The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-05-09
THE MORRBTOWN GAZETTE
WEDNESDAY, MAY ., 1877.
THE WIG PARTY.

country and some few prominent
politicians are still agitating the
question Of the revival of the old
Wing party upon It's ancient plat
form of principles. Secretary Thomp
son has been recently having a talk
upon the subject. He says THE
country is now in a condition favor
able to the adoption of the principles
which were the platform of the old |
Wing party which party always |
favored a tariff for revenue, with dis
eliminating duties protective Of
American labor; liberal system Of
public improvements, and a sound |
national currency" He says further,
ssthe people of the South are now in
an impoverished condition. The
people of the North are rich, and
what is needed is such a system Of
public improvements as will benefit
that section of country; such meas
ures as will impress upon the South
ern people that we are their friends
and brothers; that we intend to live
with them as members of the same
family and advance their interests
and prosperity by means of the pow
er which is in our hands"
All of which simply means that
Secretary. Thompson, Mr. Hayes and
the rest, all know that the Republi-
can party has got The bottom knock
ed out of it; that the elc ction last fal
demonstrated the fact hat Radical
ism in this Union is in a minority of
more than a quarter of n million Of
votes, and that more than a million
majority of the white men of the ma
ton have recorded their verdict
against the men and the measures
of the Republican party. and in az
or of the Democratic party Soae-
thing must be do to break the
ranks of Democra y, or that party
will be so very powerful and will
sweep the country by such over
wheIming maJorities at the next
Presidential election that neither
Returning Boards, nor money, nor
the bloody shirt, nor anything else
can keep a Democrat out Of the Pres
identiaI office. The Republican par
ty is responsible for Carpet-Bag-ism
in the South, and the Southern peo
pie do not like the name, "Republi-
can,'' so the boast in the shape of
promise of millions of money to be
expended in this section for internal
improvements millions of dollars in
the shape of paper treasury notes, is
to be thrown to these po7erty-strick-
en- Southern rebels, and they are to
be invited to come into the fold OF
the ''Whig Party" Rutherford b.
HAYES will be nominated in 1880 as
the Wing candidate for the Presi-
dency; the disembodied spirits Of
Henry Clay and Daniel Webster are
to be invoked to give life and pluck
to the new party with an old name,
and thus the stalwart old Democracy
are to be defeated once more, while
the same crew will man the ship of
State which has come so near rowing
her to destruction the last twelve
years. But all this will not do.
Henry Clay is dead. The Wing par
ty is dead. II would be as easy to
reanimate the one as the other
Neither dead men, or defnnct parties
can ever live again.
If the Republican party had treat
ed the people of the South, at the
close of the war, twelve years ago,
with the same confidence and kind
ness that Mr.. Hayes seems to be
treating them now, we would have
seen a very different state of affairs
in this country. The people down
here felt, then, that they were crush
ed and utterly helpless to defend :
themselves against any outrage, or
indignity that might be offered them,
and they would naturally have at /
tached themselves to that party {
which showed them friendship and l
Here the Republican par t
ty made its great mistake, and here
is the rock upon which it foundered.
Instead of treating the South with !
kindness and confidence, the great .
mass of the white people were dis
'ranchised, their State Governments il
we're placed in the hands of Carpet
Bag Governors, and battallions Of :
soldiers were set to watch over them. +,
Every indignity that conquered A
people could be subjected to was in @
Iicted on the so-called Rebels of the o
south by the Republican party of =
he Union. The Democrats of the :,
Worth seeing their Southern brethren il
hus numerically prosecuted, came
o the rescue, and of course the
southern white people rallied to the lie
Import of the party which was try ~ ~
ng to befriend and to relieve them. -
his is why we see a solid Demo d,
ratio South; and this is why these h
tates are likely to remain Demo " "