Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-06-08
WHAT say you, RADICALS OF
TRNERaGRE9

WHAT bSy YOU, RADICALS OF
TENNESSEE?
In his letter to the editor Of the
Wheeling Entelligencer, dated
Nov. IS, 1868, Mr.. Horace Greeley
said, touching the Acknowledgement
of stRebels" in West Virginia:
al sneak from a wide experience when
I tell you that your house Is built on the
sand. IL cannot stand Every year will
see tho passions Of the war cool, and the
demand for amnesty strengthened. Now
Won can amnesty the Rebels. Soon the
ouestion will be: ."Shall they amnesty
Won y Look at Kentucky and Maryland
and road your certain fate in theirs"
The Cincinnati Gazette, one of
the ablest and most thoroughly
Radical papers in the West, says:
ave have seen o full trial Of this sys,
TEN Of establishing loyal government
in Tennessee, and it has become a ques-
ton whether such loyalty is not exhaust.
i've TO the State, and whether we NAV
not have to relax the loyal rightly in
order to save the State from ruin. In
general the radical rule has been
marked by prohigacy in both State and
municipal government, as is shown by
the great increase in State and municipal
debts, besides the great floating debts
which they are carrying along at ruinous
rates OF interest In this we realize the
evil of DISTINGUISHING the great body of
tax-payers, and thus losing their con-
Sentative influence in public affairs.
The st. Louis Democrat, the
organ of the Radical party in Mis-
souri,, says in its issue of June L:
mot lsng ago we quoted from the
New York Times a forcible article in
support Of the policy which this pape,
has advocated. 1t is well known that the
Tribune has for long time earnestly
advocated universal amnesty and uni
versal suffrage" These papers, repre-
senting the more extreme and the more
moderate elements Of the Republican
party at the East, concur in this, thal
they earnestly approve the policy which
we advocate. And we may fairly
add that there is hardly an Eastern Radi'
cal paper or prominent and Influential
Republican that does not sustain the
/ policy Of the President in that respect
But the West and the East may havt
different opinions. We, therefore, quot
to-day from the Chicago Republican ant
Topeka Commonwealth, one q repre-,
sentative paper of the party which CAV,
fifty thousand majority for Grant in Iii
nois, and the other a representative o
the party which gave fifteen thousand il
Kansas. Many other articles of simila
tone have been observed in leading pa
pers Of Western States, but have escapes
our scissors. We do not now recall an,
paper Of recognized influence in the Radi
cal PARTY of the West, outside of Mis-
souri,, which urges the continuance Q
Acknowledgement"
| The articles the Democrat quote
from the Chicago Republican an,
Topeka Commonwealth are yer,
decided in favor of the removal O
all Acknowledgement. We repro
duce these extracts from Mr.. Gree
ley, the Cincinnati Gazette and tn
st, Louis Democrat, to show tn
Radicals of this State that tn
spirit of their brethren of the Eas
and West is decidedly opposed t,
the position occupied by MI
Stokes on the franchise question
There can scarcely be a doub
that if the question of the restora
ton of the ballot to the disfran
chised white men of this State wer
submitted to the Republicans G
the East and West, it would be car
ried by an overwhelming majority
Are the Radicals in Tennessee pre-
pared to stand out against the en-
lightened sentiment of their part,
in every State North of Mason an
Dixon's line?