Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-07-21
THE THIRD Party AGAIN.

We are pleased to see that the Wesi
Tennessee Wing repels, though in IAN
guage fully as strong as courteous, the
charge that he and those acting with him
''are in favor of organizing third par
ty." And as if to give greater force to
the denial, adds: "rhe two parties
which exist, and which have existed,
since the war, are the Conservative aad
the Radical This is true, and no one
win deny it; still the fact remains, that
If the Conservative party be divided,
whether ON the policy of holGing Con-
ventiOn, or any. other issue that ma be
made, therewill be a third party, and we
have the right to infer, and common
sense will sustain the inference, that all
who are fOmenting discomfort, are in
favor of third party, or are working for
an end far more mischievons.
1t raatters not with US whether the
threatened division is to be known as third
party, or is to take more Objectionable
shape; it is against such divisions that we
argued and protested. And that we have
been charitable in our construction of the
aims and purposes of the discontented
few, will appear when we view, inlogical
connection, their acts and declarations.
They emphatically> deny that they care
IN favor of organizing third party" So
much for what they say; then come their
acts which speak as plainly as words,
their dissatisfaction with the great body
of the Conservative party, or the Demo-
cratic, as they pleased to term it. They
will not deny that they are endeavoring
to make converts to their peculiar views.
Then, may we not ask what they viii do
with their recruits? Theirown declaration
forbids the suppOsitiOn that they intend
TO organize them as third party, and the
only remaining inference is that they will
carry them over to the Radicals. = ,.r.r
To avoid this conclusion which legiti-
mately follows their own premises, but
which is so damaging TO their patriotism,
we preferred to speak of them as endeay-
oring to organize third party; but since
they Indignantly repudiate our construc-
ton, we leave them to the mercy of in
exorable logic, deducible from the data
they have furnished. If they do not in
tend to build up third party, what object
can they have IN view, but to take from
the Conservative and add to the Radical
party2 "Answer me that, Master Brooks.
We do not believe that the parties alluded
to entertain any such mlschievous inten-
tions as are inferrable from their line of
and propose only TO warn them
against the logical sequences of the policy
they have adopted.
The idea we have endeayored to i'm
press upon the public mind is that the
Conservative party, as at present consti-
tuted, is able to repeat the victories it has
already won, but it cannot bear division
in the face of compact and vigilant op-
position. Every instinct of self-preserva-
ton, every suggestion of wisdom and
every impulse of enlightened patriotism
forbids so wild and dangerous an expert
ment as that now being tried by men
in cordial sympathy with the
party they now seek, by precept and ex-
ample, to distract and divide. We call
upon the people to turn deaf ear to all
appeals to their antiquated
party prejuiices, and to leave to time and
the development of such
party changes as the future may de-
clare essential to a wise administration of
State and Federal governments. -Clarks-
ViUe Chronicle.