Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-07-03
WHAT Is To FOLLOW DEMOCRATIC
SUCCESS ? Ia

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ton Of Democratic President viii dis,
solve the Radical organization. Its mo-
tive for existence viii be destroyed, and
its element Of cohesion lost. The work
is already half done If we want to
measure the extent of the Decentralization
of the Radical party, we have only to
look back to its National Convention in
1860 The contest for the nomination
lay between Seward and Lincoln and
Chase Fremont, She favorife, Of $50
had disappeared; for Radicalism uses its
instruments and discards them with cold
blOOded Indifference Seward had I73i
votes on the first ballot, Lincoln l02, and
lSS votes went to Chase and others. Lin
coin is dead but nothing but his death
saved him from the prescription of his
own party. Already the organization
was made against him, and the alterna~
tive offered Of obedience to the Radical
cabal, or ostracism by the party. Chase
has left them johnson, whom they
placed in the Presidential Office, is the
victim Of their vindictiyeness The Ad-
amses, the Blairs, and other representa-
tive men, reeoil from their extreme doc
trines. The Cabinet, originally Radical,
is reyolutiOnized and the representa-
tiVes at foreign courts disavow all symS
pathy with the course of Congress
and the doctrines of its leaders The
Senatorial majority is divided and
when the Radicals of the House meet at
the next session, it viii be to open war
Of determination against each other
Then in score of the States there are
Senatorial vacancies to be filed in 1869;
and the next House will share the iuflu-
ence of the popular reaction, manifest in
the Presidential election. But it is sug-
gested that the peterborough States and
negrosorganizatiCn down South will
send to both Houses, representatives who
viii offset and neutralize the Democratic
accossiOns Let not these Radicals lay
that Aattering junction. to their souls
They are not sure to elect, and still less
sure of their men when elected Nary
land and Kentucky were, but few years
ago, under lOyal" Governors. But Swami
and Bramlett are now the target marks |
of Radical spite. Brownlow, of Tennes~
see, Sticks" but Patterson and Fowler |
refuse 10 obey the Radical dictation The
Republicans Of the negro States, in the
Chicago Convention, were Venal men, |
knowing no allegiance, and ready for
any alliance This aspect of the future
begins to alarm the Radicals The corr
respondent Of the Cincinnati Gazette |
writing about the admission Of Arkan-
sas, says:
"The Republican party has hitherto cal
culated upon great political gain from this
admission. The leaders are now far less |
confident 1t must be confessed that neither |
the fruits Of reconstruction, nor the prom
ises from other States are especially en- /
cOuragipg. We have one Rebel State back |
again-Tennessee. Before she had been /
fully restored, her delegates TO a National |
Convention gave us Andrew johnson. /
Since, her Legislature has given us Sena-
tors Fowler and Patterson. Yet these are /
men Of high character, compared TO those /
now coming up from the South. There are |
whole delegations from large Southern /
States that do not contain one man as repu- |
table in private life, or az respectable in |
ability and experience, as Senator Fowler.
There are plenty Of them for whom Sena.
tor Patterson may stand ss 1 type. God /
knows what We are TO do with these crea-
lures exclaimed one of the leading mem
bers OF the Republican party, and one of
its prominent COngressmeE. They seem
TO be without character at home they have
not very much hope of retaining their hold /
on their districts after the first election
and good many Of them are sure 10 90 in for
making he most they can ont Of their positions
Ukile they hare them Perhaps the Con-
gresham was severe in his Judgment; but
there is no doubt that the feeling among
the leaders grows to be that in seeking for
Republican strength at the Sonih, ,0s hare
got a uery large elephant Of uncertain dispOsi-
tion on our handsh
1t is impossible for any man, however
degraded to assume to represent the
States Of the South, and persistently vote
against their interests and betray their
constituents at the dictatiOn Of a sectional
oligarchy. The Senators and Repre-
sentatives from the South, no matter by
whom elected, will be voting with the
Democratic Party-with the party Of
equal rightsas opposed to oligarehies and
sectional cabals. The Radicals hold the
negro by feeble tie That tie will DE
broken, if they lSse the Presidential
Office What the negro wants is money
and the qualification it affords The
FreedmeEs Bureau doles out food to idle
crowds but the leaders want more than
this, and they demand more under threats.
Hunnicutt who, as leader Of the blacks
in Virginia, has organized a war Of races,
and now holds such control Of the State
as to shut out all prospect Of the enfran.
chisement Of the whites for years to
come grows inpatient over his uniul-
fled hopes In recent number Of the
Richmond Nation he says
"We have stood by the Republican
cause, aud have labored day and night for
irs success, and We feel that it is due to
ourselves, 10 the ultimate success of the
party that they should come up TO our aid.
But there is point beyond
which patience and iorbearance cease to
be virtues. and We have we'll nigh reached
that point. We hope and earnestly pray
that we may not be forced to make any
public exposition. But when te de hc
IuorId shall hear oar erpiriSs grodHs We can
afford TO he crushed out by our eemies. We
expect nothing from them. But to be
starved 10 death by professed political, TO
say nothing of personal friends, is rather
more than flesh and blood can bear, aud
especially while Others are growing rich
Let US then place in Executive office