Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-09

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country, but he only feebly expresse,
a part of the doctrines of his party
he understood their projects and aims
Every step we take to put the tool
Of this party into power, viii bea stel
toward the destruction of our liber
ties and the downfall of our Republic
--
Now THAT the Radicals are in
hopeless minority in Tennessee, the!
deprecate parties and pirate about in
dependence. They would have US be
lievesthat the ''era of good feeling
which characterized the administra
ton of Monroe has returned. Thi
sort of special talk is intended to pro
mote Radical interest. The antago
nism between the parties of the pres
ent day is broad, deep andirreconcil
able. We depIere that such a party
as the Radical party exists in thi:
country, but we had rather see a Rad
zeal party than no party at all,
for the existence of parties I'M
der republican form o
Government, is both a necessity
and a blessing. When the conduct O
public affairs is confined TO the people,
and freedom of thought is allowed,
differences of opinion inevitably arise.
Those who sympathize insentiment,
and agree upon the outlines of a gen,
eral policy, VIII act together, for only
by such cooperation can anything be
enforced in practice. This voluntary
aggregation of individuals, united by
the entertainment of similar princi-
pies, and seeking their execution by
common means, constitutes a political
organization. As far back as the light
sof history or tradition carries us, two
great political parties have been found
to exist in all ages and countries
claiming to be-ciyilized. These parties
stand out from the pages of history
as distinctly and boldly as do the
mountain peaks, casting their long
shadows upon the surrounding coun-
try. They are in their nature and
mission antagonistic; especially are
they so in the United States, at the
present time, for the one is the party
devoted to power-the other the party
devoted to the people. The one re-
spends to the fGnatieism of the times,
the other to its Democracy. The one
is based upon a distrust of the popular
intelligence and integrity, and a
shrinking dread of the popular power;
the other rests upon an abiding faith
in the head and heart of the Iaboring
masses of mankind, whose tell and
spirit make up this worlds wealth
and glory-a conviction that these
masses have the right to regulate their
own destiny, and a sublime trust,
that, though delayed by the fraud and
violence Of tyrants, the day of their
deliverance must ultimately come.
The one party has ever resisted all
change, all amelioration in the field
of politics, has striyen unceas-
ingIy to aggrandize the Govern
ment, and armlit with more abso-
lutte powers. This end it has effected,
sometimes with corrupt perversiOns
of existing charters and compacts.
Again, by the imposition of enormous
burdens, and by cutting off all sources
Of information from the people, the
masses have fallen an easy prey to. the
usurper, because thus rendered i'm
poverished, ignorant and brutaIized.
The Democratic party, on the other
hand, have insisted and insist that ali
government is, at best, but a neces-
sary evil, and that, as a general rule,
that nation is the best governed which
is governed the least; that all politi-
cal power should be delegated with
caution, and watched with u~nsleeping
.ealousy; that all charters and eonsti-
in which such delegation is
nadeshould be strictly construed, and
hat those powers not conferred by
he letter, but are only to be wrung
rom the Instrument by Implication,
should not be exercised. The Radical
party have sought their aims, not
merely by an appeal to arms, by per
versions Of the fundamental laws, and
~ the slow, yet certain process of der
noraIizati0R, but also by labOring to
.aptivate the imaginations of men,
md by weakening and finally eXtin-
cushing all sense of personal eonse-
iuence. Hence they have surrounded
he government with the pomp of
asst armies; its high function
ries have dwelt in gorgeous
ialaces; its cities have been filled with
monuments; its liveried officials have
warmed IN the streets and upon the
highways, (as in France, where there
an officer Of State for every twenty
ouls,) its presence and multiplied
gencies have been rendered. Cubi-
.uitous; it has presided in
he churches, at the thea
ers and at all the public amuse-
lents .oEthe people-in a word, it has
a a thousand ways, with more than
he eyes of Argus, and more than the
ands of B~riareus, sought to inter-
its insoIent offices with the
fairs ~ofsocial and private life. Men,
.us perpetually overshadowed by
his colossal power, and dazzled by its
plendor, seem to themselves, in-time
breathe through the lungs of the
government, and exist, as i t-Were, by
S very courtesy. A conviction Of
elplessness creeps over them, and
hat self-trust, which is the element of
Ii that is truly great IN our nature,
eing gradually FILTERED away, they
ink in appearance, as in fact, into
lere NOTES floating in the sunbeams
{ political authority. Such are the
wo parties of the present day-and
God men win have no difficulty in
electing between them, -a4af
l.
Tho Montgomery Advertiser has
cen shown by Judge V~elverton, Of
Office. a fine specimen of mari found
! the region south of Coffee, and
where,it may be easily shipped.
he Judge reports an immense de-
osit of it, which may prove to be an
rtiele, of profitable traffic in the way
I f~ertilizing. Mari abounds on the1
T.. &, G.. railroad in TishomingO Z