Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-04-04

this bloody and revengeful method of saw
ing the country, and notice, for a few mo-
ments how different the language and SEN
timents of some Of the most distinguished
leaders of the Republican party lately ut
tered in Congress, full Of genuine patriot
ism, and demonstrating that time has
brought its healing influences 10 wounds
that are yet bleeding and painful, and
proving that the asperities which have
heretofore controlled the Northern mind
have been Modified by the gentle teachings
of peace.
Hear what the Hon. John A. Bingham
uttered a few days ago in Congress, In
answer to the blood-thirsty" doctrines
announced by General Butler:
"The distinguished gentleman from Mas
sachusetts, Mr.. Butler, asks US to apply, in
time of peace, 10 the people of the South
ern States, the iron rule of war. Sir, can
not consent TO that. No war racks the
continent; no armed rebellion threatens
with overthrow the institutions Of the
country. The pillars of the holy temple
Of our liberties do not trembIe in the storm
of battle; the whole heavens are no longer
covered with blackness, and the habita-
tons of the people are no longer filled with
lamentation and sorrow because their beau
tifnl have persisted in the high places Of
the land Sir, you may apply in the day
Of war the iron rule Of war, and say that
the innocent and unoffending in the belea-
guered city shall perish with the guilty;
but when wars dread alarm has ended, as
happily il has with us-when the broken
battalions of treason have surrendered to
the triumphant legions of the republic,
let no man stand within the forum of the
people aad utter the horrid blasphemy that
you should render them no assistance in
the hour of their need-that you shall
grant to them no forgiveness, because they
once had rebelled and fought against their
country The sacred dust Of our persisted
braves would rebuke me if / did, because
they know that mercy is an attribute of
Cod r- ai
Equally benignant and kind is the Ian
guage of Hon. Ignatius Donelly, of Mime
sofa, who urges the adoption of 3 liberal
and charitable spirit towards the people of
the States lately in rebellion, 'as better
calculated to allay the feelings which now
exist in the South against the people of the
North than any other measure that could
be adopted !" and for the additional reason
that by such legislation 1T will go abroad
amongst the nations Of the earth that this
American republic has attained lofier
standard than that Of any nation known to
history--that we have not only not visited
with severity, wrath and punishment, the
men who waged for four years fierce re-
bellion to destroy u.s. but, reused by the
cries of suffering humanity, we have abso-
lutely extended the hand of relief to the
eramies of the nation" OF
Listen to what Hon. Henry Wilson, of
Massachusetts, said in the Senate on the
10th day of March, 1857, when replying
tOISenators Nye and Fowke and then, with
grateful hearts, thank God that prominent
and influential members Of the Republican
party, known heretofore as extreme and
Radical, have risen to the height of the
great occasion, and uttered language that is
calculated to restore harmony and fraternal
affection amongst the people Of the whole
country, and which is an acknowledgment
Of the political wisdom and sagacity Of the
President and those Of us who, since the
close of the war, by the surrender Of Gen.
Lee and the Confederate forces, have inva-
riably urged, with malice towards none
and kindness for al" Cancellation as the
true and certain remedy for the injuries
uuuSE WulCh TIE GUILTY. u buuetluS5 duu
who, for thus arguing, without any change
of political faith, have been tauntingly
charged by our opponents with being Cop
perheads, Democrats and Rebel symps-
thizers.
L gladly announce the dawn of a brighter
day, and point triumphantly for my own
vindication to the fact that the time Z as
arrived when Senator from Massachusetts
can utter such patriotic sentiments.
az say to the Senator from Nevada-Mr.
Nye-that bloody struggle, to which all
the passions of the people Of the South and
of the North have been aroused, and is
ended; that contest of ideas is closed. Pa
triotism, humanity and Christianity bid US
of the North and of the South subdue,
hush, calm the passions engendered by the
terrific conflicts which we have passed, and
to call the dews of blessing, not the bolts of
cursing, down upon each other. We should
remember the words of our own poets of
fropdOp1 and bunapitv.