Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-10-12

now and without delay. The overwhelming
| opfnlon OF the people OF the so-cailod loyal
states recognizes the fact that the men Of the
South have given up and conceded everything
they were, or could be. required to give up and
cone-de, and it demands that their States
should be restored stO their proper relations
| 70 the Federal government. The people of the
South are anxious for this restoration. They
/ are goaded By military despetism almost to de-
| spair, and cry aloud in their torturs to be re-
neyed from the iron heel Of oppression that
/ grlnds them to the earth. Under these eireum-
stances Radical politicians hold out the prom
| ise OF restored civil government If Southern
men viii in the free exercise of the elective
| franchise, recruit the Radical strength in the
| Senate Of the United States by the election Of
Radical Senators. These artiul traders in the
misery they have made know they are holding
out q threat they dare not execute. The South
eTn States at the coming session of Congress
will be restored to their places in the Union
whether Virginia elects one of Grants eorporals
10 the senate or not, and longer to deny them |
admission will create a tempest Of indignation |
| throughout the North that Radical organiza- |
tons have not the temerity to encounter.
But tins game Of practising upon the homes |
and fears of a subjugated people is being pIay- |
ed. not only in States now under military rule, |
put even IN Tennessee State as completely |
within the sisterhoOd Of States as any that never
Kept step to the music of Dixie" and as fully |
entitled to all the rights and privileges of |
state as Massachusetts or New York. Never
Iheiess, the people of Tennessee are told that |
because Andrew johnson had some sill ht differ |
ence with our gifted President on a question of
Ueraeity. IN regard TO which the proof Was all |
OF one slde, and because the said Andrew made
hlmSelf gengfally obnoxious to Radical poIiti- |
clans by maintaining and defending the Com |
stitItuti0R Of the United States against their
us1rpanon: that all sorts of plaques
and evils will be visited upon Tennessee and
all sorts Of benefits and blessings withheld from
her. if she elect him TO the Senate of the United
states. These men who urge such eonsidera-
lions for the control of the action of Tennessee |
are in earnest in their desire to accomplish mis- |
defeat. and inscriptions in the means they
adopt for the purpose. They wOuld do all the
things they threaten-U theg only cOnld To
see Andrew johnson seated in the United States |
Senate would startle them with apprehension |
and make their very knees to smite one another
with fear. Such q sight would be to them more
terrible than Banquos spirit to the affrighted |
soul of his own and his c0untry's assassin.
lie knows their secrets. and will dare to tell |
them. He fought them in the great rebellion |
Of politics which succeeded to the great rebel
ion Of arms He stood fOrwa as the guard |
and protector of the constitution, ENDANGERED l
md assaiied by their reasonable Vaccinations |
For three years he fought them boldly and | ;
earnestly. He drove them back from their as +
aults, defeated and diseomftted. They found / 4
hat so long as as he stood forth on the watch. / 1
overs of the republic. they could not under | d
nine its pillars. His destruction was | \
Necessary to their success. They ar =
aligned him because he was the a
riend of the people and the incorruptible 1 1,
Guardian of their liberties. lie defeated them I n
nd they CRASHED their teeth in their bafied | Il
age. His rm of office expired they breathed |
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meet them ami arrest their treason was with | It
:awn from the field. He is about to return to
he light and fear comes upon them. Will the /
eople OF Tennessee pc seduced or intimidated / +
y these bad men The whole Conservative |
enumeat of the country. from one end of il to /
be other, demands that Tennessee should be |
rue to herself and just to the greatest Of her
wing sons. p
In the Senate of the United States, Andrew
OhnsOn. with his vast experience, his enlarged |
and unequaled power of debate III
ouid vlndlcate and justify before the country az
hose great principles upon which our insIitus u
0ns rest, and which Radical philosophy is dis |
rediting and destroying. His plain and power, VI
ii logic would scatter to the winds Summers l pi
edantic sOphstries; and his powerful elOquence ia
Ould expose to the country ard the world all l u
gisiative and executive schemes to destroy the "
smnant OF our liberties and pilfer our peOs a.
lie. Inc great Conservative and Democratic Il u
arty-noW unheard. though respectfully rep Ia
scented in the Senaie-wOuld in him have l lie
1iee that would ring from ocean to ocean, and vi
fuse thought into the minds, and courage in
the hearts of the people Do the people of 1 &c
ennessee expect any good from Radicals and 10
adieal rule? Their only hope is in crushing | te
ie Radical organization. and destroying for ~
Ter the Radical philosophy of government. 81
pander to such system 10 tie hope of BEN In
it. is TO warm into life the serpent that it may &c
vigorous to strike its preserver unto death | Dl
A people who are compelled to surrender ~
elr property or their rights to q cOnquering I "a
,Wcr deserve the sympathy of all good men. IN
hey accept the visitations of adversely and | pr
eserYe their honor. A people who are free, | ~
1t, deladed by promises and intimidated By ~
reats, crush their best friend at the bidding ID
their worst enemy. deserve the contempt Of | l.
mankind. They have openly sacrificed their | M
nor, and cannot long possess an independ- e
ce they are not worthy 10 enjoy because too n ae
ven too exercise. al