Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-07-18

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respondent Of the Cincinnati Commercial
( Republican,, thus discourses of late fea-
ture in the Radical proceedings in Congress !:
A bin proposing to pay loyal citizens of
! the South for stores furnished 10 the army
! is the occasion which calls forth the express
sion Of an extraordinary doctrine. Mr..
/ HowARD, Of Michigan, leads Of and Is
! backed up by dozen or more Of equally
| high standing patriots, in opposing this
/ measure, and basing his opposition on the
broad principle drawn from International
4 law that the people of the South are, or we're,
| public enemies, and, as such, not entitled 10
compensation for any thing used by an in
vading army. They are willing 20 pay for
/ every bushel Of oats furnished BY Northern
men 10 sustain the armies Of the Union, but
/ TO the Southern man who was true 10 the
/ Government when all around him were
I false they viii not pay single cent, though
/ be voluntarily rendered everything he had
/ to support the cause he loved.
The bill contemplate the payment Of
none but those who can furnish undeniable
/ proofs of loyalty. But, says Mr. HowARD,
/ practically, if there are loyal men in the
/ South, they are great FOOLS they ought to
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neighbors, and well punish them for their
/ obstinacy, though il was on the right side
In the ordinary Affairs Of life a man Is emit
tied to credit for honesty and integrity in
proportion tOthe amount Of temptation which
he is called upon 10 resist. But these Rad
ical gentlemen in the Senate indorse no such
old fogy theory as this. An old legal max
i'm says Better for ninety-nine guilty per-
person TO be punished" That won't suit the
Radicals, either. They are unwilling to take
the trouble Of sitting the innocent from the
guilty, and in order to make sure that no
guilty ones shall go unWhipped of Justice,
they propose 20 punish an entire popula-
ton. They take their cue from HEROD,
who, 10 insure the death Of CHRIST, ordered
the slaughter Of all the children within his
dominion.
need not say how well calculated such
legislation as this is to promote loyalty in
iasurTectionary districts in the future. Men
with the speeches Of HOWARD and SUMNER
before them, declaring that every man in
rebellious district is By law a rebel, will be
very apt Of course, to feel encouraged, and
70 do llis best TO sustain the cause of the ma
ton against hisrebel neighbors Butthesel lat
ter-day m0ralists contradict themselves half
dozen times in half hours speech. First
they say that the people of the South are all
disloyal. When il is replied that if this be
true it will cost nothing for the enforcement
of the bill, inasmuch as it contemplates only
the payment Of loyal men, they turn round
and say, IT you pass such measure you will
take from the Treasury millions and mil
lions of dollars. They make no complaint
against the millions and millions taken from
the Treasury to pay shOddy contractors at
the North, but when it is proposed 70 pay
few faithful men throughout the South for
what the army took from them, and what in
many cases they voluntarily gave the army,
it's all wrong; It will bring financial ruin
on the country.
There are some UniOnists ('so-called') in
the South, however, who do not object to
Mr.. HowARD's doctrine. They are men
who had nothing to lose in the war, and Of
course lost nothing. They are men who
regret that the war is over, for they were
using the occasion to pillage the people in
the name of loyalty" In the large major
ity Of cases, the true Union men Of the South
during the late war are now conservative.
They sustained the government morally
and materially, in the contest with those
who we're in revolt, and are satisfied with
the result They wish return of peace
and prosperity, in order that all classes may
have an opportunity of retrieving the losses
sustained by the war.
The Southern Radical is the man who
thinks the war ended too soon. He shows
it by eating the dirt put into his mouth by
his Northern friends. The Southern con-
servative is theman whose substance was
spent in the war, and who reioices at the re-
turn of peace. The first class hope to pro-
pitiaie their masters and feed their starve-
ling bodies on the crumbs; the latter sup
port the President and will be content to
let their claims against the Government 60
unpaid, if they can see it restored to its
former prosperity. In a state Of peace, 4
Southern Radical would starve and sink into
obscurity.
1t was out Of such condition they came
as scum comes to the top of the pot when it
boils. There must be agitation or they
would go to the bottom Does anybody sup
pose that certain men could have become
members Of the Tennessee Legislature
under any other circumstances? They
are true to their instincts. They are
praising the bridge that brought them into |
public notice, They are fighting the efforts
Of good men to produce a state of affairs
which will return them to the insignifcance |
from which they sprung. In an atmosphere |
Of genuine conservatism they would die like
rats in an exhausted receiver, and be quickly
removed before the stencil Of their reputa-
tons became insupportable. .....
It is this class of men who are supporting
SUMNER, STEVENS, HOWARD & Co. They
can afford to do it. They have no
claims against the Government for
service given or substance lost. And
they, like their Congressional mas
tiers, deride and scout at the true men
who adhered to the Union az il was and the
Constitution as il is, and tax their wits and |
strain their eonsciences to contrive excuses
10 deny them their rights as claimants
against the Government, and their privileges
as citizens under IT,
The theory that denies the truly loyal
Southern man equal rights with the blatant |
spouier at the North who staid at home, and
the shoddy contractor who grew rich, /
is taught by men who seek to seize
Southern lands and divide them among ne
groes, and place broken down military Off
GERS and Southern Radical dirt eaters as
tasS-masters over the Southern people.