Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-07-30
CIYIr. WAX INTENDED.

and of the movements which have fol-
lowed il in various portions Of the South
They arc full of alarming. import, says
the National Intelligence, and cannot
be ignored or deprecated by triaing
phrases or canting professions Of peace.
Congress has just reconstructed seven
States. According to their own theory,
these States, being thus rehabilitated,
they stand upon an equal footing With
al other members Of the Union, and are
restored to the same privileges and rights.
IL this reconstruction" has any value
whatever, it should have been immedi-
ately followed by withdrawal of the
army, at least from seven States, and by
the immediate cessation Of the Freed
mems Bureau, the, abolition Of which
was Ostensibly and ostentatiously reeoms
monded, inview Of this very contingency.
But what has been done in these and
other respectful First, the Freedmen's
Bureau was extended for another year
from the 10th Of July, thus saddling the
taxpayers with fifteen or.twenty millions
Of additional burden. Then, in order to
rivet the chains more tightly, and to ses
cure the complete control Of this corrupt
electioneering machine, tho present
Commissioner was fixed in his Office, in
dependent Of the President and The army
regulations, with q view of directing the
operations of the Bureau during the
Presidential campaign. A more mon
strOus or shameless outrage in the name
oflaw was never before perpetrated 1t
is a barelaced seizure of the peoples
money to carry the election by bribery,
fraud and violence
The next step was to pass a bill which
substantially empowers Congress to re-
ceive or reject the votes Of the Southern.
States at discretion After the revolu-
tionary proceedings witnessed during the
last three years, and the open defiance of
the Constitution, it is needless to inquire
how this self,conferred power viii be ex-
ercised in case of need If the Southern
States should be in a position to decide
the contest their votes viii be admitted
or excluded, just as the prospects of Gen
eral Grant may be made or marred
The most recent and the gravest in
this series of extreme and dangerous
measures is the scheme for arming the
negroes, whichiwas engrafted on the army
bin IN the Senate, against the earnest
opposition of a gallant but overpowered
minority. In order that it may be props
erly understood, we viii cite the section.
in question
Section nine authorizes the Secretary OF
War to deliver 10 the Governor of each
State represented in Congress, for the use
Of the militia, not exceeding one thousand
Springfield rifles for each Congressional
district, upon the Governor Of such State
showing 10 the satisfaction of the Secretary
that such militia are loysl"
TheSouthern Governors have Just been
elected by the combined strength Of the
militiaan the Freedmen's Bureau, which
directed the negro vote. In South Caro-
lima the sOccAlIed Governor" was, in
fact an officer of the Bureau, and there-
fore managed his own election to suit
himself He and others Of the same
kidney viii only recognize as loyal the
few whites who share in their designs,
and the negroes who are expected to
carry them out Ii is true this scheme
TO arm the negroes failed at the close of
the late session Of Congress, but the AMI
mus was there, and the Radicals only
lacked courage to face the storm of
Indignation they had raised and carry it
through Diyested of all false pretences,
this audacious and diabolical scheme for
putting arms into the hands of the ne-
groes is only sequel to the others and
intended to Gonsummate them by pro-
voking civil war The policy of Radicals
ism during the past three years has been
to infame the passions, to excite the
envy, avariee, and jealousy of the blacks
against the whites to promise the negro
lands by confsOation, and plenty without
labor. Having stimulated these fierce
passions, and failed to redeem the
promises, they now arm him and tell him
to help himself
Already We SEQ in Texas and else
where movements among the negroes
which indicate Enthusiastically the storm
that is brewing, and which are the direct
results Of Radical teaching. They rebel
against authority, and commit the most
horrible crimes and depredations, yet are
sereenedIby the,FreedmeR's Bureau, and
by the minions of pervading military
despotism Yet with knowledge Of
these facts, and of Others equally grave
the Radicals propose to give these in
furiated Africans arms to murder the
women and children of the South, and
To re-enact the butcheries which make
the very name of 81 Domingo appalling
They propose to do with them as the
British did with the Indians during our
war-arm them for the massacre, with
out respect to age, condition, or sex.
Meanwhile the regular army Is mains
tanned in the South, as heretofore to Coz
operate with the negroes, in case of dis
turbance, which they may and will doubt,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS bytheincitemento OF
their Radical leaders, in crushing the
white population The design Of the
scheme rs revealed BY the refusal Of the
Senate 10 postpone the distribution Of
these arms until the Ist Of January.
Radicalism voted in solid column against
the postponement and demanded its i'm
mediate adoption. The spirit VII ieh ann
mated the reckless leaders who would