Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-02-28
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Whatever we may think or whatever
we might be willing to do, a repudia-
ton in whole or in part, blow to the
credit Of our State, or measure look
ing in any way towards a reputation
of our obligations, will be regarded as
indicating the temper and calm judg-
ment of Southern Democracy. This
viii defeat us inevitably in 1876, and it
is the only thing that will do it. The
Republicans are not supporting and
urging on this legislation for nothing.
They well know the measure, whatever
they may do, however they may vote,
viii 90 before the country as a Demo-
cratic measure. This is a sound view
of 1t. To preserve our credit and
pledge the Democratic party to an
honest policy, will ensure success and
relief from Federal burdens, which are
more than the people can bear much
longer more, largely more, than Is re-
CURED to met the Federal indebted
ness.
Gallatin Examiner.
Capital and labor will avoid our State
at the whisper of the foul word. If we
are mean enough to 90 back upon the
plighted faith of the Commonwealth,
the world will be fully justified in
counting our people dishonest, for the
State and the people are one. If our
Legislature should be shOrc-sighted
enough to favor the sixty per cent.
m0nstrOsity, or any other scheme
squirting atrepudIation, the merchants
of Tennessee would have to pay to the
Wholesale dealers in goods in other
States millions of dollars in excess Of
what they would have to pay otherwise,
and the dear people would nave to foot
the bill. And yet, singular as 1t is, we
have men in Tennessee whose taxes do
not amount to forty cents in a whole
year, upon all they have, crying out at
high taxes, when, with a furnished
State credit, they would have to shell
out more than that advance upon
cheap pair of brogan shoes for one of
their boys. Mississippi is today pay
ing a larger per cent. higher for her
foreign purchases than other States,
and it Is but the Just penalty for her
awful folly forty years ago.
Columbia Herald.
When the Tennessee soldiers, having
been overpowered in the late war, re-
turned to their homes, ragged and pen
niless, they proudly held Uo their
heads, and boosted that the honor Of
the noble volunteer State had been pre-
served, though all else had succumbed
to the crushing power of merciass war.
Now, we ask, are the people of Tennes-
see going to sit gently by and allow a
few fedgling demagogues, wbo were
thrown into our Legislative halls by the
political cyclone of last fall, to violate
her plightei faith for the sake of few
dollars, and thereby stain her for the
establishment and preservation of
which the blood of as brave men as
drew a blade had been freely poured
out? We trow not. We call upon the
good and true men In the Legislature
men who respect public as well as
private obligations-to step to the front
and reUuke those whe are endesvoring
to secure the passage Of measures that
viii disgrace our State in the eyes of
the civilized world, and ruin the credit
of her citizens in all the marts Of the
country. In the language Of Gov
Porter, Tennessee cannot afford to be
disbOnOred +"