Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-11-07
AFTER THE ELECTION.

IT LID LAL04 AO1s
However satisfactory the result of /
the election, last Tuesday, the fact is
still eliminated, that the disaffection in
one party, necessarily gives strength to
the other. This is as easy of solution
as any sum in the Rule of Three. That |
there should be perfect unity of opin- !
ION, in politics, is a moral impossibili-
iy. and the nearest approximation to
it, is when men of intelligence, who
exert salutary influence over their
neighbors, in spirit ofpatriotism and
compromise, yield in non-essentials,
for the sake of harmony and united
action on questions Of vital import
ance. This is the only basis for close
party union, as is exemplified in we'll
regulated. Christian congregations,
where there must be, of necessity,
shades of difference on points not es-
sential 10 the great work of salvation,
yet they all kneel at the same Com
munion table and offer up their devo-
tons and their hearts on the same al
tar. United upon vital points of faith,
minor doubts and shades Of difference
are wisely overlooked, because absolute
identity of opinion and feeling is i'm
possible, in view of the endless variety
in the structure of human minds.
So it might, and should, be in politi-
cal organizations but such is the per-
yersity of some minds that, rather than
yield an opinion however trivial, as to
the great end in view, their perversity
seeks support by making converts TO
their fiimsey, yet mischievous ideas.
Men whose patriotism has no broader
scope, become disorganizers and as
Stunning infallability for their ideas,
endanger the entire structure of free
government rather than waive an opin-
ion, perhaps, worthless, even if of
universal prevalence. The object of
every intelligent and patriotic citizen
is to restore the federal government to
its original purity and confne its pow
ers within the limits prescribed by the
constitution and until this is done, it
must be obvious to every man of ordi-
nary sense, that little progress can be
made towards permanent prosperity,
by States subject to the direct power
of a corrupt and tyrannical central
government at Washington which exer-
cises, at its own will, the power and right
10 control State elections, at the point
ofthe bayonet. Yet, there are men of
assumed craftsmanship who, ignoring
this point SO vital in all its aspects, OK
pend their influence upon an effort to
make stepping-stones, to a seat in the
Senate, of no better materials than
the funding bill, the Penitentiary and
the assessment law, and in order to
make these steppingstones safe, they
strive to cement them together with
composition, in equal parts, of repudi-
alton and low taxes. The former is
dishonor to be followed by evils of far
greater magnitude than those for which
it is commended as remedy, and the
first step towards low taxes without
dishonor, is to break up the corrup-
ton fund, at Washington, to which
the people are made to contribute, an
nually, millions of their hard earned
dollars to pamper corrupt partlzans
and enrich oppressive monopolies.
The federal government is the leach
that sucks the life blood of honest la
Dor, and to get rid of this depletive
power, the first step must be to over
throw the present administration.
This can not be done by demOralized
party-there must be union of the ele-
ments of opposition, or Radical rule
will continue to deplete and impover-
ish States and individuals. Such un-
ion can and will, crush out the party
in power. and the same union will, ulti
mately define State policy by which
the distracting issues, of to-day, may
be removed from the political arena,
and the present active disorganlzers
laid on the shelf
tits true, the November elections
are over, but the great struggle, be-
tween government and centralized des-
potism, between corrupt capital and
honest labor, must still go on, and is
near enough athand to stimulate every
nerve OF the patriot to be ready for the
decisive battle. Radicalism will die
hard and use freely, the money extort
ed from the people as the means for
their continued subjugatiOn to the
basest misrule to which a nominally
free people were ever before subjected.
There is no rest for those who have to
resist the wicked clad in the habili
meuts of power, and every honest and
intelligent voter should swear, now, on
the altar of his country, that his vote
shall not be wanting to complete the
victory ever domestic tyranny, in 1876,
not less important than that which was
achieved in l776, over foreign desI OF.
This will be a centennial celebration
more worthy of proud people, than
the money making humbug, to come off
in Philadelphia.
THE fact is undeniable that there
would be no independent candidates,
but for the colored vote. 1t therefore
follows, either that the white man S
party is a failure or that all must be
elassed under the cOlored head, who
ally themselves with that race and use
its influence to advance the schemes of
disorganizers. But whatever may be
the solution of the question il is a
painful reflection that, election after
election. wear after year, this disturb