The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-08-27
The NeWAarty. Movement.


Our contemporaries 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
columned article, theseheretoforee excel
lent dailies have come out for a new
party. We don't know what the thing
will be christened as yet. Some say it
will he called Liberal" Others say
the bantling will be dubbed "Conserva-
tive-Republican." These gentlemen
pretend to deprecate the idea that any
one should call the late defeat of the
Radical party i'm this State Democrat
victory. Our opinion is that our
contemporaries are stirring up the stuff
themselves. There is no need for these
articles, and we assure them that the
great body of the people are thoroughly
disguised with them. The fact is, the
Banner has been flighty and fidgety
for soLle weeks. He seems to have the
ricketts,. He worms and twists about
like an eel on gridiron. The strang-
est 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 a few fastidious gen.
tlemen, who, after witnessing eight
years of Radical rule, declare that the
name of Democrat stinks in their nos
trils.
Before the war the Banner was d
Wing organ, then KnOw-Nothing
concern and finally, i'm its utter abhOr>
rance of its enemy, become an Opposi-
ton organ. We would like for the
gentlemen to tell what they will give
up when they propose to form Liberal
party. AS an old Wing, your party
was dead ten or fifteen years before the
war. Sam fizzled out in the first
rencontre 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-Noth-
ings 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
/ RONeEHlutlI OppOSCu W thC ilioiAOuc
rule of RadicaliSm, We are in honor
bound to join in theranks ofthat party.
| The Democratic hosts led by PendletOn,
Doolitle, 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 Dem
ocratic friends had been placed in our
position, 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, ofpatriotism
and high 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 negroes, 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 associates for us, and with
them we intend to lock shields and
hearts, and battle until Radicalism is
driven from the shores of America.
Stop your little tomfoolery and cling
to your friends. Keep your little
cockle-boat near the shore or the people
will capsize it.