Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-08-05
POLITICS In WASHINGTON.
President Grants Opinion OF
the Mississippi Contest.
The Political Contest In Ten
neSsee.
The Virginia Situation.

| Nv WASHINGTON, aug. la prominent
conservative Republican from Missis.
sippi, who had an interview with the
President on Thursday in regard to DO,
litical affairs in that State, informed the
President that the only desire of the
conservative Republicans was neutrality
on the part of the administration in the
approaching election. The President is
represented as. replying that he wished
for the success Of the party which would
in good faith carry out the reconstruction
acts, ratify the fifteenth article of amend-
ment to the constitution of the United
States and give protection to life and
property in Mississippi. He wanted to
know whether the former enemies of the
government were acting in good faith in
their present professions of loyalty,
and said that this would soon be ascers
tanned in part by the action of the cons
sentative Republicans in Virginia. Ifthey
were acting in good faith he would be
glad to have not only the intelligence and
influence of that State, but of the South
generally, in support Of his administra-
ton. The President inquired at what
time the conservative Republicans would
nominate their candidates, and when in
formed that it would probably DO about
the LIST of September, he replied that he
would see what kind of ticket they
would put in the field, and his action
would be influenced more or less by subs
sequent events and the course Of affairs
in the South. He added that he desired
to see the payment of the public debt
secured, and the integrity and honor Of
the nation rendered inyiOlate, and when
this was accomplished he would be sat
is6ed.
THE CONTEST IN TENNEssEE-SEETER'S
PROSPECTS.
Mr.. ]. ]. Noah, of Tennessee, arrived
here last evening. He reports that Sem
ter's majority in the forthcoming guber-
material contest will probably reach 40, :
600, being in excess of that Of Grant and
Collar at the last election. He says that
the course Of Governor Boutwell, and the
Postmaster-G G eneral in endorsing Stokes
to the detriment of party interest, is uni
yersally denounced by majority of the
Radical element of the State, who con-
slider that Stokes should have been adj
vised to withdraw in the early part of the
campaign, and accept the United States
Senatorship, which had been rendered to
him at the time the nominating conven-
ton assembled. He represents Stokes
as privately conducting his canvass in a
manner peculiarly offensive to all North.
ern men, whom he denounces as carpet
baggers, and threatens to drive out of the
State. These men comprise the ruling
| element of the liberal and radical
wing, and are nearly all ex-Federal
| soldiers. Mr.. Noah explains the
| position Of Senator Brownlow on the
franchise question as being one of no
recent date and one which is in perfect
accord with the various enactments Of
Congress. Stokes having always pitted
himself unsuccessfully against Browns
low for his positions as Governor and
Senator, it is quite natural the Parson
has no great amount Of interest in his
success. Governor Senter proved his
support of the Union by lingering months
| inside Of prison walls, where he was in
generated by the Rebels for his Union
| sentiments at period when Stokes, in
his famous Duncan letter, was doing his
best to encourage secession, and offering
his services in the Confederate cause.
With regard to the probability of DEM
ocrat majority in the legislature, Mr..
Noah contends that this by no means
| foreshadows the election of Andrew
johnson as Senator Fowler's successor,
| alt hough the ex-President will undoubt-
edly make vigorous effort to secure it.
| The probabilities are that many Of the
So called Democrats will return to their
former places in the old line Wing party
and consequently the balance of power
will rest with the Republicans. Mr..
Emerson Etheridge will be proms
inent contestant for the Senatorship,
and is already being pressed
with great vigor. He is now running for
the State Senate, with certainty of
success. Whatever disastrous conse.
quences result to the Republican party
in Tennessee may be attributed to the
selfish ambition of Congressman Stokes,
who, like Bottom, of Shskspearian fame,
wants to play all the parts, and will after
this contest have to content himself with
roaring as gently as sucking dove.
Mr.. Noah has been participating in the
canvass of Alabama, and reports the
| probable success Of five Outof six of the
Republican nominees for Congress, the
Huntsville district being the only one in
doubt. In Mississippi he reports great
strength in the Dent movement, which is
daily on the increase. Clubs are being
formed in the interest Of his nomination,
at the head of which are found men Of
high standing who have hitherto kept
al0of from politics. 1t is not generally
believed in Mississippi that the President
will interfere either personally or by the
aid of the federal patronage in favor Of
or against the success of this movement
RETURN OF GOV. wELLS-A ROSY VIEW OF
POLITICAL MATTERS IN VIRGINIA.
CIV. Wells reached Richmond to-day
having been absent since the result o
the election became positively known
He has been travelling in the North both
on pleasure and business, and is accom-
panied back by his son, recently grad
uate of Hamilton College, New York
who is now to be appointed aid to hi
father with salary Of $1,000 per annum
much to the chagrin of quite a numbe
of his faithful carpetsbag aspirantc
The Governor was waited upon by a few
of his Radical friends, to whose in
, quiries as to whether there was to b
anything hoped for from the action c
the President or Congress, he returne
rather gloomy and respondent an
syers lie said he had not seen th
President nor had he been to Wash
t ington, but that the general tendenc
e of opinion among Republicans In tn
North was unfavorable to the recog
milton of the Walker party. He consider
that the solution of pending questions /
It relation to Virginia would be arrived
10 by a refusal on the part of Gen. Canb
!. to issue his proclamation declaring I'll
= election until the meeting of Congress
He expressed the hope that Congret
&c would then delay action until too late
ID the session, and that the RECONSTRUCTED
le of the State under the Walker auspic,
1t would therefore be thrown over into Il
q next session and thereby the present 0
ficials of the State government would I
continued in control of affairs. The Go
ernor thus figures out on rather tC
of liberal scale his own official safety al
: that of mis- particular friends. de d
1, not, however, appear to be either euth
TX siastic or quite as hopeful as his lam
uage seemed to indicate. This pre-
A gramme is now the only reliance of &
>. defeated carpet-bag aspirants, and tn
- will make every effort to have 1t earri
- out to the letter.
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Bear This In Mind.
The freedom of election in Tennesl