Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-10-26
From Nashville.


The last Tennessee Tribune, containing
Prosser's defiance, has created quite SEN
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 as in
Russia. In short, the rebellion reigns !;
the "Invisible Empiren is supreme, and
the spirit of nationality has no vitality out
side of the camps of the Union soldiers.
The dread of the "naske ed 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 OH every side. To be 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,n 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 it
is that page filled 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 q 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
| desDOtism and mob-law
| Since the Federal Court has been in ses-
! sion we have seen men from all parts of
Middle Tennessee, and everywhere the
cry goes up, "Deliver us from this bond
age!" When the rebellion fell, the joy
Gus shout went up Babylon is fallen, is
fallen! If fallen she is rising again.
The powers of political darkness have
come to her rescue Tyranny, ignorance
and mobocracy, the great Democratic
| throne, and have pronounced decree that
is a curse to liberty, intelligence and law.
How long, oh Lord how long?n Let
no Union man forego his Unionism, The
success of Democracy means the resurrec
ton of the 'Lost Cause " means the un-
furling of the rebel flag all over heSouth !;
means the marshalling of traitorOus hosts !;
means battle-felds and seas of blood
Union men, ponder! ponder! Republi--
honesty; purge the party of corruption
prepare for the coming conflict Stupen-
dous is the issue. The Union men of the
South, white and black, are locking 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
VIII 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 in the
God of truth, right, justice and freedom.