Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-08-28
NEW SERIES. NO. 73la

| o'Sn VI making THIS p0D'
uiar movement In Tennessee party
movement when it was nothing of ths
kind
We do not so understand the matter
We had not thought of making party
capital of any sort, much less attempted
to make any for the Democratic national
party. But when the strange assertion
was made, that this was universal suf-
frage" victory, and it seemed to US that a
new party was to be set up and made out
of it, we protested against an attempt to
weaken the only existing great conser-
vative national organization, for the pur-
pose of making an experiments with any
little fractional affair in Tennessee.
Even If a new party was desirable, the
time seemed to US unpropitiOus for its or
gsnizatiOn, and we believed such an
attempt, so far from succeeding,
would only work into the Radicals
hands, as it has already done. We
are now pleased to see the Banner aban.
don the attempt, which, after all, is likely
to prove harmless. We are happy to be
advised that our eotemporary has thought
better on the subject, or what Is still
better, never entertained the design. Let
the bygone be bygone. We neither
charge the Banner with "deeeiving the
people Of Tennessee" or, any more than
the Appeal, with being capable of doing
so. We accept as true its declaration
that $50 far from desiring the establish4
ment of any third party, we infinitely
preferred, and SO we believe did the ma
jority Of our fellow citizens, that there
should be no party at all for the present
We differ as to what the people pre-
ferred-but let that pass. That the Dem-
ocratic party, being largely in the ma
jority in the South, and holding its Lead
ers, had much TODD with bringing OF
the war is true. If the Wings had been
in power at the time, the same charge
might have been made against them, with
the same justice, for the people were not
divided into parties, but nearly unani-
nous on the question. The idea Of no
party, and Of standing independent
holding the balance of power, which the
Banner now emphatically fayors, looks
like getting. back to third party again,
and to the rmpracticable thing of ''Lib-
erar party, which that paper has aban-
dOned, or in courtesy we will say, has
never endorsed. 1T is well to be persist
emily consistent with ones self "Con-
sistency is jewell more particularly
in that sense. Does the Banner propose
now balance Of power party, Organs
lied or unorganiZed2 If it wants no new
Liberal party, does it want an unor-
ganization2 Leading" journals should
be careful how they lead the pubha
And, if we must follow, we hope they wiz
be kind enough to give us more explicit
directions
From the Gallatin Examiner. Aug. z.
We greatly regret TO see in various
quarters q movement on foot looking to-
wards the formation of q new party to
be called the Liberal. 1t comes, too, at
time when the white people of the
whole State, leaving out the carpet bag
gerry and scalawag pfunderers, is . unit
and fully agreed in all matters of general
policy. By common consent in times Of
great trouble all old party lines were
rubbed out and harmonious fusion took
place. There were no Democrats or
Wings in the old meaning of the word,
because the questions Of policy which
divided them once had passed away, and
were as effectually dead as the dis
putes OF the houses Of York and
Lancaster. For want of better
name, at the close of the war, and, IN
resistance to the expressions of Radical
thieves, they designated the party as
Conservative, and under that name, in
the South, have co>Operated with the
only party in the North in opposition to
the Radical The Northern Democratic
party is composed of old Wings and
Democrats just as tbs here-both uniting
in resistance to Radicalism. 1t is thors
oughly organized and powerful, and is
the only organization with which the
white people of the South could ally
themselves. And now for our politicians
to commit the absurd folly of setting up
new standard at the head of a new
and third party, is the most suicidal act
that could possibly be committed. And
we have reason TO think that no one de-
slres to be party to such a folly
without some Interior motive of per-
sOnal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT which is not
creditable. New, live
questions are before Us. First the
preservation Of the Republic which
heaves yet in the throes of the late reS
yOlutiOn. 1t will requiresall, the wisdom
OF the most prudent and Of the wisest to
keep it from being dashed to pieces
Then will come hundred questions of
policy to be settled, and now to hazard
everything by the Senseless course of
building up q third and new party to
disrupt the smicable ties which now bind
our people in one solid phalsnx Of
strength, In harmonious movement with
an immense organization in the North is q
step which should be sternly frowned
down. All over the State the people gov
erned themselves by a wise discretion, and
in utter oblivion of old ties. Democratic
counties have elected old line Wings,
and vice versa, Wing counties old lin
Democrats. Any disturbance of this lin
ofactiOn would be, in every sense, vi
lation of good faith and show a rockies q
ness of principle utterly distasteful to
every honorable mind.