Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-08-04

an elO1uehI anu sLlrrlng speech at RAM
fort on Saturday. We extract from Il
Louisville C0aTier'S report as follows:
AFTER THE WAR.
The war ended we were told we wouI
| have peace and union. General Sherma
would have had it 30. His pacifcatio
would have secured them. 1t would ir
stantly have restored the Union, and lei
the States untouched.
The President and the party whic
elected him rejected it, and proposed thei
plan of restoration. The Congress reiecte,
this plan after it was adopted, and in turl
| presen ted the fourteenth constitutions
amendment.
| RADICAL ENCRoACHMENTs.
The Radicals secuted this as eontainin,
proper terms of reunion, and passed th
reconstruction acts of February, 1867
Congress was called together again il
July and new and stringent provision
were added TO those laws.
The President was thought to be unfavor
able to their rigid execution, and he was
deprived of his constitutional and accus
! toned powers, and they were lodged in
| the hands of the General, and finally the
| President was impeached. The Supreme
| Court was thought 10 be ready to declare
| them unconstitutional. 1t was forbidden
TO take cognizance of cases under them.
The patronage of the President was
thought TO be used adversely, and there
upon the tenure of office bill was passed.
and appointments of the most respectable
kind were rejected for purely political and
partisan reasons.
DEPLORABLE CONDITION OF THE SOUTH.
-Four years of war have passed away
three years of profound peace have followed.
Eighteen months of military despotism and
Congressional reconstruction have drawn
out their weary length, and at the end of
all we are confronted with this fact, that on
the eve of Presidential election, seven
States have been admitted to representation
IN Congress and to the right Of voting for
President, with Constitutions which they
hate, with institutions which they abhor.
Those Constitutions were forced upon their
acceptance by the military despotism which
i have described, or are imposed upon
them now by the power of the Federal gov
eminent. They are anti-republican in
form. They are based upon the exclusion
from suffrage of the resident white popula.
ton, and the admission to absolute power
of the emancipated slave, and that meanest
of all mean things-which had no ancestor
TO send to Noah sark, which it was reserved
for the slime and filth of this revolution to
feed-the et-bagger of the South.
| Laughter and prolonged applause
PROGRESS OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
The history of the declarations of the
Republican party keeps pace though afar
of with its acts. In 1856 it was organized
upon the sentiment of hostility to negro
slavery as it existed at the South, and de-
termination to prevent its extension to the
territories. In 1860 it declared that the
maintenance of the rights and powers and
dignity OF the States was essential to the
excellence and preservation of our Federal
system. In 1864 in demanded the consti-
tutiOnal amendment, and treatment as
prisoners of war of the negro soldiers who
had been captured.
In 1868, it declares that Congress has the
right to regulate suffrage in the States of
the South, but not of the North.
THE EQUALITY OF THE STATES
is the foundation idea of the Constitution.
There can be no union, there can be no con-
federation without it. The Constitution
in this respect has never been changed. If
the States are equal, Congress has as much
power over suffrage in Pennsylvania as in
South Carolina. If Congress can guarantee
negro suffrage in Alabama and not in New
York, then the States are not equal. If not
equal, they do not comply with the pro-
rrtasnr,g Of The rnpa4fft,tsn, Al,
has no power under the Constitution to
regulate suffrage in any of the States.
Whence does it get the power? pause for
a reply, my Republican friend. Whence
does this power come, which is not granted
by the Constitution You say from a
"higher law" from the necessity of the /
cast" from the sri ght of revolution"
That is it, my friend. You have ex-
planned il fully.
A REVOLUTIONARY PARTY.
The Republican party is a revolution
airy party. II is based upon revolutionary /
fanaticism. In the fervor of revolutionary /
spirit it had its birth in that spirit it has /
had its life. 1t has gone on from step TO /
step, seeking no rest 1t has obeyed the /
aw of its being perpetual advance is the
condition of revolution. 1t may seem TO i
pause but it never stops it may seem to
rest, but it is never weary. Its leaders 4
cannot check it. Its devotees cannot di-
rect its course. If they hesitate, they /
will be destroyed and more jealous men i
will supply their places. The spirit of |
revolution is Unsuitable. 1t cries GIVE" /
give forever. Each successive conquest |
whets the desire for another-each acqui. /
lition of power makes more power neces-
sarv. The wants of yesterday satisfied to-
ilay, make way for new wants tomorrow. /
Redress of grievances-war against the /
partisans of the King-against the King |
block-the long Parliament ]
the protectorate-the restoration-the /
States General--the constituent assembly |
the legislative assembly-the Girondists |
the death of the King-the guillotine-
the directory empire. Applause
So il has ever been. So il will ever be-
The needle cannot turn from its attraction
at the North and point to the West
The sun cannot rise in the West and pur-
sue his journey toward the East. The stars,
rs they revolVe in the mazes of their mys-
ierisus course, and from the harmony of
their conflicting motions extract the tabled
music of the spheres, cannot come in col
Iision.
So, too, revolutionary party cannot stop
in mid career. Each step will demand
stronger and a worse one. Applause.
DO not believe that the Republican party
can stop with these acts, which have de-
scribed to you. If they by them acquire
power now, they will have new purposes,
need new powers, and invent new means TO
acquire them. These acts, bad as they
seem, will produce Others still worse, or
hey will appear again in more offensive
form.
These hell hounds. which with ceaseless CRY
Surround me as thou saw st, homely conceived, |
HOmely born, with sorrow infinite
To Ise. For, when they list into the womb
That bred them they return. and howl and gnaw
Ny bowels, their repast; then bursting forth
Airesh, with conscious terrors EeX me round
That rest and intermisSiOn none | find"
The Republican party in 1850 lighted the
Tires of anti-constitutional revolution. Ii
has ever since advanced in the light of
hose fires it will continue TO advance I'M
Ill they shall be burnt out.
The reason is they fear they cannot afford
10 abandon power they cannot give up |
that hold upon force which they have so /
often used. They fear the wrath to come.
They fear an outraged people. They fear
\ violated Constitution. They fear for |