Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-02-17


low rates, shows that Tennessee is not
worse off than some of her sister States
who are regarded as very prosperous
In the popular estimate down this way.
THE PURPOSE OF THELAWLEss
CONsPIRATORs.
Honest men Of the Republican par
ty can no longer shut their eyes to the
fact that the ultra wings Of their party
mean the ruin Of the country. The
Boston Advertiser, the leading Republi-
can newspaper of New England, says:
''That It IS the deliberate purpose Of
Gen. Butler and those who train in his
company to ta1lt and insult the South to
the pitch Of egaspCratiOR and overt acts
OF retaliation, Observant men can hard
ly doubt. The danger is that the large
body Of Republicans who sincerely de-
sire peace and justice will too long neg
lect to rebUbe and repudidte the infer
nal policy Of prOUOcatjOR upon which
few OF their INSCRIPTIONS leaders are
bent. lie their conduct should sting
some Of the more hot-headed commit
tees to madness, the future kistoTtGh
calmly reUieJ1iHg these times sCouId
rightly blaUs Us and not Them"
If the leading Republican journals
of the North were actuated by the same
spirit that prompted the Boston Id
Uertiser to thus expose and denounce
the aninus of Ben. Butler "and those
who train in his company" there
would be less to fear from their malig-
nifty. Among those thus associated
with Butler is a cottrie Of negroes I'M
der the lead of Fred. Douglas. Ashort
time ago they made an appeal to Con
gress to pass the Civil Rights hill,
which took the unusual shape of
public manifesto. In the course of
this document, evidently prepared by
Douglas, the following incendiary sug-
gestions were thrown out:
And further, considering that every
Democratic victory. whether won in a
Northern State or upon the floor Of
Congress, tends directly to increase
the audacity and lawlessness Of the
enemies Of constitutional freedom and
the Union as now established. We
shuddeT at the 1Oretched coad itioa Of
things which may reasonably be ex-
pected to follow IN that section of our
country, If, in view of the circum.
stances now existing IN the United
States, Congress should, after all, ad-
Journ without enacting and providing
for the enforcement of appropriate
laws for the better protection Of per-
sons, property and political rights IN
that section. 49,. There are many varie-
ties Of man, but only one human ma
tUre, and 1t Is possible that, stung to
madness and desperation by continued
and unceasing outrages, and seeing no
means Of escape, q spirit Of retaliation
and rereHge may be aroused, tchich lriu
I'LL the South lCih scenes of rapine.
blood and fire.
This was regarded by a number of
Fred's white Republican associates as
too monstrous in a civilized govern
ment, and he was taken pretty sharply
to task by some Of them. And now he
rises to explain what he meant by say
ing that among the blacks Of the South
ga spirit Of retaliation and revenge
may be aroused which will fill the
South with scenes of rapine, blood and
fire. he says he employed these words
not as a "threat" but as an "argu.
ment." That Is, he gave expression to
what he alleges to be the actual feelings
Of his race in the South. 1t s clearly
a suggestion to the negroes to retaliate |
upon the whites for fancied wrongs,
without waiting for the courts to re-
dress their grievances.
These incidents must convince every |
man that we are drifting |
rapidly upon a most perilous condition
Of things, and that it will require the
wisest counsels of the best men in the
and especially of the North
and of the Republican party, to steer
clear of the dangers ahead. Never was
there a time when "the Internal policy
IF provocatiOn" more urgently de-
handed "rebuke and reputation" on
The part Of the party in power, than at
5he present hour.