Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-08-22
NASHVILLE UNION AND AMERICAN SUNDAY AUGUST % 1859

MA
PRESIDENT The New York Tribune
Of April 3, 1868, said Ah
"Ws have assurances from Washington
that Gen. Grant finds it not inconsistent
with his duty as soldier to announce it
as bis opinion that the only hope for the
peace of the country is the success of the
pending impeachment.
When the General of our army entertains
this conviction, thsre is no room for
doubt as to the duty ofthe Senate II
Finding such supple Instruments
in high places, they found plenty in
lower ones.i'as0nly Miss VinnieI
Reafn refused to solicit the Sena-
tors who lived at her mothers
Boarding house, and for thus show
ing "a higher spirit than Grant, says
the Philadelphia Age, she was
elected from herstudio in the Capt.
ftoI Boutwell,, one of the managers,
made himself ridiculous in the
Senate, but his chief function
seems to have been the pro-
curing of testimony. Col? John P.
Wood, formerly in the detective
service, now charges Boutwell, with
offering to him the sum of $4,000
if he would produce testimony to
convict the President. o 1-''--..--o
H. We doubt if the world ever saw
more INSCRIPTIONS trio than
Butler, Boutwell, and Stevens, who
managed the impeachment but
great as was their INSCRIPTIONS
profigacy, still greater was their
discontinue. 81 The present dis
closure falls far short of the whole
truth in regard to them. ~ "
FACTS FOR "OUR COUNTRY TX.
CHANGES"
The Banner having assumed to be
"the be-all and the end-alP' of
things political in this State; and
"to look into the seeds of time,
and say which grain shall grow,
and which shall not" tbs proper
that the people should know some
thing of the anteeedents of this
seer and law giver. The appended
extracts commence with May q
of the present year, and reach to
the 18th Of July -l. es.la 11zg u
Ioi AN OPINION OF CONVENTIONS. -i
l. From the Nashville Banner. May 81. T. a.
| There is but one existing organized
political party in the State to-day, and
those would-be alarmists know it, and
that party is the Radical Enormously
styled the Republican, party of Tennes-
see. Then why the need Of this conven-
ton? Why the need of all this dicker
and fierce denunciation and collision?
Why all this stormy contest for unfair
advantage in the convention? What is it,
after all, but game of politicians to get
the better of each other by officially
stamping thisor that candidate with the
prestige of conventional and partisan in
dorsement to cheat the people of fair
expression at the ballot ? Why
have not the people a right to a
chofeeP Why should there be but
one man by the decree of few party
leaders, to whom the people shall bow
down and worship Abolish this conyen-
ton system now and forever. AS federal
soldier, in the tnmult yesterday very
wisely and Justly demanded-"Let the
people take their choice of the two men,
and let Just as many candidates of the
party run as please" Is there anything un-
republican in that? We have al ways taken
the position, and we maintain it now, that
these convention nnisances are the invern
tons of demsgogues and political swind-
lers. No statesman, no honest man, no
truly sincere patriot can come successfully
out of convention. They have been the
cesspoois for corruption for all time, and
they have invariably exercised the vilest
tyranny and the most pernicious influence.
REPUBLICANS FOB THE LEGISLATURE.
From the Nashville Banner. May IS.
Long before there was even an antici-
patton that the Republican party of Ten,
nessee would meet with such disaster
as that which overlook it through Sena~
tor Gates indescretien, and BrownIow's
stubbornesS last Thursday, the Banner
had repeatedly expressed itself in favor
of seeing returned to the General AS
semblY such Republicans as Mr.. Roach,
Mr.. A. V. s. Lindsey, Mr.. Fletcher, and
others of that liberal school. These gem
tlemen, we understand, are for Stokes
for Governor. Believing the liberal sem
timents they have expressed, prevail
among the leaders of the dominant party,
we reiterate our Endorsement and repeat
that, among the disfranchised there would
be no objection, much less any factious
opposition to the return Of such gentle
men to the Legislature.
NO PARTY CANDIDATES.
From the Nashville Banner. June 10
Some of the leading Conservative
citizens of Maury County, recently met
in convention at Columbia and calmly
surveyed the political field. They de-
termined not to put forward any cans
didates for any Office in the ensuing cleo
ton, and no party organization now ex>
lists in Maury outside the Senter and
| Stokes wings. We do not believe that
the interests of the DISTINGUISHED are
likely to suffer from the condition of
affairs. ....
THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
From the Nashville Banner, June Is,
As a general thing we are prejudiced
/ against conventions. But a convention
| Of this sort-fresh from the people, and
for such purpose, we regard as the
highest authority in the land and the
safest power to whom the people dare
trust their liberties. ......
Let us see how this will work. We
will imagine a full Legislature-if all
Republican, so much the better, as there
| will be fewer .jealousies, old records, old
| feuds, old issues and old bones of con-
. tention to distract the members thereof
from graver legislation.
PUT NONE BUT REPUBLICANS IN THE LEGIs~
TURE. .....--
From the Nashville Banner. June Is.
We still adhere to our original prOpo-
sition that it is clearly, Enthusiastically, un-
questiOnably to the interest of the Con-
servatives and the disfranchised to have
nothing to do with the making of candi-
dates for Governor or for the Legislature.
Just so certain as the abstinence ofsthe
disfI auchised and Conservative masses
from the intoxication and excitement of |
nnlitins has hrnnUht ahOut the nrnaent
disintegration of the dominant party in
the pending canvass (and would have |
accomplished the same result long ago) |