Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-08-09
ANXIETY Ar THE SOUTH.

ANXIETY Al THE SOO11h.
The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Gazette writes under date of
Aug. as follows:
''In conversation to-day with dis
tinguished Southern gentleman of in
telligence and honor, learned that
throughout the South a feeling of great
anxiety and apprehension is felt, some
what, but not wholly, in consequence of
the recent outrageous conduct of Holden
and his myrmidons in North Carolina. 1t
seems to be regarded in that quarter gen
orally that an extensive conspiracy exists,
supported by this Administration and
leading carpet-baggers and scallawags in
Congress, to prosecute so enormous
system of personal oppression that human
nature cannot by possibility bear it-that
it is intended to 60 on, from one outrage
to another, until resistance must of neccs-
sity be made, when a general insurrection
will be officially declared. In the midst
of the massacre which will inevitably en-
sue, general confscation act will be
passed by Congress, and the Southern
people deprived of all that remains to
them-namely, their lands
'tIt is known, of all men, that the
South was forced into secession in 1861,
in view of the acquisition by Eastern spe-
culators of its cotton, tobacco and sugar
lands, to be !illed by the negroes under q
sort of apprentice system. This scheme
was the very beginning of all our troubles
subsequently. President johnson, upon
his accidental advent, effectually put q
stop to this nefarious project. His issue
of special pardons to the landowners, to-
gether with other measures in the same
direction, sOd8 his great crime against
the Radical party, for which he was
finally impeached and for which he will
never be forgiven by its leaders. 1t is
now out of the question, therefore, fol
"conflscation" to be predicated upon acts
committed during the late 1OGr, anc
hence new "insurrection" must be
forced by such intolerable despotism anG
private oppression as have been inaugu'
rated by Holden
eff Holden shall succeed in driving the
people of North Carolina into desperation
and resistance, the initiatory step will
have been taken. Like abominable tao
tics will be tried in other Southern sec
tiOns, and ultimately a new declaration OF
war will be proclaimed, and with it the
appropriation, first to the Government,
and then to the spectators, of the domain
of the whole of the territory from the
Potomac (or it may be from the Susque
hanna) to the Gulf"
The course which the Radicals are pur
suing in the Southern States is well calcu
lated to excite the greatest apprehensions
Every species of indignity is being heapet
upon the people, and but for the good
sense and prudence they have displayed,
there is no guessing what the Radical con
spirators would have done. 1t is cleal
that Grant sympathyses with the scoun'
drels who are using every effort which
official position gives them to harrass the
people into the commission of some act
or acts that can be made the pretext fol
declaring one or more of the Southern
States in rebellion, in the hope that others
may be drawn into the struggle that
would ensue. lie has done this in every
Southern State, where the worst forms of
military despotism have been set up over
the civil authority. There is not an ex-
ception where he interviewed to protect the
citizens from the outrsges which military
satraps and usurping Governors were per-
petrating. While he gave no heed to the
people thus insulted and outraged, he was
prompt to answer the calls of the tyrants,
just as he is now doing for Holden in
North Carolina. Holden has sent mill
tary mob into Alamance and Caswell
counties to arrest and try citizens by
drum-head court martial, without even
the semblance of authority to do so, and
Grant has promptly sent him United
States troops to protect him in this nefa-
riOus work. Under all these trying cir
cumstances, the people of the South have
acted with wonderful discretion, and we
look to the great good seIse that has thus
far actuated them to defeat the Radical
cOnspirators in their wicked schemes.