Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-08-15
TENNESSEE POLITICS.
The New Party Movemenf-yoiee Of
fhe Press

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II We publish an article in this issue
our paper, from the Memphis Avalanchl
under the above head, to which we invitl
the attention Of our readers. The Ava
lanche is one Of the old staunch Demo
cratic papers of the State, edited with a
ability unsurpassed by any journal i
the South We are glad to see sucl
papers leading in the right direction. A
an old Wing, we extend the hand {
Fellowship to our Democratic cotemporarJ
and endorse most heartily its noble anc
patriotic sentiments. If there was evel
time when the country needed truly
national and liberal party, it is now
Old things have passed away, and all
things have become new. The new order
OF things require new parties, and, as a
general rule, new men. The old Wing and
Democratic parties have performed their
mission and are dead. Let them sleep,
and upon their graves let us build up q
great party Of liberal ideas, with plat
form broad enough and long enough for
fair men of former parties to stand
upon. The Reorganization Of any Of
the old parties that existed before
the war would also bring into ex>
istence those old prejudices and animosi-
ties that ought to be entirely forgotten.
The old Mother of States, with Lee in
advance, has organized LIBERAL party.
Let Tennessee follow her example. Mis-
slssippi is aiming in the same direction,
and will succeed. So will all the other
Southern States.
The great mass of the Southern PEG,
pie, learning wisdom from the past, are
determined to bury the Ratchet, forget
the past, and live for the present and the
future. So mote it be.
From the Columbia Herald. August a.
The incalculable benefits achieved in
the late elections are lost sight of in the
future of political parties in the State.
The newspapers would have US believe
that the old ante7war parties are going
to be resurrected, soul and body. 1t is
hard to conceive what political tenets
the old Wing party could boast Of, as
every vital principle of its existence was
extinct before the war made the Demo-
cratic party obsolete. It would be Just
as sensible to talk about living the past
over again, as to speak Of reviVing party
that has no vital principle of existence.
acknowledgement killed Whiggery, and
secession was the death Of Democracy.
There is no lineal descendant of either
party in the South. Our people must
look forward to national party-a party
whose aim will be to look to the inters
ests of the whole country. We of the
South have to choose between the parties
as they exist in the North. We fad there
the Republican, or Radical party
and the Democratic party. The Re.
publican party lives and has its be-
ing on its hatred to everything Southern
the people, institutions and history of |
the South. The Democratic party of the
North believes that a Southern State |
has as many rights under the govern
ment Of the United States as any North. |
ern State. There is no choice left the |
South but to affiliate with one or the |
other Of these two parties-can any man |
hesitate? The Democratic party does
not advocate single principle ever ops
posed by the old Wing party of the
South, unless it be the doctrine of State
Rights, and surely after our bitter expe- /
rience Of the consolidated theory of gov.
they can have no objection to
State having rights. The development
of parties out of the present anomalous
of things will be matter Of
lively interest, to the spectator, while
we mach fear that it will also be the
cause Of unnecessary i'll feeling and fool
ish conduct.
From the Franklin Review. Aug. ID.
Our cotempOraries of the Avalanche
and Banner have found several mares
nests lately. The Banner man." who
for so long, has held the leading strings |
in this State, has quietly slipped from
his seat, and handed over the ribbons to
the Memphis Avalanche. In double
article, these heretofore excel
lent dailies have come out for a new
party. We dom know what the thing,
will be christened as yet. Some say it |
will be called Liberal" Others say
the bantling will be dubbed "ConservaS
tive-Republican." These gentlemen
pretend to deprecate the idea that any
one should call the late defeat of the |
Radical party in this State Democrat
Our opinion is that our
are stirring up
the stuff themselves. There
is no need for these articles, and we as
sure them that the great body of the
people are thoroughly disguised with
them. The fact is, the Banner has been
Eighty and fidgety for some weeks. He
seems to have the ricketts,. He worms
and twists about like an eel on a gridiron.
The strangest part of his hallucination
is, that he wants Pendleton, Hendricks,
Seymour. Brooks, Doolittle, English,
Blair and glorious Franklin Pierce, to
give up a name as dear to them as their
lives and honor, to please few fastidious
gentlemen, who, after witnessing eight
years of Radical rule, declare that the
name of Democrat stinks in their nOstrils.
Before the war the Banner was Wing
organ, then Know Nothing concern,
and finally, in its utter adherence of its
enemy, became an Opposition organ. We
would like for the gentlemen to tell
what they will give up when they pro.
pose to form Liberal party. As an old
Wing, your party was dead ten or tif
teen years before the war Sam fiZzled |
out in the first rencountre with the Man
of Iron from Greene. The Opposition
party was never very formidable In its
numbers. But for the war, we would |
all have been forced into the Democratic
ranks. We were old line Wings, Know.
Nothings and OppoSitiOners and for |
every and all things antagonistic |
to the old Democratic party. But
since the war has closed and we
look around and see but one organized
party throughout the government ops
posed to the infamous rule of Radicalism,
we are in honor bound to join in the ranks |
Of that party. The Democratic hosts led
by PendletOn, Doolittle, Hendricks and
Hancock are the only friends we have or
have had in the government, and, come
veal or woe, we cast our lot with them.
We do not for one moment doubt that if
when the war had closed our old Demos
cratic friends had been placed in our pos
sition, and the Wing party instead of the
Democratic party was battling against
radicalism, they would join their ancient
rivals with alacrity. -...
They are men Of honor, Of patriotism,
and Oh moral character, and We don't
propose to be eternally insulting them,
by telling them that their party name
stinks and do it all just to catch few
carpet>baggers and scalawags and me-
groes, who for four years have been
grinding us to powder. We see no other
party to join. The men at the North
who have battled so nobly for us through
gloom and disaster, are good enough as
sociates for US, and with them we intend