Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-12-01

meditation.
"ONLY THINKING"
His eyes rested dresmily upon the
glowing cmbers of the CRATE before
him. His face wore an expression of
anxiety. After a moment he recalled
himself, and raising his head and turn
ing remarked: l was only thinking.
A thought struck me. A year does not
-eem long, does 1t? In some peoples
lives 1t is very long. 1t seems eternity.
Perhaps that may he my experience,
but feel well enough now. But re-
member what / have told you. There
is one thing, the people never will put
Democrat in
THE PRESIDENTIAL OPF1CE
! II lie ever had in any way any connec-
ton with the rebellion. The Northern
Democrats were worse than the South
ern. The Southern people may have
been misdirected by their leaders and
have been driven into an inexcusable
attack upon the very life of the gov
ernment. They risked their lives and
sacrificed their means in defense of
| their principles, aud you might say
| their firssides, but the Northern Demo-
Gratis did not have that even TO pardon
I their sins. They were intriguing in
every way to bring fire and devasta-
ton TO the North. They had no re-
spect for their own families let alone
their honor. If the Democrats ever ex-
pect TO have "A chance as long as this
generation lasts, they will have to
nominate y war Democrat IL there are
any suitable left in that party. After
this crop of candidates dies out, the
people Will take up other subjects, but
now they have more confidence in a
Union Republican than rebellious
Democrat. Remember, there are many
good men among the Democrats, but
they have way of keeping these in
the background. l don't believe in
always harping on the war. | believe
we are taught to forgive our enemies.
believe i'll that, but / think they
should be put on their good behavior a
while. l suppose they will spend all
their time investigating this winter
and smelling shout to find something
wrong with the Republican party. 1t
| Will be interesting to watch them.
THIRD TERM.
Your correspondent, seeing the dis
position of the Vice. President to con-
tinue his conversation, made an allu-
sion To the third term talk in the
newspapers. The Vice PreRident re.
piled that he was little shy on that
subject, as he had been a good deal
misrepresented about that. He said !:
II have every confidence in Presi-
dent Grant. We have been represented
In the newspapers as being on un-
friendly terms. | never thought so.
The President has his views and
| have mine. | think his third term
letter expressed everything. II might
be dangerous under some circumstan-
ces to make a change OF President, no
matter how many terms he has had.
Take Lincoln for instance. II he had
lived, and the war had been raging at
the end of his second term, It would
have been a dangerous thing 20 make
change, because he had his hand Ia,
aud was familiar with every phase of
the contest, and meansat hand 10 put
IL down.
NOT LIKE TT USED 10 BE
Continuing, the Vice President said:
well, / tell you one thing, 1t is not
like it used to be ten or fifteen wears
ago. The people are ahead of the
leaders, and, as for that matter, ahead
of the newspapers too, as we saw by the
Liberal movement. That was a swing
ing off and had large newspaper
backing, but the people knew what
they were about, | think the people
will settle the third term matter iU
their own way. If they have more
confidence in General Grant than any
one else, they win have him. The
people know what they want, and as
long as we have our public schools
they viii know more. The Democratic
leaders and few Republicans had an
idea that
INITIATION
was the popular issue, and aimed in
that way. IT did seem they were on
the popular side, but the people knew
what they wanted. / presume there
will not be AT inilationist TO be seen in
Congress this winter. So the people
rule.n