Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-11-14
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was divided between two great political
parties-the Wing and Democratic,
The Wing party is dead-dead and
buried; and buried so deep that though
you we're to sound for it with hundred
fathomed lead and line, voice would
still come booming up from that mighty
deep, mo bottom" The great minds
which once fostered it, the great states
men which once gave it worth and vital
ity, have most of them passed away
they sleep in their graves with their
mantles around them, and there seems
but little probability that they will ever
be worn by their successors. Succeed
ing the Wing party and claiming to be
built upon the ruins of it and tho Demo-
cratic party, came the American or
Know Nothing party, which went as it
came, in great haste. In the quadrangle
lar contest which ensued in 1860 the
Abolition, alias Republican, alias Radi-
cal party, which had been struggling
for years in deserved contempt and
obscurity, succeeded in getting control
Of the government. The war which fol.
lowed gave it an unreal and fictitious
kind of strength. Occupying the posi-
ton Of the war party, it attracted to
itself great many who had before cor
daily despised and spit upon it, Mis-
taking its real strength, it became lordly
and domineering fate failed to water
its wine, and it became Intoxicated, and
in its drunken revelry cried aloud for
plunder and for blood; having grown
by exciting at the same tiiue fanatical
sympathy for the negro ard hatred and
vndictiveness towards his owner, they
must needs make progress in order to
furnish stimuli to both these feelings
And in this intemperate hast discretion
o 'erleapt itself, and their piratical bark
has been foundered; the meridian Of
their day has been passed, ard the even
ing is far advanced darkness begins to
grow visible, and soon a grave of infamy
will hide this disgusting object from
sight, and it will be remembered
in future only for its vices and de-.
formities. Already the knowing rats
begin to discern that there is an awful
gulf beneath the surface upon which
they have been gliding, and are making
haste to quit the sinking vessel ere it
reaches the bottom. What but its early
death could have been predicts I'd of such
party2 Who claimed that the negro's
weakness and ignorance necessitated the
existence of freedmeHs bureau, and
yet foisted him upon the South to take
the place of her statesmen and her men
of learning in controlling the govern
ments of ten States; and while they give
him the pre- eminence at the South, deny
to him at the North the privilege Of
voting, where the paucity of his race
could have no controlling influence.
Who not only threw aside the Constitu.
ton, but openly proclaimed to the world,
with an effrontry that would have been
creditable to an outlaw, that they were
legslatng outside of the Constitution
for ten States which they had declared,
time and again, never had left and never
could leave the Union. A party
which breathes forth nothing but hatred
and revenge; which proposes to i'm.
poverish the country, inaugurate a
despotism for the whole land, and to
perpetrate every kind Of outrage rather
than that the Radical imps shall forego
the emoluments of office. 1t is enough
to make one shudder to think of party
having control Of government who are
framing laws and shaping their political
and social movements so as to meet the
demands and crafty the inclinations of
the ignorant, dcpraved and faithless
negro.
What are the surest steps to prevent
the death that has commenced in this
party--being lingering one-to throttle
it quickly and thrust its offensive car
cass out of sight2 Shall we, by divisions
among ourselves, suffer this monster to
disturb and jostle the country for years
to come by its dying commissions ? or
shall we by consentaneous action rid the
world of this huge and terrible incum-
brance2 Under what banner shall we
march2 What shall be the battle cry of
the hosts arrayed to deal the death blow
to this huge and filthy Radical beast
November l3, 1867. LEUMAs.
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