Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-10-12
MAINE.
MONTANA.
Wy G.
G. . i > II a ID O.
G. L L % RN A.
NORTH CAROLINA.
The Democratic pyramid for 1871:
KENTUCKY.

The Hon. Ben. Hill of Georgia ha:
printed a letter to the members of the
General Assembly of that State in which,
in the following language, he advises them
to fall into the "New Departure"
while, on the one hand, it is neces-
sary for NE to say l would not, under any
circumstances, advise u people to be-
come consenting parties to the adoption
of measures d~ishOnoring to them so, on
the other hand, | can never counsel con-
tinued opposition to measures adopted
and facts accomplished as declared by
the constituted authorities of the Govern
ment, and as submitted to by the people /;
especially when such opposition cannot
change results. and will be regarded as
manifesting a fretful spite inimical to the
Government, weakening to our friends,
and which is always made the occasion
and the excuse for continued expressions
upon ourselves"
We suppose that every body will recol-
lect the disgraceful Republican Can
Can held at Nashville, in May 80. The
shame was re-enacted the other day, at
Syracuse, in the New York Republican
Convention. Two sets of delegates rom
New York City, claiming to be the "re-
GUAR, got up the furious muss. Hard
words were exchanged, blows we're given,
pistols drawn, and had not the police in
terfered, blood would doubtless have been
shed. The notorious Tom. Murphy
heading the Federal o~ficeholders run
"rough-shod" over the Convention
Great indignation is expressed and dis
satisfaction, that may prove fatal, prevails
in tie Republican ranks. Greeley's
Tribune pronounces the platform ga mir
acle of clumsiness," denounces the men
who elc-ded it" over the Convention, but
will support the nominees for the purpose
of securing harmony and defeating the
Tammany thieves. The election is for
Secretary of State, Attorney General, Au-
ditor and Comptroller.
A Georgia paper is of the opinion that
the New York Ring frauds. Jeg. Davis's
spec ches, and Alex. H. Stephens editori-
ais, have about finished the Democracy,
for the present at any rate.
The Chicago Times looks squarely at
at the Democratic situation, and
counsels thus wisely:
One Of the many phases of the Tamma-
ny villiany in New York presents this
question 'Is the Democratic party in
New York owned by that obese mountain
of corruption, William NJ. Fweed?"-
The appearances are that the man Tweed
imagines himself &c be the owner of it,
and that he will make such efforts in the
assertion of his title as may lead to vio-
lenee. Very good. 1t emily remains, then
for honest men who hold that Democratic
principles are worth struggling for to ac-
cept the issue which the obese william off
ers, on his own terms. and trust conse-
quences to God Almighty. Either Tweed
must die, politically, or the party upon
whose neck he has fastened as the Old
Mar of the Sea must die organically.-
There is no middle ground. Tweed must
die ''peaceably if he will, forcibly if he
must" But let honest New York De-
mocracy see to it on the day when the
man Tweed attempts to assert an assumed
ownership of the Democratic party by the
Invocation of violence, both he and his
myrmidons shall meet adoom from which
there will he no future awakening.