The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1867-09-06
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| honest eXponents OF public opinion in the
now dominant section Of the Union
Claimed exclusively neither By Radicals, .
''Republicans. :" .'Copperheads. . nor 'Con-
serYatives, 1t is essentially the organ of
the "War Democrats" representing an
element of political strength which is none
the less powerful because it has, so far,
been comparatively quiescent under Radi-
cal rule.
In its tone toward the South, the Citieen
has been frank and magnaniusoua 70 an
extraordinary degree. We quote from the
last issue
The patriotic Democracy Of the North
ask no political aid from the honestly loyal
men of the South they expect nothing but
minorities at present In the rebel States,
as thoy come back under the Congressional
plan of reconstruction. They only ask of
them sincerity of conduct and moral sup
port. The Radicals have determined that
the negro vote shall assure the representa-
tiYes of Dixie to their side; but the Con-
serVatiVe loyalists can beat them in the
Northern States: although they cannot beat
the Radicals and their Southern coadiutors
among the unreconstIucted, We are
friends to the South we are willing to
bury the recollections of the war beside
our dead sons but we are not willing to
Insult those sad memories by association
with Northern TRAITORS, who doubled their
| severity. We are not willing to surrender
one iot or title of the principles to main
tain which the war was waged. Negro
suffrage is extremely distastefll among
ourselyes-only less so than rebel defiance.
To succeed in their plans of defense
! against the common enemy commanded by
Ben. Wade and Thad. Stevens, the Con-
serVatives must bear no odium from riots,
murders, Instructions and abuse of the
helpless negro they must meet with a
! frank, cordial, ingenious acceptance of
! the situation, and the utter overthrow of
the doctrines of secession.
This is plain talk. If we should have
to look to the War Democracy for succor
they certainly will not leave US in doubt
as to the term of the compact. & full and
mutual understanding once arrived at, the
Citizen is not disposed to mince words as
to its views of the situation nor Of the means
by which it proposes to avert a calamity
concerning which there Is such intense ap-
presension throughout the country:
The daily papers are making q great
muddle over the opinions of the prominent
generals and the people at large on the
question of reoOnstruction. They tell US
that Grant approves of the course of the
President, and that Thomas agrees with
Sheridan, and that Sherman favors the plan
of Congress or Uice versa, according to
political bias. We can tell them all that
if the Congressional system is to put the
South in possession of the negroes, it does
not meet the views of the people, the sail
ors in our fleets, the soldiers in our ar
mics, the merchants at their desks, the
farmers at their ploughs, or any other
large body of our citizens. Il 81. Domain
go IS not e06at aos fought for zoe do not
o0a1st 1t, and sOill not haze 1t !; and that til .
'aigger8, a0hetEer a0Eite or black, may under-
stand as sUeu frs! as last. Nations are
crssel sOben driven to despair and, rather
than surrender oar s0Eite nationality, age aOilZ
massacre or e'ssIave every colOred man IN
the States. This may be bold language
and unconventional, but we ask our read :
ers whether it does not meet the confrma-
tion of their hearts We have sacrificed
too many whites for principle to stop at
taking the lives of a few worthless blacks.
Such language is indeed "bold," when we
consider the surrounding of the writer, and
we give it as a significant expression of a
powerful and wide spread sentiment in the
North, and as, therefore, worthy of seri-
GUS consideration by our people.-Banner.
AN UNsoPHsTICATED AsPIRAET.-The
memphis AvaLancbe of Wednesday, says
A few days since a gentleman from one
of the rural districts cbanced to be here
and, calling upon city friend, wanted to
know how he should go to work to secure
the appointment as one of the United States
detectives, whose main business it is to
keep a sharp lookout for liquor mauufactu-
rers who violate the revenue laws. When
the friend had given the desired informa-
ton, he said "But why do you want
that place so particularly ?" Because. -
said the gentleman from the country, "by
Cd there's fellow going to give me
one-half of his distilery if I gehthe place. -
The explanation was considered perfectly
satisfactory.
MATRIMONIAL QUEsTIos.-A young man