Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-08-19

Col VIM. d. stephen, III Disl |
ter TO his old Wing associates IN west
Tennessee, says: l.-=-=.----..-
There are now but two parties in the
limited States, and for years to come
there can be no other.
One of these is the product, in part, OF
the recent civil war. Setting out upon
the hypothesis of the divine right OF
kings, that all resistance to q government
is treason, and that rebellion is the chief
of all crimes the one unpardonable SIN
it proposes to take from the people the
power to resist the government no mat
ter what may be the proyoca-
ton. Its mission is, therefore,
to break down the barriers which
surround the State sovereignties; to con
solidate al power in q central govern.
ment to reduce the people to state OF
immediate allegiance and subJecuon 10
that government, to prevent any union
among them for their common protection
ly 'folnenting hatred between the white
and colored races, and to keep the supe-
rior class Under the ban of political dis
abilities, until they can shape the laws and
| institutions of the country according to
this model, and mould the habits and
| thoughts of the people to this new and
| dangerous experiment of government. ~
The other party embraces all those who
1 desire to curb the powers of the Govern
meDt, to preserve the Constitutional guar
antics of liberty, to give equal rights to
all men, to remove from the Southern
| people their political disabilities, to give
/ tothose whose taxes support the Govern
| ment fair share in its administration
and to give vitality once more to that es!
sential principle of liberty that the Gov
eminent is made for the people, and not
the people for the Government. From
Canada to the gulf, from ocean to ocean,
all who wish to set limits to arbitrary
power, to preserve the writ of habeas
corpus, and thus protect the personal
liberty OF. the citizen, to secure econo-
NV in the administration of the Gov
eminent; all who wish to restore harmony
and brotherly love to the American peo-
pie; all who believe that a man may have
fought for his native State without for
feiting the rights of a citizen, and without
sinking below the level of q Hotentot-all
these must act with this grand party, and
with this alone. Any man who does this
is my brother, whether Wing or Demo
crat, whether Northern or Southern,
whether Confederate or Federal, whether
American or foreigner, whether Israelite
or Christian, whether Roman Catholic OF
Protestant. They are all alike citizens OF
our country. They all have q common
interest in securing the blessings of 8 just,
an economical and a paternal government.
/ If thew unite as band of patriots, they
may accomplish this result. If they divide,
1 their overthrow is inevitable. .''
l With which of these two parties do the
/ Democratic and Conservative voters Of
the State of Tennessee sympathize2 The
latter. Then let US unhesitatiHgly per
petuate with that party the union estab,
lished by the Convention of June, 1868.
We then declared that it was the only po-
litical organization with which we could
associate and formally united ourselves
| with it Why should we not repeat that
| declaradon7 Has that party beer
untrue to the principles that it ther
| professed2 Is there less hope Of
its success? or has Radicalism
by its subsequent course endeared itself tC
the people of the South' There is but
one hope now, as there was but one ther
for the restoration of the rights Of
the States and the preservation
of the people from the further oppression:
| and unjust exactions of the party first
above described by Col. Stephens /; that is
| by closely adhering to our alliance with
the party secondly above mentioned. LET
OUR CONVENTIONS AND OUR CANDIDATES
| UNKQUIvoCALLY DECLARE THEMSELVES IN
FAVOR OF CONTINUATION OF THAT ALL