Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-22
STATE POLITICS.
Varying Views Of Our Tennessee Elk.
changes. t1s

tne motto, men, n0J pfllctDte, Tor It's rule Oh
action, which is SO bent on making Johnson
Governor, that they viii ruin rather than
he shall not rule? To charge this on any
considerable body of men In Tennessee, we
are persuaded, is to do them rank injustice.
Te say that ''Johnson party" has sprung
up, so bent on having its particular Idol, IS
to risk the certainty OF electiDg Maynard,
rather than give that idol up to elect real
ly good man and defeat Maynard, is to SIAN
der every friend Of johnson. III johnson
himself viii sanction that, be is an enemy
of the State. But we are sufficiently GER
Ia in that, in this matter, the late johnson
men are wholly misrepresented as to their
purpose.
From the Gallatin Tennesseean.
In Ohio, tie Democrats planted them
selves upon platform of their own princi-
pies, selected their own leaders, and made
the fight on this line. The result shows
that they were enabled to overcome the
immense majority, given to Grant and the
Radicals LIST year. Let the Democracy
plant themselves upon their own time
honored principles, and make all their fights
under the leadership of able candidates, and
thu day is not far distant when they will
make their way to the front.
From the GAINESVILLE Chronicle.
The Democratic and Liberal Conven-
tiOIs in New ork, with two unimportant
exceptions, nominated the sane State
ticket. This is cheering sigDIof the times,
and when we look around and see those
who at least profess to be friends of an
honest, economical and constitutional gov
eminent, engaged in family quarrel whilst
their common enemy is undermining pub
lie virtue and destroying the government
itself, we can but ask Of whst stuff are
such men made? Are their peculiar views
of party organization ard their indurated
prejudices and self Importance of more
worth than the restoration Of popular liber-
~, the preservation of national honor and
public virtue? They will answer, no! to
the enquiry, with the mental reservation
that these blessings are worthless unless
preserved by themselves in their own way.
Man is q queer animal at best, quick to
learn anything but wisdom, and prone to
indulge every passion ssve love of coun-
try. Let him lead, and he considers him.
self the whole team; ask him to follow, and
his honor and dignity are offended, and be
will go back upon bis once cherished prin-
ciples rather than net appear independent.
Ask him to co operate for The promotion of
some glorious aim, and bis self importance
is shocked at the idea of being considered
the equal, only, of those who invite his CO.
operation. # ne can't be first in Rome,
catch him playing q subordinate part in
Siguntum. SGch men may retort upon US,
that ours is the tame spirit that is content
to serve the country in an humble capacity
looking for reward to its prosperity and to
the Consciousness Of having done our duty
according TO our ability.
From the jackson Wing and Tribune.
YOUR ArTENTIoN.-We think that the
South has future full of hope and promise
"a future that can only be blasted by re-
kindling the dying embers of partisan bate.
Every word uttered, every sentences written,
calculated to stir into life the slumberiDg
ashes of old party sntagonisms, deserves 70
be anathematiz.d. What has the long suf-
fering South-what have the people of this
great republic TO gain by digging among the
bitter ashes of long slumbering party hates?
Why, old Democrats conscieDtiously be-
lieve that the compromising policy of the
old Wing party, so elcquently, ably, yea,
grandly urged by their great leader, the i'm
mortal Clay, was the foundation Of North
ern sectionalism, the main stimulus of
Northern aggression, the great en-
tering wedge which finally spit the |
Union. Oldh Wigs as conscientiously be-
lieve that the repeal of the Missouri Com
promise, the passage of the Kansss-Ne brss-
ka biz, and the agitation incident thereto,
laid the foundation of disunion, forced mp
on the country the isms of '60-61, and pre-
our great civil war. Now, can we
reconcile these conflicting opinions? Can
they be reconciled? Is it necessary that
they should be reconciled? To both ques-
tons we answer, no. 1t is impossible TO re-
concile them, because prejudice and pride of
opinion are common and controlling attri-
butes Of our human organism. It is unnec-
e Ssary to reconcile them, because they are
irrelevant to the issues of the present. ques-
TORS that were blotted ont in blood, and
which, for the good of the living, should for
ever sleep with the dead of our fratricidal
war.
Republic of cur fathers is to be saved, old
Wings and old Democrats, Conservatives
and Liberals must lock shields and move |
together upon the common enemy. In |
unity, complete aud enthusiastic, lies our |
salvation. If elimination and re-
is INDUCED, unity is impossible. |
Let Us bury out of sight and forever the an-
imositles of the past and make common |
cause for our country's good. We cannot |
afford to quarrel by The way, as TO the ban
ner under which we are to march. Ii the |
flag chosen BY majority Of these opposed