Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-10-01
THE PARTIES NATIONAL.

We do not know after all, that the
exhibitions Of the BRowyLow troupe in
the North are to be regretted. If Provi-
dence rules the affairs of nations, and
that is our belief, great good may come
of them. The people of that section, in
the event of trouble in our State, can
not misunderstood the origin and auth
ors of it. 1t will be in vain to say that
the rebels are to blame, or that the sent
iment of disunion turks yet in their
minds and prompts to violence, The
truth is coming QUITS already out--
palpable, and right under the eyes of
every man in the North. HAMILTON and
HUNNIoUT, and all the rest. mean mis-
chief, talk mischief and will do mis-
chief, if allowed to carry out their plans.
We have no doubt that many a Radical
on the other side of the mountains has
hung his head in shame, and blnshed for
his Southern brothers But, however
the Radicals may regard the role being
played among them by these agitators,
there is an element of strength and in
telIigence that looks upon the perform
auce with loathing and disgust. This,
at least, cannot be drawn into that canse
which is the cause of the despotism of
the few over the many.
The great Conservative party, con-
structed of Democrats and Republicans,
and numbering, we trust, majority of
the people of the North and West, can
not again be hurled down upon the
South. Events following the track of
BRowNLow, place that utterly out of all
reasonable calculation. They, them
selves are threatened, for the Copper
heads of the North, the President, and
all who sustain him, are classed with
the rebels of the South Is it to
he expected that they, at the
nod of STEVENS and BRowYLow,
will rush to arms, march to the South to
nut down-whom No rebellion of the
Southern people, but JOHNSON and his
party-tbemselves. These Southern tour
lists are making an issue of strife with
every man who supports the President
They are championing Congress against
him.
Disguise it as we may. the contest
forced upon the Executive Department
BY the Legislative, becomes national
Upon one platform the Northern and
Southern supporters Of the former stand.
Upon one platform the Northern and
Southern supporters of the latter stand.
IL a contest comes from the issues that
divide them, there will be two national
forces, carrying the same flag, arrayed
against each other. No longer
will there be contest
of sections 1t will sweep the land from
Maine to Texas. Then, indeed, will be
the struggle for the g life orthe nation.
If the Southern Radicals shall be mad
enough to provoke such a contest, what
would become of their disfranchisement
acts What would become Of themselves,
in the South2 We are not without hope
that they will perceive the folly, the
madness Of their course. And above all
we trust that their passions will not blind
them to so obvious fact as that violence
begun on the supporters Of JOHNSON in
the South, viii be resented BY his friends
in every part Of the country. Heaven
avert the danger that threatens u.s. We
ofthe South desire peace above all things,
and viii stiIl hope that passion may be
tempered, friendship return, and the
world behold the spectacle Of the great
republic beautiful in peace, just in sd-
ministrstion, and sublime in progress
and power.