Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-08-18
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to Presidential election always
elects the President We have not con-
splted the statistics TO ascertain the cor
rectness of this assertion. Whether irne
or not. it cannot be doubted that the IN
euence of the Congressional majority at |
the time of Presidential canvass must be
exceedingly potential. - Under full
conviction Of the Importance of the fallel
o,oct;ons, in the next Presidential cam
paifn both parties in the North are pre-
pairing for the approaching canvass.
There but two parties are known. The
Radical, or as it is sometimes softly
called, the Republican, and the National
Democratic party Inithe former is found
Ben. Butler, Summer, Morton and those
politicians who favor the concentration
of all power, Executive Judicial and
legislative, both of the State and gen.
eral governments in the Congress
of the United States. In the lat
ter is found Fillmore, Winthrop
Brooks, Adams and those statesmen who
insist upon The rights of the States; who
insist that the Federal government is one
of limited powers. 1t is not govern
ment of inherent but of delegated pow
ers delegated by the Constitution Of the
United States. The Constitution express
| ly declares that ''the powers not delegated
to the. United States by the Constitution,
nor prohibited by it to the States are re-.
served to the States respectively 1t is
for the maintenance of these reserved
rights of the States in their full vigor that
the National Democracy have been, under
old Wing and old Democratic leaders,
wsging the unequal war for the
past FIVE years 1t willie not do
to say in reply as is urged by
those in the South who oppose an alliance
4 with the national Democracy, that they
i fought us four years to put down eul
| doctrine of States rights. lie is true, they
did fight to put down. the right of seces
sion, claimed by the majority of thu
Southern Democracy. In that fight thii
| doctrine, under the arbitrament of The
sword, was surrendered. Radicalisn
claims that the result of that fight was {
complete extinction of all State rights
and that henceforth, according TO the idel
of Senator Brownlow, the States SHOULD
bear the same relation to the Fedora
government which the counties bear Il
their respective States. 1t is to comba
this fundamental doctrine of Radicalism
and incidentally to prevent its admins
tratiye corruptions, that the national DE
mocracy keep up their organization i
every State of the North and set thei
| sauadrons in every field, . '7 sA
The question presents itself most forci
: bly, to the people of the South, who hav
been so cruelty outraged by Radios
usurpations, whether they will yield tn
doctrine of States Rights, or whethe
they will dare assert their political mar
hood and contend for 1t. If they inten
the latter, can there be any doubt that
is their high, solemn, bounden duty {
openly proclaim their determination I
continue united with the national Demo
crazy, and with that party make a con
: mon fight against common foel7 E2a III
This is an Important question, and
is important that it should receive th
Immediate consideration of the peopl
of Tennessee. The Governor, member
of the Legislature and members of Coz
gress whom we elect next November wi
be in office in 1872. 1t should now b
known whether they are willing to pledg
| themselves to sustain the National d.
mocracy in that contest. If there /
those aspiring to Office, who deny Ii
truth of the declaration of the Davidso
County Convention in June, 1868, that 6
is the unquestionable duty of all the tn
friends of constitutional freedom, bywha
ever name heretofore designated, to CON
forward and exert themselves zealousl
and energeteally in support of the DEM
cratic cause" if there be those aspiring
office who believe that the union with Il
National Democracy, which was formal
made and proclaimed in the State ConveI
ton of June 9, 1868, should be now di
solved, it is their duty to themselves an
= the people whose votes they solicit tn
! they should make known the fact 1t
the duty of the people that they shouldr
quire from every candidate an explic
aYowsl upon this subject. LET THE CoU7
| TY CONVENTIONS LOOK TO 1T. .- ..r "a