Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-02
THE CANVASS.


ern E.OyaIfsfs-LOyaI SectiOnaIism iH
this stateZYanixee Dissatisfied with
FrimbEe-SIight Peep Behind the
Curtain.
A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune,
having spent several a.ys in Nashville, and
wiring from Knoxville, on the 23d ult.,
has the following interesting statements,
which give an insight into the Radical san
hedrim and their expectations
Nashville is not only active but cleaner
than Of yOre. Remaining there several
days, / was able to learn something of the
progress of the political campaign in that
district, and in that of the Hon. Mr.. Arnell.
Our most active workers feel no doubt OF
the success of Mr. Trimble in the Nash
vile district, though an Independent ultra
candidate is announced. However, Capt.
Mason will not be likely to affect much of
diversion, though there isno doubt at all
that considerable dissatisfaction prevails
among many Republicans at the manner in
which the Trimble canYass was conducted
previous to the nomination. Mr.. Jrimble,
whom had the pleasure of meeting, is a
middle-aged man of fine ability, though
deemed impracticable and eccentric in poll
tics. He was always loyal man, and was
never esteemed in old days "sound
on the goose" question. Perhaps a
good illustration of his political
discernmenb or want of it, which
ever it may be esteemed, is seen in his
position onNhe suHrage question while he
vas a member Of the State Senate. Mr..
Trimble opposed the passage Of the fran
chise law, giving suffrage to colored men at
the coming election, because he desired the
question to remain in allegiance until 1870,
when he favored universal suffrage, ire
spective of race, color, sex or loyalty. The
adoption of this policy would have lost
Tennessee this fall to the Republicans. Mr..
Trimbie is fine scholar and able lawyer.
He looks somewhat like Drake, of Mis-
souri,, only older and more wrinkled in the
face.
The dissatisfaction about the canvass
grows out of the fact that the nomination
of Mr.. Trimble was urged mainly by those
who had it in charge, upon the ground that
he was Southern born, and that the Re
publican party in Tennessee ought not TO
nominate Northern men. The Rebels are
forced, and the Yankees are invited to
take back seats" 1t is declared that Gov
| ernor Brownlow himself was led to advise
that if Judge Lawrence was nominated,
Mr.. Trimble should run independent, and
| chiefly upon the ground of being "to
the manor born" The old spirit of hatred
Of the North is not yet dead. In this case
it is probably made active by the fact that to
| agreate extent Northern men are trusted more
generally by the newly enfranchised. The
Northern men are more remagnanimous They
show devotion to their ideas. Still! they can
not help P feeling that the spirit alluded to is
ungrateful, when they remember that within
the bosom Of Tennessee sleep 40, 600 North
ern soldiers-slain in defense of the Union
and of Tennessee loyalty. / would not
have referred to this were it not that the
same spirit is still exhibited, and because
there are well founded fears that attempts
will vet be made to form an exclusive
regime in Tennessee, whose platform is to
be, not ability or usefulness SO much as
having been Southern born and bred. OF
| course loyalty, as Tennesseans understand
it, is to be added.
THE SPIRIT or sECTIONALIsM.
1t is a curious thing TO note how deer
seated this ssctionalism is in the South. Il
seems ingrained and will probably cror
out all through the life of this generation
| found it rampant in some places, even
among the negroes In Charleston, South
Carolina, it was quite noticeable, and there
as elsewhere, found some men fomenting
it. An influential colored clergyman of thai
city made a rather bitter attack on North.
ern men. In the colored men the feeling
is found only, or chiefly, in the cities
among those who were more favored dur
| ing slavery. The freedmen proper are
| generally devoted to their Northern friends
and trust them more fully. The prejudict
is a very detrimental one Northern
men with Northern ideas are exactly wha
the entire South needs. Its regeneration
cannot be made complete without them
1t is " kicking against the pricks to re
sist them also, for they are sure TO conquer