Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-12-03

| migration. The South needs nothing more
than migration from the North and West
and immigration from abroad, Of frugal
and thrifty class.
With direct and bold action based on
these and kindred principles, the c0nstitu-
ton, the law Of the land, peace, or
der and quietude restored in all the
States, rigid economy in expenditure,
useless offices abolished, and corruption,
peculation, fraud and bribery exposed
and punished, a reformed civil service, the
| government will be indeed restored to its
ancient purity and simplicity.
The lesson taught by the recent victory
is worthy our careful attention. The
American people have proclaimed in tones
more potent than the thundes Of artillery,
the union Of these States, and the consti-
tuition preserved in its integrity.
The lesson Of the civil war was but the
half Of 1t. Then one section was aTayed
against the other, aud the lesson to all of
US, whether We held one view or the 9TH
er, whether one doctrine or the other was
theoretically correct, was practically the
perpetuity. and integrity Of the Union.
Now the people Of the whole country, see
ing that party, composed Of citizens Of
both sections, had gone, not only outside
Of the Union Of our fathers, but outside Of
the constitution, 10 establish Union Of
force, have spoken with one voice, and the
lesson is again the Union and its perpetuity,
the constitution and its integrity, inviola-
bic. The Republican party was fast sever
ing the licaments which were intended to
bind together coequal States. The bond of
the beyonet was usurping the bonus Of
mon lineage. 1.-THE disunion Of secession
was subversive Of the government, the
union Of force is equally so-equally dis
union.
As a remedy for the one, power enforced
the union Of the States; and now the peO-
pie complete The task Of restoring the
Union BY applying the remedy for the other
-supplanting the union Of force and bay
Onets BY the ties Of law and constitutional
guarantees, brotherly love and common in
terests.
Against this second effort at subYersion,
made not by the South, nor by any sec
tion, but by President and a Congress,
whose high privilege and duty it was to
preserve the Union restored, the people Of
every State and every race have pronounced
with an emphatic condemnation. With
the proclamation Of their will comes a re-
neWed brotherhood Of delivered people
another 70 draws near, and the sbloOdy
business" of the bloody decade just passed,
is forgotted aud forgiven The assOcia-
tons Of 1776, passing along the pathway Of
hundred years, take no note Of the in
tervening time as they mingle with the re-
joieings Of free, united and happy peo-
pie in the dawn Of a new eentury-1S76-
a new era Of peace and prosperity.
The people wandering like the children
Of Israel in the wilderness of Tin, weary
and fainting, have cried aloud for the water
that cools the parched tongue and stills the
wild and feverea pulse, and the pure and
limpid stream, in obedience 10 the same
divine will, has gushed from the riven rock
and flows over the parched sands. The
desert grows green with the unexpected
moisture, and a whole people bow down
and drink Of the cooling waters.
With this general declaration of views, |
respectfully submit myself to the judgment
Of the General Assembly, expecting their
suffrages, if at all, upon such fitness as /
may have for the position, asking, and ex-
pecting, and desiring no vote upon the de-
merits Of others, if any they have, prefer
ing rather defeat in generous rivalry 70 sue
cess obtained by pulling others down.
Respectfully, W. A. QUARLEs.