Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-27
non Law ADVTsED By A RADICAL.
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. -Ihe most ubrCihPdsO1S NAODS ehS /
sadical papers are in the habit of deny
ng that large proportion Of the South
rn whites are disfranehised. The Chi
ago Tribune, the leading Radical organ
n Illinois, however, makes the fillowing
~
''Thsre are probably more than SHY
horsaRd white men in Tennessee who can
got vote. The significance Of this fact is
heightened BY the general admission Of the /
blacks 10 the franchise. So, between the
wide exclusion Of the whites and the uni
yersaI Acknowledgement Of the blacks, Ten
nesses Is a PolaicH pandeHiosiirnl.' 4 \ 4
Upon this state Of Affairs, The Tribune
comments as follows: e1
"The time for Acknowledgement Of any
but classes embracing few individnals, and
those coafessedly disloyal and dangerous,
hiss gone By. The hateful passions en-
Eendered by the war are dying out The
country ID addressing itself TO peace and
We believe that all men who have bot deep
pe.sOnal animosiiies to crafty, or some IN
HOrthy personal motive 10 serve, or who
are not insane with rage and hate, are
willing to draw sponge over the past and
commence anew, provided that both free
dom and Justice can be made the basis Of
future endeavors We believe that when
we say this, We speak for nine-lenths Of the
Republicans Of the Northwest 0f their
devotion TO the cause Of their party, and the
country, there can be dOnbt."
The Tribune enterlains just appre-
citation of the situation in Tennessee
This State is indeed, "a political pande.
monium," and it is wholly the work Of
the Radicals. The negroes were not en-
franchised becaase it was regarded BY
those who conferred the privilege as an
act Of justice, but it was done simply as
means Of perpetuating power in the
hands of those who had no claim upon
the white men of this State TWAS to
promote the selfish and ambitious aims
Of men who owed their elevation to
power not to merit, but to adventitiOus
circumstance, that sixty thousand white
men were without even the moekery Of
a trial hdjudged guilty Of crime and dis
franchised and the whole male negro
population invested with that right But
the Radicals are not content with this
degradation Of their own race they have
pursued with vindictive persecution the
men who refused to wear the Radical
collar. There has been no effort at COM
ciliation on their part; the very reverse
has been pursued by them from the Gov
ernor down. A noted instance of this
is furnished in the Knoxville Wing, Of
which the Governor is the "Senior
Editor" In that paper of the Oath inst
is published the following
REBEL WEAITH AND REsPECr1BuJTY.
Connected with threats Of violence
towards Radical Republicans it is boasted
openly that the wealth, respectability,
talents and influence of society, are all on
the side Of Democracy, whilst the Repub-
liean party il composed Of the negroes and
poor white folks We shall not pause to
argue this point, but We will take occasion
10 remind the respectable, talented and in
huentiai Democracy that the negroes and
poor whites are fearfully in the majority
in East Tennessee And it may become
the interest Of the property owners and
the custodians Of the talents and decency,
between this aud November next, 10 bring
their large influence 10 bear in promoting
the peace and quiet Of society IL the
Republican ticket can be defeated by fair
andlegitimate means, let i be defeated,
but foul means aud violence will not be
submitted to-mHk that. y...r.
f##rHb3. SEEIoR EDITOR. {
This is only a specimen of the vindic-
tive ebulIitions that have been uttered
through that journal Here is the Gov
ernor Of the State, who is n professed
Christian minister, urging his political
followers to constitute themselves a mob,
and take the execution oe the laws into
their own hands. What sort Of com
munity are we to have when such cOun-
sels as these prevail II is TO be won
dered at that mob violence does not run
riot over the State, when the GOveTnor
advises his political partisan to appeal
not to the laws Of Tennessee, but to mob
law for the redress Of the grievances,
real or immaginary, sustained at the
hands Of their political opponents. 1t
has beeh repeatedly charged that this
solfsame Governor had advised his parti-
sans in East Tennessee to murder
Rebels, " in some such contingency as
that referred TO in his card which we
copy, aud that If convicted by a jury, he
would pardon them Here We have the
Governor Of the State stirring up strife
and fonenting disc6rd 10 every conceiv-
able manner, and yet there are men in the
Radical party who claim to be respect
able, high-tonod citizens, who have no
word Of condemnation for these evidences
Of tho mob,spirit and disregard of law
COOPER AND THOMPSON.
Hon. Edmund Cooper and Jo II