Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-01-23

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and putting it into the hands of Rebels.
The approaching Presidential contest
will be one between the great Republican,
Union party, composed of the men who
stood by the Union in lis hour Of sorest trial,
and faced the enemies of our country upon
the field of battle, and the irrepressible
Democratic party, composed Of the rebelli-
Gus odds and ends of all parties. The sue
cess of the Democratic party, OF which L
have no fears, will involve the payment of
Southern traitors for their emancipated
slaves, the payment of the Rebel war debt,
and the granting of pensions to the widows
and orphans of fallen Rebels and Rebel SOL
diers. These issues will be openly dis
cussed during the coming summer By the
contending parties; and under the lead of
whoever may be nominated by the Repub-
lican party at Chicago, we are bound 10
succeed. Confding in the wisdom and
patriotism Of the National Convention,
which meets in May next, whether they
shall select a military chieAain or civili-
an to head the Republican ticket let US
pledge ourselves to a jealous and cordial
support of theticket.
If l were a member of your Convention
/ would endeavor to have incorporated into
the platform You adopt a plank to the fol-
lowing effect: That the bonds and obliS
cations of the general government, which
do not expressly stipulate for payment in
coin in the acts authorizing their issuance,
or in their face, should be paid in green
backs or legal tenders, and that our dele
gates to the National Convention be in
structed to vote for resolution in the
national platform embracing this propo-
sition.
have the honor to be, etc,
w. G. RROwNLow.
LETTER FROM HON. HORACE MAYNARD.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. Is, 1865
DEAR SIR: Your inVition of Dec. 9th,
1867, TO attend the Union Republican
Convention at Nashville, on the 22d inst.
has lain unanswered, in the hope that |
might answer it in person. Constant en-
gagement at this period of the session upon
the Committee of Ways and Means pre-
vents my leaving. Senator Fowler and
Col. Stokes will be with you, and will carry
with them the recorded views of our Con-
gressional delegation.
They may be readily expressed in few
among ourselves, and harmonious action
with our friends, the land over. Second
The subordination of personal aspirations
to public interests. Third-The folly of
tho friends of the country looking for favor
or support from its enemies. Fourth-Po-
litical questions cannot be successfully
solved regardless of financial and indus
trial questions. All Of which, as they lie
in my own mind, would seem to be truisms
were they not SO frequently treated other,
wise.
There is no rock so fatal to large party
like ours in the State and in the nation as
dissension, personal rivalries, angry dis
putes about collateral measures, and gener-
ally a disregard Of the axiom that when
to ride the same horse one must needs ride
behind
The common good requires the peremp-
tory suppression of all such disturbances,
even,- if necessary, to the cutting off and
discarding their authors. No one who
thinks more of himself than of the cause
he espouses, will, in the end, be of much
service to the cause.
For seven years the friends of this gov
eminent have maintained a severe and
COubtdut Will llS CuCllACHs DO ldig
in spite of open hostility and treacherous
or halfhearted friendship, they have main
tanned it with success. If any one lesson
has been more plainly inculcated by the
contest than another it is the utter and in
excusable folly of those who espoused the
side of the Union during the war, look
ing for support, or even liberation
from their old Rebel enemies. He who
does not now see il, could not be cured of
it, though he were brayed in mortar
among wheat with pestle, to cite high
authority. Examples might be arrayed, L
should say, without end, had we not just
witnessed the latest, if not the last of the
series. The Governor of a neighboring
State, elected by Union men, and as Union
man, aspired to be a United States Senator.
Doubling of his success with his own par
ty friends, to whom he owed all he had
ever been, he turned for support to his and
their enemies the disfranchised Rebels of
his State, II is needless to state by what
means his executive authority and influ-
ence restored them TO power, first in the
Legislature, then in a constitutional con-
yention, and as a result of it, in the SUI
preme Court of the State, and the posses
very humblest. The day Of recompense
came to him a day of retribution. The
Senatorial election was held. His new
confederates set him at naught, and con-
ferred the honor upon one of their own
number Let our wise men be admonished.
The strength of government, State or
national, is its credit. To sustain this is
the primal work of intelligent admins
tration. Public credit depends solely upon
the willingness and the ability of the peo>
pie TO meet the public obligations. Re-
pudiation in any and every form is a deadly
blight, and any measure that tends logi-
cally to reputation, however slightly, ex-
cites instant alarm, and exerts depressing
influence. No people on earth have a
| greater horror at a breach of the public
| faith than the Union people of Tennessee ;
indeed, | may say the Union people all over
| the country. IL their resources are Judi
ciously and economically used, so as TO ex-
act from them only portion of their profits
without encroaching upon the capital, they
can respond to every obligation assumed in
their name. Let the taxes be so imposed
that the industry shall not, by reason OF
their payment, be any poorer at the end of
the year than at the beginning. With hon
esty and official integrity to enforce these
mixims, those who know how to live by the
sweat of the face, and are willing to do it,
will have but little trouble in making the
ends meet. No others can hope to succeed
except by some Of the phases of bad gov
eminent, which, at bottom, is simply con-
| trivauce to enable one man to live in idle
ness upon the fruits of another mans labor.
With the best wishes, personally, TO the
gentlemen of the convention, and the hope
that harmony, patriotism and wisdom may
attend their deliberations, | am, very re-
specially, your obedient servant,
| HORACE MAYNARD.
Gen. H. H. Thomas, Secretary, etc,
Nashville, Tenn.
After reading the foregoing, the conven'
ton took a recess till 8 o'clock P. NJ
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The convention met at 8 O'clock and pro-
ceeded to business. The following gentle"
men we're then appointed as the Executive
| Committee:
lst district, Chas. j. Mckinney.
ID district, A. j. Fletcher.
Sd district, H. II. Cate.
4th district, Lewis Tillman.
9Th district, ID. w. Peabody.
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