Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-06-06
STILL PREACHsNG THE GOSPEL OF
HATE.


Wendell Phillips has been often
gpoken Of as ''the brains" of the Re.
publican party, and not without good
reason, because throughout the culmi-
mating period Of that party his out
spoken utterances proved uDeTriDg
guides to its progressive development,
and though regardcdas extreme az the
time. found successive fulEllment IN
Radical lswmakiug and administ' alton.
In the march Of uischief-h has always
led the van, and sounded the warning
tocsin. So long as the party followed
him its success vas uninterrupted. If
It does not follow him now it violates
the logic Of its own existence, and in
vites defeat. The times have changed,
but any effort to modify the nature and
essence ~ Badica'i5m in order TO suit
the temper Of the times, must result in
failure.
The NCly York Herald has had Mr.,
Phillips interviewed On the thTd.term
letter, which heprofesses 10 ike, though
it does not change his judgment that,
''alI things considered Grant, is en-
phaticany the man for the next Presi-
dent" In various and emphatic ways
he repeats this view, saying the failure
Of the Force Bill showed that the last
Congress was unfit to deal with the
epoch, and we suppose the next one
Will be less so il Mr.. Phillips opinion,
who evidently wants a Dictator. He
says: when Congress refused the
Force Bill, she left the true men Of the
nation with one altcrnative-Ue must
take for President a man who is him
self Force Bil-that is Grant" He
is certain that, uuder no other leader
ship eau his party hope for success.
Blaine and Morton may be strong men,
but they cannot carry the nation. He
continues:
If Grant does not give US the use Of
his rame, III my opinion, the Demo
Gratis viii elect their President. That
means the white South victorious, as l
was ridicuied for anticipating IN 1866;
II means Civil Rights trampled under
foot. the Confederate debt recognized
and paid IN part or IN full; It means
COMPENSATION for the slaves whom the
war freed. Congress viii discuss these
issues for the next four years. The
North. with a sensitive pocket, may
rally and prevent the full success Of
these schemes, but the very discussion
will carry down our bonds twenty Per
cent in every market.
with these views" continued the
great ,high-priest of Radicalism,
Il demand Of Grant that he, lead US
apain to victory" Mr. Phillips houts
all objections to a third-term as "su-
perstition." wants the distinction of
Taee blotted out from American lie, so
that the Republic may cease to be a
sham and It's citizens a herd of hyPo-
critics. and reduce to practice an equality
with which "our fathers have disguised
the world by emptily protesting
If Grants letter be mere bid for
another nomination, Wendell's utter
ances are designed to show the 'im-
perative duty (which Grant spoke as
being the only condition on which he
would accept it. Phillips says:
I scout all this prattle about concii-
alton. We babble Ike children about
peace, before we have secured justice;
we exhort each other to forgive before
the sinner has even professed repent
ance. Foreigners IL tie Senate who
never knew aught, but what is on the
surface. of us or oar institutions, may
chatter nonsense; gallant soldiers emil !
grating South may echo it; natives in |
higher Office still may carry this Jolly |
pop from Southern city u city; care !
less editors may cry, amen; but the !