Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-05-15
rHE MARcH on REVOLUTION.

Every inch of the machinery OF the
Government is run, swayed and en-
ployed in furtherance of a single idea
the interests of the Radical party. The
President, though averse to this dirty,
reasonable work, is compelled to be the
instrument of protecting and preserving
this monstrous party, and in enthrowing
this audacious idea over the ruined liber-
ties of the people. Every department of
the Government, every officer, and every
Office is in a similar condition. The
party has resolved to rule this country,
peaceably if they can, but forcibly, if
force shall be found necessary. The first
grand step to be taken was the destruc
ton of ten States, that they might be
reconstructed on the basis of the grand
idea, or if that should be found to be i'm
practicable, then to hold them as
conquered territories. The result
has not transpired. If reorganization
on Radical principles can be effected,
the South will become a chained
unit for the party. After that
after having secured ten States, the battle
for supremacy will be fought in the
North. With an even chance in that
section, the issue, it is thought, is not
dsubtfuL KeHtueky, it will be aseer-
tanned, does not possess a republican
form of government? That State has
Just returned nine Democratic members
to the for,ieth Congress They lciltnot
be admitted without great struggle. 1t
is entirely probable that the State will be
placed under military system similar
to that of the ten States of the South
The State Of Maryland, there is aban-
dant reason to conclude, will be reduced
to military district by the present Con-
gress. But will the work necessary to
carry out the grand idea stop here ?
Herein lies the danger. Conquest is
never satisfied, and vengeance only
grows by what it feeds on. Why not in
clude Connecticut among the slaughtered
States Why not, as Northern States
come over to democratic principles, abol.
ish them at once ? Northern Democrats
are already denounced as rebels and trait
ors. Why not make a common rule
for the government of rebels and traitors
everywhere? Why should a Southern
traitor 60 free and Northern one
escape? 1t is not intended that they
shall escape Nothing shall escape that
combats the grand idea that this Govern
ment must pass into the unlimited con-
trel cf the Radical party. We have a
Radical government in this State. It's,
in Jacobin estimation, highly republican
in form. Only eighty thousand white
men are DISTINGUISHED. Buff it should
turn out, in the providence of Heaven,
that Brownlow and bis party fail to carry
the August elections, and these eighty
thousand white men be restored to the
ballot, it will be discovered that our
State government is not republican in
form. The Inauguration Of Etheridge
will be resisted, and Congress will sus-
tain the resisters.
Assuming what we have promised, to
be true, are not the acts and purposes Of
the Radical party highly revolutionary ?
Revolutions mean the overthrow Of
government No man pretends that the
government Of 1867 is the government Of
ls60. II the Southern States had been
restored to the Union after Lees sur.
render, and there had been no COnstitu-
tiohal amendments, there would nov be
no perceptible change. Who kept the
South cut, and Who plastered the Con-
stitution with amendments ? The Radi-
cal party. Who destroyed ten States ?
The Radical party. Who prevents re-
union to day. The Radical party. Who
overihrew the Executive department,
and viii not hesitate 10 trample on the
Supreme Court The Radical party.
The only question i, andit isa momen-
toss one, viii The people North and
South submit 10 the government Of
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