Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-08-08

ton Of the slaves as an event not at all
offensive"
These men became drunk with power,
and forgot their own warning, and Of
course it was lost upon those for whom i
was meant And now the followers of
these men, like great lubberly boys, are
blubbering and sniveling over what they
were warned would be the inevitable re-
suit Of the policy which the ultra Radi-
Gals Of their party were demanding
should be adopted You were warned
by your own chosen leadEs that if your
extreme men triumphed in the policy
they were endeavoring to foist upon
you, that it would, as sure as the night
follows the day, bring about precisely
the state Of affairs that you are now so
piously deprecating You now see that
you have sown the Wind, and If you and
your unfortunate duPes reap the whirl-
wind, you and they have only yourselves
to blame
In the second place, the cry Of pro-
scription comes with the most ill-shapen
grace from the supporters Of the Brown
low Fletcher government The Legisla-
ture, at the bidding of these twin archi-
tects of ruin, enacted Acknowledgement
law after Acknowledgement law until
large majority of the best men Of the
State were denied the right of suffrage,
and as if this degradation were not suf-
ficient to appease their proscriptive feel
ings, a law was enacted enabling any man
to forbid one Of this prescribed class
from sitting upon a jury In all the APP
pointments to Office made by Brownlow
and Fletcher-and they have exceeded
those Of any three Governors since the
Judiciary was made elective by the people
we recollect now Of but one COnserVa-
tive: that was the brother in-law Of Fetch
err He was appointed and commissioned
Attorney General for the - judicial cir
cult, notwithstanding he had beel an Of
6Ger in the Rebel army, and fought gal
lantly for his native South This APP
pointment gave great dissatisfaction to
the Radicals, and an election was or
dered, when Capt Hickey, the Conser-
vative appointee Of Brownlow and Fetch
er, was elected by handsome majority.
This occurred several months ago, but
his commission has been withheld, be
cause Of a Misunderstanding, it has been
limited, between Brownlow and Fletcher,
and thereby hangs a nice little tale. But
this was not the only Conservative whose
commission was withheld Gov Fletcher
refused in May, 1865, to issue commits
siOns to a number of magistrates elected
by the people Of Giles, Williamson, Law
renee, and Coffee counties, not because
Of irregularity in the elections, but for
the simple reason, as his organ stated,
that there were grounds of suspicion
against the fidelity of these men. FL
deity to what Why to him and his
party. This was prescription of the
very worst, most lawless character.
Then Brownlow and Fletcher, without
the semblance Of authority in law, throw
out the vote of whole counties in the e'ec-
ton Of August, 1865, and gave a certif-
cate Of election to Congress to man who
was in a hopeless minority. Thousands
of legally qualified voters were thus de-
priyed of their right of suffrage by this
proscriptive, unlawful act But only
few days ago the Commissioners of Reg
istra6on, who ONO their places to Brown
low and Fletcher, appointed judges aud
clerks to hold the election in the differ
ent counties in the State, and how many
of that vast number were Conservatives ?
We have not heard Of one
But these are only few Of the acts
which establish the extreme proscriptive-
ness of the party in power. When the
great body of the white men, embracing
the best and truest men in the State,
were prescribed aud degraded by law,
the men whose compassion is now so ten
derby moved in behalf Of "the prescribed"
found no epithets in their vocabulary with
which to denounce this atrocious act
Lawrence must feel some
what keenly the very ridiculous attitude
in which he and those with whom he is
acting are placed, for while he cannot
yet summon up courage to denounce in
fitting terms this wholesale disfranchise~
ment Of white citizens, he very clearly
indicates that it is plague-spot upon
the hands of his Radical brethren. If
hose who now have so much to say in
of prescription, had shown
heir faith by their works at an earlier
late, when their own race were made to
feel what it was to be prescribed and de.
graded in professedly free State, then
heir present acts and professions would
nave entitled them to some respect
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SECRETARY STANTON.
The telegraphic dispatches give some
explanation Of the mysterious retention