Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-05
THE SOUTHERN DEMOCRACY.
a Proper Reply 90 an Anticipated
Radical DenunciatiOH.

Already a hue and cry arises from the
Radical party about the representation of
the Southern Democracy at the New York
Convention. When the Southern delegates
shall have been admitted TO seats in the con-
vention and TO votes on the questions and
nominations, the Jacobn newspaper press
will find in the proceeding as much occa-
sion for bowling a. it did in the action of
the seven Republican Senators on i'm
parchment. The meaningless denunciation
of Copperheads and Rebels will lie even
more prevalent than now and an inabili-
ty to meet broad, national, Democratic is-
sues with argument will be Offset by de-
nunciation and blackguardism.
What are the real merits of this case as
compared with the position taken by the
Radical Convention recently held in this
city? That convention was a representa-
tive body of political party that has used
its power, under the Disguise of reconstruc-
ton, to keep the Southern States out of the
Union until their votes could be controlled
in favor of Radicalism. When the roll of
States was called in the convention, the
names of the Southern States was forgotten,
so strong was the habit Of looking upon
these States as out of the Union.
Why was il that the Radical Chicago
Convention admitted delegates from GER
tain portions Of the South which they do
not acknowledge to be part of the Union
Because they we're Radicals. Why is il
that the Radicals already begin to de
nounce delegates from the same portion of
the country TO the Democratic Convention
az Rebels? Simply because they are not
Radicals. I'D.
Ex-Governor Brown, of Georgia, both
in the speech which he made in the con-
venlion and in casting the vote of his del
egation for Grant, declared that the greater
part OF the SOutherners present bad been
original secessiOnists. These men, for the
love Of Office, or for some other gratifca-
ton Of personal interest, sacrificed not
merely principle, bat the good of their own
people and the dignity of their States, TO
rush into an opposite fanaticism "a bad rs
that which led them into rebellion. They |
were original secessionists, but they had |
become secondhand Abolitionists, and were |
received with open arms by the Radical |
Convention.
There may be delegates TO the Demo
cratic Convention who were original seces-
sionisls or took some part in the late var
against the Union, though there will be /
scarcely one so thoroughly identified with
the precipitation Of the war as Ex-Governor
Brown OF Georgia. These men will be de-
by the Radical press and leaders
most numerically as traitors and Democ-
racy will be soundly berafed for having
anything TO do with them. Yet they will |
be men who, in spite Of the inducements
held ont by Radicalism for party alliance,
have remained true to the principles of
liberty and union as opposed to despotism
and dlsunion. In spite Of Jacobin 5ayonets.
they have refused all allegiance 70 The
Iacobin party, saving that allegiance FOR
common government. They have pre-
erred present suffering, with the prospect
II their rights at some future time, TO pre-
ent prosperity at the price of future degra-
iation.
The difference between the Southern
delegates to the Chicago Convention and
he Southern delegates to the New York |
Convention IS this: The former embraced |
ladicalism, just as they did secession,
rom personal and unprinciPled motives
be latter have remained true 10 the |