Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-11-01
From Nashville.


The last Tennessee Tribune. containing
Prosser's defiance, has created quite a sem
sative, and more troubles are Anticipated.
In this matter Prosser Is at once the cham
pion of free speech, the freedom of the
press and the rights of national citizen
ship. The truth Is, all through Middle and
West Tennessee the Republicans are cowed
by the argument of brute force, and politi
cal freedom is as much restricted rs i'm
Russia. In short, the rebellion reigns
the Invisible Empire" is supreme, and
the spirit of nationality has no vitality out
side of the camps of the Union soldiers
The dread of the masked marauder,n has
unnerved the arm of Unionists and the
scowe of polite society" blights every
bud of patriotism. The "slave lord" still
lives. and the crack Of his lash still re-
sounds on every side. To be a Republican
is to be Missed out of ''good society" TO be
scorned by the old and Knocked by the
young, to be declared an enemy to "the
South" and in short, to be branded with
the unforgiving malignity of the whole
Bourbon Democracy.
Indeed, the hatred that pursues the
Union man reminds me of the gad-fiy that
pursued the 10 of ancient mythology it
Is hatred deep, malignant, unintermit-
ting and internal. Nothing in the politics
OF the world can compare with it. The
only page of history that can illustrate il
is that page filed with the hellish horrors
OF the Romish Inquisition. Some contend
that the Pope is the Anti-Christ, but the
spirit of human slavery is greater Anti
Christ than the Pope of Rome In a word,
there Is no freedom, no safety, no hope
for any Union man in those parts of the
South where the Bourbon Democracy are
in the ascendance there is nothing but
despotism and mob-law.
Since the Federal Court has been in ses-
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Middle Tennessee, and everywhere the
cry goes up, Deliver us from this bond
age!n When the rebellion fell, the low
Gus shout went up Babylon is fallen, is
fallen ~ II fallen she is rising again.
The powers of political darkness have
come to her rescue. Tyranny, ignorance
and mobocracy, the great Democratic
trinity, have erected here their triune
throne, and have pronounced decree that
is curse to liberty, intelligence and law.
How long, oh Lord how long?U Let
no Union man forego his Unionism The
success of Democracy means the resurrec-
ton of the Lost Cause +" means the I'M
furling of the rebel flag all over the South
means the marshalling of traitorous hosts
means battle-fields and seas of blood.
Union men, ponderl ponder! Republic
cans to the front Frown down dis
honesty; purge the party of corruption
prepare for the coming conflict Atupen-
dous is the issue. The Onion men of the
South, white and black, are looking to the
Union men of the North for hope. DON'T
blast that hope. Every Democratic vic
tory carries gloom and sadness to every
Union home in the South. Democracy
and the powers of darkness are at work.
Let not the "Children of Light" be |
idle. The legitimate results of the war
will never have been obtained until free
speech, secure homes, and safety from
mobs, is the universal law wherever the
Union flag floats. The kukluX, the "In-
visible Empire the Democracy, the mob
ocrats, the slave lords, the hosts of treason
must be crushed out, must be overwhelmed.
must be ground to powder, must be ami
Inflated. Until this is done there can be
no peace, no Union, no nationality, no
freedom. Democracy must perish or the
nation cannot live. The "irrepressible
conflict must be fought out. War to the |
knife; and war to the death There can
be no compromise. Compromise is defeat.
Let us, then, march on, trusting i'm the |
God of truth, right, justice and freedom