The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-01-28

The events which WIN transpire during the
year 1870 viii be Of more than ordinary in
terest. The proceedings Of the Constitution
al Convention and the Legislature win be Of
vital importance to the people. Congress
win also be in session, and as parties will
commence forming for the issues on which
the next Presidential election viii be fought,
every man should be fully posted on the va
rious topics which will divide the people.
Virginia, Texas and Mississippi will apply
for re-admission into the Union under the
Union under the Reconstruction acts, and In
all probability Georgia will be remanded In
to her former territorial condition. The
Congressional and state elections take place
during the year 1870, and the canvass preced-
ing them is likely to be long and exciting.
The AVALANCHE is fully prepared to enter
upon the duties of the exciting events and
will make itself a live journal for the times.
The paper already enjoys the largest circu-
lation of any daily journal in Tennessee, and
it is the purpose of its conductors to greatly
increase its circulation the coming year, and
to make still further improvements, that it
may still obtain greater pre-eminence. Ev-
cry department will be kept up in all res
poets TO the advancing spirit of the age. Our
facilities and resources for the collection of
reliable and interesting matter are complete
in every department..
~ In politics the AVALANCHE, as heretofore
will be anti RadicaIbitterly opposed to
those who have, for three years, kept the
State in turmoil by DISTINGUISHING the whites
as well as those who would now perpetuate
strife by DISTINGUISHING the blacks. We are
the earnest advocates of Democracy, but it
is that kind of Democracy which would cast
dead issues behind us, and which looks to
that line of policy which will restore quiet
and confidence and encourage enterprise and
industry, and which will make the country
richer and more prosperous than it has ever
been. We have accepted the issues of the war;
we have accepted reconstruction, simply be-
cause we can't help ourselves, and because
we believe it to the interest of the country to
turn their attention to living issues. We Will
advocate any measure that has for its object
peace, an honest true peace which will allow
the wounds of the war TO heal, and its scars
to become effaced; peace which shall ig-
more the past and its tragic experience of
strife and blood a fast peace, which shall Sc
cure all their rights to the people, and enable
them to work harnoniously and happily to-
gether 10 develope the great resources of the
land GOD has given them. The South must
have a new departure. The young men of
the South, especially, have years, hope, hap
piness, power, before them. Let them step
to the front rank and have hand in the sha
ping of our future policy, The Olympian
gods of the past have departed, and new
era has begun, where that which they shap-
ed, terminated, and in this new era we need
new ideas, new issues and new leaders.
In Virginia the young men led in the Wal
ker canvass. Men whose patent of nobility
was won in the service of the Confederacy;
who had followed the triple-banner until il
was lowered in defeat, but not i'm shame;
those who had made the circuit of the Con-
federacy and those who had rushed with
Jackson upon the dismaycd hosts of Banks
and Hooker-these were the men who Illus
trated the old Confederate tactics in the fight
with Wells and his associate plunderers, and
gave the first blow to the dominion of the
carpet-bagger.
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