Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-06-19

should know also that by the order OF
nature and the logic of events, a silly
specimen of rule called Casarism would
append to its pueriity the attempt of
civil corruption, and the general losses
/ have stated. Yet all these things
come; and by the same law of pre-
science we may antedate the absolute
fall Of irresponsible power and the
third term For does not C8sarism
mean irresponsible power? and the
third term continued prohigacy? How
can our people be alienated from the
memories of Washington? How can a
Centennial be celebrated next year
without eliminating Grant? How can
a Cabinet company, who may mean
well, ike your BristOws, Jewels, ct
alias, get on in reforms? How can a
party, which sought to give, in such a
time, power to annul habeGs corpus to a
soldier without a particle of civil skill
and virtue, win In 1876?
Do we not know that the ak is at the
root; that the tree is girdled, and that
it Is bending toward the earth, and that
the influences of the era lead to its fall?
Guessing the future, / am bold to
say that the infrmities of recent ad-
ministration make the decadence Of the
Republican party sure. If Caesar fell,
can Grant stand? Caesar was an ora
tor, full Of wit, full of all amnesties
and graces of rule; even In the train
ing of the Senate. If Cesar felt
no divination to tell what the
human heart-honest and free-wiIl
beat for "The coarse, unpromising
said Falkland, pointing to the
spoiler of Ireland, will be the first
person in this kingdom In case of
blows" But when blows are over,
where was yon coarse man? No son of
his succeeded. Revolutions which me-
mace largely, like allrevolutions, devour
their own offspring.
Is this hateful rule to be continued?
If so, let us have it IN it's entirety and
Give US none of your sub
ordinate actOrs-machines which 60 up
and down thepubic departments, like
dumb orators, doing the bidding of the
master mind. No halfway, pseudo re-
formers, on compulsion, like Bristow or
give US the genuine article,
and then the smashing will soonest end
and the rebuilding sooner. begin.
What is the rnle of civil conduct
which has never been a barrier to the
usurper and its obseguious
Congress? Only in one case-Arkan-
sas--and then it was because the cleo
tons called a dead halt. The defeated
Vermont Judge understood it well.
What gave this moral power last fall
and this year? Independent men !
How can We perpeSuaUe such results?
By every rule of political divination
or motherly gumptiOn it is wise to seek
to add to an honest, peace-loving suf-
frage as many votes from the other
side as possible. The so-called "Inde-
pendent vote, whether North or South,
should not be discouraged from an al
lance with the Democracy. 1t does
not follow that we surrender the Dem
Ocratic banner because we invite CO.
operation from others Of similar senti-
ments on the essential issues. Let all
who desire the genuine rehabilitation of
the States, who would lift above the
waters our ark of safety, who desire
better order and a surer establishment,
be hailed as br thers. Why not?
By alluTing the good men Of all par
les to our Democratic standard, and
making no obsolete issues to deter
hearty unity-the victory Of last year,
already prefgured in Ohio-wil be re-
rived in 1876. The Centennial year
will be, trust in God, under such lib
sral policies, the var of deiverance
rom al expressions.
To enforce my thought more CO.
gently, let me call attention TO the vote
# New York State in 1874. We gave
he most unreserved invitation to In
dependent and Liberal voters. We
placed on our ticket a Lieutenant Gov
-rnor Of the Liberal party, Dorsheimer.
We did more. We added to the actual
enrolment Of our strict Democratic
The vote compared shows
he following results:
The vote for Governor in New York,
n 1874, was-Tilden, 1882; Dix,
1904; majority for Tilden, 50,3l7.
There were over 1850 temperance
-otes; but they are about "half and
lalf."
In 1872 Grant received 440, 759, and
Greeley 1873, showing that the
Democrats added from 1872 to 1874
.hirty thousand votes! Where did
hey come from? Dix fell behind
Grants vote Of 1872 seventy thousand.
Why did they leave Dix? In 1873 the
Democratic Secretary of State received
My 81 ,00l; the Republican candidate
81, lbs; so that IN 1874 we added, from
Iome quarter, to the Democratic vote
twenty-five thousand votes. Where
lid they come from? Was it from the
Independents, or Liberals, or by the
energy Of an honest cam
,aign calling out the reserves of the
Democracy? Perhaps it was both. AT
my rate no party wins that does not
i'd to the arithmetic of the suffrage
he persuasion of hont st candidacy.
Under such auspices we cannot fail
his year here, nor next year throughout
he country.
When that contamination Is reached,
md the words of peace, hitherto so de.
Usive to North and South, shall have
'eal meaning, even Gen. Grant, upon
lis own political demise, turning to the
lew Democratic order and its repre-
man may say, as the Fourth
Henry said to his son Harry:
Heaven knows
By what by-paths and indirect crOok'd ways
met the crown
How came by the CrCWn-O God! forgive!
And grant it may with Thee in true peace live!
ANNA DICKINSON has been sued by a
-oung man named Hill, of pleasing man
lers and religious training. Lovers Of
air play will be rejoiced to learn that his
nit was not in vain, and that the Court
las ordered the fair Anna to pay him
'2S2. go for services rendered as Secretary
# the Lecture Bureau. 1t is comforting to
effect that men have still some rights.