Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1874-06-04
POLITICAL


two or more parties organized with the
view OF carrying out or defeating certain
measures. This remark is also true of
all countries and nations since the cstab.
lishment of civil government, and this
state of affairs will doubtless continue
until the end of time.
Parties in the past have had their uses
and many of them have accomplished
great results. New parties are only
formed when great National questions
arise upon which men of opposite views
take opposite sides.
ID this country during and since the
late Civil War there has been but two
great National parties the one which lent
its influence to destroy the Uaion and
the one that saved it. The issues which
have agitatcd the people since the war
grew out Of that struggle, and the men
who confronted each other on the battle
field, have met face to face at the ballot
box. Educated in different schools and
under different circumstances they have
steadily maintained opposite notions and
opinions upon the great National topics of
the day. 1t is well known that the Re-
publican party has achieved great results,
and many of its measures, which it was
predicted would cause strife and blood>
shed, whom accomplished have proved to
be the means of producing harmony and
peace. Where turmoil and financial ruin
we're declared to be the only possible
outgrowth, tranquility and financial pros
psrity have beer the result.
And now, after all this, we find a few
men in the Republican ranks who have
suddenly discovered that parties are USE
less things and that partizanism should no
longer DO encouraged. We find many Of
the opposite side who entertain, or pre-
tend to, the same sentiments. The latter
talk of a general mixing up of parties as
though there were no questions to be sets
tied in the future, but the simple one of
who is to fill the various offices. We
heard a man remark the other day, that
1.-THE people were soon to unite in one
grand brotherhood for the purpose Of put
ting good men in office regardless Of pol>
itics."
That same man, during the war be-
longed to a class Of men whose whole pur-
pose seemed to be, to make . a horrible.
10 detcstible Was he that decent rebels
would not support him, and that same
man to>day would sooner vote for the de-
caying carcass of a rebel guerilla than for
a hving man with the scent Of Unionism
on his garments. But such sentiments
from such a source only go to show the
duplicity certain men in the opposite
party are trying to practice upon the Re-
publicans Of the county. Are the Union
men Of this county to be deluded by
such hypccritical twaddlc as this?
$500
If SO We have been deceived in our esti-
nation Of their sagacity and common sense.
Suppose we consent to unite with them in
the name. indicated; who are to he the
bene6ciaries? Is it not the Democratic
element? We have a decided majority in
this county have we not good men in our
own ranks to GIL these Offices ?If the present
incumbents or the present candidates do
not suit us, have VIC not other good and
true men within our OWE ranks who have
never asked for Office that we can procure
without going outside Of them? If We
have, what benefit do we derive from
this general mixing up2 If we have not,
then is the Republican party in this coun>
~ in a more spitiable condition than we
are at present willing to acknowledge,
While we were among the first to agree
aud insist that suffrage should become
universal because we thought it was right
and in accordance with the principles of
the National Republican Party, We shall
DO the last to accord them special priv.
iegcs which they can not achieve by the
use Of that suffrage within their owe
ranks. And while it is our duty to look
after the interests Of all citizens, and to
protect and defend them in the exercise
of the rights and privileges allowed them
by law, we have a special duty to per-
form toward those who have risked their
lives and sacrificed every thing that men
hold dear in the interest Of the Union.
~ These men deserve our sympathies, our
suffrage and our support, and they shall
have ii 50 long as We can weld a pen or
cast a ballot. We have no apologies to
ofes Cor the past, we have no compromise
to make ia the future. Their ways are
not our ways. Their sentiments are not