Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-08-04
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TUESDAY. AUGUST 4. Ises.
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RECONsTRUCTION A FAILURE.

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cal wisdom, craftsmanship, partisanshir
or malignity might suggest They have
made the President helpless and silenced
the Supreme Court They have been au
tocrats, with the purse and the sword in
their hands, and no opposition to enc
counter sufficient to check them one
hour in carrying forward their work OF
recoDstrueting the ten States, establish
ing new governments and healing the
wounds made by the war. What have
they done Have they succeeded ? Has
the work ended in peace, harmony, pub
lie confidence and reviving prosperity 2
They have reconstructed seven States
and admitted their Representatives and
Senators to Congress. Have they or
gained States upon such a basis that
they can stand2 BY their own confess
sion they have not In the debate on the
bill providing for the distribution of
arms to the "loyal' in the South, the
greatest alarm was displayed lest Com
gress should adjourn without providing
military force to bolster up the new gov>
ernments Senator Morton, speaking of
the new governments, said
I'VE have erected them, but 80 far we
have not protected them. We have built
them up, and to this time we have left them
unprotected in the midst of our armed
enemies"
And he insisted that they should have
arms to sustain them. So it seems that
the reconstructed governments are such
weak things, with no selfsustaining
power, and so distasteful to the majority,
that they must be surrounded by bayonets
in order to live And this is restoring the
Union Does the government of the
Democratic State Of New York, OF New
Jersey or Kentucky need bayonets to
sustain it, Senator Morton said further;
"The great body Of Tie achites are not
only hostile to them, but threaten to revo0
lutionize them" This is a remarkable |
acknowledgement So little of skill wis
dom and justice have the Radicals dis
played in their work Of reconstruction,
that in ten great States they have driven
off from their support the "great body |
Of the whites" the negroes only remains
ing Radical reconstruction then, ac- |
cording TO their own confession, amounts |
to this: seven governments have been |
established which the great body of the |
whites, the owners Of property, the edu-
Gated, the intelligent, the taxpayers and
the respectable portion of the community
abhOr, and which negroes only are relied
upon to uphold These negro govern
ments, the Radicals say cannot live
without the aid of muskets and cartridges
They do not rest in the consent of the
governed, nor command the respect and
confidence of the great body of the whites.
Such is Radical reconstruction VIII
anybody say it is success
Senator Nye, in discussing this arms
bin, said
without this the buds of liberty that
are now springing forth in the Southern
States will never blossom"
"Buds of liberty" is a new name for
the reconstructed States and sweetly |
sentimental We had supposed that
seven of those "buds" had already
'blossomed" But Mr.. Nye says they
never" will blossom without Spring,
field nuskets to aid them, and this after
three years Of Radical horticulture in
which the world has been invited to look
on and see how grandly the Radicals
were bringing forth "buds."
Mr. Stokes, of Tennessee, in the de,
bate in the House on the same measure
declared
UNLESS the military bill is passed and
arms are given to the Union people South,
the Union people there, white and black,
will he overrun."
There we have it again Radical re-
construction and restoration of the
Union, after three years of work results
in producing governments which do not
command the assent to the governed, and
are not supported 10y a majority of the
people. They need breech>loading rifles
and cannon to keep them in being.
Mr.. Deweese, of North Carolina, said
az this Congress adiourns without
making some provisions for sustaining the
newly organized governments ofthe South
ern States, and protecting the loyal people
there, the rebellion will be established.
Before six months go round
the last trace OF republican governments
in the South will have ceased 20 exist, and
the Ku-Kux Khan, the Rebel slavehold-
ing Democracy will be ruling as they were
in 1862 /
He added that the reconstructed gov
ernments "can be maintained If you will
give us arms to keep down the Rebels
(meaning DemocratS), and by no other
means"
so much for Radical reconstruction-
a collection Of governments in free re-
public which the masses Of the people
abhor, and which must be sustained by
armed forces Il is pure Radical work
The Radical party alone has the glory or
the shame Of it. But is any Radical
such fool as to say that States in a re-
public, in a free nation, have been re-
constructed or recognized in a wise
way, if their governments do not com-
mand the assent Of the great body ofthe
white race, and cannot sustain them
selves without military force2 The Radi-
Gals established military despotisms in
the ten States, and it looks as though
the intention was that as the new gov
srnments were born Of military force so
they should live by arms.
RELIGIOUS REVIVAL. The protraCted
meeting at Cane Creek baptist Church,
near this place, has been ,leeply blessed,