Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-03-08
RADTcALIsM INTENNEsSEE.

"Aycry" in a recent letter to the Gin
einnati Commercial prognosticates Radi-
ealism in Tennessee thus:
One by one its papers have died out,
until none are left but one or two obscure
country sheets, distinguished for nothing
save that they can concentrate within
Their narrow columns all the billingsgafe
and vituperation that used to shine frDm-
q dozen. They are filed to oyereowlno
with the old, old slang about the bloody
| handed Rebels and the immaculate IOvs.l
men. This sort of argument, if arru-
ment it can be called, did very well for
the first few years Immediately following
the war, but in 1870, it has become stale
from over-use, and impotent because it is
threadbare. To this and to the GRIT of
Parson Brownlow, the party owed its ex-
istence, for the time il did exist, and now.
that it is to be Tesurrected, let it DEPEND
for breath upon something more substan-
tial. If shall inaugurate IFS new life by
singing the same old tune, and harping
upon the same old harp, no prophet is re-
quired to write its epitaph in advance.
The second death will be more effectuaI
than the first, and the resurrection win be
hopelessly in the distance
If the Republican party in Tennessee
would take new start, as it is about to |
do, and in addition thereto would hush nd |
the petty qaarrels Between its rival lead |
ers, and try TO stand upon its merits rather
than upon the hypothesis that none, no. |
not one outside its ranks are worthy Of /
any designation other than of Rebel. it |
might hope to thrive and gradually draw
strength from the opposition. But it can
never amount to anything worthy of the
name of Republican if it conduct itself
In the future as it has in the past. It's
platform is always fair enough, but il Is
alone, tor the party does not stand upOn
1t. They run about after false gods,
and leave The platform in soil
tude and alone. There is ma
terial enough in the State 90
form a Republican party that would
divide the patronage of the State, IL they
did not hold it all, but the contentious and
squabbles of ambitious men have split it
up and sent it adrift until the wreck seems
in too many pieces for human hands to
again weld together. OF all that noble
element which made up the Union party
in 1861 and 1862 in Tennessee, not half
now claim to be Republicans. They call
themselves Conservative Union men, or
out andout Democrats, or any other namo
which does not mean Tennessee Radical
Had the Republican leaders in this State
been actuated by common honesty and
common sense, these old Union men who
are now numbered as Conservatives
and Democrats would have been
in the Republican ranks. In
looking over the list of distinguished |
who were the defenders of
The Union from the time that Sumter was
fired upon until the surrender of Lee,
which was as long as it needed active de-
Tense, how few are now found in the Re
publican ranks! One by one they have
been driven out, and their places but lily
filed by the frying pan patriots and pot
house politicians who now lead the party,
or more properly who steer fragments of
The wreck on to more breakers.
Now that the party is TO be recognized,
or an attempt made in that direction,
let it throw overheard the millstones of
corruption that are swinging to its neck,
and let its platform become guide for
action, and not thing to be always
about and never practiced.
Speaking Of the probability of Roderick
Random's expulsion from Congress, he
says:
But | wish 70 call the readers attention
10 mOurnful possibility, should Con-
gress not consider the faint of corruption
was washed from the skirts of Butler be-
cause he made such religious use of most
Of the money derived from the cadet sale
Andy johnson, himself, lives in Buffers
district, and if Congress expells the latter
the former gentleman will be
elected to fill the position. The people in
hat district have all got their voting
papers, and Andy viii be upon the floor of
Congress 10 III the vacancy, provided |
Butler IL expelled. That other Butlor,
called Benjamin, had better
come to the assistance of Roderick, for if !
Roderick goes out, and Andy goes in,
there will be big fly on hand to bodder
Benjamin, and it will be useless TO cry
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