Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-02-09

II have just returned from trip through Chat.
tanooga, Atlanta, Columbus, Montgomery and
Selma, The state Of the country L not favorable.
General dsstrust and dissatisfaction peryade the
people Of all classes The oppression and tyranny
of the military authorities and Freedmen's Blu
reau-the rohberies committed on defenseless peo-
pie-fhe outrages perpetrated-and. above all,
the madness and fanaticism displayed in the ma
tonal Legslature-are creating intense feeling
and aRensral restlessness among the people. Very
many are making preparations TO close MP their
affairs and emigrate. This is a true picture-an
inside view. Never, since the cessation Of hcstl-
ites. have been 50 discouraged as since made
The foregoing is extracted from private
letter from an intelligent observer who re-
sides in West Tennessee, received BY us
yesterday. When the war closed, the terms
granted to the Confederate troops--the sue
ceeding amnesty proclamation of the Presi-
dent and the just and liberal line of policy
pursued by him to bring about solid and
substantial peace, gave pleasure and hope
and confidence to the Southern people.
They proceeded with alacrity to the per-
Torrance of everything required of them to
effectuate that policy, and to produce a
complete reconciliation and restoration Of
their old political and social relations with
the other States of the Union. This was
continued up to the time Of the meeting Of
the present Congress. The maddened
majority of that body instantly inaugu-
rated different policy, and have
since pursued it with increasing ar
dor and ferocity. The effect upon the
hopes and expectations of the South is ex-
hibited in the above statement. 1t is nat
ural and inevitable. Their political and
social condition is precisely such as to pro-
duce such feelings. This dependency and
anxiety and restlessness does not spring from
hostility to the government of the United
States, but from the terrible prospect before
them Of oppression, degradation and wrong
if their enemies in Congress succeed in their
purposes, as embodied in the measures which
each succeeding day brings forward. They
see in the future nothing but gloom
and uncertainty, which viii make them
miserable and reduce their fair land to a
desolate waste. With no political rights
which they can call their own-with an
arm raised over them clothed with the
power of the sword, only seeking points to
strickland with an arbitrary power of
trial and adjudication, claiming and exer-
cising greater jurisdiction than their own
civil tribunals, these unresisting people pre-
sent most deplorable condition. If their
woes are to be perpetuated, then the boosted
conquest of the South viii bring no good
to the "conquerors." Emasculated Of their
manhood, their spirit, vigor, and engergy,
those who remain and survive will add
nothing to the wealth or strength of the
country. Every day which witnesses the
successive trirmps of the fanatics only in
creases the hideousness of the dreary picture,
and renders the people more hopeless.
This is theme which deserves the serious
and most earnest consideration of the gov
eminent and the people of the North. The
South looks to the President, well knowing
that he is powerless without the support Of
the rejecting masses Of the American people.
They must rise up and make known their
attachment to justice and right. They must
rise above the mere riyalries of partisanship
and resolve to sustain the country over party.
A series of grand and earnest popular DEM
onstrations throughout the North in I'M
faltering support of the Union and the con-
stitution as it is, would go farther to check
the madness of the hour, to cheer the South,
and to sustain the President than any or all
things else. The occasion not only justifes
but demands such action, and at once.