Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1852-03-25
An Address Of the Members Of the
l legislature to the DemOe ratio
Party of Tennessee.

Party Of Tennessee. I
The Democratic members Of til,
Legislature, before their final separa
ton, desire to address you briefly
for the purpose Of impressing yol
With the Importance Of subjects, Q
/ vital interest to the welfare Of ou
party and, as we believe, to the bes
interests OF the country. Recen
events have admonished US Of The
necessity of thus addressing ypu. =
We will speak to you in plain terms
for the hour has come when we must
arouse every energ gy and conquer il
4 the coming conflicts, or consent. Il
toll for years, perhaps forever, in :
hopeless minority. Divided original
4 ly. in Tennessee by "a profound scheme
of policy, the motives to which, were
anything but patriotic, we have Strug-
gled on with fortunes gene rally vary
ing in success in proportion to the
energy and effort with which each
canvass was conducted. Its useless
to speak Of the different contests in
detail. In 1910, We triumphed, hav-
ing carried the election for Governor
and the lower branch Of the Legisla-
ture, and reasonable hopes were en-
tertained that our. party had estab-
lished its success permanently in
Tennessee. All the old issues which
for years had constituted the ques-
tions Of difference between the two
parties in the Union, we're abandoned
by our opponents. The wisdom Of
the Democratic policy was tacitly ac-
knowledged and firmly established
in the Administration of the Gov
ernment. No longer is there ques-
ton of the policy Of a National Bank;
a high Tariff, or Distribution. These
questions have been settled by the
verdict of the people, time and again,
and time and again has the verdict
in vain been sought to be reverse sed--
An empire, too, by the Democratic
policy has been added to the Repub-
1 lie, by treaty stipuIations and BY the
result of a just war
/ Under these auspicious cifcum-
stances, we entered the canvass OF
1851 in Tennessee 1.-The most impor-
| tant that had occurred for many
years preceding. The decennial ap-
/ portionment of the State into Con.
gressional and Legislative Districts,
fand the election Of a Senator. to Con
gress, rendered the political complex
lion of the Legislature Of the u tmost
Importance. The result is befo re us
/ We were defeated. Never did q par
ty enter q canyass with brighter
hopes Of success; never were sucl
prospects more completely overcast
/ Led by a standard bearer whose vir
tues adorned the private station ant
whose patriotism had been tested up
on the battle fields of his country
we we're ingloriously defeated by
want Of Organization and united ef
fort.
1t hd S bee b Characteristic hereto
fore of the ID emocratic party, not t
be bound as strongly by the ties Q
party as our opponents. D eniocrati
principles produce this effect. Henc
we see SO many instances of indiyid
ual action independ ent Of party ties
: In the last canvass, there we're Shade
of difference in our party upon tn
4 Southern question: Difference NOR
| in the degree Of Indignation felt a
! Northern aggression, than in an
proposed remedy or final action npo
| il be subject These shades of differ
t ehce had tendency to weaken !
I Sd 4me degree our cause which eoul
o bly, succeed by united effort and cor
, centrated energy Whatever diifel
! ehces Of opinion may have existed q
! t B the justice Of the late measures {
! adjustment it is settled fact th'
those measures have been 4cqulesce e
/, ii by the South. We will faithful
! nl nlaintain them as a final settleme,II Il
! Of that great subject and cheerful
respond to the sentiment Of a depar
Beh hero and patriot: "Ihe :, FEEDER !
5 Union it must be preserved, und'
!. the conviction that in is malnt
T nance is involvedlevery thlns dear
the American heart. Without an
e organization whatever, we conducte
!. the, most important canvass IN mar
Fl aspects that had ever occurred
Tennessee. Conflicting aspiran