The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-04-30
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sweetwater, Thursday, April 80, 1868,
RADICALISW,

It that the Radical party has long been
conspiring against the constitutional gov
eminent of our fathers. The reckless and
wicked leaders of this party long ago be-
came satisfied that their only hope of con-
tinuod success lay in keeping alive those
hatreds and sectional anmostics which
RadicalisIh originated and which it has
almost succeeded III making indelible.
Constitutional restraint, in any degree, is
burden which revolutionary parties can
not bear, and the rapid strides which Rad
icaliqn has made in the direction of I'M
brldIed licenso, since it became the con-
trolling political power of the country,
has startled and alarmed every true pa
tr'ot. The history Of this party stree the
close OF the war can he summed mp as
Wild effort to secure permanently the po-
sltIon which it had attained by fraud. The
various acts passed in reference to recon-
struction (the word itself hes almost be-
come nauScouS,) we're conceived and adopt
cd in a mixed spirit of hatred for the
South, and Of unholy greed for placc at
any cost Of principle, and at any sacri-
nee of the best interests of the whole
country. If, at ono and the same time,
the ten Southern States could be placed
under the control of the Radical party,
by the assistance of loyal negroes and
ScaIIlwags, and the white people of the
South be tormented into sufficient show
OF resistance to make it appear at the
North that they were still unoonquorcd,
Radical legislation would have accomplish
ed double purpose. To succeed in these
designs they have hesitated at nothing in
The calendar of party crime and in the COM
ing campaign they depend mainly on the
workings Of their mhuman schemes.
From the day Mr.. Lincoln was allowed
to set aside all law under the protence of
public safety, and bill of indemnity was
passed to secure him from the Just conse-
fuelceS of his official crimes, dates the
Nadical conspiracy to overthrow the con-
stltutlonai government of the United
states. If Mr.. johnson is convicted it will
be simply because he stands in the way of
the destructive policy of the Radical par
ty' Then, with the Supreme Court
scarcely mentionable hindrance to the
carrying out Of their revolutionary de-
signs, it will be an easy matter, they
think, to secure the next four years of
ofilce, during which time they can change
the fundamental law of the land to suit
their own purposes.
In connection with this subject the
Courier des Etats Unis, a French paper
IN New York, republican in politics, says
the ultra wal. Democrats and moderate
Republicans can now see what they have
done by lending their influence to the
Radicals, by permitting the accomplish
ment of arbitrary acts or applauding their
eonsummation. The interests of the peo-
pie have been used as pretext, but it has
always been in the name of the interests
of the people that nations have been en-
shaved and oppressed. 1t was in the name
of the people that Caesar crossed the Rubi-
con, and that the French Convention
weighed the nation down under the most
atrocious of relationships. The present
political illegality and violence are the
natural and necessary consequences of the
violence and illegality of the last admin
istration, and hundred times more than
Dir. johnson, it deserves to be placed up
on trial for violation of law. But Mr..
Lincoln ovcrstepped the law in accordance
with the passion of the moment and the
rage Of Congress, and consequently was
Landed to the skies. Mr.. johnson exert
ed himself to make these laws respected,
and thus clashed with the sentiments of
the majority of Congress; he must, there
fore, be destroyed. A pretty lesson, in
deed, for the elected of a Republican peo-
pie; the lesson it teaches is that they
need not respect the laws or obey the
voice of conscience, but that it is prudent
to follow, wherever they may lead, the i'm