Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-08-28
POLITICAL.
The First Note from Banks.
The Errors Of Radicalism.

| zen. BANKS SAID ln the present issues there
were no more Democrats and no more Re.
publicans, but patriotic men who sacrifice
their. prejudices, and as one party and one
man, stand before the country in support Of
the grea. principles onwhich the government
was established. The aim of this move
ment was to place the power in the bands
of the people, while the administrator
party desired perpetua.ion in power. The
claims Of factions, whether at the North or
South, would be rejected. The speaker
said, we have no cause to press those who
engaged in the rebellion further than our
safety demands. They are but a faction, a
minority, without position, wealth or infu-
ence, and it is not reasonable to suppose
they will attempt to take the power out OF
the hands of forty millions people and re-
open old issues.
The people supporting the AdministHa-
ton rnust distinguish whether the eonsur-
renee Of the Democratic party Is necessary
or laot. If they refuse it, they wfll lie
overthrown as the South was, and power
IN this country for a quarter of century
w'll pass into the hands of those men who
atte organized in general concurrence of
aA parties, and leaders on the constitution
As it stands amended before the people.
The true course Of the Republican party
was, when 1t was understood that this
concession was desired or they were willing
to make it, to have accepted it and to have
4 organized the administration upon the basis
Of an aequiesence in the principles of the
| war and admitting to participa' ion all those
who were willing TO consent In these prin-
ciples. Why should it not have been done?
l viii tell you. Because large and pow
ft1l lorr
continue 1t themselves for their
own benefit, were unwilling to share
with anybody else the advantages OF the
Administration. Therefore if they reject
the offer of peace, which comes from all
sections and parties, they will be destroy ed,
and that party which accepts 1t
people, and that Administration will
be just and for the benefit of the people
However you may view the incidents of
that that which l tell you is
truth, history; and that is, that the admins,
tration party with its leaders and with its
organization will be destroyed by this can
vass, ard new party of wiser and better
men viii be installed by the people in their
places. applause This will happen
vass Gen. Grant may be elected. He can
never, no never re-establish the power of
that party of which he is now the head,
because the people of all parties and all
sections are wise enough to recognize the
errors of the past and come together with
the purpose Of removing those errors and
wiping out the consequences TO themselves
and the country. We start in this
canvass at its very Threshold with
the assurance of success, with
the certainty of triumph. The power
will go to the people. For what purpose?
For the welfare and interest of all classes Of
the people. To what end? That it may
secure the rights of men of all classes and
conditions so far as the future is concerned.
These great objects having been established,
| we will turn our attention to that which
concerns the interest of the people and give
/ to them prosperity, power and wealth that
the world has never seen and that no people
| less intelligent than the American have been
able to participate in or hope for. To say
| that Ia party organized under such cir
cuns5ances for such q purpose, is to
be indefinitely defeated is impossible. /
have recalled to you the career of the anti
slavery men, how they began with scarce
single Iuan with the truth to fight for,
| till they absorbed the power of the country
| and their most extreme views were
put into the constitution of the country.
Our career is the same as theirs. recog-
nize the universal rights of man as they
did, supported and guided not by abuse but
by an appeal to the reason and intelligence
of all classes of men, and supported by the
! private and personal interests Of all, and in
| that view we assume to ourselves that sue
cess is certain and that defeat Is impossible.
cloud appause.)
NEW YORK, Aug. 27.-Greeley leaves
for another eastern tour Sept. 10, passing
through Rhode Island and delivers the
opening address at the Vermont State Fair
On the 10th.
The Raids
The Republican State Committee met at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel to-day and elected
the following officers: Chairman, A. B. Cor
nell; Secretary, Jas. Knapp; Treasurer,
Henry Clews.
\ The Pennsylvania Railroad Will issue ex-
carsion tickets for the Louisville Democrat
ic Convention good from Aug. 29 to Sept.
Is, at bslf lates.
Bitter Feeling in North Carolina.
A Washington special says much lawless-
; ness and violence prevail in Salisbury, \.
c., owing to political feeling running high.
Deadly encounters are expected between
; Henderson, Internal Revenue Assessor,
and II. Ii He psT, editor of the Greeley
paper, and their respective friends.
1 West Virginia Still I'm Doubt,
The Worlds Whisc Sulphur Spr ings
special claims that the result of the
West Va, election is still in doubt. The
Eastern counties have given unexpected
large msjorities for Camden.
The Constitution Saved.
WHEELING, w. Va, Aug. 27.-Returns
of Thursdays election from counties be-
yond the reach of telegraph, come in very
tardily. The corrected reports from thirty
five counties reduce Gov. Jacobs majority
to little rising 4,SOG. Thirty counties as
now reported give 120 for the Constitution
1t is generally conceded that the rest Of the
State will increase the majority for the
Constitution and diminish that of Jacob
but it is not considered possible that Mr.
Jacobs majority can be overcome, as the
populous part of the State has been heard
from. Davis election to Congress in the
Sd district is assured by five or six hundred
majority. j. NJ. Hagans, Republican, wa:
voted for for Congress without opposition
in several counties of the I'd district.
The Camden men here in view of Jacobs
election, are vexed over the prospective rati-
fcation Of the constitution, under which
if ratified, Jacobs will hold four years.
The proposition to insert "white" as 6
qualification for Office received but one hun.
dred and eighty votes in this county. In
some counties it received the full Camden
vote. 1t is undoubtedly defeated.
Pennsylvania Soldiers
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. PA call is is
sued for a convention of the Democratic
soldiers and sailors of the State, to meet a
Harrisburg on the 2Sth, to organize In sup
port of Greeley and Brown.
The Bard OF lookout.
PITTsBURG, Aug. 27.-Ex-Gov. Bard
editor of the Chattanooga CTenn. Herald
addressed a Republican meeting of about
1000 persons in Allegheny this evening
The speaker alluded to the assassination o
Lincoln and the accession of johnson tx
) the Presidency as the greatest curse tina
ever befell the Southern people. He denied
the existence of a bloody chasm between
the people of the North and South, it hav
Ing been healed by the Constitution a
amended, and said, woe be on that man O.
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