The Nashville Daily Union

Down with Party.

Hon. Martinus Roy, a life-long Democrat, made the following remarks in a speech before the late Indianapolis Union Convention. They are directly to the point:

For any man to tell me that the restoration of the Democratic, Whig, Bell, Abolition, or any other party to power, or the continuance of the Republican party in power, of themselves, will restore this Union, only offers an insult to my understanding, and advertises himself as a cringing, time-serving political quack.

Stern, unrelenting, crushing war, firmly supported by the masses of all political parties, is the only panacea for the restoration of peace and Union. But it is believed that we have passed the dead point of danger. The war is not by any means over, but the rebellion is potentially crushed. The government has clearly demonstrated its ability to overthrow the colossal usurpation if seconded by the consolidated patriotism of the country. It is but the shadow of the rebellion of huge proportions of a year ago. It is now a question of time and detail. This has been accomplished by the strategy of military science and the valor of brave men. The loyal men of Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland are organizing Union movements. Shall we not join them? While they, betrayed by a miserable fraud, rise bleeding from the merciless tread of a cruel despotism, with hearts too full of gratitude for their deliverance to find any music in party names, to see any virtue in the smoke of burning cotton and smouldering habitations, we hear from them no spiteful curses on Hessians, Lincolnites, Black Republicans, and Abolitionists.