Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-11-09
CAUSE AND EFFECT.

| Ati agree that the cause OF Inc Demo
cratic disasters was largely due to the fail
ure of Democratic voters TO take an active
part in the canvass and their failure to vote
on the day of the election. This apathy
and neglect, Mr.. Greeley being our can
didste, wss not occasioned by his re-nom-
nation at Baltimore. In other words,
Democratic objection to him was not in
creased by the Democratic '1abel." His
political sntecedents certainly made him
Objectionable as candidate to a very large
number of Democrats, especially Northern
Democrats, who have considered him their
bitterest foe and who have been fighting him
for more than quarter of century.
But their objection to Mr.. Greeley was to a
very great extent overcome by his renom-
ination at Baltimore. Tens Of thousands
Ike Senator Bsyard Of Delaware, who
fought bis nomination, Immediately en-
listed unde. his banner when the Baltimore
Convention spoke. Other tens of thousands
Ike Voorhees, scquiesced, and the Demo-
Gratis would have come TO the polls in solid
column had it not been for the course pur-
sued persistently by few who jumped into
tie Liberal train rot that they cared particu-
llrly to go the Liberal read, but that they
hated Democracy and hoped to run over
and crush oct that party. As soon as the
Democracy Joined in the movement
these Discontinued beings, disorganizers by
nature and culture, began to grumble and
quarrel and utter all manner of i'll natured
complaints. They took the earliest oppor-
tunity in this State to assume that they
were Liberal Republicans, although they
were only cast off Democrats, and declare
TO The Democracy and the world that they
were going to run an electoral ticket of
their own, and organize party which
should be entirely free from what they
considered the faint of Democracy. All
through the canvass they have continued to
complain and grun.ble without ceasing.
The Democratic " label" has been to them
q reality and mirage. They have not on
" seen it where it was, but where it was
not. This c)ntemptuous hatred Of Democ-
rscy by political pirates, who run Up every
flag and prey upon every commerce, kept
from the polls legiOns of Democrats, who
would in battle die for their country, but
would not waste an idle moment to turn
over the ship of State from Grant to
nutinous crew, who would a. any time
take especial pleasure in butchering the
officers, robbing the money chest, making
TIE passengers walk the plank, and scuttle
or set fire to the vessel.
Thus by pTesumptuous Liberalism, but
no more like the genuine than dust to dia-
monds, have Democats been impugned and
ilsuIted and all of their warmth for Gree
ley and Brown chilled to the
marrow. North and South, and es-
pecial'y here in Tennessee has the
cause of reconciliation and reform had
to contend with those, few in number but
loud in proteststion, Of its OWL pretended
followers who would refuse utilization to
any of the Democratic associations who
would not meekly turn first the right cheek
AID then the left to their pious palm, and
finally ALLURE in solemn form sll Democratic
sympathies past, present and future. Such
is much of the puny Liberalism we have
had here in Tennessee, which simply meant
Demo ratio disorganization, that il might
accomplish Democratic defeat.