Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-02-28
THE LAST BLOW.

/ OF tue OBlDu Ulutf democratic RUE,
and changed the complexion of both
houses Of Congress 50 far as opportu-
nifty was given to do so; in spite Of the
earnest and unanimous protest OF the
free, unsubsidized press Of the North;
in spite Of all the brains and virtue and
leadership left in the Republican party
itselE-Grant's third term policy of
force and fraud proceeds steadily to-
ward oonsummation.
Within FIVE days Of its death, this
Congress has finally enacted the sup
Elementary Civil Rights bill, the SEN
ate having yesterday sent it to the
President. 1t has not been the fault
of the UNION AND AMERICAN, if this
result surprises. any, one. 1t is part
of the Grant programme. The out
rage-mill must be set to work again,
and in order to give its bulletins some
color Of plausibilIty, a new reason or
motive for outrages must be invented.
The fresh indignity of Civil Rights is
expected to furnish a motive that viii
be ample in Northern minds for believ-
ing any atrocity that Attorney VII
iams and his scullions may choose to
charge on isolated communities in the
South. The negroes must be kept
from straying out of the Republican
fold by further promises, and the North
must be made to believe that every
personal quarrel between white and
black hinges on politics alone. We
are satisfied the scheme viii fail, but it
appears equally evident that Grant is
determined to carry it out, and in do
ing so viii keep the South on the rack
for the coming twenty months. For
once, Christian principle and worldly
wisdom combine to point out the only
true path for us-the policy Of patience.
As we write, TIE wires TREMENDOUSLY
speak Of the probability that the eau
Gus Bayonet bill viii also pass, author
ling the suspension Of the writ OF
habeas corpus in Louisiana, MISSISSIPPI
pi, Arkansas and Alabama. After all.
this does not make the situation any
worse, Tor the President has been pretty
freely interfering with his troops in
various States and State elections,
without the authority of any such law.
It merely places the Radical party
on record as endorsing Grant,
and thus linking its fortunes
indissolubly with his. Viewed in
this light, the bayonet law becomes
the grand master-stroke of the third
term policy. If the Senate pass it, the
party are chained to Caesars chariot
wheels. Whom the gods would destroy
they first make mad.
Some days ago We marked a passage
in speech of Lieut.. Gov. Hubbard,
delivered in the Texas Senate on the
10th inst As rejecting the spirit of
the South, and the manner in which we
should battle the Radical programme Of
ignoble warfare, we reproduce it here:
1t is our duly to awaken public senti-
msnt 70 be ever upon che alert, TO show
TO the American people a sublime ex-
ample Of patience and long suffering,
which shall hold out with Unfaltering
faith through the long weary watches
of the night, until the perfect day be-
gins to break across the mountains and
over the valleys. The Civil Rights
bill'' has passed the House. 1t will
pass the Senate. 1t is arranged-the
Judgment is made IN advance Of the
trial
Threats have gone out against Ar
kansas from the President. What
does it mean? We all know its intent
and purpose. Standing here to-day in
this Senate as one Of the hUmblest Of
your officers Of State, Invoke your at
Jention and your sympathy for her, too.
This State of Texas IS my hOme-lOv-
ing her heroic. memories with the death
less love of wOman-fOr have chill
dren that sleep in its sod. Here l ex-
pect to live and hope TO be buried, and
whatever service this poor arm has Civ
en- or could yield for It's defense would
be gladly rendered. By these and
memories like these 1 invoke you, my
countrymen, to bear calmly and pa
tiently whatever IN Gods good provi-
dence may be put upon you. Do moth
Ing-as you never have dOne-in viola.
ton Of a solitary sentence Of the Con-
stitUtiOn or its amendments. If the
Civil Rights bill Is put upon you, bear
1t; bear 1t bravely, and if, under a sem
blance of the Constitution and laws,
they propose to put the manacles upon
your arms, let them do it, The time is
coming for our deliverence! I thank
God that the truth never yet remained
always under the heel Of tyranny. In
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana,
New Jersey, and last but not least, IN |
old Massachusetts, where the very era
die Of liberty was rocked, all have sent |
to US, across the storm and troublous |
paths Of the tempest, words Of comfort |
and cheer, and exhOrted Us to be Of |
good heart and fear not It is to the |
great bar Of public justice and to the /
sentiment Of the common country,
and to all mankind, that we would APP
peal.
Where the next long roll for the de-
Tense Of the Constitution Of the coun-
try takes place, let It be commenced at
Bunker Hill and not at Fort Sumter.
Let it be repeated at Brandywine and
at Lexington and Monmouth and Val
ley Forge, and then, crossing the Po-
tomac, be echoed back at Gettysburg
and Charlottesville and Manassas and
Shiloh and Mansfield, and the very
dead will rise and answer that cal.
Let the South follow in this great
crusade of our country-not lead
There are but a few months yet TO
wait when twenty-one Governors viii
take the helm in their States. and when
seventy-six majority viii walk up and
take their oaths in Congress to abide
by the Constitution and shape the leg
islati0u Of this country. When that
day comes, il we are but sublime IL our
fOTJijude, "ail viii be we'll