Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-07-19

/ the government they win sll bear to it the |
same allegiance, whatever may have been
the bloody struggle of the past. When this
Kind OF union of hearts in support of the
government shall take place, having for its
basis the principles of justice, liberty and
equality, then will this nation rise Ike |
A streng Mean after sleep,
and go forth to new glories, renewing the |
| purity OF its youth in connection with the |
| gigantic proportions of its age. But there
was one more step possible TO be taken by |
this administration to complete its scandal |
Gus career. In connection with foreign af |
fairs it took that step,when it permitted,
and its office-holders engaged in, the sale of |
! vast quantities of arms and ammunition to |
be used in slaughtering the people of Ger
many then engaged in war forced on |
them by the ambition of Louis Napoleon. |
The spirit of speculation and money getting |
was so active in the official circles of the |
government that it broke out in
A Traffic of Death,
death to a friendly people hose kindred |
are honest and hardworking citizens in |
every country of the United States. This |
sinister and revolving fact does not rest up |
on Democratic testimony, but upon that of |
the Oldest and ablest Republicans. There |
was no denial of it and when the German |
who yet acknowledged his allegiance and |
military duty to his fatherland hurried back |
from this country to join the ranks Of his |
country men at home, as many did, per- |
haps he crossed the ocean in vessel laden |
with the weapons of his own destruction |
furnished by the official authority of the |
American Government; and doubtless there |
co11 l. ~.
graves sent there by American bullets, fred |
from American guns, furnished to the arm |
les of the French Emperor by the admins |
tration of Ulysses S. Grant It cannot be |
otherwise when we reflect that enough was /
sent to
Equip an Army OF 10000
men for the field. Gentlemen, 1t is against |
an administration stained by practices, such |
as these and many more Of like criminaty, |
that the people of the United States are |
mastering under various organizations for /
united assault. 1t does not follow that |
those who think alike in regard to the ne |
cessity Of its overthrow should think alike |
in regard to everything else. It is conceded /
by men of various opinions to be COM /
mon obstacle to the general welfare and a |
common reproach to the good name of the |
country. |
If n Common Nuisance
was erected in city, the residents would |
not stop to enquire into each others views |
on all other questions before they would |
agree to unite for its abatement. They /
would leave them for subsequent discussion /
and settlement and proceed at once to de- |
stroy the cause of q general discomfort and |
sickness. So now we find men who are ia |
favor of high protective tariff and those |
who are opposed to it, as l am; |
men who are for negro suffrage and |
those who are against it, as I am; |
men who are for an immediate return to |
specie payment and those who are against |
it, as | am; men who believe in paying the |
bonds of the government in gold, and |
those who believe in paying them accord
ing to the law of the contract, as decided /
by the Supreme Court Of the United States,
as do; men who are in favor of exempt
ing them from taxation, and those who are |
opposed to such exemption, as am; men |
who believe that seventeen hundred ma
tiOnal banks are necessary to furnish the
people circulating medium of three hun
dred and fifty millions at cost of
Thirty per Cent.
to the tax payers, and those who believe, as
l do, that a currency can be furnished to
the people without this enormous per cent;
men who in fact differ widely upon nearly
every political issue, earnestly agreeing that
the first step towards good government and
a general reform is TO drive from power the
present administration and its corrupt sur
roundings. All Democrats Join in such
work In strict consistency with the prin-
ciples OF their whole lives and will welcome !
an alliance with all honorable men who es-
pouse the same cause. In advocating this
cause shall abandon no principle on which
| have heretofore obtained your support.
Gov. Morton has much to say about the
Alleged Inconsistency
of the Democratic party and comments
upon the expression that we have turned
our backs On the past. In one sense every
mau turns his back upon the past with the
dawn of every new day and the incoming
of its new duties and responsibilities. He |
who lives to accomplish the true work Of
life, lives in the present and with his face to
the future. However we'll his work Of yes
terday is done he cannot waste the re-
mainder of his days in its contemplation. |
He must Listen to the voices that bid him
ON aad obey the hands that beckon him
forward. The Democracy therefore does
not turn its back upon the past in repudia-
ton of its record. 1t simply faces the
future and enters upon the new fields of |
action which have opened. Ii however, it
had turned its back upon the past in the
degrading sense asoribed to it by
Gov. Morton,
it would not lay in his mouth to utter the |
reproach. l cannot recall a single political /
issue In the last eighteen years, commenc-
ing with the repeal of the Missouri compro-
mise in 1854, on which he has not occupied
both sides with equal heat, with equal abil-
ity and with abuse of his adversaries for |
the time being. Since the war he has an
nounced that State which tolerated ne
gro suffrage and negro officials would be an |
unit place of residence for white people,
and would repel white immigration from /
its borders. lie directly turned his back on
that position and furiously assailed those
who did not do the same. He espoused the
payment of the bonds in greenbacks to the
extent that Morrill,, of Vermont, told him
in the Senate that he went farther
even than Pendleton on that subject. He |
very soon turned his back on that doctrine [
and bowed lower at 7
Tne Golden Shrine
of Grants administration than any one else
in all the land. He eulogized the treaty
with England by which indirect damages
were to be obtained in the Alabama claims.
He turned his back on that and was the /
leader of the Senatorial party which chang
ed the treaty to suit England. He has for |
years had himself proclaimed as the soldiers
friend, perhaps above all men in this United |
States. Has he not also turned his back |
upon
The soldiers?
What has be done for them since the |
war? Who fill tho best Federal offices in |
the State under his control of the Federal |
patTonage9 Not soldiers, or if here and |
there one has received an appointment, as
in the case of Gen. Gresham, he has most |
likely not been recommended by Morton. |
When L introduced bill in Congress by |
which every crippled soldier, as well as the
widows and orphans Of those who were |
killed in the service, should have |
100 acres of land without being |
| required to settle on and improve |
it, did Gov. Morton lend the measure
helping hand? Able bodied American
| citizens are entitled to 50 much land be- /
| cause they can work on it. The worst suf-
| ferers nv the war the wounded soldier |