Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-08-01
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THE SHADOW OF THE SWORD.

The New York Tribune, which up 10
the very moment ofthe secession ofSouth
Carolina, in December, 1860, and indeed
up to the hour of the firing on Fort Sumo
ten, IN April, 1861, insisted that the elec-
ton Of Abraham Lincoln meant peace,
and peace only. While Congress was
ringing with the insolent demands of
partisan leaders like Wilson and Schenck
fOrlicense to arm the emancipated ne
grOes Of the South before the November
elections IN the avowed interest of the
Republican party; while irresponsible
representatives of straw" newly
dragged into the National Legislature by
the Radical organizers, openly declared
that the Radicals could carry the South
ern States for Grant "if Congress viii
give them arms to keep down the
Rebels, But BY NO OTHER MEANS !"
while al these omninous sounds of an
impending civil and social strife were
daily uttered from that wretched cave
of the winds, the Capitol at Washing-
ton, the Tribune daily proclaimed and
stil prOolaims that the nomination for
the Presidency Of a soldier without po-
litical opinions, selected for his facility
in making political promises, means
peace and only peace, The peace which
the Tribune promised us IN 1860, says the
New York World, came with garments
rolled in blood 1t came in four weary
and wofuI years Of carnage and rapine
and horror, in the wasting of folk and
wealth; it came bringing US pleagues of
Egypt in house and field, sWarms of spies
and Of plunderers, a debased currency, a
paralysis of healthful industry, a dropsy
of national debt hatred where love had
been for honor dishonor; for freedom
under equal laws, tyranny in its meanest
and most repulsive shapes, II brought
US the bastile and the torture-chamber.
1t brought as political bigotries bitterer
and more brutal than the bigotries of
medieval theology. Such was the. 4ri-
Bune peace of 1860, and such the blessa
ings that it bestowed upon us.
What are we to expect from the 1ri-
Juhe s new peace of 1868. $3.50
Already it casts a baleful shadow
over the land-the hideous shadow Of
sword. The talk Of the Tribune and Of
the Tribunss party is oil Of war, and
Of warlike men. The Radical revolu-
ton makes no appeals to the reasons of
men. 1t evokes no memories Of our
united past, draws no arguments from
constitutional law, promises nothing from
the gradual, gentle, benefcent influences
of industry and prosperity, and the SOW
ereign healer, time II announces to us
from the Headquarters Of the Army
the action of political maiorities and mi-
norities on questions of political right.
1t holds assizes of murder upon drunk
ard 1t threatens with the bayonet, and
thunders with artillery. 1t selects o
man as its champion for whom and for
whose political" capacity its organs
have necessarily professed an unbounded
contempt, and proposes to make him
President of the United States on
the express ground that his merits are
solely those of soldier, and that his
temper is the temper of dictator. "Will
not those who are hurrahing against US
to-day" says the Tribune with the air of
an Augereau preparing to push his Bona
parte into the Council of the Five Huns
dred at the head Of file Of bayonets-
will not those who are hurrahing against
us to-day comprehend that they must
behave themselves hencefOrth SO long
as General Grant has his hand on the
helmP' .-
This is the "peaee" which the Tribune
Is preparing for free America in the year
Of our Lord 1868, and of American ln-
dependence the ninety-second A
peace in which no man is TO be
suffered to ahurrah against the SOW
ereign majesty of Radical opinions
incarnated in the person of a
General Of the armies" and WELD"
ing an imperial sword. 1t is by this
sword, and by no other means, that
General Grant is first to win, and then,
having won, to keep it What the cross
Of light shining in the he avens was to the
Christian legions of Constantine that is
this gloomy shadow ola sword to the Rad
ical usurpers of power in America, the
Congressional "cutpnrses of the empire
and the rule
They see in the yassal multitudes Of the
blacks at the South, whom they believe
themselves able to sway at their own
viii for all to time come, precisely what
was seen in those same multitudes by
the British poet who years ago anhel'
pated with glee the overthrow of oui
American liberties by precisely this ma
ohinery, and sang of the ''black cloud
Which yet may rise
And blot the hammered stars
From Freedoms skies
For let no raan be deceived. Whatever
may be true of the masses of the Radica
voters, the really responsible a nd infiu'
entail Radical leaders are not so absurd
as to suppose that in perpetuating thei
own power they will also perpetunte ire
institutions They are perfectly wei
aware that in giving the country Genera
Grant for A master they would give them