Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-10-04
A CARD FROM COEYAR.
! NE T., wishdraws from the Canvass

"HAureWb from the Canvass.
TO the Editor Of the Union and American:
NASHVILLE, Oct. 3, lS72.-Conceiyipg
1t to be my duty to withdraw from the can.
yass for Governor, do so. While I A.
tach but little importance TO explanations.
l beg leave to submit the following, Dis
satisfaction with Gov Browns State policy
by some; and what was regarded as an ac-
ceptance ofthe policy, with an insult to its
friends, Of the Liberal movement in Ten
nessee, brought together a number of per-
sons who made an effort 10 bring out a
candidate. This failed. Very soon thereaf-
ter it became manifest that an effort was
being made by men who had acted with
the Liberal movement to run man who
was out and out for Grant, and who would
be taken up by the Grant party in Tennes-
see. This, when made known to me, /
protested against, and with view of pre-
venting it, announced myself candidate.
| believe that this danger Is now over, and
withdraw. 1t is claimed by Gen. Grants
friends that he Is liberal
towards the South, and that having no poll
teal aspirations beyond the present contest,
the South can trust him. Admitting this
to be so, it does not at all meet the objec-
ton TO uniting in Tennessee with the
Grant wing Of the Republican party. This
party while in power in Tennessee was so
terribly prOseIiptive that whole generation
will not be sufficient to remove the preju-
diees Of the people, even with An adfnihis-
tration at Washington doing all it can for
reconciliation. An attempt by the Liberal
men of Tennessee to unite with party so
utterly obnoxious to the great masses Of
the people Of the State, In order to escape
the extreme of secession, on the other side,
would be madness. Either extreme is
madness. This criticism Is iRtended rather
as a statement of fact than an animal
version on the Republican party. Severe
party aspersiOns are not wise In canvass
based on reconciliation; nevertheless it Is
due to the men engaged in the Liberal
movement in Tennessee to-day, that is
friends took some risk OF censure, which
has been fully realized, in the early
effort they made at harmonizing ex-
tremes. The friends Of this movement,
rising above party, aud willing to bear for
the time the censure Of the ignorant and
the vicious, felt that 3 party In Tennessee
made up mainly OF strangers who had re-
Gently come into the State, and but recent
ly emancipated slaves who at present are the
objects OF sympathy and friendship by all
truly cultivated men Of the South, but
whose long and stubborn connection with
what are commonly termed carpet-bagg
necessarily brings them into collision with
the people, might, unless some common
ground was reached in the course Of time,
come to be, instead Of party in politics, =
great sore on the body polite.
We were aware that many Of our old
citizens who had been acting with the Re-
publican party could not and would not
under any circumstances unite with the
Democratic party, and We knew they did
not syInpathize with or approve the persis-
tent efforts Of the carpet-baggers to preju-
dice the negroes against the native whites.
This is crime which am sure most Of
the native Tennessee Republicans con-
denim, and II is gratifying TO know that
most OF the strangers coming to Tennessee
from the North, utterly condemn il. The
men engaged in it are simply the stragglers
who we're left here when the Federal
army was removed, and who became pro-
fessi0nal 0ffiee-seekers, and who have sue
ceeded beyond the calculations Of any one
in the political enslayenlent OF the negroes.
Even the better class of men Of the Re-
publican party In Tennessee do not seem
70 have appreciated oar efforts at conserya-
tism.
This, however, in no way affects the mer
It's Of the Liberal movement, nor can il in
the least drive any true Conservative man
10 extremes OIL the other side.
The assaults now being made on men |
who remained firm to the Union cause dur |
ing the war by the extreme secession ele-
ment Of the Democratic party, and the re-
newal of the question Of secession, is q
crime about as great as the efforts 10 teach
the negroes hatred for the white people.
An overwhelming majority Of the people
Of Tennessee are conservative, and earn
estlY desire complete reconciliation, but the
question is, viii they not be crushed be-
I've n the extremes who are always active
and aggressive, while the Conservatives are
passive. A. S. CoLYAR.