Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-11-11
UNION AND AMERICAN.
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There is trouble in the Radical camp
in Florida. There are not enough offices |
in the State for all the patriotic gentle |
men who have gone there to make for
tunes out of people with whom they
have no sympathy. They have got to
quarreling over the few bones that afford
fat picking, and bitter feud has sprung
up, resulting in the preferment Of articles
of impeachment against the Governor.
Impeachment is the mode by which Radi-
Gals get hold of offices upon which they
have set covetous eye. Gov. Reed is
charged with 'falsehood and lying while
transacting business with members Of
the Legislature" with "flling commits.
sions to officers in blank, and other ire
sponsible persons have issued them;"
with declaring the seats Of members
vacant when they had not resigned and
with embezzlement, corruption and
bribery, ''he having bartered and sold
prominent Offices in the State to sundry
persons for money to him in hand paid"
These are grave charges, and it must be
remembered that it is one Radical accus-
ing another. In Florida it is charged to
be high crime and misdemeanor for the
Governor to fill commissions to officers in
blank, and hand them to irresponsible
parties to fill the blank and issue the
same to persons Of their own choice.
This very thing has been done in Tennes-
see under the Brownlow administration,
and it scarcely elected a passing
remark certainly it has never been con-
demned by any Radical so far as we
know. Such Of the Florida carpet-bag-
gers as have not been guilty Of this con-
duct profess 20 look upon it with horror,
but it takes a scalawag in Tennessee to
do it with impunity. This controversy
in Florida will have a tendency 10 open
the eyes of the people as to the manner
in which carpet-baggers are running the
State governments in the South, and the
purpose at which they aim. They re-
gard these governments as legitimate
subjects for sPolation, and are making
the most out Of them possible. Tho
Washington correspondent of the Cincin.
natl Gazette, writing on the Sth inst.
says of this rebellion in the Radical
camp:
"The trouble in Florida is, to con-
siderable extent personal. Gov. Reed
and Lieut.. Gov. Gleason were both from
Wisconsin. The Governor is an old
journalist, always a Republican, and is a
man Of considerable culture. The Lieu
tenant Governor, who was lumberman
and Democratic politician at the break
ing out of the war, is man ofsOme force
but entirely without culture. The Gov
ernor represents the moderate element
and views Of the Republican party, while
the Lieutenant Governor IS an extremist
of the extremists. The new Constitution
gives the Governor great deal Of patron
age, and the immediate cause Of the
present quarrel is the fact that he has not
made appointments satisfactory to the
Lieutenant Governor and his friends.
The Nj. Jenkins who brought forward
articles OF impeachment is one Of the
Gleason faction. The Legislature came
together last Tuesday for the sole and
single purpose Of casting the electoral
vote Of the State, and whether the
articles arc or are not well founded, it is
clear that this was not the proper time
for prefcrnng them"
1t is a notable fact that Whenever a
Democrat turns Radical he is the mean
est sort Of a Radical. lie thinks de.
serteT IA regarded Win suspicion, and
goes 10 greater extremes than honest
conscientious Radicals would dare 90
This Florida controversy may do good il
opening the eyes Of Southern men whC
have acted with the Radicals to the true
character of the men who lead and con
troll that party.