Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-06-21

HOW EHR ORGAN USED 70 PIPE
The Nashville Union, which was edited
by the present editor of the Press and
Times, shows how the organ viii pipe
when circumstances require. IL is
amusing to compare the utteranees Of the
former paper with those dished out to the
same community through the Press and
Times We PROPOSE to present the reader
few specimens.
THE ORGAN on sUBJUGATIOK. ~.
In the leading editorial in the Nash
vile UniOn of April IL, 1861, we find the
following:
Whenever we hear secessionist de-
precating the idea OF the subjugation of the
revolted States, and declaring it TO be inn
possible, we are somewhat at loss to oe
eide whether he is crazy or knave. The
idea that the States in the Union, or any
one Of them, have the slightest desire to
keep the revolted States in subjugation, or
deprive them of any privilege which they
themselves enjoy, is too absurd, preposter-
Gus and unfounded to be entertained one
moment by any body out Of Bedlsm. The
charge is an unfounded, audacious, unmiti-
gated lie, for we may as well be plain
about it. The whole Union army, from
the highest General TO the lowest pri-
vate, largh immoderately at the thought
that any body out of a mad-house or South
Carolina, should suppose the Union men
would, if they could do 80 without blow,
bold the seeded States in any other con-
dition or with any less privileges than the
loyal States enjoy. This whole charge is
gotten up by knaves and believed by per-
sons who have either feeble wits or are too
much agitated to use them properly. All
under Heaven that the Federal govern
ment proposes to do is to establish uni
form supremacy Of law over this nation.
II the routed Rebels Of Pea Ridge, Win
chester, Fort Donelson, and Pittsburg, de-
feated, discomftted and utterly scattered
as they are, will say, We mean to obey
the laws just as we did one year ago, and
will submit to the voice of the majority,
as laid down in the great charter of our
national organization then the work of our
troops viii have been finished, and they
will go cheerfully and gladly back TO their
plows their looms, and their anvils."
Now the author of this blast against
subjugation is a blatant advocate of holds
ing ten States as conquered provinces,
and of denying them the great privileges
enjoyed by States. Not only this, he has
advocated and heartily approves the dis
franchising Of three>fourths Of the white
people of Tennessee who have declared
their purpose to "obey the laws y
THE ORGANS OPINION OF ABoLITIoNIsTs.
In the Nashville Union Of April 26,
1862, the present editor Of the Press and
Times expressed the following opinion of
the Abolitionists:
1--WE intend to give 10 few words and
frankly, what we believe to be the purpose
of the Northern people respecting the in
stitution of slavery in the States. BY the
North we of course do not mean Greeley,
Wendell Phillips, and the Jacobinical rev.
dictionary faction led by them, who answer
in the Northern States to the per SC dis
unionists in the South. But we mean the
Bell party, the Douglas party, three-fourfhs
of the Breckinridge party, and very large
majority ofthe Republican party.
"The Louisville journal Of yesterday
contains a scathing notice Of Wendell
Phillips. 1t is a well merited castigation
of that fashy, blasphemous incendiary, and
half-crazed Jacobin. Phillips is as vile
disunionist as jeff Dvais or VIM. L.
Yancey. May the devil seize the tribe p
There is no installing this language.
The present editor of the Press and
Times deliberately stated his conviction
that large numfer, only less than a
majority Of the Republican party be-
longed to that Jacobinical, revolu-
tionary faction" who answer in the
Northern States to the per Sc Disunionists
in the South, and he prayed the devil to
seize the tribe The author of this de-
nunciation and prayer is now a jealous
member of this selfsame wing of the Re-
publican party led by Greeley and Phil
lips, and the advanced positions Of the
latter find an echo in the Press and Times
PARDON.
No more bitter assailant of the Presi-
dent for pardoning persons engaged in
the rebellion than the Press and Times
is to be found, yet the present editor of
that paper warmly and zealously advoca-
ted the policy of the President when he
first enumerated it In his capacity as
Military Governor of Tennessee. In the
Nashville Union of May 10, 1862, the
question, "Who shall be pardoned, is
discussed in an elaborate editorial, from
which we quote as follows:
"The bitter tears OF affection bereaved
OF its dearest idols, literally bedew the sod
Of Tennessee, and aching hearts yearn for
the repentance and return of prodigals now
held in confinement or sinking under the
burdens of service in the Rebel army.
Now, all this anxiety can soon be relieved,
if the persons who are its objects abandon
the rebellion and become truly loyal and
faithful to the government and its laws. is
this hard requirement? But to place the
correctness of our answer to the question
which forms the caption Of this article, we
quote from the admirable proclamation of
Gov. johnson, issued on the 18th of March.
He says:
"'To the people themselves the protec-
ton of the government is extended. All
their rights will be duly respected, and
their wrongs redressed when made known.
Those who through the dark and weary
night of the rebellion have maintained
their allegiance 10 the Federal government
will be houored. The erring and mis-
guided will be welcomed on their return.
And while il may be necessary, in vindi-
eating the violated majesty Of the law, and
re- asserting its imperial sway, to punish
intelligent and conscious treason in high
places, no merely retalistory or vindictive
policy will be adopted. To those especially
who in a private, unofficial capacity have
assumed an attitude of hostility to the
a full and complete amnesty
for ali past scts and declarations Is offered
upon the one condition of their again yield
ing themselves peaceful citizens to the just
supremacy Of the laws. This / advise
them to do for their own good, and for the
peace and welfare Of our beloved State,
10 me by the associations of long