Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-04-03

and truths evolved, and avowed by him. Wilde
perpetuateS and maintained, so long as this
Government remains and endnres. dem0nstrat-
ing the eapability of man for self-govemment
Now my friends, and | am proud to have him
sueh-although We differ so widely in our views as
10 the proper policy to be pursued, III the restora-
ton of the States-Goyernor. BrownloW-takes is
sue with the President, and identifies himself with
the self-styled Union party in Congress and IN a
speech lately delivered st knoxville, the language
OF which, and the tone Of which cannot commend
and from the sentiment of which utterly dissent
has taken ground with Stevens and Sumner-and
and opposes the Presdent-and the chief ground
of his opposition is as declared in his letter to
Judge Kelley, that " he gives Andrew johnson up
to the Democrats and the Rebels without show
does not agree with Judge Kelley and politicians
of his views in regard TO the method that should
be adopted for the restoration Of the States.
Now. propose TO show by an array Of testimony
that shall be overwhelming. that the differences OF
opinion between the President and Stevens and
Sumner not caused by any violation Of faith on
the part Of Andrew johnson, to the cardinal pTln-
ciples Of the Union party, but by complete aban-
donment of them on the part Of his opponents;
and that he stands, to-day on the great cardinal
principles, where the Union party stood IN lSol
and 1892 and throughout the war, even to the
month of December 1865, and where he mas al :
ways declared himself to stand-from his great
speech in the Senate in December 1860, including
his speech at the st. Cloud Hotel, to his mastery
effort on the I'D day of February lS65-when ne
announcedito the assembled thousands, who listen
ed 70 his thrilling eioqence-that he could not be
"cajOled by his friends or bullied by his enemies
If then show that he stands. where Mr.. Lincoln
stood, where the Union party stood, where Mr.
Chase stood, where the Congress Of the United
States up to the 39th Congress always declared
they stood, and that he has not abandoned one
single Of the positions so assumed, then It does
seem to ne. that we should all rejoice, If such
sentiments should become the doctrines Of a par
ty. that shall unite the whole nation, and that the
charge of treason to his party, OF violating ms
solemn pledges to those who elected him, are false
in fact, and ought not to be needed tor one mo-
ment.
We should not be alarmed if the kind and con-
cilatory policy Of the President has won for him
friends from the Democrats from the Coppsrheads,
from the rebels. If his policy Is right, and such
as should commend itself TO all, then it seems to
me that we should not be frightened BY the cry Of
party. of the fusion of parties but rather rejoice
that we have a statesman wise enough and patrl-
otto enough TO adopt platform of principles and
line of policy that will obtain the Jealous support
Of his former opponents and especially if in doing
so. he does not abandon a single one of the great
principles of the party to which he is indebted for
his elevation to office.
arn glad to know that he has succeeded in an
object so prasewOrthy. | am willing to give the
right hand of political fellowship to ell who will
stand on his platform. | care not who they are.
Standing as Andrew johnson does where pro-
pose TO show his party has always stood, and ig-
noring he has the courage to do, party ties and
party discipline for the purpose of maintaining
the Constitution of his country feel that it is the
duty of the patriot to stand by and sustain hjm.
Governor Brownlow and his friends sustain the
self-styledsU Union party in Congress- and eulogse
Stevens, Sumner, Kelley and others l sustain
Andrew johnson, and the question for you to
decide is, which is rightly
If the policy proposed by the Congress is practl-
cable. and wise and Just toward the Loyal people
of the States in the rebellion, then it should COM
mend itself to your consideration. IT, on the con-
trary; it is iiiiberal impoltic and unwise, then
If the policy of Andrew Johnson in the restora-
ton of the States is the policy of the Union party
during the war; is just and wise. and practicable
then you should give TO it your approval.
Now, let us see how these things are. By the
evidence they must be tried-and by the rule and
plummet Ofmpartial justice and practical wisdom,
their merits and dement's must be determined.
The friends of Andrew johnson do not fear dis
cUsslon and investigation.
THE STATUS OF THE STATES.
Now the status of the States. while in rebellion.
in a constitutional sense, is the question. Are they
dead States" as argued by the majority in Com
geographically Stevenson are they yet liv
ing vital States rs insisted on by the President?
During the tendency of the war, the Executive
Department of the United States and the Legis-
lative Department time and again, recognized
| these States as States.
Mr. Lincoln, in his first inaugural address, de-
THE right of each State to order and control
its domestic institutions according to its own
Judgment exclusively is essential to the balance of
power, on which the perfection and endurance of
| our political fabric depends"
In his first message on the 18th Of July. 1861, he
said; after the suppression OF the rebellion he
Have no different understanding of the powers
| and duties Of the Federal Government, relatively
to the rights of the States and the people under
the Constitution, than those he had expressed in
| his inaugural
And the lion. John Sherman, of Ohio, said in
his speech the Army bill, delivered in the Sen
| ate on the 18th July, 1861
THAT the war was not to be waged for the pur
pose of subjugating State. to interfere with
| the social domestic institutions of any State;
| il was to preserve this Union, to maintain the
Constitution it is in all of its clauses and in all
! of guarantees without change or limitation
han Hlaaa. IL A.Nf
| of Bull Bun, when the fate of the nation and its
! capitol hung suspended by thread, and when
| impending danger made men sincere, and honest,
and patriotic, the following offered on the 22d
of July 1861, in the House of Representatives, by
| the venerable and lamented John j. Crittenden,
| and in the Senate by Andrew johnson, then a
! Senator from the State of Tennessee:
| "Resolred, That the present deplorable civil
war has been forced upon the country by the dis
| unionists of the Southern States, now in arms
| against the constitutional government and in
| arms around the Capital; that III this national
emergency Congress, banishing all feelings of
| mere passion or resentment, will recolect only
its duty TO the whole country: that this is not
waged on their part IN any spirit ofoppressiOn. or
| for any purpose of conquest or subjugatiOu, or
purpose of overthrowing interfering with the
rights or established institutions of those States
! but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the
| Constitution and to preserve the Union with all
the dignity, equality, and rights of the several
| States unimp paired; and that soon these OBJ
| jects accomplished the war ought to cease"
and adopted with unanimity
This solemn promise and pledge made in
| the hour of trial and gloom; the country relied
on it, and acted upon it; The honor of the
! justice. equity, and right demand its fufllment
| The time has come when the war should cease
| then. in the name of the Union, by the
memory of promises SOlemnly made, let it
cease.
On tbs sth of August, 1861, the Secretary of
| War wrote to Gen. Butler:
1T is the desire of the President that all OK
| in nj 10 he ly cd
| and maintained. The war now prosecuted on
| the part of the Federal Government is war for
! the Union and for the preservation of all con
| stitutonal rights of States"
| And in December, 1862 after nearly two years
| of bloody war, Abraham Lincoln, when urging
upon the attention of Congress an amendment of
| the Constitution, aboliShing slavery or rather
| providing for its gradual emancipation, said:
THE plan is proposed rs permanent constitu-
! tiOnal law: il cannot become such without the
concurrence of two-thirds ofCoDgress, and three
| fourthS Of the States. The requisite three
fourths oftheStates will necessarily include seven
| of the slave States
On the 5th day of February, 1862. the President
| of the United States, authorized and instructed
! offer on the part of the French Emperor at me-
| diation, and amongst other things he used the
| following implicit language
81 must be allowed to say. also. thai Mr.. Drouyn
de IhuyS in his description of the parties to
| She present conflict We have hers, in the politi-
| cal sense no North and South, no Northern and
| Southern States. We have an iHsurrectionGry
party, which is located chiefly upon and adjacent
to the shore Of the Gulf of Mexico; and we have,
! on the other hand. loyal people who constituted
nat only Northern Suites. but also Eastern. Middle,
Western AID Southern Sstes.
There is. however, better conference than the
| one which Mr.. Drouyn dc Lhuys suggests.
| The Compress Of the United Mates furnishes con
stBtOndi forum for debate bet,ceeR the diieHdted
| parties. Senators and Representatives from the
| loyal portion of the people are there already,
freely empowered to confer; and seats, also. are
| rdcdH. and INVITING SENATORS AND REPRESENTA-
| TIyEs OF THIS DIscoNTENTEp PARTY WHO MAY
| BE C0NSTITUTIONALLH SENT THERE from
the States iapoiped IN the iRsurrection. Moreover,
| the conferences which can thus be held in Com
gress have this advantage over any that could be
| organized upon the plan of NJ Drouyn de Lhuys.
namely: that the Congress. if II were thought
wise could call national convention to adopt its
| recommendations and give them all the solemn
| " and binding force of organic law"
This was the policy of Abraham Lincoln, advOca-
| ted and approved by his Cabinet and political
| friends, adopted and urged by Andrew JohnsOn;
Congress of the United States. rs he did in his
! mastery message, vetOing the Freedmens Bureau
! Bill.
! II hold it to be my duty 10 recommend to you
in the interests of peace and in the interests of
! the Union the admission of every State to its
share in public legislation; when. however insub-
| ordinate, insurgent, or rebellOus its people may
! tude of loyalty and harmony, but ia the persons
/ of Representatives whose loyalty cannot equeS-
toned under any existing constitutional or legal
/ test"
he is charged with being atraitor TO the country
I and rs having gone over 10 the Rebels and the
! Democrats"
/ And when the Joint resolution was adopted as
! proposed by Mr.. Lincoln. and which he said