Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1870-10-13

bilities imposed by the Constitution. =
! This curse must lead to All interference on
the part of the government, to see that
the Constitution is obeyed 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 Republican party. will be re-
sponsible for the results of the insane
course pursued by those who would in
jure our material interests and postpone an
era of prosperity in the State.
In the light of their crimes and offenses
are the leaders of this party, or the party
itself, worthy of the confidence of free
and generous people? Does not prudence
prescribe its exclusion from the custody of
State affairs? Will it not be time to clothe
them with the control and the safe keep
ing of the political powers of the State
when they shall have shown a sense of the
great wrongs done to the people by their
hands? n 4
The National Republican party, we are
free to declare, has our full faith and conf
dence. 1t was born from the sOld Line
Wing" party, called into existence to resist
the aggression. of the Democratic party
school of Wings, and is1in the main the
same to-day. Its central idea was, and is
love, admiration and reverence for the
Union of the people of all the States. 4 Its
motto that uttered by 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 i'll the hour 0 ats peril put themselves
under the '.star spangled banner" This
party, inspired by love, Union and liberty,
under wise Providence, saved the Re-
public from secession, disruption, and
from great organized despotism-in fact,
saved to us and to our posterity, our free
Government, aud the institutions founded
by Washington and his compeers. As
eaTly as practicable it reconstructed the
States in which Republican Government
was overthrown, and readmitted them in
to the Union of the States upon an entire
equality.
This Republican party created Ma
all the States, known as 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 party has reduced taxa
ton, economized the collection of the rev.
enue, and paid off since General Grant
came into office $40, 100000 of the pub
lie debt.
1t has opened the great Pacific Rail
road across the Continent.
1t holds England responsible for the de-
struction of our vessels of commerce, and
will ultimately, by means of its moral
power, obtain full compensation.
In has enforced the Monroe Doctrine,
and such was its moral power that Napo-
leon Ill, who sought to take advantage of
the great civil war and plant an Empire in
Mexicoswas compelled to withdraw, and
leave Mexico to the government of her
own people.
We endorse and approve the Admins
tration of President Grant, and have full
faith IN his integrity, and justice, and prac
ticable craftsmanship. He is man of
few words, but great deeds-a common
sense man, and we believe he has at heart
kindness for the people of the South, and
really wishes peace in all the land and an
era of good feeling.
In conclusion, we beg and invoke our
brothers. the Wings of the Clay school
the plain, honest men of the country
to be with us in this conflict. And we
pray and invoke all of the real jackson
school of Democrats to cut themselves
loose from the States Rights Secession De-
mocracy, and join the ranks of their
friends, the National Republicans, and
overthrow and rout this Calhoun Democ-
racy in the open field of political warfare,
as in the olden times we have often done,
and rarely failed to do in Tennessee.
JOHN TRIMBLE,
SAMUEL NJ. ARNELL, Com.
HORACE III. HARRISON,