Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-16
1.-THE RIGHT rs ALWAYS EXPE-
DIENE."

These were the words Of Andrew
jackson in regard to political questions.
They are as true as Gospel Indeed,
they are the Gospel itself
They are quoted to introduce an ex-
tract from the National bteIhgeacer Of
June 10Th, in which that staunchly DEM
Ocratic journal severely animadverts
upon the recent course of the New York
World We fully concur in the stric'
lures, made upon the equivocating,
water-gruel position of the leading DEM
cratic paper in New York The cOnven-
tion must see that no such counsels as
the World gives, prevail in its action.
Its declaration of principles aud its cam
didates must be clear and pronounced
against Radicalism Fine writing and
the adroit use Of words to conceal ideas,
or advance ideas repugnant to the Com
sentative Democratic standard, must be
seduIously guarded against Let the
platform be brief, concise, and unam-
biguous on every question, The people
will not tolerate paltering 10 a double
sense at this juncture. Platforms made
after that model will be spurned, and
candidates selected to it. will be de-
feated Says the IRfeEigencer g.
{ The people will follow no shifting or I'M
certain standard-bearer. They cannot be
made to right-about-face every week or so
by any editorial caprice, even of those
whom they trust, and they do much larger
part Of their own thinking than is COM
monty supposed. r
III there be distinctive feature in the
present political struggle--an issue that is
prominent above all.others-it is the claim
of the Radicals that all these infamous acts
shall stand as final and complete; that ne
gro suffrage shall DO maintained at the
South, no matter what the whites may "a Y
about thematter; that what is done is done,
and. cannot be undone. The negro may be
shut Out from the polls in Ohio, Pennsyl-
vania and Michigan but from the PotO-
mac 10 the Rio Grande he is TO have full
swing.
II Radical ideas, doctrines and acts are
TO be carried out in the government, then
il is simply fair that the work should be
committed TO Republican hands. The POI
sition Of the World il that the issue of negro
suffrage in the South is TO be determined, not
by the Constitution or the wishes Of the
white population, but by the negroized
governments themselves, controlled by ne
groes, and shackled by tesi-Oaths binding
the voter 10 swear 70 accept negro suffrage.
Outside Of the machinery Get up by the
bayonet and aided by fraud, says the World,
the whites must not look, and therefore the
case is compared TO the extension Of the bal
lol 10 Wkife poiegs IN England whO are tar
PAYERS. We imagine the Southern people
would much prefer honest and Outspoken
Rsdicalism 10 such ieering mockery as
this; bat we proceed. The conclusion Of
the Wald, therefore, is that negro suffrage
il a ixed fact, and that the South has only
two alternatives--one to persuade" the
negroes TO vote against their own right
10 vote" the other 10 persuade them 10
use that rieh Cor the advantage Of the
community"
What Is the mslive Coz all this tergiyer-
safion and abandonment Il il the idea
that there can beno expediency which
does not start out with an abandonment Of
principls9 Oar ideas of expediency are
those 81 Jaclson--that ''fhe rigAd Is always
expedientS lsif Adesire 10 be sensational,
and an idea that this Is only 10 be at
tanned BY startling propositions, and ex-
travaeanl, unexpected attitudes Such,
from 4 paragraph Of this journals OF yeaser-
dav. would seem 10 be partly, a. least, the
purpose We are told In the idiOm Of the
spiritualisls that the Democratic party is
10 be covered By natural affinity" and
aincline 10 nominations which place II 10
Immediate relation with the brvaiklng, poi