Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-07-21
THE NEW PARTY--wHERE Is IT.

THE NEW PARTY---WlIERE Is ITg
Even before the election of Mr..
Hayes 1--WE beg pardon, he was not
elected), but before his designationas
President of the United States by |
Returning Boards and the Electoral
Commission, limitations had been |
Obscurely held out that the South
ern Democracy embraced within its
ranks a large element that was
''truly lOyaI;" and this was represent
ed as coincident with the portion of
that party which before the war be-
longed to the Wing party. On the
other hand, the Democratic party
North was represented by the same
politicians as disloyal to the core. and
desperately wicked, and these old
line Wings were spoken of as yearn-
ing to break off their alliance with
the wicked Democrats, and transfer
their affections to the lamb-like Re
publicans, and they were to be fiat
tered and patted on the back and
pampered with some few dOles of
patronage; and with their alliance,
the Republican party which had
only been rescued by aswindle from
disastrous defeat before the people
was to come out rehabilitated, and
the hated Democracy consigned to
that tOrried climate with a sulphur
rOus atmosphere to which they have
national affinity. Ever since that
the administration and its satellites
have been engaged in an anxious
search for this new party, which was
to consist of the beaten Republican
party plus just enough cold line
Whigs?' to put the Democrats in
minority.
With powers of vision sharpened
by the eagerness of their desires,
these gentlemen have so far failed to
make the new party a palpable real
ity. All the microscopes of their
party failed to make it visible to the
naked eye, and with use of their
most powerful telescopes it seems
further off than ever. 1t is very
sad!
And what is the reason? Where
is the new party? Why will it not
take untoitself lifeand walk abroad?
Isit that there are nOOld line Wings,
or is it that the scheme carried in
its original conception the predes-
tined fiat of failure. 1t is perhaps
little of both. AS for old line Wings
even if it were ever possible to
build a new party organization upon
so crazy a foundation as old issues
which have been dead and buried
for whole generatiOn-still with
what hope of favorable cOnsidera-
ton could the Republican party
above all others appeal to the old
line Wings for succOr? Why, the
old Wing party was murdered by
the Republican schism. We never
belonged to it, but some of the best
and wisest men we knew did, and
we respected profoundly while we
opposed it. Speaking as an old Dem
Ocrat we willsay that the Democracy
never did and never could have de-
strOyed it; the Republican faction
could and did. Men of different
tones of thought, men like Jackson,
Calhoun, Benton, Van Buren,, all
have struck heavy blows at the old
Wing party and still it lived until
Seward first betrayed and then NOR
ally assassinated its great ruler
Daniel Webster, and then thrust the
keen point of his dagger between
the ribs of the party itself, which
then and there fell dead,
"And none so poor to do it reverence
and is no more capable of revival
than the corpse of murdered Caesar
in the capital. But if any voice
could call it from its tomb, least of
of all should that summons be utter
ed by the Republican party. That
appeal could conjure up nothing but
an avenging ghost denouncing in
sepulchral tones.
1.-The deep damnation of its taking off,
To old line Wings, especially to
Southern Wings, such a spectre
could give but one message and that
would betO
Revenge its foul and most unnatural muir
der"
And yet we imagine that there
may yet be among us-nay we think
wehave seen them, feeble-wittedO old
men who can listen even to such an
appealas this, men who nthatsec-
Ond childhood of their political eX-
perience forget everything but that
which happened when they were
young themselves, men who are
still living in the days of Jackson
or, at the latest, in those of Harri-
son and Van Buren,. Oh! yes, they
may be heard singing in the shrill
and feeble treble of their senile fatu-
ity
"Tippecanoe
And Tyler too
Van, Van
Is used up man."
They think that Henry Clay is to
,y,I