Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-06-20


Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, in &C
cepting the nomination for the Vice Presi-
dency, makes the following open confess
sion:
"Having accepted, thirty-six years ago,
the Distinguishing doctrines of the Repub-
lican party Of to-day, having during the
years of that period for their advancement
sltbOrdinGted all other issues, acting in and
co operating a0ith political organizations
NTH IohOSe leading doctrines l sometimes
had neither sympathy nor belief, having la
bored TOR many years to found and build
up the Republican party, and having, dur
ing its existence, taken an humble part in
its grand work, gratefully accept the NOM
nation thus rendered, and shall endeavol,
if it shall be ratified by the people, faith
fully to perform the duties it imposes.
Respectfully yours,
HENRY WILSON.
The Indianapolis Sentinel insists thai
is the way these Radicals got into power,
and it is the way they expect to retain it.
"Acting IN, and cooperating tuith, political
organizations with whose leading doctrines
had neither sympathy or belief" is just
the way the old parties were broken down
and this new dispensation established on
the ruins Of Constitutional government.
The old Abolition party was the forerunner
In this unClean brood of factions-to which
the high-minded Wilson gave his adhesion;
the'Know Nothing knavery was the next
and to that Wilson became disciple, pro-
scribing foreigners, mobbing the Germans
and Irish, and burning churches and school
buildings for the glory Of the "grand work"
of building up the Republican party. Will
son next embraced the Prohibition party,
and went strong for exclusive cold water,
and against lager and bourbon, under the
pains and penalties prescribed by the Maine
law. All the time be was an habitual
drinker himself, and carried to bed every
night a skin soaked with what he
openly proclaimed ito be 'Iiquid hellfre."
But he co-Operated with political
organizations with whose leading doctrine
he sometimes had neither sympathy nor
belief" all for the sake Of the Republican
party. This is a bold and disgraceful con-
fession. 1t was not till about six years ago
that Wilson organized the Congressional
Temperance Society" at Washington and
himself, Yates, of Illinois, and few other
old topers, resolved to drink no more. VIII
son hangs on to his pledge we believe, but
poor Yates has gone back to his vonit, like
that dog we hear about.
And this was the 1lOduS operdndi by
which this Republican party was built up
to its late mammoth proportions! It was
conceived in fraud, in hypocrisy, i'll broken
pledges, in prescription, in hate, and in dis
honor. 1t united every faction, every dis
honest adventurer, and cared for no prin-
ciple except so far as their adoption tended |
TO perpetuate the Republican organization. |
Wilson, their own candidate, says so.
They have drawn their leaders-Lheir |
leaders of to-day-from the ranks of the |
Democracy Look at Morton and Came |
ron, and Chandler, and Carpenter, and |
Ben. Butler, and Boutwell,, and John w. |
Forney-Rll renegade Democrats, gathered |
into the party by the political skill and |
hypocrisy of such men as Henry Wilson. |
These men are the brains of the Radical Or |
gsnization, and gives ideas and tone TO its |
policy, and vigOr TO its councils.