Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-06-04

generation Will not i've W Sc ~ AN |
able condition of affairs as exists at
this time. A feeling of returning
LOYALTY which was growing IN the South
viii die out and one of hostility to the
Government will take its place, The
mixed-school bill might appropriately
be termed "a bill for the encourage
ment of riot and chaos in the Southern
States and for the humiliation OF the |
widows and the oppression OF the or
phans of the South"
This las. point is elaborated. Inc
Senator argues that thousands OF Rebel
widows, though in no wise responsible
for the war" are told their children
must be educated with their former
slaves or not at all. "The manhood OF
the whole country ought to rise against
such petty persecution" In view OF
the past conduct of the South, be urges
the following course of national policy
toward this section:
The Southern people have been
wbinped in the battle between the sec
tions, and except small class OF los
SLICED politicians and lot OF weak
minded young men who part their halr
in the middle, they acknowledge and
feel it. The Southern people have been
sufficiently punished for participation
in the rebellion. and instead of harass-
inc and further humiliating them Con-
gress ought to extend to them help
ing hand. Instead of depressing, the
Nation should lift them up from the
slough of despair and encourage them.
1t is alike its duty and policy to do so.
Democrats were preaching this doc
trine quite while before Liberal Re
publicans took it up, and now the Arch
priest of Tennessee Radicalism en-
dorses it. 1t is fashionable In some
quarters to speak of the Democracy as
a slow coach. In this important mat
ter it seems to be the truly progressive
party which was first to linn the proper
policy of Justice and prosperity. If
anything, it has been ahead OF puohc
sentimental least as that sentiment
was retarded and repressed by political
Misrepresentation for political pur-
noses. We doubt that the Democracy
was premature in urging this policy OF
peaee. Senator Brownlow shows how
GREATLY II WAS needed Immediately after
! the war: --.-...--. -
With the termination of the war, the
Southern people, as a class, were poor
but little property of any DESCRIPTION
being left them. Since the war ended
in several of the Southern States the
IGNORANT colored officials and white ad-
yeuturers, particularly the latter, have
stolen everything that was portable
everything that could be carried on.
The publc buildings of Charity, the
Orphan, Blind and Insane Asylums are
left but the means for their support
are wanting. The buildings would
have been stolen but the thieves could
not put them In bank vault, or carry
them IN their pockets
The land could not be carried away
but has been rendered worthless by tax
alton. which is so high as to amount To
confiscatlon.
Here, again, we find the views OF the
Democracy, long ago expressed, en-
dorsed in full by a bitter opponent
The main difference is, the Democracy
began exposing the impurities of carpet
bag rule at a time when it could have
been stopped, and hundreds of millions
saved from their clutches. Mr.. Brown
lows denunciation comes when the
confscation is complete, and they have
almost ceased to steal because there II
nothing left.
The Senator quotes against the cIvl
rights bill. from the Ne,U York Times
: as being ''the most largely circulated
| and influential Republican journal IL
, the United States-the leading organ
e of the national party and expressing
D the views of hundreds of thousands o
!. Republican readers" This is a note
b worthy tribute to the Times, In view o
!, its severe animadversions OF late oil
President Grant. Possibly Mr.. Brown
r low is not included in the hundreds
thousands whom the Times represent
n in its estimate of that gentleman. b
f that as it may, he ventures thu
: hope:
The undoubted courage and genera
= sity of President Grant, leads me
u believe he will veto the villainous mea
. sure if it is passed.
e The recent circular of State Superb
e tendent Fleming is thus cordially en-
y dorsed:
am clad to see that the Superin
! tendent of Public Instruction, for Tel
- nessee. has taken the initiatory ste
- for the abolition Of the whole cOmmO
II school system of the State, so that
the bill should pass the system may /
/ abolished without delay. In the ful
! est and most emphatic manner poss
- BILE. I wish to see Tennessee express I'll
- indignation and disgust of her poop
,e at this palpable invasion OF the
n rights in their purely domestic rel
" tons.
We give in full the closing par
lie graph of this notable letter:
l. If this abomination is submitted
m by the people, it will only invite Il
adoption of 10th Amendment to Ii
Constitution, depriving them OF 9TH
IS rights, and after that, some marrow
he minded partisan and second-class Law
ID yer, who imagines himself a Statesman
~ Will propose 18th Amendment to Il
= Constitution, provided the people sha
B. then have any rights to usurp.
s. This sounds wonderfully like VIII
IS some people love to call a "BoTbc
o. crusher." But it contains the san
IT, amount of warning truth, whether
IS be labeled Bourbon or Brownlo'
es The tendency to centralism is unique
e. tionable. Evidently the approach
rs. age and matured thought has mater
IN ally modified the views of the Kno
ed vile Senator on many matters. IL