Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-17
COL. GALLAwAY,s sALUTAToRy.

AAO has D6COlllC d STOCK
holder in the Appeal Publishing Com
pany, and one of the editors of the DIP
peal newspaper. Unwilling to relinquish
the custom, which time has hallOWed, of
addressing the public on such occasions,
we beg leave to offer few words to the
friends and patrons of the paper. We
must with diffidence enter upon the dis
charge of our duties as one of the editors
of journal of the first standing in the
land; a journal adorned in former years
by the correct judgment of Henry Van
Pelt, the sterling good sense of the gen
erous and genial John II. McCanahan.
the adroit and far-seeing policy of Benja-
min f. Dill, the astute John II. McMa
hon, whose spotless integrity, private NAL
ice and political rancOr never sullied the
scholarly attainments of the talented and
amiable Leon Trousdalc, and last, though
not least, the massive brain of Albert
Pike, whose grand intellect is as lucid as
the streamlet, and as abundant as the sea.
All of these giants of the press, save the
two last named, sleep peacefully beneath
the green earth. In becoming con-
nected with the paper which has made
their names imperishable, we feel that
If we can occupy no niche in the Panthe-
on which they have reared to their own
fame, we can do something toward its
perpetuatiOn and the support of the great
principles and those grand schemes of en-
terprise and improvement for which they
struggled. Every year the newspapers of
the country are filling more important
functions; every year the demands upon
them increase; the expenses increase and
the necessity for concentration of energy
and capital increase in the same ratio. 1t
was these considerations that induced the
new arrangements in the appeal, and in
tluenced us in linking our destinies with
the paper and joining our future associates
in their efforts to build up a paper that
will be power in the land. We prom
Use an ardent effort to be useful to the
people of Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi
and Arkansas-to be an adjunct and help
or of progress and improvement in every
department-an aid in building their rail
roads, their levees, their schools,
their churches, their new and i'm
proved agriculture, their mechanical arts,
their trade, and their social, moral and re-
ligious improvements. Everything that
will contribute to the prosperity of the
Southern people shall find in US Jealous
friend and advocate. But while looking
to the material interest of the South we
shall strive to inculcate correct princi-
pies, for without these life is cOntempti-
bic and the comforts of life void of salts
faction. If we preserve the brave, fear
less temper of the Southern people, We
save from the wreck of our fortunes the
most precious gem that sparkled in tie
crown in our days of prosperity. Rail
roads, and turnpikes, and bridges, and
acqueducts, and Coliseums did not save
Rome when the immortal spirit had been
attacked like ga worm in the bud"
Hence the cry for material devel-
Opments, without caring for mate
rial principles, the Constitution, our lib
critics, honor, the genius of our institu-
tions-on the ground that the days of
principle, like the days of Chivalry, are
ended, is shameful; it is scandalous; it is
most deceptive cry, and most fragrant
fallacy. We want material development,
but we do not want them by any dishon-
est sacrifices; and we have yet to learn
that fidelity TO the Right interfercs with
either tie prosperity or happiness of a
people. The philosophy of the craven
spirits who teach the despicable policy of
throwing principles to the dogs, of con
ciliating the Government, and of bending
the knee and falling down and worship
ping the conquering hero as he comes,
would make us ruined people, indeed
and in truth abject slaves. And this
obsequiOus fawning at the fOot-stoOl of
power is suggested, because, forsooth the
Radicals are in EoWerl Are we never
again to struggle for principle when the
chances are that we may be beatenl Are
we always to make an abjcct surrender of
our rights because they may be taken
from us? Are our people never
to resist usurpation because their rulers
may appear too strong to be safely detied z
Is there no cause that is worth fighting
for until the last fortress is stOTmed and
carried; no combat in which it behOOves
the ship to go down with her flag nailed
and flying at her masthead Is there
never more to be opposition to arbitrary
ruler Is there never more to be limit to
subseryient submission to wrong and out
rage? Are our people never to be sick
ened and stated with dirt-eatingl 1t
seems to us that the natural instincts of
manhood and patriotism should nerve the
arm of every patriot of the land, for no
tyrant has ever more manifestly abused
the power confided to him for the public
good than has the Radical party-nOne
has ever rendered himself more justly
amenable to popular indignation and
punishment. They have tIampled the
Constitution under their unhalowed feet
They have overthrown the public laws
and time honored, chartered institutions.
They have cruelty wronged and oppressed
thousands upon thousands of innocent
men. They have, by trickery and VIC
lence, forced upon the people of various
States rItlerc whom tho Iaftor iuctlu nd