The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1872-10-17
Stand to your Guns.
From the Conricr.Journal.l |

II - OoblhatCu NHdb CuuSN NANuuId Hto
gone Radical by majority ranging from
fifteen to twenty five thousand. The in
dications are that Indiana, Ohio and Ne
braska have gone the same way. OF course
The figures contained in our dispatches,
which are meager at best, will be modified,
and in some instances varied But there
is no reason to expect a material altora-
tion in the general result. 1t is an une-
quivOcal success for the GraLt party.
The Radical machine has thus worked
better than its most sanguine managers
expected it to work. In the city of Phil
adelphia, especially, it did prodigies.-
Elsewhere, however, 1t proved immensely
efficient. In tie city Of Jefersouyille,
Indiana, there were but four hundred
negro voters registered. Six hundred
voted yesterday. 1t is estimated that not
less than four thousand negroes were ex-
ported from Kentucky into Indiana
Twice that number we're transplantcd in
Pennsylvania from Maryland and Vir-
ginia. An army of oflice-hOldcrs was in
the field. Millions Of the peoples money
we're appropriated out of tue treasury for
partisan campaign purposes. In word,
the rotten appliances which disgraced the
system OF universal Suffrage put upon
France by Louis Napoleon we're rcsorted
to and practicel by the supporters of
Ulysses Grant. That the scCundrels have
the best Of it is hardly to be wondered at.
There will be, of course, general de-
spondency along the Liberal lines in the
face OF this disaster. The week kueed
will Iater. The cowuIdIy will fall back.
The iasjuccre and hypocri,cal will folicj-
tate themselves in tle "I.told-yOu-so"
theory The corrupt will make terms
With the enemy. But thoughtful people
will recognize in yesterdays work great
and serious danger to free Institutions;
they will understand that it in o manner
implies the failure Of universal suffrage
to hold its own against the organized pa
tronage and power of the Government
There is an inevitable and organic conflict
between the principles Of CentralIsm ard
the Truci pies Of home rule. This conflict
will 60 on in spite OF current elections aud
candidates. A Liberal dcfe.t in Noyem-
Ler will but foreshadow tie complete re-
organization Of parties in the county,
The basis OF that reorganization, as lar as
we are concerned, will be the vote cast for
Horace Greeley, and it is the duty of
every man who lovGs liberty and who
hates the enemies Of Icace to stand to his
guns now more devoteGly than ever he
did. Jhe fight is by no means over yet.
1t is never prudent to make concessions to
u triumph won by fraud in the interest Of
scouudrelS; aud the trjuml h of llartranft,
= convicted thief, and Of Cameron, life
long Plunderer, and Of Morton, an un.
scrupuIvuS and desperate conspirator, all
rail- ing around Il drunken, haIf-witted
voluptuary like Grant, must be contested
to the last as the precursor Of that great
battle which is yet destined to be fought
between the friends aud the enemies OF
freedom on this continent.
We therefore say to our friends every
where, be firm and defiant, give not an
inch OF ground, and hold yourselves ready
Tor every emergency. This is the first
time we have gone into action, and we
have met repulse. That repulsc should
inspire our energies and our courage. 1t
should unite US against the enemy. 1t
should bring accordance and unity Of SEM
timent to our own much divided ranks.
A defeat of this sort is often the medium
through which great and powerful organi.
cations are formed. The Republican
party itself was thus repulsed in 1856
Our Liberal movement is hardly two
years old. 1t is the natural antithesis Of
Radicalism and if free government is to
continue in America its principles must
prevail in the administration of the ma
tional government. The old parties will
pass away with this contest. The party
of the future is the party If Liberalism,
Reform and Peace. What may lie in the
immediate present will develop tselffrom
day to day. But nothing is clearer than
this: that we have oUly to be Erm and
steady, to maintain the integrity of our
convictions, to repel the suggestions of the
time.serviDg, and scorn the seductiOns of
the corrupt, holding fast to our faith and
standing by our cJlorS and cur guns
There is safety only in this plaiu aud
open course. We shall for cur part pur-
sue it, neither dauntcd nor despondent !;
but hating Radicalism only the more as it
shows itself the more corrupt, powerful
and dangerous. We sincerely believe it
to be the essence of all corruption in tbe
State.
We are honest in the belief that its
leaders are body of inscriptions des-
peradocs, bent upon the ruin of the cOun-
try. Yesterday should be put down in
the calendar as All ROgucs' Day. 1t GER
ly presents us victory for three, at least,
of the most conspicuous rOgues the his
tory of party debauchery ever produced.
More than this need not be said nor more