Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-08-21
TIE NEW PARTY MOVEMENT.

| Il Il ms 1890
The Press speaking Out No 0theI
Party Needed.
From the Shelbyviile American Rescue. Au
gust ~.
The Memphis Avalanche and the
Nashville Banner are advocating
the claims Of . a new party Or
ganization to be known asthe Liberals. u
The Avalanche and Banner both de-
clare themselves opposed TO Andrew
johnson becoming the next United
States Senator. We have parties enough
already. There are but two parties now
in the country-the Democratic and
Radical or Republican parties If the
Banner and Avalanche think they can
make ANYTHING by getting up split and
fusing with the tail end of the Radical
party, let them 20 it The true honest
patriots of the country will stand by the
party that has proved its nationality res
CARELESS of former parties or names.
We advise our contemporaries to use
their able pens in worthier service.
Their new enterprise is bound to fail
They may land we believe they will) get
up a Liberal party, but they will be dis
appointed in its material; it will net be
composed of the men to whom they are
making their appeals. We predict that
with very, very few exceptions it will be
led by ambitious men who have lost cast
in the estimation of the people and whose
chances for political position are dead
forever; and their followers will be, in
the main, the rag-tag and bob tail of the
dismembered Radical party.
From the Springfield Record, Aug. 20.
Scarcely are we out Of the brush, or
through fighting one of the hardest fought
political battles that our noble State ever
engaged in, before the victorious side, or
at least two or three of our leading jour-
nails, are attempting to agitate the minds
of the people upon the unimportant subs
ject Of name for the new party. This,
we consider, is very much out of place.
As for US, We are satisfied with the
glorious achievements attained on the 9Th,
and as to the name for the new party,
what difference does it make-in other
words, what is there in a manner? If it
is the intention of the ushering.in
party to stand upon the broad platform
of universal rights and political privileges
to all, what is the use at this critical
moment, when all of our mind should be
kept cool, of saying whether we call the
party Democrats or Conservatives, Lbs
eralists, or anything else. The watchr
word is "PEACE," and let US have it at all
hazards We feel confident that the
"baby" will be named in due season. Let
time work it a name. There will be
issues arising for the next few months
that will need the cool deliberations of
every patriot, and in order that no mis-
takes bemade, let's be quiet on this unim-
portant topic. Robertson county has a
voice in this affair, having given Senter,
the peace candidate, over 9, 900 votes, and
we but speak her sentiments when we
say: "Let US have Peace.
From the Clarkesville Tobacco Leaf. Aug. 70
The Nashville Banner and the Mem
phis Avalanche are advocating the pro.
priety of a new party organization and
calling upon the Democrats, Old Line
Wings and Conservative Republicans to
rally under the flag of liberalism"
What do We want with parties and party
organizations in this country at this
time? Why this hot haste to divide the
people and disturb the harmony which
has secured to US the great victory over
prescriptionists Are the people never
to have rest2 Shall they not be permitted
to eDjoytheir newly acquired freedom, and
by wise and judicious measures secdre to
themselves and their children the legiti-
mate results of their recent conquest
What is the meaning of this new move
ment? Do the people urge it2 Where
are the Wings and the Democrats" or
Liberal Republicans that clamor for
new party? The movement does not
come from the people. We strongly sus.
pect that it conceals the pretentions of
some aspiring politician, whose eye is
fixed upon a seat In the Senate of the
United States His ambitious preten-
tions should not be suffered to divide,
distract, annoy and beget heartburnings
and jealousies, to infame passions which
have cooled, and to hazard the newly
acquired liberties of the people
The people have united as a mass to
sweep prescription and illiberality from
| the bounds of Tennessee. They have
shown themselves as united body, wise,
| prudent and liberal. When all are lib
| eral and wise and prudent why should
there be party calling itself par ex.
cellence, the Liberal party. The people
have not yet quite finished their glorious
work of regeneration. A convention is
necessary to set the keystone of the
grand arch, that it may stand forever a
firm and beautiful monument of the
wisdom and liberality of united people.
Why should they be distracted in the
prosecution of their work by the forma-
ton of new party, which must inev'
itably produce more or less division of
sentiment and difference of opinion? To
wish even the slightest division now,
seems to US fatal blindness. Again,
shall we turn our backs to the Democrats
of the North, who have borne themselves
so CALAMITY against prescription and
tyranny Their name may or may not
be the one that would best please our
ear; but theirs is the only party which
is struggling with US and for US. May
we not, in our haste to engender party
strife in our State, work fatal injury to
our friends in the coming NOrthe IN
elections2 For the present let Tennes-
see keep quiet and wait the development
of her new Legislature and her proposed
convention. Let her cultivate that
spirit which characterized our late cleo
tion-a spirit of liberality which would
not be excluded by the most earnest ad-
vocates OF Liberal party.
From the Greeneville Union. Aug. 10
The people of Virginia and Tennessee
have alike won great victories, and We
agree with the Memphis Avalanche and
Nashville Banner, that they may nov
properly set about organizing grea
party upon the basis upon which the!
won their recent victories and We hk
the name they suggest of Liberal party.
1t would not only control these States
but would exercise a salutary and per
) haps controlling influence in the field o
national politics.
. General F T Dent, known familiarl
h as the Presidents door>keeper, publicl
} declares his willingness to wager hi
next years salary that Judge Chase wi
be the next candidate OF the Democrat
for President, and his brother, Judg
. Dent, will be the next Governor
n Mississippi.