The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-03-15
MISREPRESENTATION of the South.
ATLANTA, Ga, March 3, 1866.
To tho E4ifrra ~ tho Evanfoo pouf.

= | B6en luOIc blIuCk Dy luS wise pOlCy
and manly spirit in regard to national
affairs, than | have since you have been
called to the consideration of tie deli
cate and important questions growing g
out of the state of our country, conse-
quent upon the recent termination of
the late terrible struggle for the su-
premacy of the principles of good gov
eminent in our land Like true men,
during the war, you were foremost In
zeal and foresight in the advocacy of
all measures calculated TO break the
power of the rebellion. AS becomes
wise patriots, you now, with the same
yigor and zeal, devote your columns to
the restoration of the Union under the
Constitution, while others with equal
zeal and with, doubt not, much good
ness of intention, crowd their papers
with letters calculated to fan the flames
of discord, filed as they are with. all
the evil doings that can be dragged
forth by men predetermined to find
fault with the people of this section.
The fountain whence flow all the
bitter waters of which the people of the
North complain, has been purified by
amendments to the Constitution; the
stream will soon become clear and
pure 1t has exalted mere "chattels'
into human beings, to whom is conce-
ded partial citizenship, and who have
the pleasing prospect of perfect equali-
/ ty before the law IN the near future.
| This same amended Constitution will,
as you clearly show in many editorials
on the subject, continue to send its
I - - Alv,,,oL -,
economy of our social system, develop
| ing the whole nation, not excepting my
own native South, into homogeneous
"body ftly joined together and COM
pacted by that which every joint sup
! plieth, according TO the effectual work
| ing in the measure of every part,
maketh increase of the body unto the
edifying of itself" in liberty.
While thus nobly employed, howev-
er, find you have fallen also into error
through letter-writers; for il an edito-
rial on the 22d ult, you use these
words: 'Some time ago our Georgia
correspondent wrote: So far every fed
eral office has been filled by the rank
est secessionist; not a single original
snion man thus far has received a
federal appointment in this State.
Justice demands that ! should tell you
that your Georgia correspondent
presumed to write about that which he
was totally ignorant, and therefore is
not "a reliable gentleman" or he pre-
ferred to state that which was false in |
spite of facts.
Postmasters, mail agents, revenue |
officers, and treasury agents, United /
States District Judge and marshal are |
all the federal appointments that have |
been made, except in the Freedmen's |
Bureau. All the pOstmasters of my &C |
quaintance, the number being consid- |
erably more than "a single Union /
man, were original Union men and |
are now loyal, having taken with clear
conscience the required oath of which |
80 much has been said. of the reve-
nue. officers, Collector Wilson of the |
First district, and Assessor c. IL Hop
kins of the same, Collector j. c. Nc
Burney, and Assessor J. E. Webster of |
the Second district were uncOmpro-
missing Union men, not only originally |
but all the time, AS ] have been in
formed by undoubted Union men well
acquainted with them.
Mr.. John BoWles, the assessor Of the
Third district, possessing, as any one
may see at a glance, all the instincts
of loyalty and patriotism, informed me
himself, under circumstances pre-
Guiding suspicion of motives to misre-
present, that he had served in the
Union army. cannot speak OF the
collector, DR.. n. S. Angler, of the same
Third district, further than that he Is
understood here, where he formerly re-
sided, TO be a thorough Union man.
Mr.. W. II. Watson, the assessor for the
remaining district (Fourth) served as a
CAPTAIN of a company from the State
of illinois, and was never before &C
cused of being q rank secessionist'
The citizens OF Nincennes, i'll, on the
contrary, can testify of his bearing at
the head of his company, where loyalty
meant danger.
shall be pardoned for saying that,
though born and reared Georgian,
with fsther and mother, natives of
South Carolina, grandfather and grand
mother being native Nirginians, ! was
an exile from my home and friends
during the war, as the people of Akron
in the State of Ohio can testify. Any
Ohio man can tell you that no one
could have lived in the toEn Of John
Browns home without having some log |
sltv in him. am indebted for my po- |
sition 10 the kindness of J. R Parrott, /
of Georgia, James A. Garfield, member |
of Congress from Ohio, formerly known,
if not to your Georgia correspondent |
at least to the army under General
Rosecrans in Tennessee, Joseph Per |
kins and others, of Cleveland, OHIO, not
to mention the host OF friends IN Akron,
who interested themselves an my
welfare.
When ordered by the Commissioner
of Internal Revenue to pay no money /
TO assistant assessors who had not taken
the oath of allegiance of July, lob2, l |
found the fifteen under Mr. Watson, OF
This district. had all taken it. of the |
resistant assessors of the other three
districts of the State know nothing,
and therefore say nothing. What does
,,o1r Georgia correspondent mean /
When | find men of so much fairness
;n,nosed upon by correspondents /
tbrourb the aid Of the most unblush-
ING ralsehoods, feel almost hopeless
HAT iustice will be done in our land.
When / see such things IN your paper /
said about that Of which / have knoWI-
edge, you can well imagine my feelings
when read OF outrsges Of which ! have
no knowledge in papers devoted 10
showing up the horrors OF the south.
The same number Of your paper from
which } have quoted defends President
Johnson course in regard to the Freed
mans Bureau bill, while YOU give him
Iosb stab by giving what your '6eor-
ora correspondent without a shadow
of truth, says of his appointees, who,
vou are teaching your readers to be-
6eve are "original secesslonlsts, eX-
oIted over the heads of Union men.
Let me aid further, that meeting
Of The Collectors and Assessors IN the
Southern States was held here on TIE
lst instant, when ! had some opportG-
nifty of learning their views ana ieei,
ings If thst meeting was composed
of disloysl Il use the word in the es-
tern Reserve sense) men, they succeed
ed most wonderfully in Disgusting the
fact by the utterance of earnest Onlon
sentiments.
ask that you give the same publloi-
ty TO this that you gave to the letter
from your Georgia correspondent
n conclusion l would say, were Con-
eress 70 declare in favor Of admitting .
Union men from the South, we could /
find no difficulty in finding representa-
tiVes and senators who could take the 4
osth required. Very respectfully,
JANIS AIGINs,
Collector Fourth District. Georgia /