The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-05-20
THE METROPOLITAN POLICE
BILL.
RadicaI Misrepresentations.

A correspondent Of the Cincinnati Com
mercial writes from this city relative 10 tn
Metropolitan Police bill:
The Committees Investigations brough
/ 70 light the fact that, at the most. onl,
| three members Of the police force Of Nash
| vile bad been, throughout the war, con
sIstent Union men, and that one belonging
TO that class had been dismissed 10 Civ,
place TO q Confederate The remaining
force were found to have sympathized with
the rebellion, and to have acted with II u
one capacity or another. The meagreness o.
the Union element in the distribution o
the various c.ty Offices was so marked that
It was taken as al Interpretation Of the
spirit and sympathy which actuatei the
municipal authorities IN nilIng the posi-
tl0us within their control.
Among those well informed, IL has been
plainly understood for some days, that a
concurrence iu the Senate amendment was
q f0reg0ne conclusion. By a kind Of ingui-
zion, the reconstructed rebels seemed TO uu-
dcrstaud DO, too, and on the streets they de-
u0unced 1t with all the bitterness Of which
they were capable, some Of them c0uUling
with their ObJurCatiOns threats Of resisiauce
60 the execution Of the law.
The Mayor Of Nashville publishes his
proclamation through the daily papers of
tomorrow, ordering an election In the yari-
Gus wards Of the city, for the purpose Of
taking the sense Of the citizens upon the
bill II % a last departing effort 10 throw
discredlt upon the measure. Doubtless the
loyal part Of the population will refuse any
observance OF the proclamation, and will
sJudlously stay away from the polls.
Some citizens are 60 exultsuL at the pas
Dt 4
their dwellings IN honor Of the occasion.
The JOY among the loyal population is as
prominent as the dependency among the
reconstructed reteIs.
The passage Of the bill is looked upon ss
q great Radical triumph, and as an addi-
toual step toward the reorganization Of
Tennessee upon Union basis. More than
the mere advantage Of new police system
was involved, viz: the principle that "loyal
men shall rule Tennessee"
We seldom notice the false statements of
letter writer's from this place, but cannot
omit to do 80 in this instance, as there is
not a man here but knows that nearly every
statement is incorrect. The election re-
terred to was called suPPosing that legisla-
tors would adhere to their agreement, which
was, that the bill should not be voted on
till Wednesday, but it passed on Monday,
and Of course the election fell through.
In the second place, no man ever dreamed
Of resisting it, except through the courts,
which is legitimate and proper.
The statement that the true Union men
favor the measure, is well known to be
false. The friends Of the bill are those who
remained in the rebellion as long as it would
pay, and then left it for something that was
more profitable; and this the writer Of the
above well knows.
The only paper that supported the bill is
edited by q peUured vilIain-Dr. Q. Mer-
,er-who, while holding a United States
,Iice, smuggled quinine through the lines
% the rebels and we challenge him to
.eny this statement.
But 10 make the matter still worse the
writer Of the above letter to the CONNER
ial is a miserable uurecOnstructed rebel, |
Who edited a rebel paper in Rome lGa.) till |
he rebellion would no longer pay; and this
go ,the local Of the UNION, an honorably |
ischarged Union soldier challenge him to |
euy if he dare. He was also in therebel |
rmy six months, but we never heard Of |
ny brave acts done by him.
This is a fair sample Of the Nashville
adicals.