Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-12-15

old pretensions, make a merit of their
treason, and ia the name of the de-
struction they have wrought to the
interests cor nitted to their charge,
ask a restor on to power. They talk
and speak they did in the days of
Calhoun an slavery, when fellows
like Bob To ,nbs could go to Massa.
chusetts az threaten the people there
with calm he roll of his slaves at
the foot o. bunker Hill Monument.
They do not Gem to know that they
were beaten at the polls in 1860 on
these issues. md then when they re-
belled, were crashed into submission
to the government of the Union; but
not until ere was left no roll of
slaves to IT, called anywhere. At
every elect a they try to revive the
past, and ST 1ulate the prejudice of
their followc.s by appeals to sectional
hatred. They talk Of Republicans
reviving war issues with bitterness
and yet they make their campaigns in
such a way as to have nothing but
war issues rom Maryland down to
Texas. In the recent election in
Maryland, which they only carried by
stufiing the ballot-boXes with fraudu.
lent votes in Baltimore city, being
largely in the minority in the coun-
ties, the papers were daily filled with
columns Of appeals to Southern sen.
timent, invocations of the memories
of Lee and Jackson, and curses on
the memories Of Lincoln and the
Union armies. The oath of allegi-
ance administered by the Union Gen
eral when martial law prevailed in
Baltimore, was reprinted as an out
rage to stimulate Southern sentiment
in support of the Democratic ticket,
although the chief of The reform tick
ct was a rebel, who had been impris-
oned in Fort Lafayette.
The political Bourbons who control
the Democratic party do not want
any help from without, or at least are
pursuing the exact course to keep
from getting it. There have been
not few Republicans who were DIS
satisfied with the administration {:
who opposed its Louisiana policy and
force Bill, and the Senate's Civil
Rights Bill, and were DESTROYS of do
ing what they considered essential to
restore the Federal system to some
thing like it's old relations. Some
fought inside the party, others went
off as Liberals, and might have
made a valuable accession to the
Democratic party in brains and
character if it had had sense enough
to appreciate their disinterested
patriotism. But just here the assinine
stupidity Of political Bourbonism
displayed itself. A few State sue
cesses made it suppose that it had the
country for the next Presidency, and
then it began to quarrel over the
spoils not yet reduced into possession.
1t allied itself everywhere to reac-
ton, allowed a combination of rebels
and Catholics to make it's nonina-
tons, appealed only to such senti-
ments as must offend any true friend
of the Union or any man who had
supported it, and in this way drove
off the Liberal Republican element
which alone had any moral force
against the Republican party. These
gentlemen were willing to get rid OF
President Grant, but they did not
propose to swap him off either for
JEFF. Davis or the Pope of Rome, or
for some representative compound of
both.
Nor did they care to see Democracy
repudiate our National debt and sub.
stitute for our greenbacks or specie
the worthless trash in the name Of
money issued before the war by the
little wildcat" banks established all
over the South and West under State
authority.
Hence the recent elections admins.
tered to political Bourbonism rebuke
which is prophetic of its fate next
year,
w. G.. BRowNLow,
Senior Editor Wing and Chronicle.