The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-10-08
BE CALM AND uNpREJuDIcED.


eight years on either side, by the great
parties, when embodied, would add much
TO the literary character of our country. If
the productions of the press and the display
of many of our stump orators, will be re-
gardad by posterity as models for imita-
ton, personal abuse, elimination, rccrim-
nation, yituperation, billings-gate scurril-
lily pandering to vitiated and depravod
taste of the low and vulgar, should be
avoided by all who regard thepublic NOR
lis, the peace and happiness of mankind.
It's Cowper who declared he never wrote
4 line, that dieiug he would wish to blot.
What happy thing for society if the
writer's Of the present age would con-
hue themselves in their thoughts on all
subjects to chaste and dispassionato Ian
cuagc, that they would confne themselves
to arguments and facts, and address the I'M
dcrstanding rather than the passions and
Preiadicos of their hearers and readers.
The great contest now going on for party
supremacy, when stript of everything ex-
tuIeous, viewed in the calm light of reason
i.', spoctivo of men and their anticedents,
and upon the supposition that the candi.
da,os Of each party have sufficient capac-
IT, TO carry out the objects ana purposes,
yo'ch each entertain upon the issues pre-
seated before the American people,
Principles, not men is the great idea which
s1aaid influence the electors when they
come to cast their votes.
DO they believe in strict adherence to
the fundamental law, to which they swear
before they are clothed with power to
execute their office!
In the language of Jefferson. care they
honest 2-are they capable :" These ques-
tions should be answered in the alternative.
All this parade about military glory,
he capital with which Gen. Grant enters
the contest should neither make for nor
against him, if he and his party are all
right upon the great idea of administering
the Government upon true constitutional
principals.
Gcp. Grant has allied himselfto party
that has departed from the ancient land
marks, confessedly legislating outside of
the constitution. If the purpose of those
iupoweris to centeralize this Government,
and strip the Executive and judicial de-
partments of all power hitherto conceded
to belong to them-if the states are to be
deprived of their reserved rights--if the
south is to be kept in leading strings, and
lullied into submission by standing ar
ny-if negro supremacy and negro equal
i;y are to be forced on north and south
i bondholders are to be paid in gold, cit
izens and soldiers in greenbacks. If this
state of things is to be continued along
with the Frecdman's bureau and General
Grants services entitle him to the privi-
lego of subverting the constitution and
trampling upon the rights of the American
people guaranteed to them in that sacred
instrument: with standing and civil adj
miniStration costing FIVE HUNDRED MILF
oNs OF DOLLARS. These are stubborn facts
which no man in his sober senses will deny.
We repeat if this kind of platform is the
taste of the American people, then by all
means elect Genl. Grant.
If on the other hand Horatio Seymour is
on a platform in which all these Radical
dogmas are repudiated, and regarded as
political heresies and usurpations of power
and distinctive of the best interests of the
people, Then ralley to his standard like
freemen and patriots, and generations yet
unborn will point with exultation to those
men in this great national crisis that came
to the rescue Of an imperiled constitution.
The Pilot In spaakio of the return of