Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-06-07
The FHIurs OF oar GsvsrRmont.

| Government Is wrapped Ia the
grandest mystery. Our wlsest
statesmen arc at sea, aud cannot tell
how to pilot tks old ship through
the breakers. The faces OF our pu-
rest men gather paleness-in look
ing on upon the acts aud doinSs OF
our rulers-powerless to drive back
the consuming flames that threaten
TO consume the last vestAgc Of per-
sonal liberty.
At the risk OF being denounced as
q false prophet, By those who are
revealing upon stolen plumber, and
by those who are anxious to get to
stealing, we shall shadow forth our
humble views of the situation.
To our mind there is u gathering
storm in the Northwest that will
eliminate in one of the mightiest
political revolutions that ever swept
over this continent. This storm will
be directed by spirit like that of
Jackson, and il will bear down
and uproot every thing in its course.
After it shall have accomplished its
great mission-thc political atmOs-
phore purified personal liberty will
be secured, and peace and happiness
prevail in all the length and breadth
Of our widespread land.
This storm, or new political par
ty, will come upon the corrupt po-
liticians of the present day as some
of those signal scOurges with which
Heaven has chosen to afflict tho
wickedness of man, have come upon
the earth, moving in. inscrutable and
irresistible and memorable power,
and leaving no other record of its
nature than the devastations of its
path. Party leaders, of the present
day, will be struck dumb in their
councils. They will be carried faint
ing from their feasts. Their charms
will have lost their potency. Their
pride will be humbled. Like the
storm of hail and birthstone which
swept over the doomed cities-like
the pestilence which spared not the
Eunuch at the footstool, or the
Monarch on the throne, this future
party will move over the land on a
mission of political punishment and
publication.
We pretend not to know the par
ty name under which all honest men
will rally in the next Presidential
contest. But name it will have,
different from any now known to
the country. IL will be a volunteer
police in aid of public morality. 1t
will be actuated alone by a determi-
nation to restore the institutions Of
the country, and commit its Offices
to none but honest men-there will
be no Congressional or Legislative
plundercrs admitted. And old
chronic party leaders, of defunct
parties, may so and hang their
harps OH the willow they have
"played out"
Looking through honest glasses
we can well see how such an organ
ization will become necessary. Par
ty contests and civil war have OBJ
liberated the lines of principles
which once divided men. The lust
of conquest has extinguished politi-
cal honesty, and made any profess
sions of patriotism a subject of jest
or of suspicion. Inscriptions pol
iticians have secured nominations
by intrigue, and party fealty has
compelled a support to the nominee
which could not have been accorded
to the man. Officers in high sta
. tions have permitted themselves to
be implicated in speculatioAs upon
the government, and permitted the
political Misrepresentation of their
acts to settle in reproach upon the
+ party to which they belong. Some
men regard public Office as private
property, and the family tree OF
some might be shown, which, tax
ing root in the Federal treasury,
bears upon its spreading branches,
the fruit of preferment to the most
remote degree of direct and collate-
raj consaDguinity. The Executive
Department of our government is
the Marque of victorious general
The offices and revenues OF the coun-
try are his magazines. There hi
bloated followers meet TO cOngratu-
late each other upon a triumph over
their countrymen-to part among
themselves the mantles and the Jew
els, the spoons, and the daily bread
of those whom they have over
thrown, and TO unsettle the Execu-
: tive brain with the insidious fumes
. of flattery. From this victorious
, camp the defeated are driven in
herds to political execution, whilst
weeping trains of the innocent and
, the helpless perish, the hapless vic
: Tins of the ruthless massacre. Con-
gress and Legislatures have become
, stagnant ponds in which the inter
ests of the country lie rotting,
, whilst nothing moves upon its sur
: face, unless impelled by the winds
of seltishness.
We cannot speak, authoritatively,
as to what banner, or party name,
! the honest men of the country will
rally; but one thing is certain, there
! will be a change breeze
whispers change:
.'Long trains OF ill may pass, UNDECIDED
dumb.
T But reason is behind and Justice vet will
= come"
GT Attention is called to the no.
tice of ThOs. J. Caruthers, Assessor
of this district, in this paper. At.
ter the 2lst inst, % per cent. will
be added to the taxes of all who dc
, not make returns on or before that
t day.
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