Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-07-21

| have been soldiers IN war, We can and VIII
be citizens in peace.
/ The committee appointed at the last
meeting to draft resolutions expressive Of
the objects and purposes of the club, through
their Chairman, Mr.. George E. Puryis, re-
ported the following, which were unani-
| mousiy adopted: .sI 81 -at. .# ~ 3D.
PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTIONS. al
Whereas, In view of the extraordinary
condition Of public affairs unprecedented
in the annals OF Tennessee, we, the mem
bers Of this Soldiers Democratic Club, and
| late soldiers ia the many different COM
mands which made up the Federal and
Confederate armies, brought now together
! by the love Of common country aud
cause, having an equal interest in preserv-
ing the liberty, law, honor and prestige of
the past, and not recognizing the right OF
any class of men, either white or black,
from one section of the country to the
other, under specious pleas of loyalty, or
any other pretext, to usurp and extinguish
our common rights Of manhood, first
given by God and afterward fought for by
our fathers and ourselves being solemnly
impressed with the truth that this country
is our home and only future hope-claim-
ing common heritage in the virtue, hero
ism, struggle and sacrifice Of the men who
formed its laws, cleared its forests, built its
cities, opened its rivers and made it what
it is-refusing to believe that present adj
herence to what is known as RadicalisIa,s
regardless of what the man has believed
and preached in the franchise aud rights
appertaining thereto, insisting that the flag
and Fourth of July, were neither made
exclusively by or for the negro and the
Radical-in word, desiring to see society
restored to something like its normal con-
dilion, and therey the rights of white men
returned TO them to speak and vOte for what
they esteem their couniry's greatest good I;
be il by us all s-' .H
Resolved, That soldiers should take each
other by the hand as brothers, forgetting
all past issues and passion, and resolve
only to recognize as political enemies those
who are leagued together for the overthrow
of. the union of States and constitutional
government in this country.
Resolved That we shall recognize po-
litical friends in all those who despise
RadicaIism and will work with US for IFS
downfall. 3 .'aH
Resolved, That it is our belief that the
soldiers of the country are earnestly anx-
ious to carry out the objects of the war as
understood by them: the full and perfect
restoration of the States to the Union and
they have no respect for the efforts made
by the Radicals to prostitute the flag and
its glories to partisan purposes; that they
despise and spit upon the pet Radical dog
ma Of negro suffrage and white disfran-
chisement, and that they are axious to con-
solidate the great body of thepeople, North
and South, under the banner of consti-
tutional liberty, borne by Seymour and
Blair, under whose leadership they look
prayerfully for a genuine reconstruction of
government and society.
Messrs. Reid, Brown, Symmes, Gray and
Mckenzie were appointed committee on
Constitution and Bylaws. t--a 4.s.
2 The committee appointed at the last
meeting topreoure a suitable place of meet
ing, reported to the Climb that they had Sc
cured the large room on the fourth floor of
the UNION AND DISPATCH BLOCK. The
report was received and the committee dis
charged. a.J -a. .Hl -
The following resolution was submitted
by Mr.. Frank T. Reid, and unanimously
adopted; as.a. ta.a. E, ...
Resolved, That we deem it peculiarly
appropriate that those Of US who espoused
the Southern cause, and attested our de-
votiou to it by our acts, who loved our flag
and still adore the dead, cold hands that
bore it, should tender our deep gratitude
and heartfelt thanks TO that noble body of
heroes and patriots, the Union soldiers and
sailors, who met in convention at Cooper
Institute on the 4th Of the present month,
for the kindly and fraternal feelings they
there expressed for those who had APP
proved themselves, as foes, true, brave and
generous, thereby giving the highest as
surance that, as friends, they would remain
firm, staunch aud loyal and who, since the
cessation Of hostilities, have verified that
and will continue to verify IL,
BY conducting themselves as quiet, law
abiding citizens, zealously devoted to the
of the Union, and to the
of constitutional republican
Liberty boon. .- .E ..a. l.asr aaF
Resolved, That the Democratic papers
throughout the country be requested TO
publish the foregoing. t 30 .s..sa 81