Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-08-18
mERALnIANA-

For four successive issues, the New
York Herald has contained articles re,
viewing the political field, and prognos.
ticating the defeat of RadicaIism. The
lack of principle and political instability
of that Journal is proyerbial, but neither
of these features impair its sagacity. Itt
founder and manager is a man of extra,
ordinary shrcwdness, and his corps of ed
itors have instructions to exhaust every
resource Of information and when Ben.
nett and company lave time to look int
things, they can form very reliable
opinion as to the drilt they are taking.
The number of the 18th inst says:
Two points in the canvass are more inn
| pOrtant than all uthers-the history of the
| Radical party and the niger vote. For
eight years the Republicans party has been
| in power, and the final results, as seen by
the people, are the arrangement OF all the
machinery Of government an almost in
credible corruption in Office aud weight ia
| taxes that bears commerce and labor 10
the earth. VIII the people longer have
patience with n party that has such his
tory? This is the question Of the hour.
Is there any fear ia our future that should
move the people to trust this party again
even despite the fearful chance that it may
continue the same destructive career that
has sready been 50 disastrous to the ma
tional prosperity? Can any other party
iniltct upon US evils worse than those we
nov suffer a. the consequence of Radical
iaisrule? Reconciliation by a system Of
Legislation that deliberately FORCES calaIni-
~ for whole people and prepares the so-
ciai ruin OF ten States to secure power 20 a
colerie Of politiciana-thi Is the political
crime that stamps the Radical faction as
utterly damnable before the people
Democracy has bad history, too, bat its
sins are trivial by comparison. If this
faction ever desired 10 reconstruct society
is was in the interest OF the white man.
The word taxation hardly occurs in its his
tory, and IL never aimed blow at the Su.
preme Court OF sought TO cripple The gov
erument in the person Of the Executive.
Ii sympathized with the South in the war
and that can be forgiven by people who
are nj last coming to look upOn the Repub-
licans as the South looked upon them when
the war began. II, therefore, the history
of the Democracy were darker than il il
the history Of Radiealism would be in
iinitely beyond il in infamy. IL is anon
these broad yieys and judgments of parties
that the people move. The common mind |
averages great results 10y processes of its
own. Isolated facts are forgotten. this or |
that virtue or vice seems TO pass away |
bat the balance Of history is made up al the |
potts, and Kentucky indicates the ten |
dency. rfE ss ..l--sN
The case Of the Presidency. therefore. |
Jadged by the main facts seems TO stand |
thus: The history Of the Radical parry is
such that Tie people will not trust Il again
on any terms, and this conviction threatens
to give the North to the Democrats. IL
however, this fails, there is a possibility
that Grant may he beaten BY losing the
whole South through the detection Of the
negroes, who viii 90 over 20 the Demo
rrats, partly led by the natural influences
oi association and partly by recruitment for
he REIMBURSEMENT by the Radicals of that
measure that was ffom ihe first regarded as
necessary 10 sustain their political OPP
1osltion to their former masaers-con6sca-
ioB.