Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-10
THE vINDICTIvENEsS OF RADICAL
ISM.

From the Albany, n. Y. August
"Ther hands shall be against every man;
and every mans hand against them" Dur
ing the war, the aggressive and vindictive
spirit of fanaticism found vent against the
public enemy, and qualification in the spec
tacle of the disasters that befel their foes.
But the peace which has come to the coun-
try, brought no peace TO them. 1t found
them with their passions inflamed to fuller
development and intensity, with their eye
brows swollen to insolence, and their habit
ual intolerance confirmed by habits of pro-
scription, and by belief in their infalibil-
ity, which seemed TO conform, although these
deluded men had always constituted the
great obstruction TO success.
The armies of the South are dispersed but
the conquered foe is still foe in the eyes of
these men. They still denounce him, still
pursue him with epithets, threaten armies
against him, propose humiliations, and would
deliberately enact by law, that the condition
Of war is to be indefinitely prolonged, despite
the surrender of the conquered.
But they have a superfluity of rage that
is not satisfied by discharging itself in the
old channels of the past war. They hate
each other. They hate all their political
associates, who differ with them, even a
degree, upon any of the questions of the past,
the present, and the future United more
entirely for afght with a rival faction, they
turn their arms against each other before
the contest is half through and in ultimate
division of hostility, each mans hand is
againstth other; and all are against each.
Ii is the spirit of Intolerance, which per-
mits of no cooperation, of no combination.
The attempt would be as hopeful to found
Church of egotists, whose faith makes them
Come-outeTs," or whose want of it makes
them Atheists, as to build party upon those
men whose passions isolate them from all
friendships, and whose convictions destroy
all sympathy.
Their work is to destroy and when the
restoration of order, the necessities Of the
people, and the interests of the government
make other work necessary, they turn their
heads against it. and against each cher.
Their day Of life is short, and they leave no
name behind.
Witness the present spectacles in politics
In the Congress at Washington, in the Leg
islatures Of the States, in the league rooms
and the committees, in the Hobbies and in
the press Fred. Douglass denounces
Beecher; Beecher, Sumner; Sumner, Sew
ard. A circle of men, hating each other,
surround the President and hate him.
We cannot better illustrate the animus of
this faction than by quoting the language of
the Tribune Of the 9th inst, which says:
"The President has for some time been
playing theprude with the Republican party,
and the eoquette with the opposition, re-
minding us of Pope's vixen, who was
"Chaste to her husband. frank to all beside"
limitations of a private but reliable
character come to us from Washington that
this dalliance, like many another, is likely
TO end in an elopement. Under no circum-
stances are elopements more common than
where the tie of lawful marriage conflicts
with the charms of previous first love. In
such cases tender sentiments that were be-
lieved to be virtuously dead, or even succeed
ed by hatred and supplanted by counter
and stronger affection, suddenly revive in
the restored presence of the earliest love,
and neither vows of fidelity, calculations Of
policy, obligations of honor and religion, nor
penalties of the law avail to resist the i'm
pulses Of passional affinity and animal in
stinct hro-siuue'y Democracy Das hadre'c
JohaSoE's frs lore, compared nth which has
union nth The Republican party, though bctiered
bv the latter 20 hare been based on IfectioR tuas
mere marriage Of convenience, possibly entered
into 10 secure good home and Il comfortable
support
But the first chamer has returned, and
with it the struggle between honorand Atm
ity, between Andrew Johnson's higher and
his lower instincts"