Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-11-16

TIE editorial correspondence Of the Radi-
cal organ in this city dated at Boston, and
published on Wednesday, says:
The two great steps for the restoration,
or rather reconstruction of the instruction
airy States, are impartial suffrage, and the
settlement Of the country by colonies, which
the malignant element viii not dare to mo-
lest"
This language Is vague, and yet its mean
ing is plain. The writer is careful to dis
criminate between restoration" and ere
construction" Restoration is simple
word, and is plain process. The war
which prevented disunion, completed all the
restoration which, under the Constitution, is
proper or possible. The Union was re-
stored intact and entire, when the insur-
rection against the authority Of the
General Government was suppressed.
No other "step" was needed But the needs
Of that sentiment whose intrigues against
the Constitution and the peace Of the coun-
try, provoked the instruction, requires more
been invented to mystify the public mind,
and conceal the enormities which it is de-
signed to perpetrate. Under it, nothing is
impossible that the ambition Of the Radicals
can conceiveor the Satanicselfshnesso ftheir
leaders can set their hearts upon. 1t means
everything that implacable hate and insati-
able greed may suggest. 1t is a pat phrase
on the lips ofevery mercenary scribbler in
the interests of the vilest political or
ganization that ever cursed this or
any other country Hence we are not
not surprised TO find this writer con-
STRUNG it mean negro suffrage otherwise
called impartial suffrage" This feature
Of reconstruction is the demand of "the loyal
North.o 1t is to be extorted by the penalty
Of political ostracism. Il isto be had in dis
regard of constitutions and laws, and at the
behest Of those who favor it, let the conse-
querces be what they may. 1t is not pro-
posed to submit this vital and radical alter
alton in our system of government to the
calm, dispassionate judgment Of those most
deeply interested and most competent to
decide, but to force it ruthlessly, as parti-
zan and sectional scheme for the aggran-
dizement Of power. The leaders have uttered
their edict, and every time-serving hireling
and parasite is prompt to respond. The ef-
frontery of exhorting the Legislature of a
free people to acquiesce in such demand is
unsurpassed. Even the letter under review
confines its appeal to the majority in the
Legislature Of Tennessee.
The other step recommended, is legiti-
mate offspring of the doctrine which holds
to the right of the majority Of the nation to
reconstruct States after the Radical model
the settlement Of the country, the South
ern States,) by colonies which the malignant
element dare not modest" 1t is simply a
circumlocutory way of advancing THAD
STEVENS plan of general confscation and
division of lands among the conquering
"loyalists," and BRowNLow's minute militia
Of mixed colors to make possession secure.
This is the reconstruction which this South
ern loyalist" sojourning at the " hub of the
Universe the source Of all the pestiferous
isms and ologies which have afflicted this
country, worse than did the plaques devoted
Egypt, impudently vaunts as the sum of
craftsmanship.
We have given this, however only as an
evidence of the devilish designs of South
ern Radicalism, and have said more than the
subject from such a source is worthy of.