Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-06-18
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
POlitieaI-VROorhees vs. GreeIey.


Mr.. voorhees, says no Democrat can
honestly vote for Mr.. Greeley without self
qualification. Well, let us illustrate this by
| little piece Of history. At the battle Of
Yorktown Gen. Washington was in COM
mand OF the continental army approaching
from the north, while Count De Ro-
chambeau commanded their French allies
approaching from the south, while Count
De Grasse completed the investment with his
fleet. Now, all these forces when concentrst-
ed around Yorktown were under the COM
mand of Gen. Washington as the directing
chief. 1t would have been no difficult task
for Lord Cornwallis to have beaten either
or all OF these forces separately, and he
would perhaps have got chance to do so
had Mr.. Voorhees, been in the Continental
Congress to have said to the French that
they were guilty Of self-stultifcation and
dishonor by fighting under the lead of the
man who had led an army against them at
the battle of Fort du Quesne. But fortu-
nately they got no such advice and the
French and Americans fought under the
same leader, and we have never understood
that by so doing the French were required
to endorse the declaration of independence,
or the Americans to endorse the royal pFin-
ciples Of Louis XVI. Nor viii an alliance
between the Democrats and Liberals for
this race affect either party in a moral, po-
ntical or social point Of view. The Demo-
cratic party, without disbauding their or
ganizatiOn, chooses to waive a candidacy of
their own and fight under the banner Of
another party for this ors fight, and it may
be as well understood BY all in the begin
ming that they are not going to disband at
the instance Of the so-called Liberal RepUb-
licans, nor are they going to be frightened
from that support by the speeches Of Mr..
VOORHEES,.
1t may very well suit his purposes to
sneer at the acts of kindness done by Mr..
Greeley to the Southern people and call
those acts impertinent or presumptuoUs,
and deClaim against him because of his
participation ia the universal howl of son
to Richmond: but he will permiG us just
here to remark, that his own party at the
North very generally engaged in this same
howl, and Democratic members of Cor
gcess vi b, but few exceptions, (lnd he
not one of them,) voted men and money to
make that march on Richmond successful.
He will also pardon us if we remind him
that it was the boast Of the friends of good old
LII ae4O IAAeAb
so kindly Of, that as Governor of the Empire
State he had sent more men to the field to
fight against the South than any
man alive. He will also allow us
TO remind him that it was constantly
| reported as arepro4Ch to the Radical part Y
that the great bulk Of the rank and file of
the Federal army were Democrats, and
though we may have said in the bitterness
Of our sorrow ct tJ, brute, yet when the
struggle was over and they extended the
| right hand of fellowship we received it
| without remark or question. And this they
| did willingly, not because they had not
been shot and killed by Democratic bullets,
not because they had not been pursued
with fire and sword by a Democratic army,
! but because the Democrats of the North
| spoke words Of cheer and comfort to them
when the war was over; and this same
| thing did Horace Greeley, and for that
! they kindly remember him and will
vote for him "with all his imper-
| f5ctious on his head F." which are so
eloquenlly portrayed by Mr.. Voorhees,.
| So far as the war question is concerned,
! speaking from Southern standpoint, we
can just as consistently vote for Mr.. Greeley
! in 1872, as we did for Mr.. Seymour in 1865
! with perhaps a triling difference in favor
| of the former, as be had been tie lifelong
and consistent enemy of Southern institu-
tions as they then existed, while Mr.. Sey-
mour was their lifelong friend and suppOr-
ter, who joined forces with our enemy in
| the hour Of our need. This Shakespeare
would have called "the unkindest cut Of
all"
But with these things out of the way? if
| Mr.. Greeley be the devil inCarnate, as we
used to think, stil if he could be made the
available instrument with which to beat the
Radical party, we will support him.
1t may strike Mr.. VOORHEES, with some
surprise that Southern Democrats are SC
swift to indicate their willingness to vote
| for Mr.. Greeley, but if he will only reflec
on the awful state of things that has existed
and still exists in the South, if he could visit
the deSolate homes of a once happy anC
prosperous people, if he could witness the
rude and insOlent negroes domineering Ovel
the white people and insulting their fami
lies, encouraged and protected in their Ii
ceDtiOusness by the military and civil power
of the government in order to control theil
votes, if be will only reflect that oul
taxes are duadrupled for local purposes,
and yet our treasures are empty, and school
funds stolen and our States ruined by &
bonded debt made only that knaves NIGH
feast and that a lazy, lousy set Of carpet
baggers and hired scalawags might grow
rich, if he could witness the continued per
secutions of the suffering South by the gov
ernment which is bound by principle anC
honor TO protect it, if he will but reflect tina
our foreign relations are neglected and ma
tiOnal insults Docketed that make an Amer
leans cheek burn with shame, and that oul
frontier settlements are left unprotected, ,an(
the wives and daughters of our hardy
pioneers ruthlessly murdered by savage!
| fed by our county and armed with TIN
weapons Of death from our government ar
mories. When We reflect that all this i
done and all other interests are neglected
in order that our "Wis9 and paternal gov
ernment" may the better concentrate it
strength to annoy and peTsecute a down
trodden people, that surprise will vanish.
Mr.. Voorhees, may not feel these griev
anCes away up on the Wabash, but Fer
they are as thick as the locusts of Egyp
aud more pesLlential. We ca, assure Mr.
VOORHEES, that the Democratic party of th
South Will support any man or party tha
viii enable tham most successfully to breal
up the party of their oppressOrs, and the,
will hold their principles, if need be, j.
abeyance until it is accomplished,
This is the way the question Is received
from 2 Southern standpoint, and in this
spirit we expect to carry all the fOrme
slave States, (with perhaps one exception,
not as Liberal Republicans or Reunion Re
formers, but as democrats, and we vii
join hands as allies with any men or part,
who are seeking that end, and when it j
accomplished, the Democratic party pro
pose to resume its own line OF march to tn
fulfillmant Of its own ends. We are doinl
nothing more than the Radicals did for u
, in 1864. They borrowed Andrew johnson
for a candidate fEom us then, and we pro
pose 10 borrow Mr.. Greeley of them now
} But an all powerful reason why the Bal
timore Convention should make no sepa
rate nomination, is found in the fact tha
, the Radicals, from the President down Il
the meanest carpet-bagge- staE follows il
his train is anxious ior il, and are appland
ing Mr.. VOORHEES, and the few who folloy
him for the stand he las taken. Upon re
: lection, - ~ might we'll say: "What have
| done, that mine enemy shall praise me ?
These are reasons hastily given why th
Southern Democracy should supportsth
| Cincinnati nominees. BENE VOLO.
TENNESSEE NEWS.