Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-07-04
THE NASHVILLE AND NORTH.
WESTERN.
The WOrkIngmens and Che Bummers-
An TneiSIye Review Of the Issues.

e W. P. lines and the clique. We though
e their practices were sufficiently Tentilate
to invoke the well-merited contempt an
adherence of all honest men. And afte
all, and knowing all, the Bonner EDITORIAL
z announces the fact that "Innes has bee
more sinned against than SHINING" w
t have read Of how the angels fell from thei
= high estate through pride, but we fail {
see or even conceive what motive could in
] duce the BaRRer to fall so low as to becom
the apologist of clique composed of politi
3 cal adventurers who could and cannot max
decent living outside Of political chi
; canery. Can the Bonner point out on,
noble or manly feature in the whole poss
Of eormorants who have settled down here
. IN Nashville without any visible meaGs Of
support, and succeeded in thrusting them
selves into various Offices by bamboozling
the colored folks, who had the power to put
them in possession of such sinecures?
We ask the Banner can he consci.
entiously say there are ten men in the
whole crowd capable Of making an indie.
pendent honest living?
Who siuned against lines? Was il the
men upon the fruits of whose labor he sup
ported a crowd Of satellites Did the peo-
pie Of Nashville sin against the much
abused and much oppressed and eminentIy
able man lines Did the press sin against
him? Perhaps some members Of his family
do, but if so, we have nothing to do with
that. We have nothing to do with lines
save in the character Of public flnc-
tionary appointed by the Governor Of this
State TO responsible positions which he was
incapable of filling. Apart altogether from
the cause Of the victimized employees who
have cOnfded in me go far as to allow me
the privilege of lighting their battles with
the hydra-headed monster cliqiers, is not
this ''Ting" composed of men who are helm
ing to bring ruin on the State Are thew
in any way responsible L. not their object
10 fatten on the life blood of the peopIe.
and then laugh at the colored people whom
they have fooled {? Are not dozers of them
| nor holding three and four offices each. at
large salaries? Offices which they cannot
I'LL, and for the proper performance of whose
duties they have to pay other aud ADLER
men Out of the whole clique, who assume
to do everything In this county particularly,
| is there one man of real ability and
honesty In one word, to use a common
but forclble expression, are they not dead
beats? How then can you pretend that
lines is more sinned against than SHINING Z?
1t is fact known to all that these politi-
| cal adyenturers, striped and illiterate as
they are, have the assurance Of the yery
devil. In their own neighborhoods it would
be impossible for them to make living.
for they are so far enervated by ilreolIarity.
to talk mildly, that they could not work
two hours by the side of an honest man of
toll. They are SO ill-bred, and ignorant.
and ENTHUSIASTICALLY, that no one ACQUAINTED
with them would give any Of them a posi-.
ton Of trust or responsibility. Their only
hope is in political triCkery, and in blind
folding the cOnhding negroes who suffer
themselves TO be fooled by their outrage.
ously vulgar speeches, and yet they are more
SiRned against than siRningl They hold
most of the offices in this city; as John
Cockrill said Thursday night, "they run
the machine in Nashville That Is one
fluke of their anchor; the other ia the
Northwestern. Now We know this set will
run that road to the lower regions. sooner
than allow IT out of their hands under any
consideration. The poor men who toiled
for them, and helped to line their
pockets, never enter into their calcuIa-
tons in anything they do. Their whole
thought is about the best manner
of bamboozling the people and cheating
them They have no hope from honest
dealing. They expect nothing save from
trickery. The whole knot of them are
bound up together, from lines 20 Prosser-
all in the same boat. They are not men of
business; they are political men-eoarse,
uneducated 'and unrefned, of course. but
interruptions They will stick at nothing
to retain their hold here. II is their policy
and policy with them, as some Of these
fools unwisely say, il faith, hope and char
ity. They would sacrifice their fathers, IL
they knew them, to the wooden god of
policy. And all this policy is money in
thy purse" No matter who starVes, and
yet "they are more sinned against than
SHINING"
1t is well known that if any suitable dis |
position on their part was manifested, there |
are enough Of s0lvent men in town who |
would undertake to pay the starving EN- |
ployes, and run the Northwestern road |
with profit to the State. The Chattanooga |
Company would readily do it; but no, |
these fellows would see Nashville, these |
employees and all the people along the road, |
sunk many miles under the earth rather /
than let go their hold of the road-it would /
be death to them. Their programme is /
either 10 destroy that road and the city of |
Nashville, or triumph.
BY Misrepresentation they sought TO |
blacken us in the esteem of the Governor
represented that We were Rebels, which |
was false, and by saying that we came from
the GAINESVILLE road to raise a muss on the
Northwestern, which was false. Prosser
went to Knoxville for this purpose. There
are only two men on the road from the
GAINESVILLE road, and these were brought
here by Richards, These, being worthy of
their patron, are not with us; so there is
not Rebel on the road on the strike, nor
a GAINESVILLE man.
When this dodge failed to produce the
effect intended, the cliqusr8 got among our
committee and induced some of them TO
under a promise of speedy pay
ment. They besought us to suspend letter
writing TO the press until the end of ] une |
or the early part of this month, which we
did, not being anxious for a war of that
kind. This was also political dodge of
theirs to get the working people Of Nash
vile into their political celebration-a
celebration gotten up on a thousand dollars
Of the peoples money, voted away by a
set Of men who are absolutely incapable of
earning any themselves, and who never
had any Of their own, and who, if Justice
and right be not eyerlastingly departed
from Nashville, never will have.
We know the biographies Of many prom-
lnent members Of this clique, not much to
their credit We are aware of their doings
in ante betjum times and more recently, and
we promise at no distant day to give them
considerable of an airing, although they
are more sInned against than SHINING; the |
saints We know the figure they cut, and
are in possession of sufficient facts TO damn
most of them IN the eyes of both parties
apart from their late unenviable proceed.
ngs in Nashville and on the Northwestern. !
The people who would swindle poor
white men out Of their hard earnings,
would swinde black ones too. Dozens Of
hem have already done 80 in various WAYS.
here in town, TO the tune Of hundreds Of
dollars. A few nights ago some OF the |
most stupid of the set ventilated their |
opinions Of colored folks rather freely.
They consider poor whites and blacks al.
together as legitimate game, whom they
n, ~ t,It,clr a. faafbnr fbair ru-,, ,z,.so II |