it is that
they find him a fit subject for their ma
hgnant yi~tuperation. The moment the
Fumor-probably one OF their own
coinage-is set ahoat that he is to be a
candidate for a public position, that
moment every hound in the pack is
after him. 1t is needless to say that
the issue Of the whole matter is a for
NAL denial of the whole story, and that
Gen. Meade remains-where he was in
more trying times than the DIT esent-
at his post-M I. Times. s