Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-08-27

welcome from the North those emigrants
who come among US, not as enemies, but
as friends; who come, not to Cypress us,
but to aid and to sympathise with us,
who come not to prescribe, to disfran
chise, to degrade and to disgrace US, bu'
to recognize and, acknowledge our honor,
and integrity, and our equality; who come
with their energy, industry and capital to
assist us in developing the mining, the
manufacturing, the mechanical, the agri-
cultural and all the material interests of
our exuberant and productive country;
who come, not to tear down and destroy,
but to build up and improve; who come,
not with the halter but with the olive
branch: who come as the raven, not with
revenge, and hate, and enmity in its tai
ons, but with food for Elijah.
Fellow citizens, let us grow great; lei
us grow noble and magnanimous; let our
minds and souls expand and enlarge; LET
US equal the magnitude, the grandeur and
Importance of the grave impending
struggle; let US rise above the
petty strife and jars of party pref
udices, engendered in F'days gone by.n
hOe NJ OHO pC LuSIuLueuUdl III arOuSlng
those old party feelings, jealousies and
Prejudices, for fear he will be condemned
as unwise and unpatriotic for fear it will
be thought he is blazing his road, and
Flooding, and cropping his way to the
camp-fires of the enemies of his country :;
for fear it viii be thought he is Intending
meanly and cowardly to betray his coun-
try, his people, his neighbors, into the
cruel and treacherous hands of their
brutal despoilers. Let the voice of
Peace !! ! Peace II rise above the
hoarse commands of our Generals, the
shouts of our gallant soldiery, the rattle
of our musketry, the roar of eur artillery
and the wall of our wounded and our
dying. Let US cast the veil of mercy
over the bloody graves of our mutilated,
but noble and chivalrous dead. And
whilst our noble mothers weep over the
loss and the "vacant seats" of their patri
otic, intrepid and gallant sons, let us as
men and as statesmen forget the conflict
of the past. Let us turn our eyes from
the smoke and carnage of the battlefield
and look 10 the future for order and law
and the restoration of peace. Now that
we have surrendered, and in good faith
renewed our allegiance to the gov
eminent, and as brave and honor
able men, never having violated that
faith or forfeited our allegiance,
we have a right to expect of our foe, if
he is not mean and cowardly, if he is truly
great and magnanimous, the full restitution
of all our rights and privileges as loyal
citizens Of the United States.
Every honest and truly great man, every
liberal Christian nation must sooner or
later concede the wrong, and condemn the
North for their want Of generosity, for their
savage brutality, for their cowardice and
for their wanton tyranny exhibited toward
the Southern people since their surrender.
But, while we contemn the illiberality of
our Radical rulers, we will prove ourselves
true and loyal, and do all in our power to
restore our political equality. We will give
all our energies and talents to the restora-
ton of fraternal union and concord-to the
continuation and preservation of the con-
stitutional government of our fathers, and
the inviolate and untrammeled liberties of
our people.
Begging pardon for my intrusion upon
your patience, and again returning my pro-
found thanks for your high appreciation,
will subscribe myself
Your obedient servant,
W. F. NJ BETTY.