Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-07-31

FRE SOUTH AND THE CURRENCY.
Under this heading the Ne,o York
World has a leading editorial of a
rather patronizing character, in which
ii says:
Some of our otherwise leTel-headed
Democratic exchanges at the South,
over-estlmating the influence and the
backing of the Ohio blunderers, antici-
pate troublesome differences within the
party on the currency issue and advise
the dwarfng of that issue In the com.
ing Presidential contest OF the relega-
ton of It to the Congressional districts.
The adoption OF either of these courses
would be deservedly fatal to the success
Of the party. For better or for worse
the future fiscal and financial policies
Of the Government will enter promi-
nently into the great controversy of
1876. If kept out Of the platforms they
would be the stumbling blocks of the
canvass. There Is no help for it. They
are Of the vital issues of our national
politics. They cannot be shirked.
If the future fseal and financial
policies of the government will enter
prominently into the great struggle of
l876'' well and good; if, kept out Of
the platforms, they would be the
stumbling blocks of the canvass, then
by all means put them in; if "there is
no help for 1t, % OF course it cannot be
helped; if "they arr ofthevital issues Of
our national p itics'' we can have no
national politics without these issues,
if they cannot be shirked, &" so be it.
Whatever may have been said by
"some Of the Worlds otherwise level
headed Democratic exchanges at the
South, " we think there has been no IN.
certain sound uttered by the Demo-
cratic people and Democratic State
Conventions of the Southern States.
Take the National Bank monopoly,
about which the World says least and
in which it may be most deeply in
terested; the Tennessee Democracy
in State Convention assembled in Au-
gust, 1874. declared:
THAT we favor the abolition Of the
present odious National Banking sys-
tenn"
What does the World and the
Worlds Democratic following have to
say to theadoption of that plank in the
Democratic State and National plat
forms? The Tennessee Democracy
have taken their position upon
that question and Will not re-
cede from it. Upon the platform
Of which the foregoing was a promi-
nent plank. the Tennessee Democracy
went into the last State canvass and
elected their ticket by fifty thou
sand majority. Put that single issue
before the people Of Tennessee to- day
and the Democracy would triumph by
one hundred thousand majority.
We respectfully call the attention Of
the World to another fact, which seems
to have escaped its note: the Democra-
cy of the South have ever been willing
to yield much for the sake of harmony,
but they cannot be brOw-beaten into
the advocacy or support Of a vicious
political principle; nor can they be
deferred by profuse use of epithets |
Or abuse from opposing that which |
they believe would be ruinous to the |
interests and prosperity of the nation.
The pet phrases so often and SO dexter
1usly used about rag money" and |
rag money politicians, - with others of |
ike import, iterated and reiterated |
with like intent and purpose, viii not
drive a single Southern Democrat from
The faithful discharge Of his high duty
IS a citizen Of the Republic.