Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1876-09-27
Republican Party Tools.
2 Editors of tAe CAronicLe:

forth the truths or history without be
ing charged of being party tools, al
alleged by the Knoxville Tribune? L
says:
awe need not go out of Knoxville
for instances of this wholesale abuse
that has suddenly taken the place oil
argument. The speeches of Houk,
FOote, Pettibone and Gibson are full ol
it. The party organ here hoWls it day
after day"
Listen fto their Rheatown corre-
spondent, and then quotes the follow
ing from Fridays CHRONICLE: eyes,
Col. Ingersoll, will you please tell to
what partysthese old Deuocrats-who
are stained with b1ooEs ard treaaon,
| who waged war to destroy the Union,
who connived at assassins, riots and
massacres, who boast that they will
effect by the ballot what they lost by
the sword-belongs 2" etc. Then COM
ments:
"Now, will any sensible man deny
that all this is done without purpose?
Certainly not. The object is apparent.
1t is all written and spoken for the
10 induce rioting and brawls."
Not et all, sir. Those are words of
soberness, and freighted with the
truths of history. 1t is no abuse-ir is
simply the unvarnished record of De-
mOcracy.
The days of the gag have past. We
now have free speech, free thought,
and free press; precious boon won
by Republicans on the field of battle
for liberty and humanity. Democracy
asks that its record be covered with
the mantle of charity, and accept it's
prospectus in good faith. Yet, at the
same time it was the pen of sIander,
falsehoOd, abuse, and deception, and it |
claims to be the immaculate party of |
reform. That the hands of Democracy |
are stained with blood and treason, let |
history decide.
1t seems [ have seen letter whose |
author is now the senior editor of the |
Knoxville Tribune, charging Isham
q. Harris with the murder of Henchie,
Fry, Haun and Harmon. IF so is his
hands not stained with blood, with in
nocent blood, or has the stain been
erased? ? No! He may cry like Lady
Macbeth
Out, damned spot Out [ say
What, will these hands meier be clean?
Here's the smell Of the blood still ; all the
perfumes Of Arabia will not sweeten"
these guilty "hands."
And Isham G. Harris stands on the
same plank with others of their lead
ers.
Are they not stained with treason
If not, all the photographers of the
world are ignorant as to the proper
definition Of the word treason. But
some Of them have been pardOned by
,he magnanimOus Republican PARTY.
Did they not wage war to destroy
5he Union? Have they not 'connived
at assasins, riots and cold bIooded
since? Where is the DEM
Dcratic paper that has not excused or
endorsed every massacre aud riot
against Republicans, white aud black,
II the South. Not even those papers .
to be religious, whose senti-
nents were Democratic, raised hand
Or said word against this wholesale
murder that pales into insignificance
he OutraGes of the most barbarious
and savage nation known in history.
Hhe bullet has slain the innocent and {
,he knife has cut the unoffending.
Do they not in their bloody record {
Did not Il. Hill charge on the floors of
he Nations Capital, that the United )
States was the cause of the untold, in
and horrible sufferings of
he prison pens of Andersonville and
Libby, entirely exculpating the Cons {
Iederate Democracy? Does not De- t
claim that it will effect by l
he ballot what it lost by the sword ?
W hat does the following extract from
ex-GOv. HUMPHREYS speech, delivered :
1t Meridian, Miss, Nov. 22d, 1875,
mean?
d" We have surrendered none of our
and still claim the right
?f Oindjc0tjOn. In looking back at
lur past actions and motives, and the :
wrongs We have suffered and G
ire still suffering, we confess that we /
between the 'higer law license of +
in the Union and the sacred
securities of self-government in the
the Federal and the c
Governments. We are \
Tot conscious of solitary dereiiction t
# duty, either as citizen or soldier, and =
eel that truth, reason, and religion t
US from wrOng-doing. We :
NOW we were right and though q
rushed to earth, we should remember f
nd teach our children to remember t
ur cause was just We are still :
rOud of the cause and glory in the
ght we made. Posterity will yet de-
ide that though we lost all but honor
and that is gone now, to save honor
7as better to have fought and lost than
ot 10 have fought at ALL"
Again, listen at Rev. Martins
peech, delivered May 5, 1876, at Char
Jtte, North Carolina.
"They speak of our cause as the
Lost Cause" If so, shall it be lost
Drever?" No! A new generation
as sprung up (I suppose Col. 1Dger- r
OILS young, pure. noble, Democracy, {
nd at not far distant day there Will
e stars and bars floating proudly over
ur Sunny South. We
re to-day united to the Puritanical host
" an artificial tie; but we are distinct
,eople and God and the right will
nable us to show to the world the !
ruth and the equity of our claims:
)ur statesmen now in Congress
upn0se he means B. Hill and his Con-
ederate colleagues) are the cream OF q
hat body, and are the only element
hat r. fleets credit on the United states.
) it not better to hang on to the LOST
Iause than to stay in Govern ment or
THAT is, to stay in the
Jnion.)
Extracts might be quoted of a SIM
IartyDe od iyafnitatD1 from the speeches
f the tools of the Democracy. But :
bese certainly give the animus OF the
,artv which is offering to reform the
Cotion n shows cOnclusiYeIY that