Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-03-27
JOUN TUMBLE ron CONGRESS-

The Press and Times of yesterday
contains the following card, and ans
nounces it as coming from one who has
stood in the van of Radical Republican
ism, and upheld its principles through
good and evil report"
A CARn.-I announce myself a. a can
didate for the Congress of the United States
from the Nashville district, upon the basis
Of Freedom and Nationality. Should the
National Republican party prefer another,
| shall not be in the way, as l will support
its candidate. JOHN TRTMBLE.
March 25, 1867.
Freedom and nationality are sonO-
rous words, but, like a good many other
things, they may be as empty as they are
full Of sound. Mr.. Trimble has lived for
some time, and certainly has learned
enough Of human nature to know that be
will be required before he gets the con,
fidence of this people, to deal with them
in more explicit terms He affects a sort
Of sublimated and speculative politics,
and proposes to deal with ideas, and not
men and things practical But he will
learn, that glittering generalities have
ceased to blind and bedizen the people,
and that a mere parade of phrases is no
longer to be.relied on to divert attention
from vital and important matters
There is trick in words that the stern
realities of the past few years has
exposed. A large majority of the
American people were deluded by the
sounding manifesto, comprised in the
terms Union and Constitution under
which the Republican, now Radical party,
commenced the gigantic imposition which
has enabled them TO fold up the Constitu
ton as an obsolete paper, and declare the
Union divided indefinitely, The people
of this Congressional district will want
10 know what sort Of freedom" Mr.
Trimble fayoTs-whether he intends TO
confne this boon to the colored race, and
whites who may subscribe to a certain
political creed, or proposes to make all
men free TO think, speak, write and vote
as they please They win want to be
informed, il, by nationality" he intends
to uphold the view that the Federal Cons
gress, to which he aspires to be mem
Der, has the power TO abolish State gov
ernments at will, aud while permitting
the forms of such government to exist to
dictate their legislation They will re-
quire him to state in full and justify the
conditions which he and his party intends
to attach to freedom they will want him
to make full confession in advance, of
the number Of additional crimes they
propose to commit under the sanction Of
that name When he talks about ma
tionality' they will request him to ayow
himself either Cor or against eentraliza-
ton 81 all p1wer in the general govern
ment and whether he thinks that the
Federal system of States equal and indie
pendent in their spheres, is a failure
There viii be several other matters Of
State legislation in which he has borne
part and Of local interest, in regard to
which they will desire candid and cate
gOrical explanations Mr. Trimble may
be prepared 60 make a bold canvass, and
If he should succeed in forcing all com
petition in his own party out of the way,
We trust he will, Cor the people want no
paltering in a double sense The last
trust to which MIR TrimbIe was elected by
he people Of IRIS county he resigned in
1861, in Publie card to the people,
which concluded as follows:
Tennessee born myself, and Of South
ern ancestors for three generations. my
" hole life has been passed in your midst,
and / am wholly, heartily and entirely
identified With ven, and shall continue
united With your fortunes, and ask no other
destiny"
This was saSd when Tennessee was
by legislative act to member
ship in me Confederaey," and when
Rebel drum beats saluted Mr. Trimble
FROM morn till dewy eve How far such
anguags was, or was not capable Of being
as giving moral support to the
attitude that bis native State then oecu-
lied, we do not say, nor win We pro-
lounee upon isg sincerity What the
'eOple viii require Of him now. Is ample
that he uss ans all he may say,
without reservations or eyasions