Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-03-16
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BOOK
The brief paragraph IN which we exc
posed the hOllowness Of the Radical claim
on the confidence Of the negro pOpala-
ton, appears to have penetrated the joints
Of the organs armor With staring
head lines, it introduces two colnmnssof
fustian and irrelevant extracts in regard
20 what secession conventions, six years
ago, said about the objects Of the .Repub-
liean party IN the outset Of thewar We
asserted that the Republicans themselves
declared and protested that they did not
intend to free the negroes, and that they
never would have done so, but as au aid
to their military operations This, the
organ does not and dare not deny. 1t
cannot do so, without ignoring facts Of
which it wonld be ashamed to confess IT.
self ignorant
We do net intend to be led into a
lengthy discussion Of the question as
to whom the negro is indebted to for his
freedom. We saw however, that it was
result Of the civil war which neither
party expected at its commencement
The negro, no matter who made him
such is freedman and fran
chised citizen Il is Of less imports
ance to him - inquire how he came
so, than it is to know how to properly
discharge his new duties Topermit him
self to pass nnder the tutelage OF a lot of
men who have no other purpose but TO
use him; and to be taught that they are
his most sincere and reliable friends, is
to be ushered into his new station under
the patronage Of chicanery, and to re-
ceiye most pernicious first lesson in
politics Our only object in noticing the
subject was to undeceiye him, and to
emancipate him from the thraldom of
error into which he is being led
With this view, we suggest to com.
mittee of intelligent colored voters
to ask the organ Cor second edition Of
its hand book which shall contain the
olt-repeated asseyerations of leading Re
publicans in the winter Of l860-6l, that
it was not the purpose Of Mr. Lincoln to
disturb slavery in the South; the pro-
posals of members Of that party on its
behalf to guarantee the preservation of
slavery; the action Of the Republicans
in the peace conference Of '6l Mr.
lincoln's inaugural on the execution
of the fugitive slave law; the re-
solution, after the commencement Of
the war, unanimous on the Republican
side in Congress, Tor maintaining the
institutions Of the SOuth slavery In
cluded) unimpaired the election of
Cameron from the Cabinet ahd the
removal of Fremont for iayoring
emancipation Mr. lineolns reply
to the Chicago delegation, eharae-
ter zing proclamation Of emanci-
patton as vain as papal bull against
the comet; his letter to Greeley in An
gust, 90, in which he said he would not
free slave, if he could save the Union
without doing SO; the successful efforts
Of the leading Republicans Of Tennessee
in 90, to have this State exempted from
the operation of the proclamation, lard,
by-the-by, this valiant champion whoruns
the organ was one of them, or at least
acqnieseed in that moyement) the fact
that an amendment to the constitution to
abolish slavery, was not proposed until
the lastiyear Of war; aud that this amend
ment was subsequently ratified by every
slayeholding State When the organ
gives as as full citations from the records
in regard 30 these matters Of history, as It
does from secession conventions, the negro
will be better prepared to Judge whether
his acquisition Of freedom was an Incl
dent, or whether It was the main purpose
Of the Republicans and "won by their
blood