Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-08-29

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Presidents new course there is more
courage and ability than the people had
supposed him to possess. 1t was master
stroke to bring Grant into his Cabinet.
The appointment Of Thomas was an ex-
cellent plan to enable such papers as The
Times TO divert the attention Of the country
from the infamy Of the removal of
Sheridan. 1t was equally shrewd to send
him to fight the Indians, that all journals of
the kind might fall into raptures, to see
the hero OF Five Forks once more at the
head Of an army. Nor is Mr.. johnson less
adroit in resolving to reorganize his Cab
inet-in any event it is perfectly safe, for
the new one cannot easily be more DIS
tasteful 10 the people than the old.
These preparations are ominous OF
change, and not of change for the better.
Andrew johnson does not retract; no
sane man can hope that a movement
which begins with the removal of Sheri-
dan can mean repentance or remorse. The
change is from the defensive to the often
siye, and Mr.. johnson marshals his des-
perate forces to open attack upon Con-
gress. 1t may reconstruct the laws, but he
will reconstruct the machinery by which
they are administered. We believe that
the President desires to 50 far modify his
policy that il may obtain the support OF
the Conservative Republicans, and to
dazzle with the robbery Of great names, or
the betrayal of splendid regulations, the
perception OF the people. He will use
any weapon that comes to hand. lie
throws the fame of Thomas as a vail over
the downfall of loyalty in Louisiana, and
makes the General of the army sentinel
at the door Of the White House. But be-
heath and beyond all this parade the
keen eyes of the people detect the swiftly
moving, unrelenting foe pushing onward
TO the attack They know in Andrew
johnson a man resolved to prevent the
reconstruction of the South upon the
principles they have laid down through
Congress; they know that his purpose is TO
replace the Rebel States in the Union
without guarantees or pledges, free to re-
pudiate hereafter their surrender of Rebel
principles; they know that when he dis
graced Sheridan he insulted them. They
perfectly understand that he means war,
and no longer one of defensive strategy,
but deliberate and combined aggression.
From the New York Tribune. Aug. 25.
We can understand them no otherwise
than as the opening Of new and desperate
struggle to arrest the reconstruction policy
decreed by Congress, aud, if possible, de-
feat and subvert it. To this end, we infer
that it is deemed necessary to hurl from
Office every Radical whom the President or
his Cabinet can reach, but especially those
welding military power over the South.
We judge that this final struggle is to be
far more bitter, more violent, more pro-
scriptive, THAI that Of 1866.
Especially are the extraordinary powers
conferred by Congress on the military COM
manders at the South to be transferred TO
the hands Of Conservative" of Caste and
negro hate to the very utmost. All the
still vast patronage of the Executive is to
be welded in aid of resistance to any such
reconstruction as Congress purposed, and
as Sheridan, Thomas, Sickles, Pope, and
Howard, were laboring TO effect.
Gov. Seward will resign the State De-
partment-probably in the course of next
week. We Judge that McCaAoch and
Randall must also go. Grant will be
bowed out Of the War Office so soon as an
other can do the work required of the in
cumbent, and an unequivOcal Copperhead
Cabinet will be made up. These changes
viii be made, not necessarily because Gov.
Seward or Gen Grant is hostile, but be-
cause neither of them can be expected to
go so far nor work so heartily in the d.
rection meditated as such men as Steed-
man, Jere s. Black, and Montgomery
Blair will readily do. And it is held that
work is inadequate to the
The end hoped for is a political revolu-
ton in the North and a rejection Of the
of restoration prescribed by
Congress in the South. Mr.. Johnson's back
stairs counselors doubtless assure him that
if the whole patronage of the government
is transferred to Democratic hands they
will thereby be enabled to overbear last
years moderate Republican maiorities in
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
etc, and thus secure a Republican defeat
in the Presidential contest next year. Mean
time, reconstruction is to be postponed or
defeated at the South, with intent to take
advantage of the expected Democratic tri
umph next year, and so, while enfranchis-
ing the Rebels, remand the blacks to per-
petual serfdom if not virtual slavery.
Such appears to be the programme of
the new struggle which Mr.. johnson has
opened with the supersedure of Stanton by
Grant at the War office. That It will be
fierce and vehement, few will doubt; but
let us all firmly resolve that it shall be
marked by no bloodshed, but that all shall
implicitly abide the deliberate Judgment
Of the people.
From the New York Heral I, Aug. 25.
On we march The negro cloud still
hangs upon our political horizon and threat
ms the nation. The Radicals descend from
treat legislation to the petty passions of
,arty politics, and are bent upon absorbing
n the one controlling idea the whole forces
# the government. Fortunately the ex-
cutive power comes to the rescue and
tands between Congress and the national
uicide they would commit. This is clearly
hown by the mastery answer of President
Johnson to General Grant, in the cores
,ondence of these officials relative to the
emoval of General Sheridan, which we
publish to-day. Gen. Grant evidently felt
he force of the demand which the Radical
,arty was making upon him to place him
elf right with them, and seized the oppor-
unity thus unwittingly given him by Mr..
Johnson. The latter, however, was not UNI
quail to the task of parrying the thrust,
nd in his answer to Gen. Grant gives US
be best State paper and the most exact
explanation of his position that have
'een issued from the Executive mansion
Turing his administration.
Mr.. Johnson now holds in his hands the
orces that can resolve this problem of re-
If he will only rise to the
emands of the occasion he may restore
imself to the confidence of the North.
lis letter TO General Grant is full of execu-
i've power and a determination thatit shall
ot be wrested from him. The whole COM
non sense of the country sustains his effort
o keep his poise despite the desire of Con-
ress to overturn him. Let them
mpeach him. He may challenge il
nd win. Let him overturn the clashiDg
lements in his own cabinet; the country
ill applaud. Let him drive back the
lack cloud that threatens both North and
outh, he will receive all aid. President
lincoln issued an emancipation proclama-
ion for the blacks let Andrew johnson
sue by universal amnesty, an emancipa-
on for the white population Of the United
tates.
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