Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-08-21

fwhat a pudding and weltering, and
scolding and iargoning, there will be before
the iirst real step toward remedy is taken
Stewardship, like all solid contracts be.
ftwen men, (like wediock ITSELF which was
oaee nomadic enough, temporary enough a
must become a contract Of permanency.
not easy 70 dissolve, but difficult extremely
"a Contract for life" if you can manage
it (which you cannot, without maay Wise
laws and regulations, and great deal oi
earnest thought and anxious experienced,
will evidently be the best Of all. And this
was already the Nigger's essential position.
Mischief, irregularities, injustices did proba-
bly, abound between Niger aud Buckra
but the poisonous taproot of all mischief,
ard impossibility of fairness, humanity, or
weil-dOing in the contract, never had been
there or all else the remedy was easv in
comparison; vitally important to every
just man concerned in it; and, under all
distractions (which in the American case.
begirt with frantic Abolitionists" fire
breathing like the old Chimera, were i'm
mense), was gradually getting itself done
| To me Individually the Nigger's case was
not the most pressing in the world, but
among the least so America, however,
had got into ,Swarmerg upon it (not
Americas blame either, but in great part
ours, apd that Of the nonsense zoe sent over
to them) and felt that in the Heavens or
| the Earth there was nothing so godlike or
incomparably pressing to be done Their
energy, their valor, their etc, ETC., were
worthy of the stock they sprang from; and
now, poor fellows, done it is, with wit
ness. A continent of the earth has been
submerged, for certain years. by delnges as
| from the Pit of He'll; half a million
(some say a whole million, but surely they
| exaggerate#) of excellent White Men. full
Of gifts and faculty, have slit one another
into horrld death, in a temporary humOr,
which will leave centuries of remembrance
| fierce enough: and three million Blacks
men and brothers (of a sort), are com
| pleteiy emancipated; launched into the
career Of mprovement-likely to be "ims
proved of the face of the earth " in a
generation or two! That is the dismal
prediction to me, of the warmest enthusiast
to their cause whom l have known of
American men-who doesn't regret his
great efforts either in the great cause now
woD, cause incomparably the most impor-
tant on Earth or in Heaven at this time.
FdpG, pdp9;' wonderful indeed
HOW IT WORKS IN ENGLAND.
In our own country, too, Swaymery has
played a great part for many years past:
and especially is now playing, in these very
days and months. Our accepted axioms
about Liberty" Constitutional Govern.
ment," Reform" and the like objects, are
of truly wonderful texture venerable by
antiquity, many of them, and written in all
manner Of Canonical books; or else the
newer part of them, celestially clear as
perfect unanimity of all tongues, and Vor
popuii r0r Del, can make them; axioms
confessed, or even aspirations and gospel
verities, to the general mind of man. To
the mind of here and there a man, it begins
to be suspected that perhaps they are only
conditionally true f; that taken uncondition-
ally, or under changed conditions, they are
not true, but false, and even disastrously
and fatally so. Ask yourself about "Liber-
ty," for example; what do you mean by it,
what in any just and rational soul is that
Divine quality of liberty? That a good
man be free" as we call it, be permitted to
unfold himself in works of goodness and
nobleness, is surely blessing to him, i'm
mense and indispensable; to him and those
about him. But that a bad pan be "free"
permitted to unfold himselfin his particu-
lar way, is cOntrariwise, the fatalest curse
you couldintiict on him; curse and nothing
else, to him and all his neighbors Him
the very Heavens call upon you to per-
suade, to urge, induce, compel, into some
thing ofwell-dOing; if you absolutely can
not, If he will continue in ill.doing-then
for him Il can assure you, though you will
be shocked to hear it), the one blessing"
left is the speediest gallows you can lead
him to. Speediest that at least his i'll |
doing may cease guam priRua. Oh my
friends whittier are you buzzing and
swarming, in this extremely absurd man.
ner? Expecting Millennium from Eek
tension OF the suffrage" laterally, verti-
cally, or in whatever way?
THE DELIRIUAf OF REFORM.
Inexpressibly delirious seems to me. at
present in my solitude the puddle of Par |
lament and public upon what it calls the |
Reform Measure" that is to say, the call |
ing in of new supplies of bIockheadism, |
guslibility, bribeabiity, amenability TO beer |
and balderdash, by way of amending the |
woes we have had from our previous sup
plies Of that bad article The intellect Of /
a man who believes in the possibility of /
Improvement" By such a method is to me \
a finished off and shut up intellect, with /
which j would not argue mere waste of /
wind between us 10 exchange words on that
class of topics. 1t is not thought, this
which my reforming brother utters to me /
with such emphasis and eloquence; it is
mere ''reaeK and reverberation," repetition
of what he has always heard others ina
gining TO think, and repeating as orthodox,
indisputable, and the gospel of our saliva
tiOn in this world. Does not all nature
groan everywhere, and lie in bondage, till
You give IL a Parliament Is one a man at
all unless one have a suffrage 10 Parliament?
These are axioms admitted by all English
creatures for the last two hundred years.
If you have the misfortune not to believe
in them at all, but to believe the contrary
for long time past, the inferences and in
spirations drawn from them, and the
"sUuWeries" and enthusiasts of mankind
thereon, will seem TO you not little mar
velousl
Meanwhile the good that lies in this de-
lirious new Reform Measure'-as there
lies something of good in almost every
thlng-is perhaps not inconsiderable IT
accelerates notably what have long looked
npon as inevitable pushes Us al once into
the Niagara Rapids irresistibly propelled,
with ever-increasing velocity, We shall now
arrive; who knows how soon For the
last thirty years it has been growing more
and more evident that there was only this
issue; but now the issue itself has become
imminent, the distance of it to be guessed
by years. Traitorous politicians, grasping |
at votes, even votes from the rabble, have
brought it on: one cannot but consider
them traitorous; and for ones own poor
share, would rather have been shot than
concerned in it; but, after my own silent
Indignation and disgust, / cannot pretend to
be clearly sorry that snch a consummati1n
is expedited. / say to myself, "Well, per
haps the sooner such mass Of hypocriciss,
universal mismanagements and brutal plat
itudes and iniideliIies eAds-if not in some
Improvement, then in death and inis-may
il not be better The sum of our sins, in
creasing steadily day by day, will at least
be less, the sooner the settlement is p Nay,
have l not a kind of secret satisfaction, Of |
the malicious or even of the Judiciary kind, |
(sehadejFeade, 'mischiefjoy,' the Germans
call it, bat really it is jasticejoy withsl,) |
that he they call Dizzy" is to do it; tnat
other jdgglers ofan unconscious and deeper