Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-02-24

and conceal their real objects Loyalty 1.
seen to be mere name-a shadow Of a name
10 denote their adhesion to certain feyoIu-
tionarv ideas which they hold dcarcr than
the institutions Of the founders Of the Repub-
lie. Under the inspiration Of these stirring
weris lOvaltv' and "ISniOn." the great
battles of the war were fought under this
sign the Union banner was triumphant. Yet
now, when the battle has been fought and
won, il appears that the fiction, Of which
MeSsrs. Stevens and Sumaer are the repre-
sentatIves were c0ntending Cor q different
substance than Union. All the blood shaf
was shed-aei the treasure that wat expended
all the sacrifice that was maae-ali tie
toll snd peril that we're incurred. we're for
negro eslualifv. Fora savs Mr. Sumner.
What il liberty without es,uaIity, and
what Is equality without liberty one Is the
complement Of the other.n This Is not the
" old fag'-nor is Il q the Union rs il was
nor is it the Union modified bv the de-
cision of the debatable questions for which
the war Was fought Ii IS pure Jacobinisni
simple revolution of the Government
-unadi,lterated change OF the form ofGov-
ernment to meet the principlesof the French
revolution. a
But Mr.. Sumner, by interrogation, asserts
that there Is no liberty witheus equality.
Then, If this proposition Is 50. We as positive
ly assert that there IS no l:berty ON earth
In all the Constitutional Governments of
Europe there Is no equality. In all the
Spanlsh-Amerlcan republics the weak are
the victims OF the strong military power is
supreme
In all societies of men there is percepti-
bic TO obtuser eomprehensions than Mr..
Summers, the most marked inequality.
Equality exists nowhere IN the rental,
moral, physical or poIititical world. There
fore, liberty exists nowhere II this andacious
maxim be true. Does universal suffrage
eqHailxe men On the contrary. II subjects
the minority to the viii Of the unlicensed
majority, and thus destroys their equality.
IL the mere suffrage can decide everything,
and must be taken as the universal and in
faliible test Of the existence of liberty, then
the French Assembly, whick was the most
complete form Of rule deriving its anthor-
ity from numerical majority, was the type
of good government and the ~ ymbas Of hber-
ty, which Its members worshiped as their
god. rs
/. Let the prescription and the guillotine
answer for the liberty Of the people Of France
under JacDbinical rule. And let the his
tory of the Jac0bins instruct mankind a. to
the equality and liberty which are the of
spring of universal suffrage. Thus all his
tory and reason teach us that political equality
cannot be established perfectly among men,
because all have not equal capacity to legis-
late, to govern, to sit in Judgment. There
is no right inhsient IA any man 70 exercise
august functions. And only those who most
nearly approximate TO Elemental and moral
capacity, required for Rulers, Judges and
Legislators should be chosen. Each political
society must determine for itself how to
choose and whom to choose for these pur-
poses. And because nature, reason and
religion proclaim plainly inequality among
men, it IS gross desecration and arrant inn
posture 10 link il opposite with the sacred
name Of liberty.