Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-07-29

sought to strike down the men
holding federal offices who dared
to oppose him. But his despera-
ton did not stop with these un-
seemly acts in candidate. Seeing
that his case was hopeless, he ap-
pealed by mail and telegraph to
members of Grants cabinet TO
save him, by placing themselves on
record in his favor, He succeeded
in getting an endorsement from
Boutwell, and Creswcll, but that
endorsement has excited only the
contempt Of the people. The Nash
vile correspondent of the Cincin-
natl Gazette confesses that the
reading of CrcswelPs dispatch
Pulaski Monday did him no good
but on the contrary, that the Dem
ocrats "are more enthusiastically
for Senter than ever, since they have
learned the administration opposes
him." The Chicago Times takes
this view of the game Stokes is now
playing: 30 @.
Stokes is desperate. On Saturday he
telegraphed to Postmaster General Cres-
| well that ''the administration must speak
out, and let the people Of Tennessee
know definitely whether Stokes or Sem
ter is its representative in the pending
struggle in the State" .........-
This is right. Let US know if the ad-
ministration is for the enfranchisement OF
the white men in the State, or for the
subsection of white men to the rule OF
negroes and carpet~baggers. The issue
is a plain one, and has so been declared
by the majority of Republican newspa>
pers in the Northern States. Before
they ascertained that the result OF the
| Conservative movement in the South
would overthrow the Republican party
there, they fully committed themselves
| to the movement, and the doctrine that
the men engaged in the rebellion ought
TO have their political disabilities
removed. Common sense and s
decent regard for order and justice would
not permit any other course, and the
Republican party cannot now continue in
| its policy of DISTINGUISHING white men
and extending the ballot to half barbar-
Gus negroes without offering such an in
/ suit to common sense, and order, and
Justice as viii disgust large majority Of
the decent men in the party. 1,-is5
The Republican party in Tennessee
will soon meet with defeat that will
crush it. The administration cannot
save it. Nothing short of military des-
| potism can save it. That Grant dare
not employ, had he the disposition to do
SO. There is no doubt that Stokes and
the factious demagogues acting with him
would like to have the army employed
for the defeat of Senter. His victory
will consign them to obscurity, and
would consign them to oblivion were it
not that the memories of their crimes
will be perpetuated by daily recurring
evils of which they were the cause.
Interference by the administration in
behalf of Stokes will not help him, and
will add to the assertions from the ruling
party in the North. Members Of the
cabinet may send to Stokes letters o
coincidence, and may inAict vengeance on
Federal Office holders who support SEN
ter, but such action will hardly influence
much less control, the election. Bout.
well, and Creswcll, and Hoar, must lOol
on the downfall of their party in thu
State, and know that they cannot avoid
it. Patronage, prayer and profanity will
prove unavailing against the registry
law in the hands of Senter, and thu
awakened indignation Of the peopl,
against Jacobin misrule and corruption
1t is true that the law is an infamOu!
one, and framed for the purpose Ofthwart
ing the voters Of the State, and reducin!
a majority TO minority, bat for this the
Radicals are responsible. They must,an
swer for its wickedness, and the reign o
the demagogues and rascals who haV
been elevated to power by its operations
Fortunately, there is now but little dOub
that Senter can be elected by large ma
jority on fair vote. Stokes, therefore
does not appeal to the administration 70
help against the operation of the registr.
law, but for help to overcome the out
ragged public opinion which condemns an
spurns him.
Boutwell, and Creswell, professedl.
acting for the administration, have re
sponded to his appeal, and assured hir
of their sympathy and that he shall hav
aid. Does Grant hold himself response
bic for their actions? Is he under tn
control of the malignants in the cabinet
They assert him to be so. They assum
to direct in dealing with the COnservativ
movement in the South. He declare
himself in favor of it, and yet permit
them to employ the influence Of the ad
ministration to defeat it. In this hi
servility and inconsistency are contempt
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