Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-02-17
WORDS FROM ONE OF THE
FATHERS


We have been permitted to make the fol-
lowing extract from very recent letter,
february 18th, 1861 from venerable ard
distinguished gentleman, resident in the al
ways loyal States. For many years he held
a prominent position, and few men have ex-
erted wider influence in the politics Of the
country. He is remarkable for sagacity in
discerning the drift of public events-and
though now quite advanced, still retains his
Intellectual yigor. He was a steadfast ad-
herent TO the Union throughout the recent
troubles, one of the earliest supporters of
President Lincoln's emancipation policy,
and ably contributed by his pen to assist the
Government in asserting its authority:
1.-THE plan advocated by the conservative Union
lists of Tennessee for preserving the cause of the
country in the South, nov that the rebellion Is
queled, is exactly in accordance with that of the
President. He perceyes that the Radicals of the
Northeast seek now to turn the victory which was
TO restore the Government, into conquest over
republican governments in the former slave
States and reduce them by the distractions and
divisions occasioned by setting the blacks on
equality wi tn the whites in the government insti-
tuted by the latter, TO the condition Of Ireland
"Itwas BY playing Of 0rangemen from England.
settled BY military force in Ireland against the
Roman Catholic natives, that that island has been
held in subsection. IL is by playing of the negroes
armed with political power and military support
against the whites-the creators Of the States and
the owners Of the soil there-that the South is to
be shorn Of its rights under the Constitution and
subjected to New England policy.
1T requires a cordial cooperation Of alP the
brave and gifted white of your region to resist
the machinations of the Radicals STEVENS, sum
and who wish to make the South ready for sub
mission TO such n government by bastardizing the
Southern peeple-by mi king them up on equal
ity with negroes, and thus producing degraded
race, suited only for the domination of absentees
who in the northern section would assume to
themselves the rights Of eonquerors over it.. The
way TO defeat this new conspiracy, is to join all
hearts and hands in support of the President
Those late in rebellion will become patriots in such
cause; and every good Union man should receive
harsh and hostile legislstion-fuIl Of bad feeling
for the past, which can only embitter and render
union in good cause impossible"
This trusty old warden on the watchtower
Of constitutional liberty clearly describes the
mischief meant by these New England
schemers who are endeavoring, in imitation
of their prototypes of the French revolution,
to drug the public mind of this country with
the quack mixture of liberty, equality and
fraternity, and then to fasten upon deluded
and betrayed people the thongs and shackles
Of despotism fashioned after the latest and
most approved puritan model. He as clearly
points out, too, the only proper mode of
circumventing this oligarchic conspiracy
against regular, constitutional American
liberty. He knows that this is not contest
between the government and those who
lately resisted its authority but one between
the enemies and friends of institutions
founded upon popular consent, laid down in
written charts and designed to secure the
people in all their rights. His counsels are
wise, his references to history opposite, and
patriotic men will do well to heed them.