Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-26

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One year ago we were in the midst of
the severest financial panic that ever
swept over the country panic that
made itself felt in every mans pocket
and even entered the negro's cabin.
Somehow we have bridged it over with
more success than any had dared to
hope Later on, we were visited with
drought and short crops, but we find
ourselves on the eve of winter with no
starving thousands begging for bread,
as in Nebraska and Kansas, nor fam
ishiEg workmen, as in New York.
What modicum of industry we possess
are going on at their usual rate this
season. We have no widespread stop
ping of mills, as In New England.
The winter is the busy season with our
merchants, making the cities active,
while cotton and other products are
being turned into groceries. dry goods
and nick-nacks to make merry Christ
mas at every crossroads store and
country farmhouse. Materially, we
have prospered beyond reasonable ex-
pectations, and have every motive for
earnest gratitude.
Politically. we need hardly recount
the blessingsof the past few months. In
our own State We have witnessed an
unprecedented triumph Of harmony,
after bitter and In some respects per-
sonal canvass. Elsewhere, throughout
the country, results have been equally
and universally satisfactory. In order
to realize the change, we ask Thereafter
simply to 60 back a few short months
back to ''bloody August, +" when hui
man depravity seemed to combine with
Radical deYiltry TO make Attorney
Williams Juggernaut a success
when the whole South was hand
ed over by Grant to that plant official,
with the entire War Department at his
disposal. Who then dreamed that
usurpation and corruption were so soon
to receive a rebuke so stunning? The
man does not live that looked for it.
1t was not the work of men in any or
ganized capacity, except so far as or
ganization gave common rallying
point for common honsty As of old.
it was the Lord moved the hearts Of
men, and we should be duly grateful.
Our material and industrial life de-
ponds more upon the political, than
some seem willing TO concede. Under
the most despotic governments, where
the subjects are mere cyphers, good
rule produces good effects; much more
50, in a country where the people
are sovereign, where government is
limited in its functions, and every en-
terprise depends on the mutual conf
dence of the people. In this country
healthy prosperity is inseparable from
good politics, while misrule discourages
capital and depresses energy. Freed
from political thralldom, New Orleans
would soon resume her natural
attitude as the most formula
bic rival of New York on
this continent. Nothing but political
misgovernment and misrepresentation
have kept aloof from Southern borders
that stream of immigration, of men
and muscle and money, which our soil
and climate invite.
We rejoice to-day in the return of
fraternal feeling and good understand
ing, at the invitation of President
Grant and Gov. Brown. Our Republi-
can brethren are expected to partici-
pate in the blessings we have cited, and
we hope they viii Join us in thanks
giving. The Democracy harbors no
reyenges. Vengeance is mine, saith
the Lord.