Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-08-13
"THE wArOHwORD OF THE CAM
PAVGN,,


Less than a month ago the Banner had
an editorial under the above caption, from
which we extract the following:
"Charles Sumner, in his conversation
with delegates from Texas, TO the Baltimore
Convention, who called upon him in Wash
ington, said his great ambition was to see
the country once more at peace and all its
people reconciled. lie wanted not only to
see the North and South recOnciled, but the
whites and the blacks. If be was called
upon TO give the watchword of the cam
paign, he would say RECONCILIATION 1"
The Bonner added:
ave accept this suggestive polysyllable as
the watchWord of the campaign. Recon
citation is what the country needs, and
must have, to secure permanent peace and
brotherhood. Let sReconcilia-
tion,' then, be the watchword of the cam
paign. Let it inspire all with feelings Of
good viii and fraternity, and eliminate
from party discussions and contentious
something of the asperity and unkindness
which have heretofore characterized Them"
Although such was the conciliatory Ian
gusge of the Banner but few weeks ago,
no sooner does Ex-President Johnson's
name appear before the public than the
Banner forgets its policy of ''reconcilia-
tion," and at once begins TO uncork
its walls of wrath. Unwilling "to
clasp hands across the bloody chasm,',
it attempts TO excite the indigna-
ton of the Confederate sympathizers in
Tennessee against Mr.. johnson by
references to his position during the war,
while military Governor Of Tennessee, and
while Vice President and President. We
are told that "a. j. is certainly on the war
path. he is already Smelling the woods"
Yet Mr.. johnson is for Greeley and Brown.
But the Banner is not satisfied that Demo
crst shall support Mr.. Greeley, unless he will
lay aside bis Democracy; unless be will de-
clare that he is no longer Democrat. This is
demanding more for theCfncinnati nominees
than the Cincinnati nominees have demand
ed for themselves. They have both accept
ed the Baltimore nomination rendered by
Democratic Convention, composed exclu-
sively of Democrats from every Congress
sional District in the Union. Mr.. Greeley
said that in giving him the nomination,
they were ''none the less Democrats" He
did not ask them to become Republicans,
nor did they ask him to be-
come a Democrat. They asked "no
pledge other than that of fidelity to
the principles to which they had given their
deliberate and resolute adherence" Both
were willing to pretermit any expression Of
opinion as to the past. The idea was to
improve the present, on the platform adopt.
Ell, and let tie future take care of itself.
The Liberal Republicans of Indiana have
not asked that Mr.. Hendricks should cease
to be Democrat before they will give him
their cordial support. The Demo
Gratis of Illinois have not asked Mr..
Koerner TO cease to be Republican
before they viii rally to his standard. 1t
is only here in Tennessee where Emerson
Etheridge raves, where John Baxter plies
the vocation OF a trickster to crafty his
malice, and where the Banner circulates,
that the fidelity Of the Democracy is sus-
pected aud they asked to lower their flag
TO a corpOral's guard of illiberal and intol
Grant disorganizers.