The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-03-23

} wise, Is QQcallSQ IOl, anu can De altSuu'
ed only with evil. There is not room
in a letter to repeat these reasons, but
they have led me to the conclusion
that every end of justice would be
answered, and the difficulties of eman-
cipation greatly lessened, by withdraw
ing all military government from our
State, and leaving the relative rights Of
labor and capital to be regulated here,
as elsewhere, by the civil courts.
Very respectfully,
your obed,ent servant,
III. WAsHIEGroN.
Senator Wade an ola Disuafonist.
Several days ago the Baltimore Ca
zette published, and Senator ReVerdy
johnson, of Maryland, used in Con-
gress, with striking effect, some dis
union resolutions passed at meeting
in Ohio, where Senator Wade and Gov
ernor S. 2. Chase were reported to have
been present The next day Mr. Wade
denied with great Indignation that he
had been present at the said meeting,
or ever before seen the resolutions. He
did not call on God Almighty to bare
his arm on this occasion, as he COM
monty does in those parts Of his speech
es where most men would think an
argument useful But he stigmatized
the resolution as secession doctrine"
called the Gazette a miserable Cop
perhead sheet" and ragged to and fro
till any ignorant person in the galleries
must have supposed the doctrine of the
quoted resolutions to be, in Wsde's es-
timation, the most hateful and treason
able of all forms of opinion
The Gazette thus pins to the wall this
heather so furiously raging, with few
short extracts from q speech of his in
the United States Senate in 1886.
There are some Senators who profess
a great regard for the rights of the
States. l anu one Of those who have
quite as muca regard for the rights of
the States as some who make louder
professions on the subject than / do. l
am one of those who, not only when an
election is pending but at all times be-
lieve in the wisdom, the constitution
ality, and the propTiety of the Virginia
resolutions of 1898 and 1889. / ground
myself upon those resolutions, and,
standing upon them, l denounce this
bill as violation not only Of the spirit
Of those resolutions, but as an attempt
to trample upon the rights of the States
and deprive them 81 ihe power 70 pro-
tect their own citizeni from aggression
and abuse. Do gentlemen suppose that
the States, now awakened to a keen
sense of their rights an6 the danger Of
consolidation, viii evt,r submit to such
a bill as this2 ! tell yOu nay.
Who is TO be the Judge in the last
resort of the violation of the Constitu-
ton Of the United States by the enact
ment of law2 Who Is the final arbi-
teri The General Government or the
States in their sovereignty Why, sir
to yield that point is to yield up all
the rights of the States to protect their
own citizens, and 10 consolidate this
/ Government into miserable despot-
ism / tell you, sir, whatever you may
think of it, if this bill pass, collisions
will arise between the Federal and
| State jurisdictions-eonhicts more dan
gerous than all the wordy wars which
are got up in Congress-conflicts in
which the States will never yield; for
| the more you undertake to load them
with acts like this, the greater viii be
their resistance.
l stated that this bill was intended
to promote and help the execution of
the fugitive bill The Senator does not
deny it. l said there were States in
this Union whose highest tribunals bad
adiudged that bill to be unconstitution-
al, and that / was one of those who be
lieved it unconstitutional; that my
State believed it unconstitutional; and
that, under the old resolutions of 1898
and 1899, State must not only be the
Judge of that but of the remedy in
such a case
There ia one sovereign State which
has asserted the great doctrine which
your S.ate, sir Mr.. Mason in the
chair), invoked in 1898 to free your
selves from the exercise of power that
threatened to reduce you TO slavery.
! Your great ancestors rose against it,
and made the declaration of the plat
form on which | stand to-day, and on
which you who are honest Democrats
stand, and from which you will not
shrink in the day of trial, unless you
mean to indorse them at Baltimore and
deny them at Washington. Laughter !
Then ] am not TO be condemned as q
nullitier or as q disunionist, unless fall
with the great Democratic party upon
the main plank in the last platform
which they erected.
During the session Of tho succeeding
Congress, Mr. Wade expressed himself
as follows:
But Southern gentlemen stand here,
and in almost ali their speeches speak
of the dissolution of the Union as an
element of every argument, as though
it were a peculiar condescenslon on
their part that they permitted the
Union to stand at all If they do not
feel interested inupholding this Union,
if il really trenches on their rights, If
it epdangers their institutions TO such
an extent that they do not feel secure
under il, if their interests arc violent
ly assailed by means of this Union, !
am not of those who expect that
they will continue long under it. am
not one OF those who would ask them
to continue in such a Union 1t would
be doing violence to the platform of
the party to which belong We have
sdopted the old Declaration Of lnde-
! pendence as the basis of our political
movement, which declares that any
people, when the Government ceases
to protect their rights, when It is so
subVeFted from the true purposes OF
government as 10 oppress them, have q
right to recur 10 fundamental pTinci-
pies, and if need lie, TO destroy the
Government under which they live,
aud to erect on its ruins another more
conducive to their welfare hold that
they have this right viii not blame
any people for exercising it whenever
they think the contingency has come.
You can not forcibly hold men IN this
Union, for the attempt 10 do so, it
seems TO me, would subvert the first
principles Of the Government under
which we live.
1t hardly needs TO be mentioned that
Wade, sn extremist always, here puts
upon the resolutions Of 50 q cOnstruc-
ton rspudiated by their trainers, as
was ably shown by President johnson
on the floor of the Senate six years la
ter Wade's regeneration is bold and
} brazen. But many who knew MS pO-
iucal dishonesty scarcely expected such
an exhibition Of political coWardice.
DEGTH OF H0S. SAxUEL J. WmEN.-
This once distinguished jurist and poll
= tician died at Goshen, Orange county,
on me 18th inst, aged 73. he was
= elected to the Assembly in ] s23 to Con
gress in lS2S, 80 and "A, and to the
state Senate in lS47 He Was q gentle
; man Of fine litersTy tasts, and Of At.
tgaatiys social quaiitles-ABaay Ean-