Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-07-29

the North, if we Of the South should
define to vote or refuse to take an IN
terest in Federal politics: A large
number of your people would say: See
these Southern rebels, they take no IN
terest in the welfare of the country;
they do not 90 to the polls even and
vote. they have become sulky, they are
whipped but not subdued, they failed
to gain their independence and 9 sepa-
ration from US by an organized gov
eminent, but they have separated them
S Ives politically from us as far as 1t IS
in their power to do 50, by refusing TO
vote or to take any interest in the vel
fare of our common country. L think, |
friend Truman, that nearly all OF us VIII |
vote. and we viii act with that party |
North that will maintain the principles
and provisions of the constitution, and |
not with those who have no respect Tor
this supreme las of the land. This IS
the Democratic party.
AS to doing all one can for the color
ed race, by promoting their education,
indicating their rights and protecting
them against the aggressions Of brutal
men, Mr.. Smith forcibly remarks that
such advice implies libel on all the
people Of the South. They are not op-
pressing the negroes; it is the blacks
who, under the leadership of scalawags
and carpet baggers, are misgovering
and plundering the whites. All that
remains to render the condition of the
latter. If possible, still more unhappy is
the passage of the Civil Rights bill.
In touching upon the national
finances, this Connecticut Senator of
the ante-bellum era seems anxious to
have it understood that he regards
their status as altogether satisfactory.
"And why should you not?" asks Mr..
Crozier; "you people of the North and
East own all the bonded debt of the
country. You have three-ffths, if not
three fourths, Of the currency. You
are paid gold ON your fve-twenty
bonds, and you are rolling in luxury.
Why should you not be cOntented and
happy, SO far as this worlds goods can
make you 50? If you think, friend
Truman, that the Northwest and South
will continue to assent TO pay your
people gold on your five-twenty bonds,
| 1 think and hope you will be mistaken.
1t is not fair and right. You
may call this reputation, or give
it whatever odious name you please,
but it Will not move your opponents.
The burdens you have lain upon them
are too grievous to be borne. While
You people of the North and East have
nearly all the currency of the country,
we poor devils in the South and North
west have not currency enough to send
our produce to market, and are scratch
ing for a subsistence. For this reason
the representation from these two sec
tons voted fer an increase of the cur
rency. But you think Grants conduct
in vetoing the bill Yas most admirable.
When jaw Cooke & Co. failed and
A panic ensued, the North and East
wanted more currency. They made a
request to Grant to this effect and he
Immediately supplied them, and so
! eager was he to do so, that many said
what he did was contrary to law. But
when the South and Northwest wanted
additional currencyand Congresspasses
bill for this purpose, the North and
East are clamorous against 1t, and
through the influence of a committee
from New York, Grant vetoes theb,lL'
Regretting that We cannot spare the
space to print Mr.. Crozier's admirable
letter in full, we give the concluding
paragraph as expressing faithfully sen
timents entertained by the great mas;
of the Southern people:
Many of your people cannot legislat'
impartiaIly for the South, nor can tneJ
bring themselves to vote for anything
, that would be for our benefit. IheI
have been educated by Charles Sum
ner, Henry Ward Beecher and others
to hate the Southern white man, while
they do not love the black. They ONLY
make use of the black man to annoy
, and degrade the Southern white man
This is the purpose Of their Civil Rights
bill, and the people South, Of al
parties, see this plainly. This Clyl
} Rights bill will make the people OF tn,
South nearly unit. In this section
has only a scattering advocate her
= and there.
When your people Of the North CIV
| us advice hereafter, don't remind us
our subiugation; it comes up before US
involuntarily, often enough, wlthoq
you constantly telling us about 1t. l
r Is not pleasant to have it thrust con
a stantly before us. If you cannot 81.
pleasant things to us, don't say un
pleasant ones; if you cannot say pleas
ant things to us, don't say anything a
/ all. but let us alone, unless you slmpl
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