Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-22
REPUpIArIoN REPupIATED.


Under this caption the New York World
of the 18th deyotes a column TO the re-
cent discussion in the House of Repre-
seniatives, elected by the speech Of Mr.
Munger, of Ohio, an svowed reputation
list. In the course of its remarks, the
World says:
A portion of the Democratic party may
have been confused for q moment by
| plausible sOphistries, and transiently mis-
led by false lights but the Wortd has
never doubted that this fraction Of the
party was henest in its instincts, nor that
its t'sober second thought" would cure it
of temporary errors. The sophistries to
which we allnde found more or less favor
among prominent men of both political
parties; the late Thaddeus Stevens, Gen.
Butler, Senator Morton, and Senator Sher-
man having either preceded MIR. Pendle-
ton in the annunciation of his views, or
Endorsed what he was among the first to
pFomulgate. The World never gave
those views any countenance, and It al
ways felt that it represented on this sub
ject the real feeling of the Democratic
party, and of the wisest and most sa-
gacious of its leaders
Commenting on this article of the
World, our city contemporary, the Ban
ner, of yesterday, says:
The World and the Congressional party
certainly have the call to the matter of
common sense and political craftsmanship,
and their bold stand against reputation
indicates healthier and more progressive
and original spirit than has heretofore
characterized the field maneuvers of the
New York circle of political directors and
managers. II is a successful flank move
ment on the Radicals, whether our friends
of the Cincinnati Enquirer favor il or
not
Now, if the doctrines of Mr.. Pendleton,
Thad Stevens and Butler upon the pay
ment of the bonds according TO the con-
tract, in greenbacks, make them repudia-
tionists, then we desire to be classed in the
same category. This we understand to be
the doctrine not only of the entire Dem
Ocratic press of the West and South, but
of the Cincinnati Gazette and many other
of the leading Western Radical journals.
This, too, we understand to be the doc
trine of Mr. Brooks, of New York, and
others of the Democratic Congressman,
who opposed the views of Mr.. Mungen,
notwithstanding the warm approval given
them by the World and the Banner as
antagonistic TO the views of Mr.. Pendle-
ton. This, too, was the doctrine of the
Tennessee Democratic State Convention
of June, 1868, as declared in the resolu-
tons which were then adopted We make
the following extracts from those reSolu-
tons:
The faith of the nation is pledged to
the payment Of the national debt, princi-
pal and interest, in the terms of the acts of
Congress issuing the bonds, bit not other
arise. $ We are opp0sedto the view
that the principal of a large portion of
the bonds is payable in gold; and that
while we hold gold and silver to be the
true constitutional currency, we declare
that the 800 bonds should be paid in the
same cuTTencyreceived by the Government
for their issue. = There should not
exist a favored class paid in gold, while
the Government discharges debts to the
mass of the people in a currency which is
kept deprecated in value by this iniquit-
Gus system.
Again, the Democratic Convention which
nominated Gov Seymour for the Presi-
dency, declared in favor Of
One currency for the Government and
the people, the laborer and the office hold
eT, the pensiOner and the soldier, the pro-
ducer and the bondholder.
Gov. Seymour, in accepting that nomi-
nation, said:
As the presiding officer of the Con-
vention, l am familiarswith the scope and
import of the resolutions; as one of its
members am a party to thch terms.
They are in accord with my views, and l
stand upon them in the contest upon which
we are now entering, and l shall strive to
carry them out in the future, wherever
may be placed, in public or private life. "
Fortified by these expressions, we stand
ready to maintain with Mr.. Pendleton that
the bonds should be paid in grccnbacks,
unless otherwise expressly stipulated in
the contract We cannot be led from
this position, or ''be confused for a mo-
ment by plausible sOphistries, and tran
silently misled by false lights" of those
who maintain a contrary doctrine,
whether they be within or without the
Democrafic fold