Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-04-25


and delays, only reached ps Friday
morning at 10 O'Clock.
a New DEPARTURE. 1t is sought
TO reinforce the rotten fabric of Rad
icalism in the Northwest with a few
new planlzs. OF these the temper
ance excitementis one, the Cincinnati
Gazette being our authority on this
point. The Radicals have evidently
resorted to strategy similar to that
Of a man who would place a woman
or child between himself and the fire
OF an enemy. In the dread of a
square stand-up fight, on the naked
issues now between the Democracy
and Republicanism the desperate gam
blers in Northwestern politics look
to the inherent power OF temperance
sentiment, as a diversion from the
scrutiny of that reeking cess-pool of
political corruption and immeasura-
bic scoundrelism, that heaves the
gorge of Connecticut, of Cincinnati,
of Springfield, Ills, and of every 9TH
or point where there has been a bat
tie or skirmish since the Spring
campaign opened VIGOROUSLY for the
Democracy in New Hampshire. The
pious disgust of the Gazette over the
pretended alliance between.the Dem
ocracy and whisky in Dayton, Gin
cinnati, Columbus and other rum
holes of the Buckeye State is express
ed with all the cold severity of a
Sunday School tract, and the real
chagrin over Radical defeat in this
and that place, is concealed by
sorrowful homily on the depravity
of the whisky sellers and tipplers.
For the first time in the annals of
our politics the appliances of pray
or in churches on election day have
been resorted to, 10 head off the
devil in the shape of Democratic
Mayors and School commissioners.
God forbid that we should throw
any obstacle in the way of any
movement that will make men bet
ter, or that even promises vaguely
to do so, but it is apparent that the
Gazette is far more troubled about
the word Democrat than by the
word "whiskyp in speaking of the
results in the different townships
and cities of Ohio. "Devil, Dram
shop and Democracy" explains the
thing whenever Radical fails 10
get in with his prohibition mask,
but the Gazette has no word of la
ment for any defeated temperance
Democrat, altho' there were such.
No one ought to be deceived by
Radical profession OH the Temper
ance question or any other. The
party is utterly unworthy of belief.
1t went into power through the
strength of a national and world
wide sentiment in opposition to
Southern slavery. This being over
thrown it has nothing to rest upon
but passion. prejudice, and tempo
rary excitements. 1t promised to
extirpate polygamy, which it char
acterized as the twin relic of bar
bafism that had been handed down
to us with slavery, but this did not
promise to pay well, and "the par
ty of great moral ideas" permits
it to flourish like a green bay tree.
Its leaders have ever been infidels,
and it can never in any way mend |
the morals of mankind. It's head |
at Washington has no particular
veneration for the principles of the |
teetotaler, and the Federal city is a
dirty fountain from whence a flood |
of debauchery, theft, plumber, and |
indiscriminate political and social |
corruption has deluged the land.
1t appeals to nothing but passion,
and is a crusading host in every
thing. 1t holds peace jubilees and
prayer meetings one day and tho
next goes wild over reunions of the
Federal soldiers who fought at
Shiloh or the Wilderness. Fort
Wayne, Indiana, was lately made
lively by q grand affair of this
kind, and a splendid array of Gov
ernors, Generals, Colonies, and |
Captains, buried (?) the bitterness
of the late unpleasantness, by sec
tional mass meeting at which were
revived the exasperating memories
of the prison, the camp and the bat
tie. Thus was it sought to initiate
the collapsing balloon of Radical |
prestige with the yells of a Hoosier !
mob, aud thus it is all along the
line. The Radicals are summoning
spirits from the vastly deep of the
past, to save them in the straitness
of the seige that has been inaugu-
rated by the guns of New Hamp-
shire and Connecticut. This resort |
to one-horse excitements in order !
to divert the attention of tho peo-
pie from the crimes and infamies of
the Radical party will not avail.
1t is time to set South Carolina and ]
Louisiana free-time to atone for
the political rapes that have been
oommitted-time to free the labor
of the agricultural sections from
the tyrrany of the capital of the
East, and the conscience of the
stern, second sober thought of the
people cannot be diverted from
such topics by hysterical yells and
prayers, either of men or women,
over the wickedness of the world |
in general. What the United States
needs is to keep steadily in view
the wickcdness of Radicalism in
particular, and when that is cor
rected we can do something for the
world at large.
CHIEF JUSTICE NIcHoLsoN.-A cor
respondent whose opinions on all sub
jects are entitled to attention, asks
"How it chances that among all those
whose names have yet been mentioned
by the press of Tennessee, in eonnec-
ton With the Office of United States
Senator, Judge A. o. p. Nicholson
has thus far been oYerlooked?"
Il. l.. I.