Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-09-15
RADICAL RAPACrrY.


That consummste knaye, and disgrace to
the judiciary Of the country, Judge UNDER
WOOD, of Virginia, has written letter in
which he says that the "Unionists" Of the
South are so oppressed and imposed on, that
they are selling their property at great sac
rifce--in fact, are giving it away-in order
to obtain the means for emigrating to the
North and West. This, az to truth, is on a
par with other statements from the same
source. The writer knows that his course
has won the contempt and hatred Of every
honorable man in the South, and that he de-
serves to be placed under the social and poiiti-
cal ban Of community thath has dshonored
by his residence, and now seeks todespoil and
degrade; and therefore deliberately lies
about the South, to give edge and effect
iveness 10 his base attempts to injure its
people He cannot name a locality or
section Of the South in which "Unionists,"
though they be Radicals, are selling proper
ty at sacrifice for any purpose. The people
of the South are daily exhibiting tolerance
never surpassed in similar circumstances.
To the true Union men of the Southern
States, they are showing every mark of respect
and confidence. They meet and greet them
socially. They engage in business relations
with them. They act politically with them,
and vote for them forofice. They oppose Rad
icals politically, and have no hearty good
will toward those who are endeavoring to
place them in vassalage and disgrace. But
even in the instance of acted and obnoxious
Radical leaders there is no social bar raised.
The charge that there is a persecution
which drives them from the country, is
an unmitigated Radical falsehoOd, coined
though il be in the brain of Judge UNDER
WOOD, of Virginia.
If there be any Unionists" of Judge
UNDERwooD's stripe who are selling
out and removing to the North, they
are sharks and sharpers who followed
the army, or came to this region after the
close of the war, to prey upon the misfor-
tunes of the people. They have glutted
themselves with the substance ola war-deso-
lated people by extortions and official exac-
tions, and are clamorOus for still greater ex-
actions, that the harpy-feast may not be cut
short. If any one of that tribe has any
thing TO sell, and proposes to sacrifice it, we
have not seen or heard from him. He may
think that he has plucked his bone as long
as he can afford it, but he is not disposed
even TO sacrifice" the bone itself.
This rapacity for the property of the
Southern people, is the basis of all the latter
day Southern loyaltyp Virginia has not
yet been judicially pillaged:by UNDERWOOD
and his satellites. They expected to enter
upon full harvest of confiscation and steal
age. But if the people of Virginia have
rights, they are estopped. They have but a
'barren scepter in their gripe"-the salarie:
of offices. President JOHNSON thinks that
the Southern States are States, and that their
| people, no matter what their antecedents
have the right to protect themselves, under
| ACRaDAANtAi mum Vic OppACo-
sions and exactions of INSCRIPTIONS office
| holders. UNDERWOOD and his class natu-
rally oppose man and policy which de-
feats their chief object. As with Virginia SC
with Tennessee. The vile crew who goi
power in this State in the spring Of
1865, expected that the Government would
deliver over to them the entire people of the
State, with the right to administer upon
their effects, repair their losses, " and grow
sleek and rich upon the spoils of confscation
and unlawful perquisites The President
has opposed their schemes and a wall Of
mingled hate and anguish goes up from the
Threats of these political freebooters. The
recent Convention was nothing but gather
ing of such men to concert measures to defy
the Government, and force it to surrender
the Southern people to a system of plumber
and robbery to be practiced by themselves
and their Northern associates Of the gcnu,
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