Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-08-20
raE GOSPEL OF HATE.

the Grant party, is evidently greatly alarmed
at the Grant prospects in Indiana. His
own official head stands in great danger Of
falling into the basket on the 4til Of March
next. His present term of Office expires
OF that day. Should Indiana 60 for Gree
ley and Brown be viii bid adieu to publiclife.
He knows that the acts of the Grant admin
istration viii not stand the test Of public dis
cussion. Hence it is he sbandons the field
of argument and resorts to the low depths
of the past to stir up all the passions which
the late war eagendered. He is actively,
energeticaIly at work in his own State. he
is on the stump here to-day and there to-
morrow. In one of his late speeches be
called upon those who were willing
to give to the soldiers who
fought for ''the rebellion" the same political
rights and privileges as those who fought
to put it down to rise and manifest it. A
Northern Democratic paper thus rebukes
the Grant Senator for this piece of stage
strategy to stir up bad blood against the
Southern people:
Could there be any thing said more dew
ilish and more calculated to excite the pas
sions of a war between brethren that is fast
receding into the past? 1t is an appeal not
to the noble, generous, magnanimous part
of our nature, but to Its base and more ig-
noble qualities. One who thus tried to
reopen and aggravate ll-feeling be-
tween individuals, which was being
cured by time, would be unani-
mously voted a mischiefmaker, and
moral and political incendiary, unworthy to
live in the neighborhood in which be was
virtually conspirator. To this censure
Senator Morton is far more liable, on ac-
count of the great war between the North
and South, and the importance of cultiyat-
ing in the future friendly relations between
them. A man who will 60 around the
country to revive old hates and prejudices
between its various sections and people, to
fan anew the embers Of discord, is nothing
more nor less than public enemy of the
worst kind, and should be treated as such.
The war is over. The gray uniform has
disappeared, and those who once wore 1t
are willing TO resume and fulfill all their
duties as American citizens. This is what
Morton and other men of that ilk, conf
dental advisers of the President, are OPP
posed to, and are trying to prevent. Their
political power in the country is based up
on continuing enmity between the North
and the South, and for the qualification of
their personal ambition they would sink
the interests of the Union aud of 0,000, 900
of people. We rejoice to state that the
s'boys in blue" or, at least, a very large por-
ton of them, have no animosities against
the Ex-Confederates. They respect them
as brave antagonists, with whom they wish
to be upon friendly terms. 1t is the nom
combatant like Morton, who was in soft
place when bullets were falling like hail,
and death and destruction were being dealt
around, that are now so embittered and
malignant against the people Of eleven
States. If we are to follow such men we
shall never have peace, but to the end of
time the old battles will be fought over by
the cOmbatants and their descendants
This policy which Morto has adopted will
not win.
But are we not here in Tennessee giving
force and emphasis to such appeals as Sem
ator Morton is now making from the stump
in Indiana? Mr.. Greeley's nomination was
'rhailed by majority of our countrymen
as the harbinger of better day for the Re-
public" He accepted the Cincinnati nomi-
nation Gin the confident trust that the
masses of our eountrymen, North and
South, are eager to clasp hands across the
bloody chasm which has too long divided
them, forgetting that they have been enc
mics in the joyful consciousness that they
are and must henceforth remain brethren"
When the Baltimore Convention assembled,
the delegates there from every State of the
Union, the officer and the private from the
Federal and from the Confederate army,
members Of the United States Congress and
memb RS of The Confederate Congress, all
these together beheld before them in huge
capitals the talismanic words, PEACE
AND GOOD WILL. 1t was the
eager yearning of the hearts Of
all good men for the restoration of thai
golden era that induced the Democracy Of
the Union to go outside of their ranks anC
take for their standard bearer in this con
test a lifelong enemy. Here in Tennessee
we find vials of wrath poured hot upon tn
head of ex-President johnson for his cours
during the war. Where is your era o
"Peace and Good WHIP" Where is You
clasping of hands "across the blood
chasm?" But few weeks ago Democrat
and Liberal Republicans everywhere wer
denouncing Secretary Boutwelrs Greens
boro, North Carolina, speech, in which b
protested against clasping hands "acrOs
the bloody chasm." Now they are de
nouncing Senator Morton for his speeche
of hate and revenge in Indiana. Let nc
these Radical orators point to the DemoC
racy of Tennessee, who were first to IT
spond to the Cincinnati Convention, an
exclaim, Thou dids't it also. We speak nc
with reference to the action Of the Conver
ton tomorrow, but we speak in beha
of harmony, and peace and good will. W
speak in favor Of forgetting that "