Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-02-25
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And if the mothers and daughters of the
land shall second with heart and hand this
action of their sisters in Ohio we are inclined
to believe that the demon of intemperance
will bedriven from the country. If this is
to be the result, "GOd dlcss the undertake
ing :" must be the hearty exclamation of
every honest and upright lover of his fell
low n.-NoTTiStOWn Gazette.
If Horace Greeley were living he might
take hold of the Changers and do some
thing with them. He being dead, there is
no one possessed of abilities and inspira-
tons strong enough and warm enough to
blow the trumpet of an awakening faith
over the vast dead level of sleepers and
creepers into which universal suffrage has
fiattened the political elements of the coun-
try.-COurieT. journal.
1t is evident that the minds of our peo-
Pile are turning with increasing interest
toward religious realities and themes.
There is an incessant swing of public feel
ing between extremes of worldliness and
| religious fervor, and from intense devotion
to business and material concerns there is
| now manifest reaction toward the moral
and spiritual pole. Our exchanges from
all parts of the country report a rising tide
of religious understandable Graphic.
The national banks will have to come to
redemption some day, and on them will
| ltll Jut DulutU VI lilahlUH their nOJcS Gtlual
with gold whenever the Government cuts
away the legal tender apron-strings. The
people are prepared for the resumption
now the banks have had sufficient time
| to prepare themselves, but whether they are
ready to resume will be evinced by the in
| fluence they bring TO bear on Congress this
| season. COHrier-JouTndk.
| There is no question rs to the declared
policy Of the Republican party upon this
l IL IL 4
! be no doubt that when Senators Ferry and
Morton and Mr.. Kelley and General But
| Ter propose expansion, and some of them
| decide n gold basis for the currency, al
| though they may be wise men and great
| statesmen, they oppose the declared Re
| publican policy as much as if in other days
they had favored squatter sovereignty oil
sustained the bred Scott decision. --Hdr-
| per's Weekly.
The political situation is remarkable
| The Republican party, in unguestieneC
possession OF the government, has no policy
| upon any of the most pressing questions
before the country. The Democratic par
! ty, superfluous and hopeless, is not even
skillful opposition, but, with n folly tina
would be inconceivable except for fourteen
| years experience of it, dominates Fer
nando Wood for Speaker, and resists tn,
civil rights bill. There was never n tim,
within the memory of men now active il
| public affairs when party ties were so re
| laxed.-Harpcr's Weekly.
| While every one must be heartily in IA
vor of any fundamentally or means which
| will really diminish drunkenness in on
land, he can not believe that the presen
crusade of the women is going to do mucl
in that direction. They ask too much
they go too far; their projects are fanati
cal. In so far as this movement is an ex
preston of adherence against the vice o
| hard drinking it is com:nendable. If i
shall arouse and sustain n deeper DISCUS
of intemperance in the public mind grea
good will be accomplished. But in de
handing teetotalism it overleaps its mark
and is therefore certain to fail.-COuriC5
JOlEBOi.