Union and American. [volume] (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1875-1877, 1876-11-02

to the place OF General Sherm an.
"Plle up claims for losses incurred
in the Rebellion" mutter. third;
yea; and the higher they are piled
the more sure they are to topple,
aud surest If all under the Demo-
cratic policy of economy and re-
trenchment. Pshawl these are
the -shalFow devices of electioneer-
ing zeal, and no mora worthy OF
heed than the cry Of the fellow
vino halloed fire in the midst of the
deluge.
A CREATION OF GUILTY CoNsCIEN
CEs.
/, however, do not wonder that
the South, like Banquo's ghost,
should gill the Republican lead RS
with alarm. When she rises be-
fore them-pale, dishevel d and
broken-their guilty consclences,
if they have any, must sting and
tremble. Of all the mideeds of
partisan greed an mallgnity, there
is none more foul and atroclous
than that which has tried to en-
force foreign and corrupt despot-
ism upon the Southern people.
For par llel to it We must look
to the doings of Austria in Italy,
or Great Britain, aforetime, in
ireland. The South came out of
the war PROSTATE and benumbei;
her c'pltal gone; her labor ami"
hilated; her social system up oot-
ed and destroyed. She had fought
for a false idea-fought bravely,
fought desperately - franticllly
and cruelty sometimes; but she
had fought in vain. Her cause
was Iost-and lost forever. 1t was
lost, not as fact merely, but as
an illusion. Every discerning
mind saw th,t for her nothing was
l.ft but to gather up the wreck,
restore the waste places, and to re
knit the broken ties. A few hng>
ering ranccrs, born of the contest,
fiickcrel here and there, impotent
as they we're foolish, but the deep
er antagonisms were all crushed.
For US, as for them, the single
duty Of the hour. imposed by a
regard TO the common prosperity
as well as by sentiment of h'nd.
illness, was, in the fine language OF
Gov. Andrew, ito prosecute peace
as vigorously as we had proSecus. .
ed war; SO that where once all
day "the noise of battlr rolled, .
should be heard again the melodies
Of Joy and concord, ringing like a
chorus Of biros when the black
storm clouds are past.
THE SOUTH NOT TO BE FEARED.
Now, I hGRe no fears of the
South; on the contra y, | have
every reasonable confidence in the
South. Is there, indeed, any long,
er a South in any distinctive sense!
The only cause of sectional divis'
ior that ever existed -slavery--is is
gone, and the shadow Of it hardly
remains. We are united now, in
interest, ia feeling, in nationality,
and in civilization, as we were nev
er before united. We are al
americans, without regard to local
ity; we are all citizens, without
regard to condition.
Away, then, with that culture
of distrust and hatred, which like
a malari2us swamp, can nourlsh NJ
seeds of good. can dffuse only The
germs of blight and death! Th'
late Mr.. Sumner, whose devotion
to his cause was the zeal of low
err was yet unwilling that trophies
of victory Won by citizon over
citizen should be preserved amon4
the national archives; and shall We
les magnanimous than that rea!
soul, insist, like pagan cOnGleror'
upoa dragging our victems, Iashec
to the wheels Of our trlunpha
cblriots, amid the jeers of a rab.
hle? Or, baser still, in the dark
fanaticism Of the middlc ages, tGrr
their skins into drums Whereon tt
beat the tattoo Of hellish partisan
ralliesY Are Christians? Arc we
patriots? Are we menf Or, nc
the veStages of the brute and the
savage, from which, accordiog t.
modern theories, we are evolved
still survive in our veins?-PARKr
GoDwIN's Coopr Union A dress
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HAYES is certified to the coun
try for November enfcebled by his
faltering Republican lines, while
Hendricks is presented to the ma
ton green With the laurcls of Q