Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-09-10

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how am TO make you reparation;n to
whichthe lawyer replied: sThou art an
honest fellow and wilt give me one of thy
oxen in return" 'Right," says the farmer,
"out mistake. 1t is your bull
that has killed one of my oxen.n sAh, in
deed, says the lawyer, ''that alters the case;
circumstances being altered, alters the case.
will inquire into the facts and decide &C
cordingly." This is the substance, as we
recollect it, of that ever to be remembered
fable of ''The Partial judge" It has been
brought very wildly to cur memory by the
review Of Mr.. Dunnington's Columbia
speech in the last number of the Banner.
We do not refer to that portion of the
Bd'lney's article which attacks the justice of
the cause of the South in the late war by
calling it"a politicians'war." Wedo not refer
to that portion of the article which at
tempts to label as disgraceful the course
which, in the language of the Banner, pre-
cipitated this and other States into that
war. We do not refer to that portion of
the article in which it is alleged that it was
war ''to save the institution of slavery on
this side of the sectional line" The Ban
ner says SIT is worse than idle to seek to
convince the intelligence of the country to
the contrary" We shall not stop to dis
cuss this question with the Banner, but
content ourselves with the assertion that
while we make no charges against the men
of the North who fought for the Union, we
d. assert that on the part of the South it
was war of patriots and patriotism. To
borrow the phrase OF Patrick Henry: If
that be treason, the Banner can make the
most of it. Neither u. S. Grant nor Horace
Greeley has ever said that it was treason
for us to say that Lee and Stonewan jack
son, and Sydney and Joe Johnston, and all
their soldiers from the humblest private to
the highest General, were honest in their
fight for Southern rights and Southern in
stitutions.
That portion of the Banners article
which will strike all of its readers as
rather ''peculiar" is where it attempts dis
guised defence of ex-Presdent Johnson by
an avowed attack on Mr.. Huntington.
We might say with the Banner that we
have nothing to do with the quarrel be-
tween Mr.. johnson and Mr.. Huntington.
| puf xua do have eop,atI,;ro fO cav ahout
the efforts of the Banner to disrupt and.. de
stroy the Democratic party, even though
those attempts be at the sacrifice of both
Mr.. johnson and Mr.. Huntington.
The Banner is now all sweetness
and love for Mr.. johnson, while it
thinks he can be useful in defeating Demo
cratic organization; but it has been only a
few days since it was saying that ''to the
inordinate ambition of this able but IN
scrupulous man may be traced much OF
the political trouble of the South since the
war" and spoke of "the party he aban-
doned in 1860" The readers of the Ban
Rer viii quickly discover that its defense OF
Mr.. johnson in Sundays issue is only the
language of ''the partial Judge" after be
learned that it was his bull that
gored the farmers OK. We might go over
the columns of the Banner since Mr.. John
son went out of power and find article after
article far, far more severe upon Mr.. John
son than anything Mr.. Huntington has or
could say. To turn to them at random we
find one in which the Bonner talks tof our
people loaded with chains of oppression
forged by Mr.. johnson" Justifying its ad-
vocacy of Nr. johnson while he was in
power, the Banner took occasion afterwards
to say:
alt would have been virtuous to have
rallied under the horn and hoof Of even
his Satanic Majesty himself for the defen-
sive, applaudiDg to the echo even so iniqui-
tous and treacherous a champion as the
Devil or Andrew johnson against such a
proscriptiye oligsrchy, as choice of evils.
As such Mr.. johnson would have been and
was accepted and made the most of.
That was the spirit Only OF
that league, offensive and defensive, max
irg common cause. 1t was good for that
trip and train only.
But the case is quite different now. a
closer inspection and es innate of Mr.. John
sons proves, patriotism and performances,
and less Indifferent analysis of his record
from the date of his Military Goyernorship
to his return from Washington to possess
himself again of his subjects in Tennessee,
reveals him in quite a different aspect, and
opens the eyes of deceived and betrayed,
and too confding and magnanimous peo-
pie, to the enormities and cold-blooded self
ishness of the most contemplate political
trickster and demagogue the whole world
has ever produced. No matter if we have not
said this since 1866, zoe sag 1t no,U. The
very gentlemen in the Legislature he is
daily cojolling to vote for him, have, in
time past been no more consistent than the
rest of us in denouncing this man as he de-
served at one season-forgiving him at an
other, but to denounce him in the end
again, as inevitably they must, as furiously
as ever. a..
Mr.. johnson can claim as little on the
score of consistency as his latter day champ
ions. Foryears and years he cherished and
expressed for Middle and West Tennessee
the most implacable hostility. Is be con-
sistent, protesting love and admiration
now? At later period we find him with
Beast Butler, in the Charleston Convention,
and again together this precious pair OF
deuces are making "treason odious" by all
manner of cruelties toward those to whom
they owed gratitude rather than malevo-
| lence.
We find him in Nashville again, coming
strange oaths TO make his fellow Tennes-
seeaDs swear never to accede to PROPOSE
tons for armistice or peace, whose children
were at that moment bleeding and dying
in the battles front. We recognize his
beautiful consistency again, levying tribute
and black-mail upon wealthy citizens of the
State by threat Of Imprisonment and confs-
caion; and a little later as Presi-
dent, admitting Rebel sympathizers to
pardon under the $4,000 clause. We find
him as military governor, the instigator of
mob to break up Mcclellan and Pen
dleton meeting in the courthouse of the
capital, driving out the venerable Peyton
] into the streets, at whose hands be now
asks to be promoted to the Senate. We
find him again in the Executive chamber
Of our State Capitol, surrounded by lines
| of brlstling bsyOnets-this great champion
of the constitution-and subjecting such
| patriots as the venerable and amiable
| Neil S. Brown to the most dastardly and
| al of