Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-04-10

TO understand their declaration Inc o0asn W =
coerced over some of their dead bodies nut tneJ
had enough living bodies left 70 eni0fSe sle e0ef
cion. .,....l-,.,.r
contirnsjI fa ne On the false hope that Che Demo-
&C., ~ 'conlunction with President job nson
~onid oive IS our rights If need be, with the bayo-
4 nat witness the more ultra Democratic journals.
the Dav Book, Metropolitan Record, Freernan's
4 Journal snd Daily News, and the more moderate
journal, the New York World.
"out on such friends"-friends who encourage US
to go into trouble, and then whip US for doing what
they told Us 70 do.
Senator Sherman declared that if the Southern
people complained that the military act harsh,
they had their Northern Democratic friends TO
thank for It, siEce they had voted down an amend
ment which was quite mitigation Of the severity
OF the original bill.
This is On, and we have good macy other things
TO thank our Northern Democratic friends for. We
have TO thank them that they encouraged us TO Sc
cede, and then whipped US for doing So We have
10 thank them that since the cessation of the war
they have again fed US upon false hopes; we have
70 thank them for keeping up the evaporation Of
the Northern people against Us.
Some Republican rem arked IN Congress that the
more the Democrats resisted Republican policy the
more decided and emphatic th&t policy would be-
come. Brooks, of New York, recent convert to
Democracy answered that this might be true, but
the Democrats would continue to resist Bully for
Mr.. Brooks Living in Gloyap' State as he does,
it costs him nothing 70 resist but his iniquitics
are TO pe visited upon tie Southern people BE
can pursue his partisan policy with impunity, but
the South is to be made the victim Party tactics
make it necessary for the Democrats in Congress to
defeat if possible, such thing as Baine's amend
ment and to oppose Republican policy generally.
In the mean time the most vital interest Of the
Southern people is the playthng Of the politicians
the shuttlecock that is tossed back and forth be-
tween the battledores Of the two opposing factions
the football chat is kicked about by two hostile par
ties, the unhappy grist that is ground between the
upper and neither millstones.
OF this we are tired in the superlative degree
President johnson has tried TO areconstruct" Us,
has most signally failed, acknowledged his defeat
and surrendered at discretion. The Little VII
lain, Of the New York Times, and men Of his Tx,
cabre and kidney, with their milk and cider policy
have also tried and failed. The Northern Democ-
raey have len. helping hand wherever failure has
Seen certain 70 be the result; and now the exigen-
cy demands new men, new measures and new
policy. Men who formerly led at the South are not
up to the demands Of the crisis. We need an infu-
sion OF new and vigorous young blood into the veins
OF our Government policy-blood that has been
generated under the present crcumstances-ourlm
mediate surroundings. The old fogy politicians and
fossil remains Of an antquated press not capa-
bic OF sppreciating present position. Nourish-
ed n their infancy and fed in their prime apon
ideas which have been forever destroyed, they are
starving in their old age by endeavoring to live
upon the shadows that yet linger behind the sub
stance which has eluded their grasp