Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-04-20
through the fretted ceilings and rich
tapestries of that splendid mansion.

L ~AOeeu 1ie nero main ned from thee thy home
Is still here,
Here still is the smile which no cloud car
1 oercsst,
And the heart and the hand all thine own to
the last"
Yes, sir, mission to Pernam buco OF
Timbuctoo is soon arranged, or postof-
fee South, and the glorious openings for
future promotion in the glorious isle of
San Domingo are discussed with bound
ing hopes. Blessed carpet-bagger! In
the North you found it hard to steer clear
of jsils and penitentiaries, but having
visited the land of Ku-Kluxes thou art
freedoms now, and fame's, one of the
few-to be provided for!
For such characters as these is it any
wonder, Mr.. Speaker, that the South has
no more love than the North9 Are we
not bone of your bone and flesh of your
flesh, and shall we be turned into Bot
any Bsy2 And the scalawag is the coun-
terpart of such a character as l have
drawn, only he is plant of native
| growth-an excrescence on the body-pol-
tic, sent to fill out some wise design not
yet discovered in the book of fate.
Mr.. Speaker, when ii is remembered
that the war heaved to its deepest depth
the structure of Southern society, and
suddenly changed the education and
practices of a century, we are astonished
that the South has done so well and made
such strides toward redemption. What a
contrast she offers with France, now free
of the invader, but yet vomiting blood
and heaying in untold throes of misery
and agony. ..s 70. $685.. .r
The problem for adjusting all troubles
South is simple and plain. Strange all do
not see it. a''The world is governed too
nuch.n Give us amnesty, extend to us
the right hand of fellowship, and lift us
up from the degradation and humiliation
of enemies, and make US brothers by re-
storing confidence and goodwill. Then,
sir, shall we be happy, and not until then.
Sir, am reminded of an illustrious in
cident in history, in the record of an old
Indian chief. When Gen. Jackson had
conquered the Creeks, and when their old
leader and chief, Weathersford, stood a
captive in his presence, Gen. jackson
told him his nation and people could be
saved by submitting in good faith to the
Government of the United States. The
answer of the chief was that he desired
peace and order, that his people might be
relieved of their sufferings. Said he:
''Sir, my warriors can no longer hear
my voice; their bones are at Talledega,
Emuckfau, and Tohopeka. l have not
surrendered myself thoughtlessly. While
there were chances of success, l never
left my post nor sued for peace. But my
people are gone, and my braves are dead,
and l now ask it for my nation and my
self. On the miseries and misfortunes
brought upon my country l look back
with deepest sorrow, and wish to avert
still greater cslamities. You will exact
NJ terms of conquered people but such
as they should accede to, for you are
brave and generous! And if they are op-
posed, you shall find me among the
sternest enforcers of obedience. Those
who would still hold out can be influenced
only by mean spirit of revenge, and TO
this they must not and shall not sacrifice
the remnant of their country. You have
told our people, go and De forgiven and
be safe. And, sir, they shall listen to it.
May / not be permitted, MIR. Speaker,
to add that such is the true spirit, caught
from southern. born type, of every son
of the South who adhered to her fortunes
in the great war, and express the hope
we may all learn wisdom and practice it,
as caught from these two illustrious men,
and cease this insensate and fanatic cry,
'John Browns body lies buried in the
ground, but his soul keeps marching On?"
Let him sleep in that charnel-house of
death which he invoked and earned by
his bloody hands and crimes, and let the
great American Union, with its noble
Constitution, march on to that day fore
told in prophecy, when
''No more the sun shall gid the rising morn
Nor evening Cynthia fill her silver bora,
But !ost, dissolved, in one superior ray.
OerAow the courts of earth and heaven"
Sir, Philip of Maeedon educated with
the bsyonet the once free and glorious
land of Greece, but it wasAfound, when
his instructions were completed, that the
cold and clammy hand of death was on
her brow The nations of Europe edu-
Gated with force the free-boru ideas of
the once fair land of Poland, but the lee
ture room was at once exchanged for the
dismal vaults of the grave! England has
for years been educating unhappy Ireland
with the bay0net, and, sir
1.-THE harp that once through Tars's halls
The soul Of music shed
Now hangs mute on Tars's walls
AS if that soul had fed"
Let us profit by such examples lest we
be called to stand beside the fratricid4l
grave of the South, in which will be
found buried love, freedom, and all we
hold dear to our hearts! Restore the
South to amnesty and equality, and let
her rest from persecution and oppression!
oar ambassadors bring you the same
tidings which the British ambassadors
carried to the Roman patrician in that
celebrated letter called "The groans of
Britain" "The barbarians," said they,
son the one hand chase US into the sea;
the sea, on the other, throws US back on
the barbariars, and we have only the hard
choice left us of peTishing by the sword
or the waves" And so we say, "The
Radicals, carpet-baggers, and negro stu
pidity chase US upon the rocks of recon-
structi0D, and reconstruction Chase5 US
back into their hands, and we are TO be
left to de either by misrule or the sword
of martial law" Reject the bill and give