The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-05-24
What q Rampant Rebel Says.

Can Confederate soldier who shared
the dangers OF our lost cause, and fol-
lowed the stars and bars until our last
pallaut army was surrendered, Demo
crat who has stood shoulder TO shoulder
with his fellows and voted Il straight
ont party ticket since the war! Can
such support Horace Greeley, the nomi-
nee of the Cincinnati Convention ?
Let us see. Under the leadership Of
Democratic Holden. North Carolina fol-
lowed South Carolina in secession, un-
der the same Holden she was recon-
structcd under carpct.bag rule and mar
l tial law. saddlcd with lntolerablc taxa
ton, and shackeled and manaclcd with
the appliances of military rule under
Democratic Grant. Forced out of the
Union BY Democratic party lash, we
were scourged back into the Union by
the scourges of war Democracy. After
the war; we were marshalled into the
ranks OF Democracy under the Demo-
cratic address Of Henry j, Raymond, Of
the y. \. TimeS, marched under the
banners of Democratic seymour, who
contributed from New York more SOL
dicrs to whip us than any other Gov
crnor, aud Blair. the antcbcllum Abo-
| litionist, whose victorious cohorts dur
ing the war hunted Us to the death up
on the very last fields upon which our
beloved flag was ever uniurIcd.
Under the name of Democracy, in
Kentucky. we have been taught to ad-
nit negro suffrage and negro legsla-
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assist Federal soldiers. now prciud.ccd
against the negro, to resist negro tcstl-
monv. We have thus been led to sad
die KukuX legislation upon the South.
We have been made TO play into the
hands of Radicals we have been made
to uphold the hands of Radical leaders.
breaking down with the weight OF their
own ro,tcnncss and corruption. We
are of the South. born in the South.
reared in the South; it is our beloved
home. and it will contain our ashes
Like old Sam Houston we say, "our
section is our country This principle
is the essence of old State rights doc
trinc and the new 'local scii-govcrn-
mcnt" of the Liberal Republicans. The
white race is our race. We want no
admixturc to make it purcr, no miScc.
ecnation to make it better. Now. who
is the FREUD of the South! The Demo-
cratic party with its coats Of many col.
or,. with its hungry oflicc.Scckcrs, its
wire. working politicians and its greedy
camp. followers; is said to be the only
organization that can rive Us relief
".SoIaS yopwi SUprcma ler"-thc safety
pf the people is the supreme law of the
land. Away with the dictum of party.
stand OF with your party lash, We hLn-
grv ballot mOugcrS. We want To march
under the banners Of Il victorious host :
a party pledged to amnesty. honesty and
reform. reduction in taxation; II party
proposing to take the hungry vam-
pircs OF RadcaIism from our throatS, TO
east out the corruptioni>tS. the "kith and
Kim of the drunken ncpotiSt who j.
brother to any man who W0OS him with
Gifts. This party has selected Horace
Greeley as their standard bearer, an abo-
litionist from principle, u Union man
from locality and necessity, and who,
when the war was over. stood bv our
fallen and chosen leader, and respected
Us when he became bOndsman for Davis
and whose record for amnesty and re-
form. the only living question, now Is
without spot and without blemi>h. As
the only party that can relieve US, the
Liberal party must be the party of the
country. II the country i, saved trom
military miSrulc aud the blackmail Of
office holders and Treasury thieves. we
care not if some of the Old Democratic
war horses are turned to grass for n
while. a summers pasture viii sup
pie their joints and hide The marks of
| the gear. Away with any party or"ani'
ZatiOn that stands in the way of Grants
defeat. 1t Democracy prefers Grants
misrulc to u chance for constitutional
government under the Liberals, we are
no Democrat. Rather call Us Radical
at once.
We care nGught for names. Old is
sues are dead issues. State rights. re-
/ Stricted executive powers, with honesty
and reform, resulting from Il representa-
/ tive government. these are what we
want. Constitutional government will
give us constitutional guarantees and
constitutional rights. This is the peo-
pies fight. Every man who loves Il ma
tional representative government should
vote for the Liberal candidate. Every
man who believes in local seli-gOvrrn-
mcnt. State rights. who with Houston
feels in his heart that his section is his
country. and who would relieve the
South from the nightmare OF death I'M
dor the (,ruut misrlIlp shOull burst the
shackcs ofparty and support this grand
movement Of reconstruction. We warn
the old party drivers 10 lay aside the
party lash for one campaign. We will
no longer be like dumb cattle driven :"
we'll be heroes in this mortal strife.
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