Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-10-26

The accep5ed principles OF the Two OPP
posing parties are they not identicaily the
same? Their cSnd idates for the Presidency
are as Radical as their platform, and by
these national heads of opposl ng parties, IS
the politics of the whole country recognized.
Before the war, there were some Well-de-
fined points of difference between the old
parties, and slavery was one Of the main
issues. No rational man can claim now
that the distinctive features between par
ties are so marked.-Bdnner.
We submit to all irrational" men that the
accepted principles of the two parties, and
the points of difference between them, were
never so well defined as now. The ques-
ton of constitutional government, against
the caprice of partisan majority, was
never SO terribly patent as to-day. In old
times both sides claimed that the constitu-
ton was on their side. Now we are strug-
Cling against party which sets the organic
law at open defiance, and rules instead &C
cording to the exigencies Of party.
Let us refresh the BGnner'Smemory with
few of the swell defined points of differ
ence" on which few months ago it pro-
posed to advocate Greeley against Grant.
The Grant party, through various de-
vices Of congressional enactment, open
fraud and covert corruption, are turning
our elections into 50 many Napolecnic
plebiscites. The Greeley coalition of Lib
erals and Democrats oppose this.
The Grant party enact force bills, bayo-
net election laws, and leave the right of ha-
beas corpus at the will Of one man, who,
by common report, is drunk half his time
The advocates of Greeley denounce these
things as outrages unnece ssary and un-
warranted.
The Grant party have enacted national
election law which authorizes domiciliary
visits and the invasion of the privacy Of our
dwellings. The re dictionary Greeleyites
stand by the traditional rights Of our in
herited British law, fortified by our Federal
Constitution.
The Grant party denies amnesty to
thousands of the first and best intelleets Of
our section. The Greeley party demands
local selfgOvernment and says no free COM
munity should be deprived Of the services
of any of its citizens.
The Grant party is the heaviest tariff
party the country has ever been cursed
with. The Greeley partyremits the ques-
ton of tariff to the interested people who
have to pay it.
The Grant party is party of monopolies
of all dimensions down to the salt monop-
oily, the whisky monopoly, the tobacco mo-
nopoly, SO grinding on our people, closing
out competition, making the rich richer and
the poor poorer. The Democracy, which
is the party of the people, and supports
Greeley, is and has ever been the foe of all
monopolies.
The Grant party is squandering the pub
lie lands in subsidies TO wealthy corpora
tons. The Democracy says these lands
should be preserved for homes for the
people.
The Grant party pays out annually TWEEN
ty million dollars of the sweat of the la
borers, to national banks as interest on
their capital, when these banks are again
drawing u to 20 per cent. interest on this
same capital out Of their customers. The
Democratic party denounces this double
outrage on the people.
The Grant party keeps locked IN thu
Treasury one hundred millions Of gold, In
stead of buying up bonds with it and re
lieving the people of some eight millions O.
interest every year. Mr.. Greeley denource'
this policy.
The Grant party steps into Wall stree
with bag full of gold, and by Initiating
stocks aud sharing with its favorites, raises
hundreds of thousands for electioneerin!
funds, to corrupt the ballot box in States
which the peoples struggle against corrup
ton renders doubtful. The Greeley part!
favor no system Of national finances tina
can be so prostituted.
1t is in view of these facts that our ex
ceedingly "independent" Banner says Their
are ''no well defined points of difference
between the two opposing parties.
WILL the Banner inform its snxiou
readers what legislative candidates /