The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1868-10-30

We would like to know how any man
who earns his bread by the sweat of bis
brow expects to be benefited by the cleo
ton of Grant. The radical party which is
running Grant has had control of the gov
erument Tor the past eight years, and every
man ought by this time to understand how
much industry is benefited by the radical
method of running the government. The
country has tried radicalism for i've years
of war and three of peace, and judging from
the past, what have the people TO hope for
in the future, with radicalism triumphant?
If party cannot show itself friend to the
industrial interest Of the country, in three
years trill, how can that interest be expec-l
ted to favor further trial of four years?-
Radicalism has nothing in interest with in
dustry; if it had, it would have shown it
the past year for the purpose of securing the
laboring mans vote, ii for no other pur-
pose.
1t has not by any Legislation advanced
the interest of labor in any conceivable
shape aud it cannot. It can make promis-
es now % do big things, but its failure in
the past to do any one thirg, is best evil
dence that they can do nothing. Why then
vote for party which has satisfied every
body that the most important interest OF the
! country finds no friends in it's ranks.-ZoaOa
do you want to see the rebels in pos
session of the government" This ques-
/ ton is frequently asked by the radicals Of
Democrats, says Northern paper. What
silly question to ask. 1t pre-supposes
that there has been no repentance on the
part of the Southern people, and that they
have not had enough of the miseries of war
1t Pre-suppOses that after the fearful pun
ishment they have suffered at the hands of
the Northern soldiers and sailors, that they
are spelling for another war-that they are
wiling to run the risk of having Sherman
march another army through the heart of
their country and devastate it; to make a
desert of it. If when they were in full
strength they were totally unable to protect
their soil from invasion, when they had
slaves to produce provisions to feed their
armies, when they had credit with foreign.
ers to replenish their Treasury, they were
unable to cope with the North, how, in the
name Of common sense, can they expect now
! when they have lost their slaves, their cred
it at home and abroad, when the great bulk
Of their fighting men are dead or cripples,
/ when they are poverty stricken that they
have all they want to do to keep want from
| their doors, to provide the necessaries Of
life to get possession of the government,
rob US of our liberties, re-establish slavery
in the South, and force it on the North, re-
/ pudiate the national debt, and make mis-
chief generally, in the face of the opposition
that they would be sure to meet in twenty
seven States without distinction of party.
And yet this bug-bear is held up by the
radical press and stump speakers to their
auditors, who in too many instances gulp it
down whole as Gospel truth, without once
submitting it to the test of judgment or Of
common sense. Can any proposition be
more silly? AS "the burnt child breads
the fire." so the Southern people dread a
repetition Of the miseries of another rebell-
ion. That is the reason that they bear with
unexampled patience the indignities and
injuries heaped upon them by a Congress
of uuPrinciPled, unfeelng demagogues.