The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-05-30
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''"N o. Netre leart an(
soul IN the movement to beat Grant
ana would prefer to beat him with sucI
" man as Ihos. A. Hendricks. but i
inns cannot be done, we shall certoinl,
laVor the success Of the New York oil
'tor' And from all appearances tn,
Democrats cannot elect a "straioht
OUT ticket, and there Is no use in Iii.
g"lslng the fact: 1t may. have beer
nnseemly haste in so many democrat
&c newspapers to hoist the names O
Greeley and Brown. We think it was
but the fact remains, and it is now t,
be solved whether patient and impa
tent DEMONSTRATIONS who have com
mittcd themselves to the Cincinnati
platform and candidate, and those who
are opposed TO any such commitmcu
and have gone off in n passion becaus,
they cannot run the Democratic ma
chincry just to their owl liking
whether thcy shall remain divided anC
thus be the means Of having four more
years Of Grant and his corruptions, his
Ku-klnX laws, his suspension of the
habcas corpus, his packing Of the Su.
preme Court, his interference with the
State and their free elections, his mill
tary government, his ST. DOMINGO Jobs.
his pets and favoritcs and ncpotism
AS for o%urscIf, our only hope is in the
fact that the country is in just that I'm
settled state when men will think as
they please and act as they please.
They are not following leaders, and
the reasonable induction is that those
WHO have heretofore led will follow
them. RieD2i, the Roman Tribune,
said There is but one way TO restore
the greatness of a people-it is an ap
peal to the people themselves. All
great regeneratiOns are the universal
movement Of the mass And when
VIC think Of the en- thusiasm which OK.
tends itself all over the land for IIor-
ace Greeley, ard the olive branch cx
tended il his letter Of acceptance and
enuncjatcd in the platform upon which
he runs. it docs not require any gift Of
prophecy to predict one Of those sud
den political hurricanes. periodical in
our history, which sweep away all OPP
position and only end in a great tri
nmph and a splendid manifestation Of
the power Of the people, Of their all
conqucring znal ana patriotic f~crvor
when once aroused. This triumph
may not at once restore our country TO
such government as Democrats desire
hot such as the Home journal shall
never cease TO contend for in It's feeble
way under or control, hu. it will at
least be an Improvement, in our opin.
ion, as marked and important as that
of Mahammcdanism and the "one and
only God' over the hcathenish w0r.
ship Of idols and denominations at Nee
ca. True, we are panied to see the
Democrats divided-pained to see
high strung and excitabIe men like our
beloved Voorhees, Of Indiana, Ethan
whom no II stands higher in our po-
litical cstccm) get into a rage and for
get there is such a thing as a choice
of evils, and forgetting this much, de.
clare themselves for the worst because
they cannot get the best. We deny
any intention to be uncouth in our
choice of words, but we do think there
is a choice between hell and heaven
n middle ground-a probationary state
land, to use a Iomely comparison Of
DR.. White Of the Lebanon Herald, if [
we cannot get cake for supper we shall {
not, like the high-tempcrcd boy. refuse G
corn bread and 90 to bed suppcrless. O
Hon ID. W. Voorhees, has a perfect rigI: 9
stand where he chooscs--to prefer i
Judge Davis to Horace Greeley, or (;
Grant to Greeley, or to express his c
preference in any way that suits him. s
This is n liberal age and thoughts alc s
free. 1t is an age, too, for the present
and the future rather than the past, and,
in the words of q valued exchange:
eve should no more quarrel with a new p
in politics than with new m
discovery in art or science. Living issues
are vital, and dead issues without inter t
except for the moraliSt and the histo- 81,
rian. What was the best thing IN lSGl-G2 :"
may not be the best thing in lS7l-72; and o.
all this overlIauling of records must Il,
90 for nothing, except as they may stamp W
the character of the man ut the time and OF
under the circumstances of his utterancc." -,
Democrats by voting for Scnter in in
this State, as against Stokes, did not 40
themselves. 1t requires no an
sacrifice of principle to 90 for fr,
as against Grant. What every m,
rue patriot is now struggling for is. Sc,
should be: The people against the ,e,
me man power; decentralization or,
.gainst Capitalization; Amnesty IN,
gainst persecution and prescription Tb
he rights of the States to be free from the
he presence of the Army in time of :, ,