Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-03-15

| longer. There was, as compared with the
| present state OF things, bat little fraud
under Lineoln's administration. But now
the money of the people is used with a
lavish hand to corrupt the people. This
must be reversed as quick as an engineer
would reverse his locomotive when he SAW
broken bridge ahead of him. Why, sir,
two-thirds OF the present tax officers are
men without credit at home. Men that
COULDN'T get trusted for pipe Of tobacco in
their Own towns, are selected to collect the
revenue of the government. know men,
and 50 do you, to whom some of my con-
stituents have to pay their taxes, to whom
no neighbor woald even lend twenty dol
lars with the remotest idea of getting it
paid this side of Judgment day."
1 Yet your body confirmed them
"Yes, we did. Sometimes We were out
voted, and sometimes We we're deceived.
Some Of those rascals are enough, unless
you have personal knowledge Of them, to
deceive the very elect don't know that
could escape being deceived if / were
President. Likely enough, | would get
picked up sometimes, too.
That is at least frank, but he insists
that he would not select rascaIs to do this
work. Perhaps not.
Wade is in favor CT high protective
tariff. This viii please the New England
and Pennsylvania Radicals, and perhaps
they will reward him by endeayoring to
put him in a position to preside over the
Senate.
CONCERNING wADE's EXTREME RADICAL
People who think there's great danger of
my rushing headlong into war;" continued
the Senator, cor doing some other extreme
thing, simply because PVe always had the
habit OF speaking my mind freely, don't
seem to know much about human nature.
/ suppose that increase of power and re-
sponsibility always tends to make a man
more cautious. know very well that it
IS one thing for man to act for himself, on
his own individual responsibility as a SEN
ator, and quite another thing to act on the
same subjects when he is in position where
every movement he makes will affect the
whole nation.
And If men think that l have some
times advocated measures with Incorporate
zeal, let them look to see where have ever
originated one in that spirit. There is my
public record in the GIobe-Pve been a
free talker here for seventeen years, and
have generally taken all the responsibility
that seemed TO belong to me-let them look
over the and Globe see what my incorporate
actions have been.
Eve always wanted. Won know, to
travel ahead, on the skirmish line of our
principles, but have tried never to get so
far ahead az to be captured by the enemy.
Now you know my course here we'll
enough. You know that never differed,
to any serious extent, from my party, ex-
cept on one matter. As to every thing
else, why, if [ was wrong, my party was
wrong, and the majority of the American
people were wrong; if was Incorporate
In action, or over jealous, or extreme, or
impracticable, so were they.
But on one point did differ from my
party. That was in opposing Mr.. Lin
coins course in pocketing our reconstruc-
ion bill, and setting up a reconstruction
policy of his own-exactly the thing that
has got us into all this trouble now. I
did feel very much opposed TO that, and
said 50. That splendid fellow, Winter
Davis, and | published a paper abOut it.
I've never taken back one word Of that pa
per, end lstand by it now The Republi-
can party now takes exactly the ground
that Winter Davis aud took then; aud
the trouble we've got into, arises from the
Presidents taking the opposite ground,
that reconstruction belongs TO him and not
TO Congress.
More than that, Mr.. Lincoln himself
came over 10 our view before his death.
Mr.. Sumner can tell you all about il. Only
a short time before the assassination, Mr..
Lincoln told Senator Simmer that that
thing was the great error of his life; and
that he never should have given occasion
for what the papers called the Wade and
Davis manifesto"
wADE's VIEWS AS TO THE IMPEACHMENT
TRIAL.
This is point of somewhat peculiar
interest, and Agate evidently feels
the awkward position Mr.. Wade occu.
pies This thing of Wade sitting in
Judgment on Johnson, to vote him out
and himself in, is hard to justify Wades
conscience seems to be easily satisfied,
however, for he does not believe that
the case would come within the pro
visions Of the common law forbidding a
Judge 20 sit in trial involving his own
interests Innocent, simple Ben. Wade,
he thinks he ought to hold on to his po-
sition because he is representing Ohio
and not HIMSELF But says agate,
as matter of delicacy, he will doubt
less avoid action as much as possible, but
cases may arise in which delicacy must
give way to duty" Such case would
no doubt arise if his vote were necessary
to convict and remove the President
Mr. Wade is represented as being "as
anxious as any body for fair, impartial
trial, but he is opposed to any motions
for mere delay, or any pettifogging on
technicaities While assuming an air
of fairness he evidently wants Johnson
hustled out with as little delay as pos
sible.
WADE AND GRANT.
ut isn't true" he said, ia answer to a
question, that Pm not on good terms with
Grant. I've always been cordial with him.
That story Of my saying that when talked
politics he talked horse, is a pure inven-
ton of the man that wrote it. | never
said that, nor anything like it."
Wade evidently wants to make up with
Grant, that he may get on the ticket with
him The old fox displays his cunning
A NovFL lawsuit came off few DAYS
ago at Miles Point, Carroll county, Mis-
souri,, before Justice Of the Peace, to de-
eide the ownership of a colt. Fifteen wit
nesses were examined on each side, and
all sWore positively to the ownership. The
verdict Of the jury was to put up the colt
and sall it to the highest bidder to pay the
costs. The colt brought forty dollars;
costs, thirty-eight dollars. The surplus
was divided equally between the plaintiff
and defendant.