The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-30
INSPIRING ADDRESS.
The Democracy Rallying to Save
the Country.


The Democratic National Committee
has issued stirring address. 1t re-
views at length the evils brought upon
the country by the Radicals, and urges
the Conservatives to push their cause
with greater earncstncss, in order to
save the government. The address reads
as follows:
New York. October 20.-FELLow-
CITIzENs-It is great privilege and
duty to address you on the eve of the
great battle which we are to fight and
which is to decide whether the Govern
ment of this republic is to remain four
years more in the hands of the Radical
party, or whether by an energetic, unit
cd and last effort you will wrest the
power from its grasp and give to us,
under Democratic, Conservative adj
ministration, Government based up
OH the principles of justice, economy
and Constitutional liberty. The issues
of the present campaign are self-evi-
dent. They appeal TO the intelligence
and patriotism of every voter in the
most unmistakable terms. They have
been discussed by the distinguished ora
tors of our party since the nomination
of our candidates. What the Demo-
cratic party intend to do if placed in
power by your suffrage is to restore
peace and union to our country, to heal
the wounds and suflerings caused by
the rebellion, to give to the people of
the South the rights which they are en-
titled to under the Constitution. and by
which alone we can bring back pros
pcritv and quiet to that distracted Sec
ton, to reduce materially our military
and naval establishments, kept up now
on an immense scale, at enormous cost /;
to introduce into every department of
Government the strictest economy, and
develop by an equitable system of taxa
ton the growing resources of our coun-
try, and thus place the Federal finances
on a stable and solid footing, and to
pave the way to q gradual and safe re-
turn to specie payment.
We are charged by the Radical party
the party of violence and usurpation,
which, for the last four years, to pro-
long its existence, has set at naught the
Constitution and the fundamental prin-
ciples of our Government-that we in
tend revolution and defiance of estab-
lished law. The accusation is unfound-
ed and absurd. 1t can not be enter
tanned for q moment by any intelligent
voter who has the most superficial
knowledge Of the history Of the coun-
try. The Democratic party can proud
" point to every page of its record
1t has never violated a single obligation
of the fundamental compact by which
these United States entered into the
family of nations. Its watchword in
peace as in war, has been and will al
ways be: 'The Union, the Constitution
and the Laws" and no man, or set of
men, however high they might be
placed by the sutlrages of their fellow
citizens, can ever expect to receive the
support of this great conservative par
ty in any revolutionary attempt against
established laws. The ballot-boX and
the supreme will Of the American peo-
pie are the only means of redress to
which we look.
Fellow Dcmocrats-Yo are fighting
for good and righteous cause. You
have for your leader tried statesman
and u patriot, who stood by the Union
in its darkest hour. a man equally be-
loved for the purity Of his private char
acter as honored for his public virtues.
Opposed to you are the men who have
subverted the structure of their own
system of representative self-govern-
ment, vindicated to the world by more
than half q century of prosperity and
greatness; the men who have increased
our enormous debt by profligacy and
corruption unparalleled; the men, who,
in two successive Congresses have de-
mOnstrated their incapacity to diminish
our burdens by economy or apportion
with equity; the men who have so dis
tributed our burdens that they press
with excessive weight upon the labor
and industry of the COMMUNICATING
rich men richer by making poor men
poorer. Opposed to you are the men
who have denied for three years of
peace and they will continue to deny,
until your votes arrest them, self-gov-
eminent to the people of ten States !;
the men who have taken away the pow
er of our Chief Magistrate to insure
faithful execution of the laws or COM
mand the army and navy of the United
States the men who did their worst to
eXpel the President from the White
House for obeying faithfully the inter-
being conscious Of their crimes, dread
ed to have the Supreme Court declare
their quality, and therefore abridged its
Jurisdictions and silenced its voice the
men who have usurped and are grasp
ing and welding powers not possessed
to-day by any monarch among civilized
nations. Against these men and all
their settled purposes, which General
Grant would bd as powerless to hinder
as he whom they elected four years ago
has been; against these men their crimes
in the past and their nefarious designs
in the future, yon are soon to make one
final and determined onslaught. Four
years ago we failed to eXpel them from
power though we predicted then, as we
do now predict, their incompetency to
give the peace, declaring then, as we do
now declare, the revolutionary purpo-
ses of their most active leaders who
ruled the party as they would the coun-
try with despotic sway; but these
four years have justified our warning.
Our worst predictions arc their enact
ments now; what we feared they have
done the revolution has made steady
progress. - e.
Once moro we call every patriot to
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