Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-08-07

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looked after by their master in person, ac
cording TO the telegraphic reports. The
fact that, amid all these occasions for ex-
element, the election was one of the quiet
est ever known in the State, is not only
/ highly creditable to those who must have
made great sacrifices Of feelings 10 insure
this tranquility, bat is one OF the most
hopeful indications Of future peace.
II shows a power of self restraint for
which the people of the South have had lit
| tie credit, and which is part of their most
recent acquisitions, They have been chast-
ened by suffering into patient endurance
| of opposition, not to say wrong and insult,
which would not have been possible to
| them before the war; Nor would We DENY
to the negroes, and their white allies their
| Just need of praise for whatever may have
been their share in the work Of preserving
the peace. They were evidently armed, as
many were arrested for carrying concealed
weapons, and a triiing disturbance between
black and white man brought ont eighty
armed blacks in an instant" The United
States troops appear to have been managed
with remarkable judgment All classes, on
| the day Of the election, conducted them
/ StifCh Will GuCA ibCCtcu pul llc
good sense and forbearanee of the great
body Of the Conservatives were especially
conspicuous. We have little expectation
that the Governor will, of his own motion,
relax any of the rigor of that violence and
terrorism with which his administration
has been so strongly marked but we may
hope that those men Of power and inau-
ence in his party who can interfere without
damage to themselves, will do what they
can to restrain him from further rufiianism,
and thus give to the people of Tennessee
that relief from his CALLING yoke to which,
it must now be evident, they are fully en-
titled.
From the New York Tribune.
Tennessee, Andrew Johnson's own State,
has utterly repudiated his policy, and de-
clared that not upon his plan is reconcilia-
ton possible. The new Legislature will
choose the successor of Senator Patterson,
and every one of the eight Congressman
chosen is Radical. This victory is one
| for amnesty, for that must be the certain
result of the unity of the Republican party,
| North and South-the acceptance by the
Rebel States of the natural results of the
war. So long as men like Monroe, and
Perry, and Hill, and Herschel v johnson
refuse to acknowledge the defeat Of the
rebellion and the abolition of slavery, mill
tary rule and Acknowledgement will con-
tinue. The Republican success in Tennes-
see is the first great step to the restoration
of civil government; it solves the problem
of reconstruction. The great experiment
of impartial suffrage, of equal rights, has
been tried, and has succeeded; nothing re-
mains but TO work out with patience, and
moderation, justice and good will, the
same grand result from Virginia to Texas.
From the New York Times.
The triumph of the Brownlow faction
proves only the success with which it has
manipulated the registration of voters. AS
an indication of State feeling or policy it
amounts to nothing. When a man in
Office possesses the power of DISTINGUISHING
his opponents, his election or reelection
can be considered only sign of thorough,
INSCRIPTIONS work-not of moral strength
or personal or political popularity. And
when he outrages propriety by appointing
candidates as registrars, and so enabling
them to adapt the lists to their own con-
yenience, the fact of their election follows
as regularly as night follows day. Indeed
the Tennessee election was, on the whole, a
meaningless formality. With four-ffths of
the whites DISTINGUISHED, and with the
registration altogether in the hands of
Brownlow and his men, what signifies the
vote of Thursday last?
For similar reasons, what importance at
taches to the absence of the riot and blood
shed which were widely feared? That the
election passed off quietly, is a good ground
of rejoicing. But the cause of the quiet
ought not to be overlooked. 1t was not
Brownlow or his volunteers who preserved
order, nor the superior strength of the
victors, nor the peaceful disposition of the
people To the United States troops be
longs the praise. Gen. Thomas, acting I'M
der instructions from Gen. Grant, was the
great peace-maker of the day. His ar
engagements restrained the ill-blood which
exists on both sides, and rendered orderly
what would otherwise have been scenes of
violence and strife. The circumstance is
not particularly gratifying. 1t is not pleas
ant to reflect that Federal bayonets are in
dispensable auxiliaries of an election in
State supposed to be reconstructed. 'Butso
it is, and we may as well recognize il
frankly.
day, as it was a week ago-volcanic so
evidently explosive that it must continue a
source of the most painful anxiety. On
one hand, Brownlow, with all the insolence
of power, and with the State organization
in his hands; on the other, the Rebel
Democratic element, angry, aggressive,
kept down only by soldiers. Between these
parties the greater number of the white
CniOnists of the State are crushed, as be-
tween the upper and neither milestone. The
sole hope of deliverance for this class-the
sole hope of peace and prosperity for the
State-lies in the adoption of more moder-
ate counsel than can be anticipated while
Brownlow fills the Executive chair. 1t is
the remoteness of this prospect that renders
the aspect of Tennessee deplorable, and
tina. suggests the danger of an extreme pro-
scriptive policy in recognizing other por-
tions of the South.
From the New York Express.
And now, what is the result of it all?
We answer To keep Tennessee awhile
longer under one of the meanest despot-
isms with which ever a people were cursed,
and to send to Congress seven fraudulently
elected members to help make laws, not
Tor tennessee alone, but Tor us here IN New
York, and for all the rest of the country.
These Tennessee Radical members of Con-
gress, thus forced into the capitol, as it
were, by fraud, force, terror, are to sit
there, perchance to make constitutional
amendments for us, to impose taxes upon
us, to help impeach and remove the Presi-
dent, and to aid the Steyenses, the Sum-
mers, the Wilson's and the Buffers, to plan
new usurpations and new outrages upon
constitutional liberty and the rights of the
people! And all this, be 1t remembered,
while Democratic and Conservative men,
bers from kentucky-of whose regular cleo
tion there can be no reasonable doubt-are
not permitted to take their seats. A State
that never rebelled against the Union, but
which sent forty thousand of her sons to
suppress the rebellion, dislranchised-
while the negroes and mean whites" of
"secesh " Tennessee are permitted to send
whemsoever they like to Congress tpro-
yided they be neither Democrats nor Con-
servatives, TO strengthen the hands of the
tyrants and despots who are already su-
rraune tbara