Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-08-31
THE PHKLADEEPEEIA D1suNTON
CONVENTION.


The Radical Convention, which is TO meet
in Philadelphia on Tuesday next will be
the least patriotic and most mischievous that
has assembled in this country since the or
ganizatiOn Of the Government. It can have
no other result than to foment discord and
promote strife. It's votes, resolutions and
speeches will have but one object, and that
object, the degradation and the destruction
Of the public liberties Of the Southern peo-
pie. The probable fact in this proceeding
that will strike the world with the greatest
immediate surprise, win be that men who
have lived in the South. many Of them born
and raised in the South, men who have
owned their slaves, and have whipped them
as often and severely as any of their neigh
bors, will be the head and front of
the assembly, and the most fierce
and denunciatory Of the South and its
people. In this Convention there viii be
back seats; bat they will be occupied by the
men from the North. Such as JACK HAM
TToN, who, it is alleged, enslaved negroes
free by the laws Of Alabama, who treated
them with the cruelty Of a LEGREE, who
was first to defend PRESTON Brooks for
Gaming SUMNER, viii be the choicest and
foremost spirits. Our venerable and gal
liant friend WILLIAM Stokes, who thun-
dered 50 loudly in the index, against the
tyranny" and "usurpations7 of LINCOLN,
will be an oracle BRowNLow, who threat
ened the abolitienists with determination,
and denounced them ofener and with more
bitterness than he has ''the rebels" and who
proposed to sell out our people and States to
France, to effect perpetual separation from
the North, will be there. Hundreds Of
Others, who represent nobody at home
and the fact of whose residence
and tolerance on Southern soil is
the highest evidence Of the peaceful, law
abiding, liberal and patriotic disposition Of
the Southern people, will be strung out in
rows Of mock dignity on the front benches
Of that assembly. STEVENS and SUMNER
and FREDERICK DOUGLASS will present
behind the curtains) the resolutions, and
these wooden-headed, Moderated, bogus pa
trioss from the South will present them, and
repeat the speeches already prepared by
hired perapatetic scoundrels who have gone
through the South furnishing utilization of
the Southern people, at so much per word,
to Radical newspapers.
Looking and driving towards but one
object, the retention Of power. they will en-
brace in their means, everything tending to
its achievement Two primary elements are
necessary-1st, the obstruction ofpublic liber-
ty the South; and End, the inflammation fthe
popular mind of the Northern people against
those of the South The first, of ITSELF over
throws the Constitution and our system Of
free popular government, and the other
strikes death-blow at the forbearance and
affection that are indispensable precedent
conditions Of peace and unity. These things
they will do without conjunction and with
out remorse; and the rest will remain with
all its hideous details of private and public
turbulence, in manner and degree, for the
future to determine. Whereof we can only
patiently await the coming. But being
forewarned we can and must be forearmed