The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1867-11-15
The Platform on which the New York
Democracy Triumphed Last Tu sday.
From the World, November 5.


From the World November 5.
In this closing appeal we will address
ourselves to no sorfid motives 1t is in
deed beyond question that every mans pc
cuniary interest will be promoted by q
Democratic success: that taxes will be
lighter, prices lower, tie currency sound
er. business more prosperous. But Dem
ocrats do not shrink from their fair sha o.
suffering to promote the public good
There are uobler objects IN life than ply
sicaI welfare, and no men arc more to be
euvied than they WHO 60 through great
hardsbips in worthy cause. It is net
merely because It will benefit themselves
that we ask Democrats to do their whole
duty to-day, but because they have an OF
portunity, such as is seldom offered, to
bring succor to others. Our Southern
fellow citizens are trodd4n down under
military despotism, and We owe them re-
| lief. When a citizen, even a natUralized
citizen, of our country is wronged in
foreign land. the public spirit of our coun-
trymen flames up in a generous indigna-
! ton, and we do not stop to count the cost
of necessary means of redres. But eight
millions OF our people are at present de-
prived of Republican government, are sub
! iected to an arrogant and insulting militia
ry tyranny and this is but preliminary to
the still further degradation of pushing
them under the feet of their former slaves.
1t is our duty to rescue them from this
monstrous despolism, aud give them back
the lost blessings of Republican govern
ment. We are bound to take as great an
interest in them as the Republicans affect
ed to feel for the Southern negroes. BY
our votes to day We may smite off their
calling chain.
The South indeed has erred but this is
no time 10 rehearse the catalogue of it's
faults. Theirs . as the error of generous,
manly, public-spriled men, who bravely
confronted great perils, and incurred great
losses in what they believed to be a just
cause. Their belief may have been. a
grievous error, but grievously have they
atoned for it. They are our countrymen,
and We must forgive them. They are the
victims of domineerng nsolence, and we
must fix our attention on their virtues. 1
while there was hope for their mistaken
cause they fought like men, they also sub.
mitted like men when they saw it was
lost. The conduct of their returned sol
diers was orderly and admirable. Instead
Of infesting the country with maraudina
bands, they scattered in silence to theii
poverty stricken homes, and bore them,
selves as quiet citizens. We cannot be.
stow on them greater praise than to say
that their conduct was as orderly as tba
of our own patriot soldiers and this praise
they fully deserve. Though they return.
ed not in triumph but in humiliation, not tc
plenty but to poverty. they made no at
tempt 10 snbsist by rapine, but betook
themselves at once to the pursuits of hon.
est industry. The common valor with
which our countrymen on both sides fought
brings a feeling OF regret that they should
have exertei such herOism against each
{ other; but the equal virtue with which
both armies passed at once to the tranquil
pureuits of civil life. can excite no senti-
menl but unalloyed admiration and pride
Il was an illustrious proof and ftress o.
oar citizens, both North and South, fol
republican Institutions.