The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-04-03
The War RECORD Of the rrihune.

In announcing the Civil Rights Bill
Veto the Tribune says:
Having been among those who
could not help evincing impatience
with the tameness and slowness of our
Government when the knife was first
thrust at its life by slave-holding trea.
son-having with difficulty endured
the imbecilities and treacheries which
eliminated in the Bull Run disaster
having found it impossible to endure
silently, unprotestingly, the obstinate
dawdling and purposeless strategy OF
Mcclellan and BUELL.
Self-examinstions, if they go far
enough, are useful in this instance
they fall short of the point which NOR
titles the conceit and arrogance of our
neighbor. The only ''impstience' the
Tribune eyinced in the outbreak Of the
'slsve-holding treason" was that our
Government should "tamely" submit to
division of the Union and the estab-
lishment of slave Confederacy. It
maintained that slavery had "right"
not only to perpetuate, but to strength
en- itself by fresh stealings from Africa.
The Tribune maintained stubbornly
that the slave States had right to go out
of the Union, that the Federal Govern
ment had no right to restrain them (;
and that it would help them out. Then
the Tribune, instead of desiring the
emancipation of four millions Of slaves,
deliberately consigned them and their
posterity to perpetual bondage. But
the Tribune had its reason for advoca-
ting separation from the slave States.
That reason was that the shareholders
would not allow its editor to lecture
among them.
The Tribune forgets, or does not find
it pleasant to confess its own completely
in the Bull Run disaster. That was
the Tribune's first military achieve
ment-the first fruits of its "On to
Richmond" order-an order for which
the Tribune evinced temporary re-
morse, though it now casts the blame
upon others. The Tribune's protests
did not stop with Mcclellan and Buell.
Long after those Generals had been re
tired, the Tribune exclaimed that If,
'after sixty or ninety days more of
fighting" the enemy should not be CON
quered, it would become the duty of the
Government to make "peace upon the
the best attainable terms.
And again, in the darkest hour of our
country's trial, the editor of the Tri-
bune went TO Canada to negotiate for
peace with Jake Thompson, c. G Clay
George Sanders, etc. These Conted-
crate agents, while negotiating with
Mr.. Greeley, employed their intervals
in fitting out "raids" and "conspira-
cies" to rob, burn and asssssinate
These pleasant incidents are now prov
en- by published letter from c. c.
Clay, asking jefferson Davis 10 assume
the responsibility of the St. Albans
robbery and murder. simultaneously
Mr.. c. c. Clay wrote call for public
meeting in New York to sustain Mr.
Greeley against President Lincoln
That call was brought 10 this City, in
the handwriting Of Mr. Clay, for sigma
lures, but by some means found It's way
TO Washington.
In Mr.. Greeley's negotiations with
the Canada conspirators be urged Mr..
Lincoln to offer Slavery four hundred
millions of dollars for peace.
Subsequently, when the war horizon
was Frightening, the Tribune wss seiz-
ed with another Peace spasm II, when
'old Blair went to Richmond, the
"hoArse howlings" Of the Tribune for
peace had prevailed, Grant, Sherman,
Porter, Sheridan, Terry and their com
patriots would have been robbed Of the
glory Of their achievements, and al
the blood consequent upon four years
Of war would have been .ingloriously
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