Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-05-31
MARES NESTS.


The Radical organ in this city, which,
under the stun of the impeac hment
failure, and the gloomy outlook for its
party towards November, has, for the
past three weeks, been suffering under
conclusion Of the brain and a general
colliquatiYe collapse, is wandering in IS
mind 1t was confused ard incOherent
even before the defeat Of the eleventh
article. To the careful reader, there
was doubt regarding its opinion Of i'm
parchment Not by any means, that it
it did not desire the removal Of the Presi-
dent but it was evidently fearful that
the business would prove both a blunder
in its conception and bungle in its
execution. Generally clear and fully ad-
vanced with any mischief its party
leaders might concoct, there was an
ambiguity and opacity about its views On
this question, that indicated internal
trouble Of serious sort Its faint pipp
ing over the Chicago nominations in fat
and formal notes only; its painful split
under the lead Of Secretary Fletcher,
with Governor Brownlow, on the State
finance question; and the dolefnl COM
ment on the utter squelehing out of inn
parchment on last Monday, show it to
be in deplorably dazed condition.
The article of yesterday, however, is
proof positive Of aon eompos meHtis.
The "rumors" it puts forth in a leader,
can be no more than the vapOrs and vag.
ariss of diseased brain Nothing more
preposterous ever originated elsewhere
than in an asylum for the insane. Ger
tainly that paper is not responsible which
can seriously state that the President is
pardoning coun4erieiters, because he is
DESTROYS of debauching the lawful ours
rency, as a means Of destroying public
confidence in it aud yet it says this is
rumor from Washington. 1t is indeed,
cruel to criiicise anything Of this sort
no matter how respectable the private
source" whence it emanates IL were
charity to keep it beneath the veil of
strioter privacy But it is startled
with another rumor, if possible yet more
absurd, though from source "high in
authority" The Supreme Court of the
United States, with the author Of the
greenback currency at its head, IS going
to iudiciaily condemn the legality of the
entire issue, and, in breath, obhterate
the circulating medium, and make every
mans pile Of greenbacks as worthless as
witbered autumn leaves Was there ever
nonsense to exceed this But this is not
all. "Thus bad begins, but worse re-
mains behind. This same Supreme
Court presided over by a Saturn
about to devour his own offspring,
is TO follow up the wicked work, by an
reconstructing at swoop, all the South-
ern States, and leaving Grant and Colfax
at the mercy Of the swelling army of
Northern Copperheads recently recruited
by such men as Fessonden and Irumbull,
and the remainder Of the seven res
creants, and their followers. Finally and
direst of all, that insatiate monster-the
yeto-has now become omnipotent, in the
belief of many well-posted Washington
politicians, and the detection has utterly
undone the Radical party in Congress
Such a ieremiad Of foreboding prophecies
and impending woes, never before broke
from the bursting heart of a disconsolate
politician.
Really, the organ is tangled, out of |
tune, and harsh, and in a very low
state. Such babbling Of green fields
as this stuff amounts to, must be the pre-
cursor of dissolution, and we are fearful
she consultation on its case, viii find the
,oldness creeping to the heart,