Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-08-23
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TIE RADICAL GAME

showed their hand. Their game was to
rely still on 'the war spirit" on which
they had traded successfully, as politi-
clans, throughout the war, and for three
years after its close ga time Of war is
no time to inquire into the conduct of
it, was the maxim always in the mouths
Of the Congressional plunderers. silly
as it was, says the Philadelphia Age, j.
served them for an argument, and when
Mr.. Lincoln became again candidate
for Office he helped them with story,
the point Of which was, ut is nc time
for swapping horses now" From the
very jump, in this canvass for Grant,
"their voice was still for war Three
years of absolute submission at the
South had succeeded the surrender Of
Lee to Grant. That was a hard fact 70
get over The first words, therefore, put
IN Grants mouth were: "let us have
peace" for this you see implies that we
have not yet had it Thus they started,
and have been going on in the same
strain ever since Now, every word that
is uttered by a Southern man is distorted
and misrepresented to mean a. declares
ton of war. If white man
in louisiana thinks Ike white man
in Pennsylvania or Michigan about
negro suffrage and negro suprem-
acy, then the Southern white man is a
Rebel Yet why more so than the man
in Pennsylvania and Michigan The
,preconcerted character of this Radical
was shown by the fact that before these
Southern men had opened their mouths,
had uttered even a whisper the Radicals
assailed them as fercely as they do now.
At the fact that Gen. Wade Hampton
was chosen delegate by the white men
in Charleston, the Radical papers broke
out in denunciation and imfammatOry
appeals against him as an ex-Confeder~
ate General lie and others attend,
ed the New York Convention, supporting
first the gallant soldier of the Union,
General Hancock, and afterwards Sey-
incur and the gallant Blair Not syl-,
liable fell from Hampton, or his associ~
ates, indicative of thought harbored
against the peace Of the country But
this cid not battle Radical invention
Hampton was hardly out of view than
lac was represented as unlurling the Con-
lederate flag and asserting the cause Of
secession We then showed by extracts
from his published speech that he had
said the very opposite of what was as
cribed to him. A few days later his own
denial of it was published as follows:
"Wade Hampton made speech in which a.,
alludiug to q recent reported utterance OF
his, reproduced in the Northern papers, in
reference to the Confederate flag, he said +,
"This statement is in every respect false.
On the contrary, when | spoke of the Gag
of the COnfederacy, | remarked that it now
was furled forever, TO be buried in the grave
of the lost cause"
"On motion Of Wade Hampton, it was
resolved that while entering a protest
against Radical reconstruction acts, we rely
confidently on the constitutional agency,
and peaceful measures alone, to bring us
the relief sought and the reforms needed"
Gov Vance, Of North Cagolina, made
a speech in Richmond, Virginia, recent
ly, and some Radical letter-writer as
serted that he said:
"What the Confederacy fought for would
be won by the election of Seymour and
| Blair" adding that secession is not dead.
1t is more alive than ever"
This story was greedily caught up by
the Radical papers and sent broadcast
over the country. When it met Gov.
Vance, he gave it the following emphatic
denial:
"There is not one word of truth in this
statement. made use of no expression in
the remotest degree like it. Not only did
| l not utter such sentiments in my New
York speech, which suppose to be the
one alluded TO, but i have never on any
other occasion done 30. | never was q Sc
cessionist, and only fought during the war
at the command of my native State, and
TO resist a policy of coercion and consoli-
dation worse and more ruinous by far than
| secession"
1t is thus that these misrepresentation
of prominent Confederate Generals and
others are denied, yet Radicals continue
TO assert them for the purpose of influ
encing the votes Of men who do not take
the trouble or are incapable of investi
eating far themselves. No resort seems
too vile for these political tricksters
The Philadelphia Ledger of the 18th
inst says
Some months ago s number Of the for.
mer military officers Of the rebellion took
occasion 10 make public and emphatic de-
clarations, TO the effect that having beer
beaten in their efforts TO disunite the coun-
try, they would never more engage in poll
tics, but confne themselves entirely Il
their business pursuits. IL would hav,
been better il they had all been Of that way
of thinking, and il those who made such
promises had kept them, and would b,
better if the Southern people would nov
insist on keeping them all in the back
ground"
The late civil war lasted so long, anC
involved so many, that for all who bor'
any part in it to keep out of sight Is i'm
possible The late military officers o
the Confederacy may meet with goo
purposes the'yery extract above from thI
ledger proves this Only three week.
ago, they assembled in the capital O
Tennessee and made public declaration
that tended to tranquilize that distracted
State, the unhappy monument Of Radlca
reconstruction Here, the State govern
ment Is framed on the principle the yerl
opposite Of true craftsmanship. Tn
Brownlow doctrine is, "once 4 Rebel
always a Rebel" he is not allowed to b.
anything else Mems consciences ar
searched by oaths as to their Yer
thoughts and intentions, in past times, ii