Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-09-29
The New Champion OF Democracy.

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dependents, office-holders and Office
speeches of Hayes and the cordial
manner in which he has been re-
ceived, under the delusion that the
speeches and the demonstrations are
destroying the Democratic party.
The result will be to strengthen the
/ Democratic party, and Hayes may
be regarded as a new champion of
Democracy, converted to its princi-
pies since he was defeated by OppOs-
ing them in the last Presidential
election. To secure the defeat of
Radicalism-its complete extermi-
nation-the Democrats would ac-
cept the services of the devil him
self-even the aid of a fraudu-
lent President. The Democratic
party will be strengthened, since
the President of the United States
and his cabinet are strolling over the
country preaching the gospel of re-
cOnciliation which the Democrats
have preached for ten years. Hayes
was twice elected governor of Ohio
by appealing to the animosities en-
gendered by fraternal strife. AS
candidate for the Presidency, he and
his supporters waved the bloody
shirt in the northern States. He
favored disfranchisement, taught
sectional hatreds. He was an hon
Ored and trusted leader in the Re
publican party, which lived upon
sectional animOsities made politi-
cal preferment dependent upon pO-
litical servility; gave away the pub
lie domain intended for honest
WOrkingmen, to enrich gigantic rail-
road corporations paralyzed the
industry of the south; filed our
legislature with ingorance and cor
ruption; made q Poland of the
southern States made free govern
ment mOckery, and the flag of the
Union an emblem of usurpatiOn and
despotism; Warred upon Andrew
johnson, and in its vindictive ma
Lightly endeavOred to disgrace |
and impeach him for high miSde- |
meanors because he was guilty of the
crime of magnanimity and kind
ness toward the south, and which is
responsible for the general depression
and all the evil that beset the coun-
try. r. B. Hayes deliberately wash
es his hands of Radicalism and vol |
UNFAIRLY comes forward, and, with |
all the zeal of new converts, be- |
comes the blatant champion of De-
mOcracy. AS if anxious to make
atOnement for his past sins, he par
AIDES the country and eXhauSts him
self in reviving and repeating the ar
guments of the Democratic party for
reconciliation and peace. The Demo-
cratic party can not be injured be-
cause Hayes adopts teaching-cOn-
fesses that the military rule which he
once favored is failure, unconstitu-
tional, and an usurpatiOn unbe-
coming arepublic. The chronic ha-
ters of Democracy need not lay the |
fiattering JUNCTION to their souls that
Hayes can kill the Democratic party
by Joining it and strolling over the
country advocating its principles
of strict construction; of hOme-rule;
of the supremacy of the civil over
the military power; the separation
of church and State; the equality
of all citizens before the law; the
liberty of individual action un-
vexed by sumptuary laws the pre-
servatiOn of the public lands for the
use of actual settlers the mainte-
and perfection of the common
school system and civila and religious
freedom to foreigners. We cOngrat-
ulate the Democratic party on its
new champion. Hayes seems to
have learned in six months what he
could not unlearn in ten years, and
never did learn until he heard the
voice of the American people in
of his policy. A
bright light has suddenly burst upon
his vision. He has discovered that
the Democratic policy of recOncilia-
tiOn and goodwill is better than his
former policy, which treated the
southern States as provinces to be
ruled by military satrapies, bayO-
nets and bureaus which usurped the
place of local self-gOvernment; that
it is not wise to ostracise intelligence
from a participation in public affairs
and transfer State governments to
ignorant negroes and carpet-baggers.
Since Hayes embraced the teach
ings of the Democratic party and
preaching its gospel of
kindness and reconciliation, he has
no doubt discovered that it is bet
ter means for securing peace than
the remedy he urged for ten years
by labOring to perpetuate old feRds
and animosities. Only short while
ago the man who occupies the White
House was parading Ohio with a
torch in his hand, prominent in
the flames of civil strife in
order that military rules might be
invoked and he be elected governor,
or President Of the United States,
He wanted the political power of
the southern States placed in the
hands of strangers, and the taX-pay-
ing people made to enforce laws for
their own destruction. But he has
all these cruel and wick
ed measures, cOncOcted for perSecu-
ting the south, and has become a
champion of the Democratic doc
trine of peace and reconciliation.
This tribute to the justice and wis
dom of the policy which the Demo-
Gratis have urged for ten years
will make the Democratic organiz-
alton invincible in future elections.
When an enemy attempts to steal
The policy of its adversary, it should
strengthen that policy and the party
which originally adopted it. We
cannot see how the Democratic party
IS to be injured because Hayes is
pouring the healing Oil of goodwill
On the sores which he created, and
which would never have existed
had the Democratic policy Of peace
md kindness been adOpted.-MeD1-
OhiS appeal.