Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-09-24

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We fear that our ab-"originaln Greeisy-
ties, have strayed far from the teachings of
Ar. Greeley himself The Bonner for IN
stance, says the Democratic endorsement
az Baltimore of the Liberal move, dis the
endorsement Of distrusted firm and actu-
ally damages tie credit Of the new move
ment." But Mr.. Greeley thankfully, CRATE
fully accepted this Democratic endorse
ment, and points TO it in his speech at the
Cali House as the happiest omen for the
future of our common country. Does the
Banner understand the temper of the North
and the conditions of success better than
Mr.. Greeley? That's the question.
Again, the Banner says cit is the merest
pretenee'' on our part that when a portion
Of our people are osttaeized for secession
then treason win be made odious, and on
all who took part in that struggle for the
South, or aided and abetted it, the brand of
traitor will be indelibly fixed Now, what
does Mr.. Greeley, the BGnner's ''originaP'
candidate, say? In bis first speech 10 a
Southern audience at Newport, Ky, last
Saturday, be said:
/ am demanding lulicerSdt amnesty.
Why, people say there are not many, only
three or four thousand DISTINGUISHED. Sup
pose there were only two hundred. OBJ
iect to this disfranchisement and this pro-
scription. IL puts a stigma on the rchole
people.
In his speech at the Gait House in Louis
vile, Saturday night he was even more ex-
plicit:
So long as you have prescribed class in
the country, men all around them, honor
able, generous men viii feel 81 ought to
be prescribed the same as that man; the
difference was only by, accident; he hap
pened to take an oath or fill an Office before
the struggle that did not, but his guilt was
no more than mine; accident only makes
him prescribed and leaves me free" So
that, so long as there shall be a prescribed
class in this country, prescription will
rankle in the hearts of millions of Ameri-
cans who feel that they themselves are con-
demned and banned in the act which dooms
their leaders. ...l -...
Such is Mr.. Greeley's opinion of the
treatment that Southern '1eaders" should
receive. He continues his argument against
those who would ostracize these 'leaders:"
1t is not for the sake of the prescribed
alone that / speak. Every community has
the right to the best services of all its citi-
zens. Men say to me. Why you don't
want to elect Gov. Wise or Toombs or
somebody else, do you? No, don't want
to elect any of these men. But suppose
other people do: Who are you, who am l.,
to say whether they shall or not?
BE quotes Senator Morton as saying,
"All nay forgive Rebels if they will, but
never can"-and says of it: "That spirit is
not the spirit that should rule republican
country"
Again the Banner processes to dread the
return to power of some indefnable old
aprinciples," which it would have US believe
embody secession, though it does not say Sc
outright, but leaves us in the dark as to
exactly what old bugaboo it is fighting
Mr.. Greeley labors under no such night
mare. Hear him:
Grant that the whole Confederate move
ment was as heinous you please; still it was
utterly defeated, it became a lost cause,
and there is no more probability, aud l
might say, no more possibility of another
serious attempt to divide this American
Union than there is of an attempt to dis
rupt and destroy the solar system.
Again Mr.. Greeley said in his night
speech at Cincinnati:
Henceforth the American Union abides
forever, grounded in the fections, in the
necessities, in the feryent devotion of the
American people. If there ever shall again
arise question of disunion, that question
will be presented not for the South, not for
the southern section of this nation; but no
such question will or can arise. AS per-
petual as the hills, as solid as the everlas-
ting rocks the union Of these States abides
and must abide forever. One sentiment,
one purpose auimates the American heart,
and that is that the union Of The States
must and shall be preserved.