Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-08-16
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SUNDAY. AUGUST Io. Isss. 2
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WICKED NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
In the hope OF diyerting public atten
ton from their corruptiens and crimes
and Of avoiding the momentous issues 0
the pending canvass, the Radicals haY'
concerted a howl against leadinl
men Of the South, who have refused t
accept their degrading conditions, or Z
ally themselves with double-dyed trai
tors like Brown, Of Georgia the founder
Of Andersonyille prison, and now an APP
prOpriate leader in Radical councils
Whoever will not subscribe to their die
tation, and surrender honest convictions
to their insane and revolutionary ideas
says the National Intelligeaeer, Is d
once denounced as "a Rebel and q Cop
perbead, no matter what hageDheeR his
previous services to the Union, OF how
ever exalted or pure his character may
be. Soldiers who periled their lives
aud citizens who contributed generously
to sustain the cause Of their country
have been assailed with the grOssest cal
umny and misrepresented in the most
outrageous manner, merely because they
would mob bow down and worship these
strange gods. H.. DO .af.i
According to the teachings Of Stevens
Butler, summer, and that tribe of Jaco
bins, whose policy sooner or later pre-
walls, as has been seen in every measure
adopted since the close Of the war, any
opposition to their destructive programme
is crime. Loyalty" means absolute
submission to Radicals nj. Dissent from
it is to be, and has been, punished with
whatever penalties violent aad mean le-
gislation coald invent or employ. This
has been the. uniform course pursued to-
wards every Conservative who had the
courage or integrity to cut the cords of
political serVitude, and to array himself
against the alarming doctrines which
have been proclaimed by. The chiefs of
this desperate faction, o. ~rvw,rrr
The outcty against certain Southern
men is nothing more than political
trick, or stop thief expedient, by means
Of which they who shout lOudest hope to
escape the detection Of their own con-
scious guilt The South, in its desOlate
and impoverished condition, has every
interest in preserving peace. That is the
only mode by which its prosperity can
ever be recovered Hence every eonspic-
uous and representative man has urged it,
labored for it, and prayed for it, as the
greatest Of boons This has been done
in good faith, and in the face Of the
world. But instead of meeting with well
come, cheer and encouragement every
advance and every step in the direction
of Cancellation has been repealed by the
Radical leaders They live by agitation
and strife, and, therefore, do not want
reposo and restored rotations. Hence,
their whole legislation has been shaped
to aggravate the South, and their whole
aim has been to excite spirit Of resent
mont by the imposition of the most de-
/. grading terms.
For this reason they have systemati-
eally misrepresented every act and word
done or spoken by Southern men, and
have sought to stir up the bittercst preju'
dices, by reviving the past in its darkest
colors.
No bettor evidence is required of their
unwillingness to have tranquility than
this system Of willful and wicked misrep-
resentation. How is the Union ever to
be restored in practical and patriotic
relations, if one side insists tina. the other
shall not participate in the government,
and keeps up the old feud, instead Of
burying it with the war which crushed
the rebellion?
] The country has just had remarkable
and honorable illustration of the sincerity
and purposes of large number Of ex
Confederate Generals in Tennessee. The
course Of Brownlow and his crew of
destructives had brought this State to the
verge ofcivil war. A trivial cause might
have embroiled the whole nation in the
agony Of another, and even more terrible
conflict In order to avert it, and to
prevent such calamity, Forrest, Cheat
ham, Gordon, and other we'll known
Generals, voluntarily came forward
conferred with the Legislature, and by
their Influence, advice and example
saved the State from combustion and
bloodshed They were the peacemaker,
against the revolutionists, who, after
raising the storm, could not direct it
chat was their mode Of reply to tn,
slanders Of the New York Tribune anC
such Radical calumniators, who are
striving 80 provoke war
And so, too, Of Wade Hampton, whC
has been held up and denounced BY
Radical journals all over the North a
fbmenting disSord, when he was among
the first to accept the situation, and t.
recommend obedience to the laws. There
is no drawer or truor man, and when h
surrendered his sword, it was to abide
by the duties of the citizen, and TO fulfil
all The obligatious Of that responsibility
Il was in this praiseworthy spirit that he
offered the following resolution at the
Democratic Convention which met a
COLUMBIA on the Sth inst -,
Resolved, that willie entering our pro
test against the Radical reconstruction
acts, We rely confidently on coaS'itUtioRa
,agascios and peaceful measures alone to brine
uh the relief sought and the reforms need
cd"
This language speaks for itself, and !.
the best answer to the bare faced false
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