Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-07-26
THE GOSPEL OF HArE-aRANr

IcL us Lave pedCc SdLu 0Cu' Olon1'
How sadly the hopes excited by this enun-
citation have been blasted, the world knows
the South most bitterly feels. The whole
spirit of Gen. Grants administration in
domestic affairs has been hostility to the
South, prompted by the bAsest, meanest
motives-to retain power for his party, that
they might reap harvest Of publ plumber.
That such is to be the spirit in which his
next administration, If he be elected, would
be conducted, we have the amplest evidence.
BE has recently sent his ablest cabinet
minister into North Carolina to sound
the key note of the present
Grant campaign. Secretary Boutwell's
speech at Gainsboro, North Carolina, is de-
Dounced by the New York Herald as ga
dangerous and reprehensible effort TO array
the Southern blacks against their white fell
low-citizens, and to scatter the seeds of dis
trust, hatred and revenge broadcast over
the South" lie denounced and spurned
the proposition that the people of the North
and the South shall now clasp hands across
the bloody chasm made by war, and bury
forever the bitter me Gories OF the past.
Mr.. Boutwell, said:
ave are advised to clasp hands across the
bloody cbasm made by the war. protest
against the advice"
Mr.. Boutwell, is President Grants
ablest cabinet officer. He goes from
the cabinet table into one of the
large aute-bellum slave holding States.
He makes this speech to aRaudience two
thirds Of whom were negroes President
Grant is fairly responsible for this pronul-
cation of his Secretary. Bat further, the
Grant party have lately come into posses
sion of the archives Of the Confederate gov
eminent, whether in a manner creditable
10 the purchasers or TO the Confederate
officer who sold item, we will not stop to
discuss. In those archives there has been
found, il is said, a letter establishing the
fact that some Of the Confederate autholi-
Ties knew of plan that was proposed and
perhaps attempted during the war to burn
Northern cities. The Radical party are
preparing with eagerness to use that letter
in arousing all the war prejudices and pas
sions of the people of the North against
the people of the South, and thus
prevent the clasping of hands across
the bloody chasm. No one charges
or believes that either Mr.. Greeley
or Gov. Gratz Brown or any of The Liberal
Republicans who oppose Graut had any
thing to do with this plot. Sui it is to be
used to attempt the defeat OF Greeley and
Brown. These documents are being
prepared by Government clerks for the
basest of political purposes. Gen
Graut is fairly responsible therefor. To
show the purpose of the administration In
this matter, we extract the following from
the sIauncbest champion in the Northwest
of the Grant party, the Cincinnati Times
and Chronicle, of the 23d:
Not many days hence we shall know who
it was from the South that proposed to
burn our cities, TO arm and let loose upon
innocent women and children the hordes
of captured rebels incur prison camps; and
who it was in The North that stood ready to
do the bidding of these emisslries on pay
ment Of the price. If IN both che lists OF
these scoundrels shall be found names now
prominent in advocating, North aud South,
the cause of Horace Greeley, nobody will
be ST all surprised. lts-.
To establish the insincerity and wick
edness of these hot gospellers of hate,
we have only to consider how they
would denounce Mr.. Greeley, if be
were to be supported by Mr.. jefferson
Davis or Hon. Jake Thompson, and then
recOllect how they glori6ed Gov. Wise when
he came out against Greeley aud they
thought he was goingto support Grant; and
yet he hung John Brown, whose soul, they
say, is ''marching on" The Grant policy
in this contest is to reawaken old passions
and preach anew the gospel of hate.