Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-31
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These men constitute what is COM
monty and properly called the Dem
occatic party, and we see no occasion
for the use of qualifying adjectives
in speaking of it. No matter Wheth-
er those who compose it were
Wings or Democrats, UniOuists or
Separationists, in old days, and no
matter if many of them prefer to
be called Changers or Conservatives
now, they are all alike opposed to
the system that has laid Louisiana
and Sonth Carolina desolate, and
from the ruinous effects of which
Virginia and Texas have only re-
Gently escaped. They may be known
from their opponents by the simple
fact that they look TO the people Of
Tennessee for support, and not to
the oligarchy that sits enthroncd
at Washington. Their object Is to
Danish forever to more cOngenial
territory those birds of prey and
passage, the camp-following and
carpet-bagging thieves who by their
loyalty to the flag compounded for
all their disloyalty to truth and hon
or and decency, who came to us in
the wake of the victorious armies of
the Union to insult the living and
despoil the dead.
1t is easy to draw the party lines
in this State, and the "Indepen-
dents" must go to the enemy or
come to US. We sec determine
ton manifested everywhere in the
ranks of the Democratic party to
fight a decisive and unmistakable
battle during the year upon which
we have Just entered, and it is time
for us to look carefully over the field
in order'to ascertain who can best
lead us in this our time of trial and
OF peril. In selecting a candidate
for Governor, fitness and integrity,
fidelity TO the State and identity
with her true interests, should be
made the prime considerations, and
after that we have right to look
TO local partialities and the claims
of the different divisions of Tennes-
see to the high honor in question.
Since 1896, when we were admitted
into the Union, West Tennessee has
had one Governor, and his promi-
nence had been obtained as the rep
resentative of 4 Congressional dis
trict that lay partly in Middle and
partly in West Tennessee. In view
of this fact, all other things being
equal or nearly so. it seeEls to us
not out of place to urge with ear
nestness the selection of candidate
from our portion of the State.
Alienation in the high offices
should be the rule whenever it does
not sacrifice general interests. The
Government of the United States is
sectional and localized, and therein
is weak. Thus may it be with the
States that compose it. By alterna-
ton in such offices as Governor and
United States Senator between the
different portions of Tennessee, we
do not divide the State but really
unity il.
This much we have deemed it
necessary TO say, in order that we
may not be misunderstood, and now
it remains for rs TO indicate the in
dividual who in our opinion will fill
all the requirements of wise expe-
diency and of q people jealous of
/ the reputation of their chief magis-
trate. In looking over the whole
field, we have carefully weighed the
claims of all those In west rennes-
see who aspire to the office of Gov
ornor, or who have been named in
connection with it by their friends.
Many of them are men of high merit
to whose names even the title of
Governor would lend no especial
distinction. Some of them desire
the Office and are making efforts to
secure it, while on the other hand
some Of them seem TO care no long
er for the parsley or the palm OF
the political stadium. Some of
them have run through all the
changes of political life from sharp
to fiat, and they seem to us to be
somewhat tooprofoundly impressed
with the emptiness of all human
triumphs. Our object has been to
ascertain which candidate presented
by the people of West Tennessee
combines the largest following with
the highest ability, and we unhesi-
tatingly name our fellow-townsman
Gen. A. w. Campbell. To the peo-
pie of this comfy and to the people
of this portion OF the State it would
be unnecessary for us to say any
thing in regard 10 the gentleman
named, but in order that our con-
tempOraries all over Tennessee may
form some clear idea of the merits
of the candidate that we would Sc
lect, we will endeavor to give an
accurate but brief pen-pOrtrait of
Gen. G.. lie is a man in the prime
of life, yet young enough to adapt
his feelings and actions and utter
ances to the change in the fortunes
of the South. a soldier of the Con-
federacy, periling his life in the con-
t0st which his native section deemed
essential to its vital interests, but
accepting fully the hard results of
that last argument of sovereigns,
the sword, and indicating in his
farewell address to his disbanded
comrades who wore the grey, the
course of conduct that wise,
thoughtful and practical men should
pursue when the great soldier of
Appomattox had sheathed the
weapon that he had worn and wiel-
ded like a king ofbattle through the
long agony of the Host cause"
Gen. e. is 4 man of business hab-
its and pursuits lawyer in full
practice, whose education, literary
and professional, has been critical
and thorough. In addition to this
he was made familiar in early life |
with the details of finance and bank
ing. His professional abilities were
recognized as sufficient to justify |
Gov. Brown in appointing him to |