Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-01-09
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! Ii was sententiously said Of the once
reigning family in Franee-the Bour-
bons-that they never learned and never
forgot anything The wise remarker had
observed their inability to comprehend
the disposition and control the temper Of
the people over whom they blindly
deemed themselves born booted and
seurred to ride lie had seen them
washed from power in a wave Of blood,
and pelted with the storm Of a popu-
lar revolution, which for fury, has
had no parallel before or since and yet
they were the same bigoted and stoIid
race They could not or would not
understand that the people we're the
State, and that the system Of rule which
they sought to enforce would not be toll
Grated. With the humiliation of that
royal race that sort of stupidity did not
die, however 1t Is constantly being
exhibited in some form or ether, and con-
spicuously so in the recent message of
January 3rd of Radical Governor Bull,
lock, of Massachusetts,
In Noyember-scarcely two months
ago-the people of that State adminis-
tered significant rebuke to the misera~
bic crotchets of the party represented by
that worthy Sixty thousand votes in
dictated the force Of the drift of popular
sentiment against them. 1t would be
supposed that he would heed it Yet he
does not seem to appreciate that even his
own State gave no support to the niger
ization Of the governments of the South
ern States. In the subjoined extract
from that document, it will be seen that
he reefs a little canvass to avoid the hur.
ricane Of popular wrath, in deprecating
coniscation and advocating white en-
franchisement when Consistent with the
national safety meaning by the latter
phrase the election of a Radical Presi-
dent for four years from next March;
but the tenor Of the whole paper shows
that he, as well as others Of that Tx
have not learned anything from the cleo
tons Of 1867. 1t requires such an ex-
preston as November of this year will
give before we shall hear the last of such
r., \ a-Dotor;o1 +vrot.Io o., ~
owe have destroyed involuntary seryi-
tude, we have manumitted a race of men
and conceded to then equality, civil and
political rights. In the proceedings of the
conventions in Southern States, which they
have mainly controlled, l believe that,
after making due allowances, they have
displayed praiseworthy moderation. 1t
Is sacred duty to insure them protection
In the enjoyment of the rights we have
guaranteed, but we must also remember
there are millions of the white race who
cannot and must not always be retained in
the position of abiect foes-millions whose
productive labor Is necessary for the dis
charge of national obligations which must
never be Tepudiated and whose good will
and cooperation are essential to a complete
and thorough reunion. Let us, then, hear
no more Of confscation and attainder for
the Southern masses. Let Us make an end
of illiberal and unfriendly legislation, and
while compromising no principle for which
we have contended, let US restore those
lately in rebellion to equality Of rights as
speedily as is consistent with national
safety. The present obstacles to recon-
struction must come TO a speedy end
whether they be interposed by unrepentant
Rebels, by a President who does not make
treason odious, or by those whom his policy
has deluded into renewed resistance The
welfare and will of the people require
peace-peaCe from turmoil of mind as well
as from turmoil of war peace for their
finances, for their industry, for their COM
merce, and having the determination and
power there is no installing the agency by
which they intend TO enforce it. If EN-
FILTERED men refuse to accept the boon that
is protered the responsibility, the shame
and ruinous consequences will be theirs
alone. If they are so blind TO their own
interest as to incite hostility between races
they will find that the nation Is strong, that
the nation will maintain its guarantees
No rights of loyal men will besurrendered
to effect any settlement whatsoever. Equali-
iy of rights and universal suffrage are ire
reversible facts. The wheels OF revolution
do mot roll backward In the march of
civilization and Democratic ideas this ma
tion takes no backward stepn