Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-04-17
The Democratic I, Party.

Below wa nubiisb a letter from the Clerk OF the
limited Stafes sensts Han. Iohn W. Forney, 10 his
journal At Philadslphia : Col. Fornsy is Demo-
Graf of tb. old .cbooI. A Jacksenian Democrat,
lsiwsv. vos;ng for the candidate of that party,
Yeven soy old Jim Buchanan until it was made
the instrument to inaugurate rebellion sgsint the
Il Government Democrats Of East Tennessee listen
( to an Old jackson Democrat a Democrat in The
ftrie acceptStion Of the term sL
s1i-fsas Side WksEISeroE, March q, 1861.
Ths present Defnocratic leaders seem resolved to
annihiiate whatis left Of the Democratic parry
Their position On che great Issues Is melancholy
example Of tho folly Of smeFe opposition Instead
OF marching with the Gag and keeping time 10 the
music Of Libefty, they are the first TO stop every
movement for Che elevation Of mankind, and the
frst 30 refse 70 advance with the progress Of the
age. The cid Democratic leaders always anticipated
the wants Of tae American people Their success
soFs study how best to retard and defeat popular
expectations The old Democratic creed has been
perveTted into Notification for the defence and
restoration Of the guilty authors Of the bloodiest
rebellion In the an1a1g Of civilization Instead Of
booking TO the industrious and intelligent classes Of
the North and the West for nforcements its Cop
perhead leaders cherish no other hope beyond TIE
contingent help of the insurgent sections Hsving
sympathzed with the rebellion from the frst-hav
ing refused TO denounee It's inventors or the causes
which melted them to arms, they see guilt only IN
those who oppose these misguided meni Eve
ry position they take Is discoored or con trolled
By their sympathy with treason Happy only when
tn ey are sEsailing the statesmen and soldiers who
aha va saved the Government, and in banking the
leg islation rendered impressive by the salvation Of
the Government they toll to instil into the minds
Of their followers feelings which, permitted to four
ish, must harden into chronic hatred of human
freedom But is it not astonishing that the impos-
sibility Of such contamination should not have
I'D md dofo r-o1 fhrr a.
see that all their efforts driving frer them their
most ebedient supporters That such men as Jer-
enniah S. Black, Fernando Wood and James Brooks
cal believe that party be built and maintain
ed upon sheer antagonisn of the negro, only shows
that superior Intellectual gifts cannot save men from
monition needed it would be found in the fact
that the Whole Southern people are preparing for
universal suffage--no matter how reluctantly-yet
stl preparing with settled conviction that neith
tricks nor contfvances can prevent the perpetu-
Al triumph Of liberty. Nothing sodarkly foreshad-
ewz the doom Of any parry that submits to such 4
masters as have naAed that ell over the eiviiz
ed world the organization which calls itself the 4
Democracy Of the United States regarded as the /
champioa OF pro-SlaYery despotism. The Republi- |
party having conquered It's position as the rad
ica defender Of The rights of man this continent
those potential thinkers whose writings con-
slant terror and threat TO European thrones, turn
Indignantly from the false Democracy TO the true
The eelt-banshed Victor Hugo, as ne tnunders 1
against hanah despotismf Garibaldi, from his is /
land komo at Csprera; Kossnth, the philosophic |
Democrat, waiting for the day of vindicated Hun
gary & John Bright in England and the millions CT
Irish patriots who, in their thrilling address, have
Just demanded the sypathiss Of the civilized world
in their armed protest against English tyranny all
accept the Republican party Of the United States,
with its Summers its Stevenses, its Buffers, its
Boutwells, its Ben Wades, its Brownlows and its
Stantons, their guiding star. That party and the
rigorous legislation which logically completes the
wo rk Of the battlefield, have become TO the aspr-
ing and struggling multitude Of the Old World an
OK ample the more assured and valuable when plac-
cd in contrast with the betrayalS and treacheries OF
" hat is still called The Democracy of The United
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