Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1872-06-15
GRANT.


No surprise rs felt, in any quarter,
at the nomination of Grant, by the
Convention of dependents upon his
patronage. 1t uas, from the begin
ming, foregonc conclusion. Grant
smbodes all the essential qualities of
his party-grced, dishonesty, igno
rance, calous Indifference to public
opinion and, like all other conceitcd
fools, perfect faith in the intallibility
of his own wisdom. The party has
bill-in short, il was Grant, or nobody,
To have snapped horses, at this june
tnro, would have been to give up the
gime. II il not improbable, however,
that the policy of throwing overheard
the Sardonic grinner and substituting
Wilson, as the candidate for Vice
President, was the best hit the Con
vention made Coltax had become n
mere cipher in the party--good for
only one yote--whilst Wilson, as the
colleague Of Sumner, may contest the
New England influence with the more
notorious than distinguished champ
ion of negro equality.
Such ticket, with sueh a platform,
whilst they forcshadow the evils that
must follow their success, indicate, a.
clearly, what should be the policy of
the Democratic Convention, if it
wisely seeks succcss and practically
proposes to build up liberty by pull
ING down despotism and fostering hon
e'ty-privatc and publicity making
virtue az respectable and profitable as
corruption il and has been from the
birth of the Radical party to the pres
cnt hour. The South will act most
ulrwiscly, to be influenced, in the APP
preaching struggle by party spirit,
when its highest efforts should be to
procure the rc-cnactmcnt of Magma
Charta-the protection Of life, liberty
and property, now at the mercy of a
merccnary soldicry freed from all re
straint by the suspension of'the writ
of habcas corpus To see people
thus suhiugitcd and oppressed, hig.
Cling Tor the political privileges that
belong only to n condition of political
freedom and equality, is painful illus
tration of the tcnacity with which W,
cling, in memory. to blessings that ar,
lost, whilst ignoring every means b!
which those blessings may be restored
The only party with which the Soutl
can wisely affiliate, is the party of OPP
po'ition to the corrupt admin 'tratloI
of Grant who makes his will the Law
of the land, and his vicious tastes th,
measure of his moral obligations I,
himself and the country. What mat
ters, to the drowning wretch, the an
tcredcnts of the man who saves him
What does it matter to the people o
the South, whether their rights an,
liberties are ultimately restored thro
the initial programme of Liberal Re
Tgrblicanism or by strict adherence
now impracticahlc-to the doctrine
and discipline of the Democratic par
ty? These last failed to save us fror
the horrors Of civil wir--shall W
look to them alone for relief from III
disastrous consequences?
But it il argued that to endorse III
Cincinnati platform aud ticket. is a
abandonment Of Democratic princi
ylec4 Submission to the loss of tia
which IL taken from IA by force, is n
abandonment, but to neglect the mean
by which the thing lost may he rccoy
cred is abandonment, in its strictcs
aud most culpablc meaning. Nothin
~ dead that may hc revived Demo,
racy has been practically dead, sine
the year 1860, that it may hc revive
IL palpaplc To all who have noted tn
signs of the times, II is equally clca
that this cannot be done whilst Rad
calism ia in the aHccndancy, Therefore
regenoratc itself, Democracy mu
cooperate with Liberal Republican
10 accomplish the first stcp-thc i,
fat of the administration, The Den
ocratic Convention must 80 decree. ,
lose the last chance for the rcsurrc,
ton OF the party, unless the poop
disregard it, action and resolve tosa,
themselves.