Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-09-08
1YLEsIzING THE RADICAL PARTY.

1YLEaIzING THE RADICAL PARTY.
The Chicago Times insists that
work of Tylerization, upon which
Grant entered Immediately after
being sworn into Office, and which
was undoubtedly commenced by
him some months before, now
stands open and confessed. What
ever may be his capacity, there
cannot be a doubt that Grant is
ambitious, and seeing that he has
lost cast with the men who elected
him, he may fancy that he can
build up party which will secure
him q second term of the presiden-
tial office. The divisions in the
Republican party in the South are
reported to have been under dis
cussion at the last meeting of the
cabinet, and it is further reported
that Grant and Secretaries Fish,
Cox and Robson had determined to
sustain the conservative movement
in the Southern States, and that
Secretary Rawlins would have CO.
operated with them. So far as the
execution of the test-oath in the
Virginia Legislature is concerned,
Attorney General Hoar acted with
the President and Secretaries above
named. Itappears that Secretaries
Boutwell, and Creswell are the lead
ers of the Radical faction, and
that they are opposed by a majority
of the cabinet and that Grant has
thrown his influence with the
majority of his constitutional
advisers. What the result of
this movement will be, is
one of the questions for the fu-
ture, The Chicago Times says {:
"Probably the regular Republican
organization in the South knows
what the conservative movement
is, and what its leaders intend.
Docs not Stokes know who opposed
him in the late election in Tennes-
see? Is Wells ignorant Of the ele
ments of which the opposition to
him was composed in the Virginia
election? These two prominent
leaders in the Republican party say
that the men calling themselves
Conservative Republicans in the
South are Democrats and ex Reb-
els, acting in unison with a few
men who have hitherto been clogs
al" and that the purpose of the
Conservatives is to overthrow and
utterly annihilate the regular Re
publican party in the States
which were in rebellion. This view
has also been taken, since the Ten
nessee election, by majority of the
newspapers of the ruling party.
Before that election, they favored
the conservative movement. Now
they assail it, and demand that war
be made on Dent in Mississippi and
Hamilton in Texas, although those
gentlemen are working for precise
ly the same results that Walker and
Senter sought to accomplish in Vir-
ginia and Tennessee. Since the
election in the States last named,
the Republican press appears TO
have gained information about the
conservative movement which has
led it to change front. The President
has not changed front. He was
with the Conservatives, secretly,
from the first. He is now with
them openly. lie knew what
their plans were, and knew that
with his assistance they could
triumph. If the prevailing opinion
in the Republican party concern
ing the Conservatives be correct,
their successes are, in fact, Demo
cratic victories. The President and
majority of the cabinet, in contempt
of this opinion. pledge their sup
port to the Conservatives,
and, consequently, to the move
ment which proposes to crush the
Republican party in the South. In
this the President is sustained by
Gen. Sherman. What the Opin-
ion of the latter is concerning
reconstruction, ana inc CLASS Vi HIGH
entitled to rule in the lately rebel-
Iious States, may be known from a
reading of the agreement with the
Rebel General 10. Johnston, at tho
time of Johnston's surrender. It's
as notorious that Sherman has
good opinion of the OK, Rebels, and
would treat them generously, as
that his influence with the Presi
dent is greater than that of any
other man. These facts, will, in
part, account for the persistency
and industry with which
Grant has pursued his Tylerizing
plans. Those plans, by the close
of November, will not only have