Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-10-12

ed men to office who are under disabilities
imposed by the Constitution. This course
must lead to an interference on the part of
the government, to see that the Constitu-
ton is obCyed and the laws enforced. And
we solemnly remind those who are inclined
to endorse this policy, that the Democracy
and those who adhere to and vote with
this revolutionary party, and not the Re
publican party, will be responsible for the
results of the insane course pursued by
those who would injure our material inter
ests and postpone an era of prosperity in
the State.
In the light OF their crimes and otienses
are the leaders of this party, or the party
itself, worthy of the confidence of a free
and generous people? Does not prudence
prescribe its exclusion from the custody of
State affairs? viii itnot be time to clothe
them with the control and the safe keeping
of the political powers of the state when
they shall have shown sense of the great
wrongs done to the people by their hands?
The National Republican party, we are
free to declare, has our full faith and conf
dence II was born from tho "Old Line
Whigr party, called into existence to resist
the aggression of the Democratic party.
1t, creed was that of the Henry Clay
school of Wings, and is in the main the
same to-day. It's central idea was, and Is
love, admiration and reverence for the
| Union of the people of all the States. Its
motto that uttered 10y Daniel Webster,
and echoed and re-echoed by every heart
! in Tennessee Liberty and Union, now
and forever, one and inseparable.' 1t was,
and is now, also composed of the Jackson
| Democrats who preferred country to party,
| and in the hour of its peril put them
selves under the "star spangled banner"
This party, inspired by love, Union and
! liberty, under "A wise Providence, saved
| the Republic from secession, disruption,
and from a great organized despotism--ln
fact, saved to US and to our posterity, our
free Government, and the institutions
| founded by Washington and his co1npeers.
| As 81: 'ly ~ practicable il reconstructed the
| State in which Republican government
was Cverthrown, and readmitted them into
the Union of the States upon an entire
equality.
This Republican party created a Nation
al currency, which circulates through all
the States, known rs greenbacks.
1t has kept the public faith sacredly, and
would pay off the public debt to the last
farthing as an honest, sensible Govern
ment will pay its every debt.
The Republican urty has reduced taxa
ton, oconomiZed the collection of the rev.
enue, and paid of since General Grant
came into office Sl7O,oodool OF the pubic
debt.
1t has opened the great Pacific Railroad
across the Continent.
1t holds England reeIOnsis ,e ior the de
struction of our vessels of commerce, anC
will ultimately, by means of its mora
power, obtain full compensation.
1t has enforced the Monroe Doctrine
and such was its moral power that Napo
leon Ill, who sought o take advantage o
the great civil war and plant an Empire il
Mexico, was compelled to withdraw, ant
) leave Mexico TO the government of her owl
1 people.
We endorse and approve the Admlnistra
l ton of President Grant, and have full faltl
in his integrity, and justice, and prdcticd
bic statesmanship. He is man of fey
I words but great decds-a common-sens
g man, and we believe he has ut heart kind
D ness for the people of the South and reall
= wishes peace in all the land and an era G
f, good feeling.
i In conclusions we beg and invoke on
1 brothers, the Wings of the Clay school
= the plain honest men Of the country-t
?, be with Us in this conflict. And we prl
G and invoke all of the real Jackson schoC
> of Democrats to cut themselves loose troI
e the States Rights Secession Democracy
p and Join the ranks OF their friends, the M
5 tional Republicans and overthrow an
e rout this Calhoun Democracy in the ope
II field of political warfare, a. in the olde
times we have often done, and rarely tai
e ed to do in Tennessee.
t, JOHN TRIMRLE
&c SAMUEL NJ. ABNELL, Con
p HORACE H. Harrison,