The New York herald., 1866-01-29

tant crisis; and although we cannot recon-
mend his example to other Cabinet officers, we
may yet envy his calm serenity and sweet re
pose. But we forget that congratulations and
denunciations, praise and blame, envy and adj
miration are alike lost upon the waverocked
Secretary. Afoat and free, like the rover in
the song, he is equally Indifferent to friends
and foes, and the happiest man in all creation.
Tennessee-The CJamor or Radicals,
A short time since memorial was presented
to Congress from the "Union Central and Ger
man Union Central Committees of Tennessee"
praying for Congressional Intervention to pro-
tect them from the tender mercies of their enc
mics, whom they unhesitatingly brand Gas
rebel majority which will soon resume political
control of that State" This memorial was
drawn up in the capital at Nashville, and liz
signed by the appointees and benefciaries of
Governor Brownlow and certain Germans un-
known to fame, who, combined, do not repre-
sent one-tenth of the voting population Of the
State
We here see striking illustration Of what
suffer if the present radical non-restoration
policy Of Congress prevails. They are at the
mercy Of clamorous crew of hungry office
seeking radicals. These radical oficeholders
and red republican Germans of Tennessee fear
the restoration of civil rule, not because 1t will
relieve the State of military authority, but be-
cause they know that with its return their oc-
cupations will be gone and their places sup
piled by persons fully as competent and as
loyal to the government of the United States
as they are or have been. These radical office
holders ostentatiously boast Of their services
on fields of battle in the Union cause, when it
is well known in Tennessee that while the war
waged to and fro across their afflicted State,
they were "watching over the border" and.
with their families, waxing fat upon the chari-
ties and sympathies of an over credulous pub
lie. II is also known that when the cities Of
Nashville and Knoxville were seriously threat
cned by advancing rebel columns, these gentle
men, who talk so loudly since peace has dawned
upon the land, were unwilling to risk their pre-
cious lives with the gallant defenders of their
homes but vanished to parts unknown, only TO
reappear when the danger had passed TO
claim share of the spoils 1t must be fresh in
the public memory that when Buell's army
left Nashville unprotected, in order to meet
Bragg's invading columns in Kentucky, An
drew johnson, then Military Governor of Ten
nessee, refused to evacuate the city when
urged to do so; and that its retention was
mainly owing to the energy and undaunted
courage Of that infexible patriot 1t was
about this time, when Breckenridge was report
ed in front of Nashville with forty thousand
troops, that Governor johnson made the cha
racteristic remark, looking all the while "a il
he meant what he said, 81 am no military man;
but any one who talks of surrendering I will
shoot" These men, we say, who were then
unwilling and refused to aid Governor John
son, now come before Congress the avowed
enemies of the Presidents plan of restoration.
and minister to the desires of faotional power
in order Il obtain and retain the rewards Of
Office. These ara the cravens and skulks In
the hour of danger who, with some unheard Of
red republican Germsn allies, now essay 10
WELD the power and the patronage Of tho
State of Tennessee shape her destinies, not
for the good Of her people, but for their own
personal aggrandizement. These things should
be taken into consideration at the macs meet
ing Of the loyal people Of Tennessee which
will assemble In Nashville on the 22d Of Feb
ruary next when, II Is TO be hoped, these
memorialists and their memorial will be utterly
repudiated, aud the clamor Of the radicals In
the State silenced forever.
The day of Tennessee's complete rehsbilk
tation, we trust, is not far distant Her loyal
representatives should be at once admitted
into Congress, and she herself allowed 10 rc-
sumo her place among those States which, per-
haps, remained truer, but under far less temp
tation and with much less cost Of blood and
treasure.
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