Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-02-13

furthermore, hffer having passed through
the great struggle in which we have been en-
gagged, We should be placed upon much more
acceptable grounds in resuming relations to
the general government if unmistakable and
unquestiouable loyal men were presented to
fill the places Of power. This being done, ]
feel that the day Is not distant II speak con
fidently in reference to the great mass Of my
own people, when they win determine that
this Unien shall be made whole, and the
great right Of representation in the councils
Of the nation be acknowledged. Gentlemen,
that is the fundamental principle. No
taxation without representation was one
Of the principles which carried US
through the revolution. This great prir-
ciple viii hold good yet, and if we but per-
form our duty, IL we but comply with the
spirit OF the resolutions presented me to-
day, the American people will maintain and
sustain the great doctrines upon which the
Government was inaugurated. 1t can. be
done, and will be, and / think that Il the
effort be fairly and fully made, with for
bearance and with prudence, and with dis
erection and wisdom, the end is not very far
distant. II seems apparent that from every
consideration the best policy which could be
adopted at present would be restoration of
these States and Of the Government upon
correct principles. We have some foreign
difficulties, but the moment it can be an
swered that the union of the States is again
complete, and that we have resumed our ca
reer of prosperity and greatness, at that very
instant, almost, all onr foreign difficulties
will be settled. There is no power upon
earth which will dare 10 have contro-
versy or a rupture with the Govern
ment Of the United States, under such cir
cumstances With these States fully res
tored, the area for the circulation of the ma
tional currency, which if thought by some
to be inflated to very great extent win be
enlarged, those through whose hands 1t is to
pass will be increased. The quality of COM
merce, in which it is to be employed as a
medium Of exchange, will be enlarged, and
then il viii begin TO approximate what we
all desire-a specie standard. If all the
States were restored, if peace and order
reigned throughout the land, and the indus
trial pursuits and old avocations Of peace
were again resumed, the day would not be
far distant when we could put in the COM
merce of the world two hundred and fifty
million dollars or three hundred million
dollars worth Of cotton and tobacco and va
rious products of the Southern States, which
would constitute in part basis of this
country.
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Hence, when the States and their people
shall have complied with the requirements
of the Government / shall be in favor of
their resuming their former relations to this
government in all respects. do not intend
to say anything personal, but you know as
well as do that at the beginning of the re-
cent gigantic struggle between the differnt
sections Of the country there were extreme
men South and there were extreme men
North. | might make. use of homeIy
figure, which is sometimes as good as any
other in heillustrations Of great and import
ant questions, and say that there had been
a hammer at one end Of the line and an anvil
at the other. Fl II
No REPUBLICAN journal has yet de-
nounced Mr.. Summers recent bloody mani
festo in the Senate. In that speech he bru-
tally threatened resistance -"revenge"-
"all the horrors of Saint Domingo unless
perfect equality was assured the negro.
Does the Republican press of the country
endorse that sentiment li12