The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-12-05
from the COurier-Journal.

Al SpAsS VI Ou4 al uluSS 70 keep
off the premises" which we have re-
ceived from time to time, we shall
continue to invade alike the terrific
ry and tie contempt OF the Mem
phis and Nashville papers. We
proceed without ceremony to venti
late still further our ignorance of
Tennessee affairs. The joke seems
to be appreciated by our readers in
that part of the country, and they
are sufficiently numerous to justify
Us in travelling out of our way to
take particular notice Of copcerns
which interest them. We say,
then
J. That there is a great and ear
nest Liberal element IN Tennessee,
which is not represented either at
Nashville or at Memphis by genu-
inc and adequate Liberal press.
il. That the two newspapers
which claim to be Liberal are com
poun ed chiefly OF pretension, sore
headism, and a spirit of factious
vacillation.
Ill That the Democratic press,
so called, is SO ultra and highfaIu-
tin, and withal 50 incapable, thnt it
represents q mere clique, and is not
in harmony with the great body Of
anti Radical sentiment in Tennes
see.
There never existed u soil more
fruitful for cultivation in Liberal
ideas and inspirations than the soil
of Tennessee. Bat the bungling of
those who undertook to handle G.,
Liberal movement threw its machi-
merry in the hands Of the other ex-
treme. Genuine Liberalism, there
fore, fell between the two stools OF
Bourbonism and Johnsonism. The
result was that the Grant party
stepped in and swept the field. The
so-called Liberal papers of Nash
vile and Memphis are evidently glaG
Of this. But their JOY is fallacious,
because they have already shown
themselves incompetent tc profit by
the best advantages. They had the
whole thing at call last spring
They lost their grip then just as
they viii lose it now; and, if things
60 well with Grant, they will grad
ually glide into the Grant party,
leaving Liberalism to be maintained
by the Bourbons. That large, mid
dle-class Tennessee element, which /
is honestly Liberal, thus finds itself
reduced to the quasi Grantism Of
the Memphis Avalanche and the
Nashville Banner, or TO the dumb
founded stupidity Of the Union and |
and the spread eagle sopl- /
orism Of the Memphis Appeal /
None of these papers accurately /
any large class in Tennes-
see. They do not represent the /
Radicals. They do not represent /
the Conservatives. They merely /
little cOtcries about Nash
vile and Memphis, made up on the /
one hand Of impracticables, and on
the other hand Of soreheaus. Among I
them, they made a mess of it. The
took ground on
which Choatham could not be elect
ed, and on which he ought not to
have been elected. The soreheads
Iished up the lifeless body of An
drew Johnson, stuck the dag Of our
Union in the most offensive part of
it, and sent it whirling over the
State in a dizzened, bcwiidered way
ghich Disguised decent, disintercst-
ed people. Maynard was elected,
of course, by a plurality. Tie two
-iiques hate each other, and their
followers are at sea, beaten and lead
sFless. /
The people OF Tennessee are not
ia the quarrel which split
the ring masters 10 whose keeping
tue State was delivered after the
of the Brownlow party.
They are not truly represented by
The organs Of those ring masters
They need a new set Of leaders ~
They need a better class Of newspa-
pers. The local press Of the State,
which is in every way ADLER and
more representative than the press
either at Nashville or Memphis, un-
lers.ands this Gaze perfectly. The