The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-03-03
Tom. N. DAVIS.
Letter from Hon. Robt. J. Walker.

Letter from Hon. RObt. j. walker
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. %.
To the Editors Of the Intelligencer:
Detained from the great Union meet
ing by circumstances beyond my con
troll, | must address it Geographically,
and not as | did after the fall of Sum-
ter
President Johnson's veto opens the
new campaign in favor Of the Union
1t arrests the overthrow of the States
and the concentration of all power in
one consolidated military despotism. 1t
prevents the expulsion of eleven States
from the Union and the erection of
eleven Irelands within its limits, to be
controlled and oppressed by military
power. 1t prevents the qusrtering Of
a large standing army and hosts OF OIL
cials in the South. with an enormous
increase of our debt, to be followed
surely by oppressive taxation, OF dis
honoring and disgraceful reputation.
1t prevents the defeat of the plans of
the Secretary of the Treasury for the
funding and reduction of the public
debt, and q safe and gradual return OF
specie payments. Reputation Is dis
grace and ruin, and the probable ex-
tinction of republican institutions
throughout the world The result of
large standing armies and oppressive
taxation, caused by the policy Of the
Presidents opponents, would produce
an earthquake conyulsion. 1t would
ouadruple the excise and income tax,
blight every field, becalm every vessel,
break every bank and railroad, and
ruin every factory in the country. 1t
dissolves the Union, destroys the Con-
stitution, and erects a military despot-
ism on lis ruins. 1t would postpone,
perhaps indefinitely, the transfer oil the
command of the commerce and eN-
changes of the world from Europe to
America European despots would
exult. while the friends of freedom IN
the Old World, and especially IN Ire
land and Germany, would weep tears
Of blood.
Johnson is walking in the footsteps
of jackson and Lincoln, and reechoing
their sentiments. 3" The Union shall
be preserved" The prolonged govern
ment of eleven States as conquered
proyiuces. enforcing taxation without
representation, would permanently
ALLEVIATE the South from the North. 1t
might drive them to madness snd de-
spair. and renew the civil war when our
credit and resources were exhausted.
We have emancipated, through great
constitutional amendment, carried only
by Johnson's policy, four millions OF
negroes. Let US not attempt TO enslaye
eight millions of our eTTing white breth-
rem Of the South; they will all welcome
death before such a fate as tins.
have fought all my life against seces-
sion snd disunion in the South, and l
renew the contest against il in the North
Congress has no constitutional power 10
dissolve the Union, and TO condemn
eleven States TO territorial pupilage Is
a dissolution of the Union. | can not
act with Northern or Southern dis
unionists. Johnson's policy alone can
practically restore the Union.
Ii has already crushed the heresy OF
secession at the South, and il alone has
secured a constitutional msjority for
abolition of slavery. If the heresy OF
secession is crushed al the South, and
emancipation secured, the crowning
glory rests upon the head Of Andrew
johnson. Slavery and secession our
only discordant elements extirpated
the johnson policy Will 60 on conquer