Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-08-19
THE PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION
THE REASON WHY THE RADICALS
oppose 1T.

Tt5E PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION
THE REASON WHY THE RADICALS
oppose 1T.
The Boston Post, one Of the ablest and
most reliably Conservative presses in the
North, says that the dignifed and unexcep-
tionable manner in which the proceedings Of
the National Convention were conducted, is
evidently, annoying to the Radical press and
their correspondents. The paltry shifts they
are driven TO to crafty the desire Of their
party readers for some disparaging details
some event calculated to detract from the re
spectability and influence of the Convention
-manifests their eagerness for any pretext
to scandalize body Of men whose offence is
desire to promote the welfare Of the coun-
try by relieving it from the control Of para
sites who are willing to sacrifice its best in
terests 10 advance their personal and party
power. But the public mind will hardly be
led astray by Radical tricks. The delegates
in that Convention who have labored for the
Union in the National Councils, and fought
for it in the field, stand too firm in the con-
fdence Of their countrymen to have their
motives successfully impugned by time
servers held together by the cohesive power
Of public plumber. The efforts Of these dele
gates to heal the wounds Of the land by TAX
ing their erring brother by the hand and vel
coming him cordially back to the path from
which he has strayed, have too much mag
nanimity and Christian patriotism in them
TO receive ought but benedictions from the
upright and true friend Of the Government
and Constitution.
In no way could the Radical press pro-
claim 50 Enthusiastically the resolve Of its
party to keep the Union in two sections, in
stead Of restoring it to one homogeneous
body, as by heaping up ridicule upon the
Convention from the first conception to It's
present stage. These Radical papers have
followed its course with a viperish malevo-
lence Of language, whose real intent they are
unable to conceal. The bare proposal to
call together in one deliberative body the
representatives Of the people of the North
and the South, has excited them to the Bit
terest expressions of hatred and contempt.
The scheme for an early restoration Of fra
ternal relations they have assailed with a
malignity more venomous than most of the
former displays Of secession itself They
have traduced, vilifed, and denounced
everything and everybody that was in any
way connected with this Convention project /;
as if it were a movement aimed at the
Union which they profess even now to have
under their peculiar keeping, instead of one
solely for its defence and perpetuity.
They could have no possible reason to op-
pose this great popular Convention, if they
we're not devoted disunionists themselves; and
here is the evidence, in their own language,
that they are exactly what the President
styled their leaders on the 22d of last Feb
ruary.
All men understand, save fanatics and
Radicals, that this work of bringing the two
divided sections together can be deferred no
longer with safety to either. The North, it
is plain, cannot live and prosper to its full
power without the South, and the South is
as closely bound up in its interests with the
North. The Almighty has made us one
country by the very features of the territory
we inherit. Both sections have been reared
under Republican institutions, and neither
knows nor desires any other. War has set
tied it forever that secession is impossible,
and, as an important incident Of that settle
meut, the local institution Of domestic servi'
tude has disappeared. The fundamental
law Of the Union has been re-established
over the whole land. The lately recreant
section acknowledges the binding force of
the decision that has been reached, and So
licits the privilege of taking its former place
in the Union. So far we certainly have
cause for nothing butmutual congratulations;
yet they must necessarily be tempered with
kindness towards the vanquished, and set
of with tokens Of friendship and magma
nimity.
At this juncture, the fell spirit of dis
union that exists, and has longexisted, at the
North begins to show itself; moi in a dis
tinct and courageous way so that it may be
openly met and overthrow by the people
who have just dethroned it in another di-
rection, but meanly and underhandedly, and
by assuming that any other method of resto-
ration but theirs,-which is, according TO
Mr.. SUMNER, thirty years of probationary
degradation, and according to THADDEUs
a ''penitentiary Of hell, guarded
by fixed bayonets, us disloyalty, disunion,
treason, and whatever other crime lies be-
yond these in the category. And this spirit
Of Radicalism is the great obstacle now
standing in the way of restoration, and in
act the only one. The purpose of this
Convention is to show that il rests on moth
ng like truth or reason, and that the only
remaining in the country are
hose who oppose the Philadelphia assem-
,lage, the President, and The great object by