Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-09-07
THE NEW PARTY IDEA.
Failure of the MOvemeni-SpIrItO of thC
Press

HTesS.
From the Bolivar Bulletin. Sept. 4.
The friends of the third party are not
so toploftical in Gath as they were few
days since, and the loud mouth thunder
launched from one or two undulating
craters Just after the election has almost
died out, and is no longer a terror to
weakened ducks of the officesseeking
kind. Those who talked it about that
1.-THE Democratic party was dead and that
something must be done" are no longer
exposing their ears, but have quietly
stepped to the rear, or else changed tone,
and are now shouting for the only coma
stitutiOnal party in the country. The
third party movement is as sick kitten
as ever Rugged a warm brick.
From the Brownsville Bee. Sept. 3.
Some Of our heavy calibre exchanges
are using up vast deal of stationery on
the subject of parties in the State. The
| terrible bugaboO seems to be the name
| of the party. There has been for some
years Radical party in the State, but Is
now dead. The opposition to it, although
nameless, killed 1t. 1t had no endur-
ing basis; nothing to stand upon
but plumber and violence, sol was easily
done away with The trouble now Is to
get a name by which this opposition to
Radicalism may be known.
From some canse, real or imaginary,
the name of Democrat has a sort OF hy>
drophobic effoct upon the nerves OF these
gentlemen. The Richmond Wing
gravely informs us that, in the North,
"all who are not Republicans are Demo"
Gratis" but here "it is not so.
This print goes on to add that both
the old parties coaleSced under the
name of Conservatives, the majority oil
the coalition being Wings, and not DE"
mOcrats.'
Such may have been the case, but ass
suredly it is view of the situation new
er before called to our attention. The
Wing party, as a separate organization,
had ceased to exist in the whole country
North and South, many years before the
lats war began. Our recollection Is thai
it ceased to exist about seventeen years
ago, and largo majority of the South
ern people ranged themselves under the
old Democratic banner. Inc wing
ought to be high authority, but in thi;
matter we beg leave to differ with 1t
However, this is a matter OF small con-
cern-the mere name OF the parties IL
the olden time. For our own IarS We
see no immediate and pressing necessity
for demanding of the anti Radicals o
Tennessee the taking to themselves
name, at present. We are personally
, and politically Democrats. by this, w
} mean that we are opposed to Kadlcalsn
in all of its phases, and in favor oil
Constitutional government
Safe sovereignty.
The regulation of the affairs OF eaci
State by the people of that State
The abolition of military rule and thu
restoration Of civil government .
The protection of the religious, clVi
political and pecuniary rights of every
, body in the nation, and opposed to giviD
any man, or set of men, anything NOR
than Justice and true merit entltle him o
? them to.
: We hope that the press Ct the Sout
,, will find better employment than squab
: bling over a name, but we surely wi
not abandon ours until we have, at leas
some other to adopt. We grant freel
to all other men the same liberty IN tb
matter that we ourselves exercise.
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