Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-14


so as 10 render all future reconcilement inn |
possible, would do we'll 70 read that which |
appears daily in commentator of him in |
leading Radical journals. Those who |
would, in the face of all existing fact s, |
deem it altogether safe at this most perilous
crisis in the nations history-when the ex
ercise Of discretion, and firm ness, and Ro-
man-like fidelity to principle, is about 10
give to the supporters of constitutional free
dom the greatest and most signal vic
tory ever yet achieved on this continent
to select MIR. Chase as our standard bearer
in the approaching contest, on his own
platform, or on any other platform which
could be named, would do well to look
for one moment into the sage teach
ings Of the father of history, Herodotus,
whose graphic and glowing account of the
siege and taking of Babylon by Darius, the
Persian King, by means of a device SINH
lar to Chat which is now attempted to be
practiced by certain political managers
upon the Democratic party, will be found
| full of wholesome instruction. For the
benefit of those who have not recently
explored this interesting scene in the
history of the past, we will remind them
that at time when Darius began almost
to despair of overcoming the defenses of
the city, one Zopirus, man of high rank
among his own subjects, suddenly appeared
before him, in horribly MANNED and mu-
! tilated condition, having cut off voluntarily
his own nose and ears. After the first feel
ings of surprise on the part of the King
had subsidized, Zopirus said to him In ex-
PLANTATION of his conduct;
If had communicated to you what /
was about to do, you would not have per
mitted me, but now, having deliberated
with myself, | have done it; now, there
| fore, if you are not wanting to your own
interests, we shall take Babylon. For /,
as | am, will desert to the city, and will
tell them that | have been thus treated by
YOU: and think that when | have per-
suaded them that such is the case, shall
obtain the command of their army. Do
you, then, on the tenth day after | shall
have entered the city, of that part OF your
army whose loss you would least regret,
station thousand men over against the
gates called after Semiramis again after
that, on the seventh day after the tenth,
station two thousand more against the gate
called from Nineveh; and from the sew
enth day let an interval of twenty days
elapse, and then place four thousand more
against the gate called from the Chaldeans;
but let neither the first nor these carry any
defensive arms except swords, but let them
have those. After the twentieth day,
straightway command the rest of the army
to invest the walls on all sides, but station
the Persians for me at those gates called
the Belidian and Cissian gates; for as
think, when 1 have performed great ex-
plots, the Babylonians viii intrust every
| thing to me, and moreover, the keys of the
gates and then it will be mine and the Per-
SLAMS care to do what remains to be done"
Having given these injunctions, he
went to the gates, turning round as If be
were really deserter. But those who were
stationed in that quarter, seeing him from
the turrets, ran down, and having opened
one door of the gate a little, asked him
who he was, and for what purpose he came
He told them that he was Zopyrus, and had
deserted to them; the doOr-keepers there
fore, when they heard this, conducted him
to the assembly Of the Babylonians, and
standing before them he deplored his con-
ditiOn, saying that he had suffered from
Darius the injuries he had inflicted on
himself, and that he was SO treated because |
he had advised to raise the siege, since |
there appeared no means of taking the |
city. "Now, therefore," he said, 81 come |
to you, o Babylonians, the greatest bless |
ing and TO Darius, his army, and the |
Persians, the greatest mischief; for he |
shall not escape with IMMUNITY, having |
thus mutilated me; and am acquainted |
with all his designs" Thus he spoke /; |
but the Babylonians, seeing a man Of dis !
tinctiOn among the Persians deprived of |
his ears and nose and covered with stripes |
and blood, thoroughly believing that he |
spoke the truth, and that he had come al |
an ally to them, were ready to intrust him |
with whatever he should ask, and he asked |
the command of the forces. But he, hav- |
ing obtained this from them, acted as he |
had preconcerted with Darius; for on the |
tenth day, leading out the army of the |
BaylOnians, and having surrounded the |
thousand, whom he had instructed Darius /
to station there first, he cut them all in /
pieces. The Babylonians therefore per
ceiViDg that he performed deeds suitable to |
his promises, were exceedingly rejOiced, and /
were ready to obey him in every thing. |
He, therefore, having suffered the appoint /
ed number of days to elapse, and again |
having selected body of Babylonians, led |
them out and slaughtered the two thousand /
of Darius soldiers. But the Babylonians |
Witnessing this action, also, all had the 4
praises of Zopyrus on their tongues. Then |
he again, having suffered the appointed |
number of days to elapse, led out his troops
according to the settled plan, and sur
rounding the four thousand, be cut them in
pieces. And when he had accomplished |
to hal Poi, 4
lOnians, and be was appointed command
er-in-chief, and guardian Of the walls.
But when Darius, according to agree
ment, invested the wall all round, then 20
pyrus discovered his whole treachery for
the Babylonians, mountingon the wall, re-
PEELED the army Of Darius that was attacking
them but Zopyrus having opened the
Cissian and Belidian gates, led the Persians
within the wall. Those of the Babylonians
who saw what was done, fled into the tenn
pie of Jupiter Belus; and those who did
not see it, remained each at their post, I'M
til they also discovered that they had been
betrayed THUs BABYLON WAS TAKEN
THE SECOND TIME,
Those who, after what has been said in
this article DO vet regard it az wise and pa
triotic to sacrifice our present prospects of
success under Pendleion, Hancock, Sey-
mour, Hendricks, or some other tried and
faithful Democrat, would be scarcely |
by any dissuasive which might |
be brought to bear upon their hearts and
yet l am not willing to
without inviting gentlemen of
the legal profession to particular examin-
alton Of some of the opinions delivered by
Judge Chase upon the graYest constitution
al questions which have arisen for decision
since he assembled the bench. | will not /,
lmpugn his integrity or conscientiousness
but L deliberately assert that several Of
the opinions referred to, land especially
the one delivered by him in the eele- !
brated Milligan case, are utterly re-
to the fundamental principles Of
free government and disgrace 10 the age
in which We live. Let it never be forgot
ten that Mr.. Chase is one of the Judges 50 s
rebuked on a late occasion, I
By the venerable Judge Greer, of Penn a
1ylvania, for the Withholding of a judi s
,ial opinion already agreed upon, in case $
involving the consiitutionality Of the Con- !
yressional reconstruction acts, until Aagi- ;