Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1869-08-26
Politics.,

The Memphis Avalanche and Appeal
have quarreled as to the future policy TO
be pursued by the Conservatives of Ten
nessee. The latter insists that they shall
ioin the C~oppcrheads of the North, and
oppose the Republican party, and all its
measures. and fight it to the bitter end.
The Avalanche sternly rcbukes such folly
and blindness. Both parties were intense
ly rebel during the war, and their present
zone indicates the great division now GO
ing on among those who espoused the for
tunes of the defunct Confederacy. We
make two extracts: The first from the
appeal. 1t says:
We who are antagonists of the Radi-
cal programme and party, and who have
lust achieved Il victory II Tennessee, have
been called Conservatives, and sometimes
Democrats-never Liberals never Uni
versal Suffragers. The organization un-
der which we combined in the late Presi-
dental contest was called Democratic
1t is the great and only anti-Radical or
ganization in the United States.
The AUdLdHche, on the contrary, says:
1--WE see no hope for the South through
the organization Of a party whose mission
has been performed, il which Is shOrn OF
all power to heal existing issues. Had
the recent contest i'll Virginia and Ten
neSSee been fought under the old banner
of Democracy, defeat would have been i'll
evitable. We are rejoiced to see that Mis-
sissippi has taken counsel Of the action of
her sisters, and that she, too, proposes to
secure peace and reconstruction through
Il combination of good men, regardless of
former political bias. Democracy, as a
party organization, can accomplish no
more in Mississippi than they could have
accomplished in Tennessee or Virginia,
and we are gratified to see our old party
friends manifesting a Willingness to form
Il new organization that Will meet the ext
gencies of the times.
1.-The work of ~disintegration is rapidly
going on among the old politicians. The
issues that divided the country i'm the
Presidential election of last year are prac-
ticalIy settled. Negro suffrage is a liked
fact. Reconstruction, according to the
Congressional demands, is unavoidable
The Southern people have accepted the
situation. Virginia was the first to ig-
more old party issues n nOmenclatures.
Tennessee followed, and it will be seen
thu Mississippi, our sister State, has
adopted the same wise policy. But, 'Oh,'
says some old party hack, Z" are you going
to sink the hallowed name Of Democracy,
and abandon a party that has stood by
the constitution so long!" We say yes, if
the public good requires it, sink the name
and the pdrty so deep that The hdnd Of res
direction uiH nerer reach II. We know that
Democracy ardently desires to preserve
the constitution and our institutions as
they received them from their fathers
But they are poocerless for good. The poll
cy they have opposed has triumphcd, and
let us meet the new, living, vital issues
that concern the South not as partisans,
but as patriots, anxious to strike hands
with any body that can do the greatest
good to a people who are so much in need
Of good deeds. When a party confessedly
becomes a failure, so far as the accomplish
ment of results. then its organization Is n
cheat and "A UpluSiOn. and DrOfitiuO by
the lessons which history teaches, we
should abandon it. The Democratic par
tyisnow nothing but the shell from which
the oyster WAS takpu-n