Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-09-21


we are not surprised to see national inau-
ences guiding the action of the Maryland
Republican Convention" and that sit
would have done better if it had left the
nomination of the next republican candi-
date for President to some of the States who
have had some hand IN e%lecting the pres
ent Chief Magistrate, and can be counted
on as sure to help elect the next one"
DIR. Horace Greeley, has been making
Herculean efforts, for some time, to "put
himself in the hands of his friends" but
he has been equally cautious that those
friends shall be those only who shall in
sist to the last extremity, upon his nomina-
ton for the presidency. His adroit and
plausible article on the One Term Princi-
pie recently published, was undoubtedly
called forth by his Presidential ambition,
and his present lecturing tour through the
Northwest, in which he INDUCES in dis
paraging comments on the Administration
on every occasion. indicates a feverish
itching for the White House" His
declaration In his New York speech, on
his return from the Texas jaunt ''that he
had squared his accounts with the Re-
publican party was a monition of the
independence and perverseness he has
now assumed.
The elections in Colorado have gone
Republican by an increased majority.
The Legislature is almost a Republican
unite.
The result in New Mexico is an over
whelming victory for the Republicans, they
electing the delegate to Congress and a
majority of the Legislature. Roll on the
ball.
The Democrats of New Jersey have
nominated Hon. Joel Parker, for Cover
nor. Hon. Cornelius Walsh. the Republi-
can nominee, will "sun his moccasins."
by a handsome majority. Jersey lightn-
ing whiskev dealt out by railroad rings
and ~monopolies has decimated the Demo
cratic ranks into a hopeless minority.
The case of the Louisville Courier
Journal is daily growing more hopeful.
1t has made a considerable stride in the
| right direction, waxing more earnest and
honest in its fight with little Aleck, and
what it terms Bourbon Democracy. A
late reply to the Georgia mad man con
cludes as follows:
The people of Kentucky shall not be
sacrificed upon an altar of dry and com
bustible Georgia pine if we can help it.
| We hold in our hand the flagstaff of Ma
tional Democracy. already inscribed with
the names of Maine, New Hampshire,
Arkansas, California, Iowa. Wisconsin,
| Massachusetts,, Pennsylvania and Ohio,
and now being borne aloft by Mr.. Pendle-
ton, and Mr.. Adams, and Mr.. Hendricks,
and Mr.. Groesbeck, and Hancock, "Nulli-
fcation" does not appear on any of its
folds. 1t does not anywhere carry to the
winds the insane catch-line "Down with
| the Amendments" But all over 1T are
written in words of gold Peace-Order
-Justice-The Constitution as it is with
all its Amendments-The Union as it was
with all its blessings-Down with corrup-
ton and down with lawlessness-Down
with the Ku-Klux and down with the
Radicals
land the star-spangled banne in triumph
shall a
DER the-land of the free and the home OF
the brave"
All along, the St. Louis Democrat has
been an enthusiastic and answering ad-
vocate and PERSONAL friend of President
Grant, and zealously participated in the
effort for his denomination, This fact
gives a special Importance to a recent
editorial in that paper, which holds the
following language, among other observa
tions:
"In view of the opposition that ha
grown up against him in various quarters
we shall not be surprised if, however Ger
tain he might be of receiving the MAORI
ty of votes in the Convention, Gen. Gran
should refuse to permit his name to b.
used again. With a clear appreciation
however, Of a situation demanding it, HI
is, if we mistake not, just the man t.
disregard such pressure and win the more
substantial plaudits of his countrymen b,
retiring with his %laurels.