Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-16
Duly or THE AMERIcAN GovERNMENr.
From the Toronto Globe, March 81

war, to be compelled to spend money, and
perhaps blood, in resisting outrages planned
in the Republic and openly proclaimed for
months in all the journals of the Union.
----A aL
REPORTS OF THE FEELING OF THE
SOUTHERN PEOPLE.
From the National Intelligeneer.i
The country has been led to believe by
various Radical organs and their eorrespon-
dents, that the failure of the star-chamber
committee to report, after three months OF
revolutionary and disunion incubation,
arose from the neglect or refusal of the Pre-
sident TO furnish information, as required
by resolution, concerning the feeling Of the
people of the South towards the Govern
ment. 1t is as obvious that such informa-
tion could not be procured in day as it is
that the inquiry of the committee was in
spired by desire to protract action, rather
than to obtain the information suggested.
For, before receipt of facts, they report a
resolution for the admission of Tennessee, in
which it is stated that the people of that
State By large popular uOte, adopt and ratify
/ constitution Of government, republican IN FORM
and not inconsistent nth the Constitution Of the
United States, and State government organized
under the provisions thereof, iuIich said proUis-
IONS and the lars passed IN pursuance thereof
| proclaim aud denote loyalty TO the Union and
the people Of Tennessee are found TO be in a con.
dtioR 10 exercise the functions Of State loithin
this Union p
Yet the same committee that makes the
above record are guilty of the infamy of in
cooperating into the pretended enabling
act the whole platform of Radical ideas,
1 NH fcb &c
for the purpose of preventing Democrats and
! Conservatives from voting for it, and also of
challenging vote.
If we had not the record evidence of the
factious and revolutionary star-chamber
committee itself as to the good feeling of
the people of Tennessee, we have that of
General Thomas as to the status there cf
whose testimony the New York Evening
Post gives a resume, as follows:
In his opinion the troops ought not yet to
be withdrawn. He has now six thousand
men in the State. The habeas corpus ought
not yet to be restored. The operations of
the Freedmen's Bureau ought to be con-
tinued in its present form it works so well,
he says, that in a year the whites and the
freedmen tciH be tuiRg pedcedbly together. And
finally, the Tennessee Congressional delega-
ton, all of whom can take the test-oath,
ought TO be admitted at once, in order to
encourage other districts and States to elect men
10 Congress Who can take the oath and as an dc-
acknowledgement Of the good seHseof the Tennessee
people.
The soldiers should be retained in Ten
nessee, he says, because the laws are not yet
faithfully or vigilantly executed there.
There is much bitter feeling between Union
men and seccssionists, phich has not had time
TO die ou. For the same reason, we suppose
because the laws are not rigidly enforced by
their civic administrators he thinks the habeas
corpus should be withheld for some time
longer. As for the Freedmen's Bureau, Gen.
Thomas does not appear to think it requires
amendment He said:
The condition of the freedmen in Tennes-
see is very favorable at this time; a very
great improvement has taken place in their
condition, and if the affairs of the Freed
mems Bureau can be administered for an
other year in the way they have been for the
last six months, mutual confidence to0uld be re-
stored betiUeen the whites and blacks, and am
Uey much Gi hopes that the freedmen could be left
70 the protection Of the cisa authorities Of the |
State.
The Post then remraks:
1t appears to us that this is a sensible |
view of the whole question of reconstruc- |
ton; and as the President has, on his part |
withheld the habeds corpus, continued mar
tial law, ana kept the needed troops in the |
Southern States, we hope Congress will do |
its share by admitting at once all the South /
ern members who can take the oath.
Now, in respect to the feeling of the peo-
pie in other Southern States. This was re-
ported at length in our Congressional col
umns Yesterday as it came from the star
chamber conclave itself; and we are free TO
say, upon perusal of it, that the people of
the country will be amazed at the trifing
amount of ill-feeling that exists, considering
that a cruel war has been waged upon the
PROSTATE and submitted Southern people for
three months, not by the soldiery of the
North, who had invariably fraternized with
the Southern troops, even on fields red with
human gore, but by politicians in the Con-
gress Of the United States OF the Southern
people generally, under these exciting cir
cumstances, it may be said, as does the Phila-
delphia North American of the people Of
Tennessee: If says that able Republican
journal:
We keep Tennessee out for ten years long
er, il will not make her a whit more loyal
than she is now. Iadeed, the discomfort may
make her rather disloydl, since Il uould not be
possible for any American community 10 endure
such treatment withaat feeling Of resentment II
We let her in now it will encourage her
Union men, and add largely TO their num-
bers, fact that appears to be purposely
overlooked.
Yet, under circumstances Of unparalleled
provocation, what evidence comes up from
the South cneeerniug the alleged disloyalty
of the people? We unhesitatingly say that
there is scarcely anything upon whichto
base the policy Of excluding them from re-
presentation in Congress.
The Congressional cabal must presume
greatly upon a lack of sense in the Northern
people, lift be supposed that the develop
ments made by the published reports ex-
hibit any very strange or bad state of things.
The very worst is a suspicion that some Sc
cret societies exist in Alabama, based upon
old regimental organizations. That if war
were TO arise with a foreign power, which
some wish, that small class would go with
the enemy; that ill-feeling exists on the
part Of late rebels against original Union
men; that they are not outspoken in condem-
nation OF themselves for having gone into
the rebellion; that they are not blatant in
professed love and praise of the acts of the |
Federal Government that without the
presence Of the troops and the Freedmen's
Bureau acts of injustice would be done to
negroes aud TO Union white men; that the
people do not feel kind and friendly to-
wards Northern speculators who come
among them; that some Of them disrelish
the national debt; that some fret against
military rule. We give here the worst points
enumerated IN the reports, and against them |
we could array as many thinCs said in favor |
Of the people taken together. Most of the
expressions Of witnesses are matters of be-
lief a sort of statement which would be re-
jected in courts Of justice. We have no re-
citals OF erueities from any Of the witnesses