Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-07-22
A MISREPRESENTATION COR
RECTED.

The Chicago Journal is one OF
those Radical organs that never can
sec anything good or noble in the
Southern people, unless they are
Radicals. 1t sees in the political
situation very little hope for Tens
nessee, since it has discovered that
there is no possible chance for the
election of Stokes. 1t is unstinted
in its abuse of Gov. Senter because
he has declared for the immediate
enfranchisement of the white tax
payers who have been kept from
the ballot,box for four years, and
declares that for all practical pur-
poses, he is q good Democrat
The Journal then breaks forth as
follows:
"One naturally inquiries, What next
With the Rebels enfranchised, will
the State be hopelessly lost to Republic
canism, and if so, what will be the gem
eral effect upon the prosperity of the
State As to the first, it is probable the
State will return to its Democracy, as a
dog to his vomit 1t may be that upon
a fair issue between the two parties, the
Republicans would win, but we doubt it.
Between the Judges of the Supreme
Court and the Senter registrars, death
blow has probably been dealt to Repub-
lican supremacy in Tennessee. One of
the inevitable results will be the disper-
sion of the Northern business element at
the South, the men Of energy and capt.
tai who went South with no thought of
politics, but from business considerations
wholly. The Southern sentiment is so
averse to the Northern, commercially
and industrially, as well as politically,
and this aversion is so strong that with
the return Of the old political ideas and
class to power, this element will be
obliged to leave, not from fear Of violence
but of loss. Already very large pro-
portion, anticipating the future, have
abandoned the South"
If the Journal was as well posted
in regard to Tennessee politics as
it processes to be, it would know
that the Acknowledgement of about
seventy five thousand white men,
who paid nine tenths Of the taxes
necessary to sustain the State gov
eminent, was the only means by
which the Radicals held control of
the State during the last four year.;
and that this anomalous condition
of the nOn-taX paying portion ruI-
ing the State and monOpolizing the
offices, could not be continued much
longer. 1t would have been termin-
atcd two years ago could a fair and
honest registration have been Sc
cured. "Betwcen the Judges OF
the Supreme Court and the Senter
registrars, a death blow has prob
ably been dealt to Radical Republi-
can supremacy in Tennessee" IS
the Journal says, but it is because
the Supreme Court has simply de
clarCd the laws and the Senter re
gistrars are executing the franchise
law in n spirit Of fairness. The ac-
ccssion of the Democratic party to
the control of the State, Us will
necessarily be the case in any cleo
ton after that of August, need not
result in "thc dispersion of the
Northern business element in this
State. The Northern men who
come down here to engage in
business pursuits will be as cordial
" welcomed by the Democrats as
by the Radicals. 1t is all bOsh to
talk about the Democrats being Op
posed to Northern men settling
here with the intention Of becom-
ing citizens. But they are detormin-
cdly opposed to that class known
as carpet-baggers. For them they
have no respect, and it is not i'm
probable that thore will he an i'm
mediate dispersion Of that class OF
Northern men, and that they will
not stand on the order of theirgoing |
We know that no Northern man