The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1872-08-09
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from TUE JOURNAL.
THE PRESENT POLITICAL OUT
LOOK
After an experience of nearly four
wears with this administration af>
ter familiarity, which has bred
contempt, with the lowest forms Of
political corruption and party des-
potism; after period during which
State sovereignty has been shatter
ed almost into fragments; during
which the odious doctrine of Negro
Equality has been attempted to be
forced upon the people, with all its
hideousness, savagery, and brutality,
with all its degrading and brutalizing
tendencies after the sacred right Of
the habeas corpus, a writ dear to
the American freeman, to the free
man of every age and cline, espec-
ially dear to the Southerncr, more
dear to these than all the privileges
and blessings naturally resulting
from it, has been trampled upon,
and its privileges suspended, and
taken away for the time, from whole
districts of the country.
After all this, the National mind
comprehends with fearful distinct
ness, the dangerous position in
which the country stands--especial-
ly does the Southern mind comprc-
bend it in force.
Yes, and the National eye, now
peers sharply, with astonished gaze,
into the den of corruption which has
long been concealed from it, the den
of corruption inhabited by political
miScreants, by public swindlers,
base party men, thieves, great and
small, and fanatics not a few. And
as it beholds these things with dis
Gust. hatred of them arises in the
National heart, and a desire to wipe
out such a stain on a nations honor
arises in that hcart--with what dis
gust and loathing does the Southern
eve behold them, and with what in
tense hatred is the Southern heart
filled, and with what an earnestness
does that heart respond to the Ma
tional
The National ear, toe, hears
doctrines which CRATE harshly upon
il, and cause it to Jingle with angry
and nervous sensations, however
smoothly they may fall upon the os-
sified auricular membranes of pro-
tossed politicians, The Southern
ear hears it too-has heard it for 10 !!
these seven years-and with what
sensations Capitalization, abso-
lutism, mongrelism, party corruP-
ton, tremble, as your downfall APP
proaches For the National nose
has scented the stencil that gees up,
birthstone and sewer-like, from a
corrupt and foul administration, by
which you were upheld, and the Ma
tional mouth will speak in earnest
and unmistalable tones Of the disap-
provaI of the National mind of you,
in the votes which the National
hand shall cast this fall. And the
National arm, clothed in its leglsla-
tive and executive robes, and with
its muscles and tendons, its bones
and carriages, all sound, shall throw
YOU overheard from the ship OF
State, and shall endeavor by wise
and salutatory strokes ofpolicy, once
more to bring peace to the whole
country. And the ship of State,
thus lightened, shall sail with fresh
speed, and flying colors, into the
port of good government, and to the
city of National prosperity. And
ali OIL hearts on board, especially
Southern hearts, will bound with joy,
as they enter the blessed haven.
Yes, when we see sober-minded,
liberal, and honest men of both par
ties, stretching out the hand OF tel
lowship over the grave of dead and
buried issues, and banding together,
forgetful of party strife and hatred,
forgetful of all, save the general wei
fare Of the country; when we see
them, overlooking minor points,
march with steady and hopeful
tread, to fight and defeat the nation
al enemy in the shape of political
corruption, constitutional violation,
and abuse of executive power, we
think we sec the clouds clearing
from the political sky; we think
that the present political outlook Is
a hopeful one. w T. .
VorING On the cars and boats