The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-07-02
The Radical Party---A Voice from
III Et rt the Dead.

days ago that the Ndtiondf IateHtgencer,
after vigorous and brilliant career of
more than u half century, had ceased TO
exist. Many who, like. ourself, We're
taught in early life to regard it as one
of the great beacon lights of Free
Government, will read the announces
mcnt with feelings akin to those called
up by the departure of an old friend to
whose teachings and inculcations we
have ever listened with respect ana
reverence. We speak of it as it was
under Messrs. Gales and Seaton. Since
the death OF those gentlemen the IRtetlt-
gcRcer has been more of partisan jour
nal, as may be seen by the following ar-
ticlc, among the very last which appear
ed in its columns: ~
No party in any free country under
heaven ever committed so many crimes
against liberty, law and civilization as
the dominant party have committed for
the last eight years. even while they
presumed To be the very apostles of lib
crty, and the foremost and most spot
less champions of human freedom. En-
shaving where they claim to cnancipatc ::
destroying where they claim to build
up: undermining where they claim to
be strengthening and making broader
the foundations of civil liberty; rebel
iouS where they claim to be patriotic !;
tiendish. almost where they claim to be
saints. they have been. beyond all that
could have been believed, curse to
this country. and an cnsamplc Of pccu-
liar and warning lawlessncss. treachery.
hypocrisy and crime to every other.-
True to nothing good: considerate to
nothing established; hcedtul to moth
ing wise faithful to nothing promised !;
false to the peace of the country: false
to the unity of the country; false to the
institutions of the country; false to the
black race and the white race; false to
the great body of the people, with all
their manifold and mighty interests.
and false to the form of government
under which we live; corrupt through
and through, even by their own confess
sions. to very rottenness; debauched
beyond all precedent or example; rev.
dictionary from first to last in all their
| important aims and acts, instead Of de-
SCI ' IN pau saw ttioi, lOl W lilSil bhNN
are striving, as is manifest by their
reaching out for new issues which will
keep them together, they have richly
merited common eXecration and the
gibbet.
No one can with candor and the best
use of his reason survey the course OF
the party from the beginning to the
present time, whose memory has run
along pari paSsu with the acts of the
party, can fail to arrive at this conclu-
sion. They would seem to have started
out with the idea that the American
Union was one grand battle-ground for
them alone; one grand plain on which
they, like banditta, could build up thcl
fortunes: one boundless, fertile field
from which they were created to gather
spoils, and which should be to them q
rendezvous and stamping ground. On
this they have shouted, reveled, reeled
drank blood and waylail at will. On
this, as do savagcs, in their roaring
wilds, have they planned, muflled in
hypocrisy, campaign after campaign,
against the American people, their lives
and liberties, and insidiously put forth
edict after edict against their institu-
tons and the integrity Of the Union
On this tyrants Of every sort, little and
great, formidable and contemplate,
have been created, and tyrannies of ev-
cry sort, of little and of great measure
Iperpetrated. From this have been sent
forth the poisonous distilments that have
from time to time worked the public
mind well nigh to madness, and by the
inoculatcd distcmper fitted the people
of one-half the country for cutting the
throats Of the people Of the other half
From this, forgetting or despising the
high teachings of inspirations whose
divine authority no Christian creature
questions, have they sought to raise the
hand of every man against his brother
to create or perpctuate cnmity among
fellow countrymen to Undue them
with the hot and merciless spirit of the
roaming outlaw, rather than with the
spirit of mel, born and nurtured in the
lap of peace, to whom the atmosphere
of peace is their native air, their stormy
passions, and to whom sobriety OF
thought and mperate-mindedness is
an inheritance. From this they have
planned, and step by step, and year by
year, calling all passions, prejudices, re-
venges, ordinations and bitter memo.
ries to their aid, been carrying out the
overthrow of the American Republic
in order to the establishment Of an EN-.
pire in its place, as seen in the existence
of public journals, founded under theil
auspices and supported by their means
openly advocating such change in the
form of government. All this and much
more have they done and taught and in
tiicted; and in this course they have
come at last to see, or at least to fear
that the veil which they have worn is
being penetrated and the mask torn
away by the American people, and they
feel the necessity for new devices, new
tactics, new cloak behind which they
may, uEsuspected, pursue, to their &C
complishment, the plans which they
have laid out, trusting now as hereto
fore to the favoring credulity of the
country. ....
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