Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-07-19

charge to the contrary is malicious and I'M
founded Very truly yours,
Very well, sir" said Democrat to us LAS. last
evening, as my party has finally. confessed
that Republican ideas are right, and Republl-
| can amendments of the constitution and Repub-
lican legislation are to be maintained, Will go
FLOR Grant who carried these ideas, amendments
and laws to success. philadelphia Press.
HAS the Democratic party confessed that
Republican ideas are right, and has it
yielded all the ideas, doctrines and senti-
| ments that distinguished it from the party
| with which it had been in direct antagon-
| ism, doctrines that created the necessity
for the Republican partys existance.
When Senator Bayard, of Delaware,
swallowed all his strong, bitter words ut
tered at Baltimore, but four days before
| and commended Mr.. Greeley to the vote of
| his Democratic friends was it sudden con-
version-ap political regeneration-a yield
| ing of all that he said, he had lived and
labored for during his long political life?
| Is it true that all the issues of the war
are dead-that the Democratic party have
ceased to mourn over the "lOst cause, -
| that we are now setting out anew, in COM
| pany with rebels Of the South and rebel
| sympathizers North, having the same ideas
and doctrines concerning State Rights,
and the same concerning the amendments
to the Constitution ? Are there now no
antagonistic political principles, no differ
ence of opinion, but only difference con-
| corning the man who shall occupy the
place of exponent ? If so, it would be no
| difficult matter even at this late hour,
to allay and harmonic the adverse
feelings that have arisen and will
yet more be stirred, by fusion of parties
OH the distinctly avowed doctrines of the
Republican party, through convention
composed of men of all parties as at pres
ent organized, who should ignore the eX-
istence, if necessary, of both Grant and
Greeley, and present another candidate ac-
ceptable to all, whose moral integrity and
political status were the admiration of all
men showing to the world the benign
spectacle of Il country emerging from the
heat and dust of battle to clasp hands over
the bloody chasm of their separation,
|
the doctrine of the equal rights of all with
out regard to color, race or conditioner
the supremacy of the Central Government;
the acknowledgement of the settlement
forever, by the issue of the contest, of the
old doctrine Of State Rights, and the need
and pertinency of the amendments to the
Constitution.
We do not understand that Mr.. Greeley
has disavowed, or in any way recanted
from his opinions and statements concern
ing the Democratic party as such, and its
leaders Are we to understand that these
leaders and followers have admitted the
truth Of his declarations pleaded guilty
to his charges-confessed penitence and
sealed and ratified all this by selecting him
the instrument of their conversion-as the
executive of their neW-found principles
In a word, is the Democratic party now
merged in the Republican party with the
exception of such unconverted men as
Alex. Stephens and Dan. VOORHEES,? Is it
true that Hoffman and Bill Tweed, Oakley
Hall and Judge Chase, Sweeney and Chas.
Sumner, Seymour and Andy Johnson, ex-
Gov. Brown and the Blairs, and all these
various sorts and conditions of men, are
now of one mind and one heart in rela-
ton to all the great principles of govern
ment? If this political millennium has ar
rived, it would seem that it were an era
of sufficient Importance to be proclaimed
in unmistakable terms, tone and accent
| that every one in the land might hear,
know and rejoice, and the hearts of
| the people of the Old World throb
| in hope of an advent to them
of like miraculous overthrow of despot-
| ism, caste and prejudice, and the introduce
| ton of new benefcient Republican ideas
and institutions. Or is there in this accept
ance of the man who, before and beyond
all others, has berated, stigmatized and an
athematized the Democratic party, a plan
to destroy not only the Republican party
but Republicanism itself; to reinstate the
power that held the reins twelve years ago,
and under guise of reform, sap the founda-
ton of our strength, and dethrone the
ideas developed under the present Admin
istratiOn, with that of Mr.. Lincoln, that
have made us alike the wonder and the
glory of the earth?
The acceptance of Horace Greeley, and
of the Cincinnati platform is one thing;
| the disavowal of all that Mr.. Greeley has
set froth as the governing principles of
Democracy-amongst which is facility
in political bargain and sale-is another.
Greeley says to them "they are as much
Democrats as ever" Have they made pro-
posals to- and if SO, have they been ac-
copied by the Sage of Chappaqua?
NErYU NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.