Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-04-23
SENATORIAL IGNORANCE AND
PHARISAISM

The last days Of the inst closed extra
session of the United States Senate,
witnessed the introduction OF number
of resolutions which challenge some COM
ment.
One, by Mr.. Cole, new Senator from
California, is remarkable as a specimen
OF Senatorial ignorance, and will serve
to show the people what manner of men
have come to occupy the high places of
the nation It's as follows
Whereas, A misunderstanding exists be-
tween Prussia and France, springing out
of the ownership of the Grand Duchy of
Luxembourg, and war between these powers
is imminent; therefore
Resolved, That the President of the
United States be requested to offer friendly
mediation, TO the end that efiusion of blood
may be avoided.
An ignorance Of the ownership Of the
Grand Duchy Of Luxembourg does not
necessarily imply that man is unfit for
United States Senator; but it is a dis
grace to that body and to the American
people, that man who is a part of the
treaty-making power Of this government,
should, under the full blaze of intelliD
gence that has been spread before him
every morning for the last month, exhibit
such gross ignorance of the merits of q
national dispute that is about to set n
continent on fire.
Another, by Dlr Henderson, of Mis-
souri,, Radical, is of this import
Resolved, by the Senate of the United
States, That in case Macmillan shall see
fit, at an early day, TO abdicate his authority
in Mexico, and signify desire to withdraw
himself and his foreign troops to the end
that the civil war be terminated, the Sen
ate would be gratifed that the President
would tender the good offices of the Ameri-
can government TO secure, at the hands of
the Republican government of Mexico, for
the native followers Of Macmillan, such
kind and humane treatment as should char
acterize the conduct of civilized warfare.
If that gentleman and his fellow-Radi-
Gals had shown as much regard for the
humanities of civilized warfare, and as
much solicitude for the early restoration
of just and enduring peace among
their own cOuntrymen, lately involved in
civil war, as they manifest for those very
desirable results in the case of the Next
can conflicts, their country would have
been in better condition than it is to-
day The President attempted "to ten
der his good Offices towards the pacif-
cation of this government, and the heal
ing of the wounds inflicted by fierce in
testine strife, which had been ended by
the abdication of the power in resistance
to the national authority, but his hands
were arrested by Radical Congress,
The same spirit, since the war, has caused
the persecution of men for acts commit
ted as belligerents, and sent others, limo
cent so far as fair trial would show, to
the scafold and yet holds immured in a
fortress, in hopeless captivity, without
lawful indictment for offense, the distin.
guished citizen who was at the head of
one of the parties to the war which ceased
more than two years ago.
Such men as Senator'S Henderson and
Sumner had better purge their bosoms of
the hellish hate which rankles there
against their fellow citizens of the South,
before they attempt to mediate in re.
straint of the bad passions of Mexicans