Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-09-06
ENCOURAGING PROSPECTS FOR
HARMONY.

We make the following extracts from
the leading editorial of the last is
sue of the Jackson Wing, which
certainly indicate that the prospects for
harmony in the approaching State Con-
vention are highly encouraging:
The declension of Gen. Quarles, and
the letter of Gen. Brown, are significant
signs in our political heavens, and demand
more than a passing notice from us. 1t
| fixes the fate of Tennessee for series of
years, and aligns her steadfastly in the
Democratic column. Henceforth there is
to be, as we predicted, no division of the
true men of the State; and when the
Convention meets, in the emphatic Ian
guage of Gen. Quarles, ''It will be vigi-
liant, and will sternly rebuke every effort
to interpolate' heresies, or to withhold an
expression of the full party creed"
The withdrawal of Gen. Quarles in
sures the nomination of Gen Brown, and
so far as a standard bearer is concerned,
the Convention need have no trouble.
Gen. Brown will be nominated by accla-
nation, aud the fOrmality of a ballot will
be dispensed with. But it is necessary
that the good men of the State shall con
vene, deliberate and erect platform, and
adopt name. A platform that will "nOt
palter in double sense" a clear, bold,
ringing one, like that which the Demo-
cracy Of Ohio promulgated On a recent
occasion, and which has commended it.
self to every lover of liberty, peace and
fraternal brotherhood. The Convention
must meet for purpose, and we hope it
will not dissolve and leave US a motley
host, united by no common name, to
be again divided by party jealOusies in
our own household, and to be encountered
with stragglers, who must fall prey, too
often, to the snares and wiles of Radical
ism. In surveying the field, candOr com
pels us to say that there is but one party
North with whom we can affiliate, and
from which we can reasonably expect or
solicit aid or comfort. That party has
come down to us from purer and better
generation, and has maintained intact its
organization amid the shocks of revolu-
ton and the all-COnsuming flames of civil
war, except the wing led sstray by But
Ter, Logan & Co. Boldly, unshrinkingly
has it maintained the rights of individuals
and of States, and to-day it presents a
living dyke of heroes to the usurpatIons
of Grant and his mobocratic Congress
We are tired of any further division in
this State. Let the "white and the red
rose commingle," and hesven will smile
upon the fair conjunction.
The Radicals are the Saracens of our
he, sy,xroAnA Jo1,v
and laid their sacrilegious hands upon our
dearest rights. Ought not the houses of
York and Lancaster unite in order to over
throw and disperse them2 Ought not our
crusade against them TO absorb and swal-
low up every other sentiment of our ma
ture2 Such, we are proud to say, is the
tendency of the times, and we shall in
terpose no obstacle in the way of the
blending of our hosts, who, moving on
parallel lines, have so nearly approached
each other that they have accepted the
same leader, and rally to the wind of the
same bugles, and must be known by
common appellation. To this end Gen.
Quarles has periodically Withdrawn from
the canvass, and hereby recorded, in the
history of our State, another signal in
stance of concession on the part of one
of the old Democracy for the sake of
harmony and peace. As a compliment
to his noble sacrifice-as cap-stone
to the monument of magnanimity
which he has erected, we have a letter
from Gen. Brown, whose whole tone,
scope and tenor meets our fullest approx
alton. 1t settles everything in Tennessee.
Let its utterances be our watchwords in
the coming canvass, and when it closes
we may eXclaim to one another,
srVictory sits on our helms