Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1878-11-16

untimeIy to indulge In the eIu!tns
reflection that the present AumlhIs
,rotion ia poWeTless to enforce 'haI
ri0ht at this time. There is a power
bebind the Administration which Will
saa that that right is protected u nov
i'm one way, then in another anu We
warn the Southern people not 10 le
NIT themselves to be mlsled Iheo ~
king Of this the issue IN the heA, ~"
wears. There Is Doaru fhaIA nc" "'
| ferrous" heTeabOuts.
:, President HAYES has sought by q
! uvisa coarse to restore selF-gov-Thiu-I
to the South, and to remove the er'a,
| causps of sectional eStTaugemsht' anu
the peopIe of the South must sh""
that they appreciate and are Ia y hiPa-
Inv with his good inien ions, or 'heS
m1st take the consequences. Inc PEG
ME of the North have sustalheu hlLl
although he has had STUBBORN uu"
nainfuI conflict with them. NellneI
{ the President nor the people VINO III
dorsed him meaut, however,
tbat the peace for which they
: were so anxiously striving was
( N he effected by the sacrifice Of any
rights on the part of the freedme en-
II the campaigns in Ohio and New
= Work i'm 1879 are fought upon the old
b sectional issue, which all good patriots
had hOped was dead and buried. the
20 responsibility will not be upon IIts'
d dent Hayes and the Republican parry
of the North, but upon Naue halH
ton and his Ted-shirted ruulahs %
- South Carolina; the cOWaFaty III 80.
- ants who, at the bidding OF ths De zen
lt ocratic party, prevented the Tree eAeI
= cise of the voting PRIVILEGES in Arkah
sas. the bull-d, Zsrs OF LOUISIANA
. Georgia and Alabama-upon the pc"
- ME of the South. And II In tue glTH
e, conflict of 1850 the people OF Ih'
North are compelled 10 elect mar a
- with an iron hand upon platform
which will declare the first purpose
49, the Government to be TO NJ 'Hll
ia the rights of citizens, even 10 tue ca
st tent of meeting force with Ioice, 80
= cowardIy brutality WIFI utter " LainI,,
- Iatiop, the responsibility Will pei'"
- tOSthe people OF the south.
we have no aTistOcracy OF any KIN
In This land. much less an aTistocIAC.
- which is TO be permitted, by weight Z
+ numbers and brutality OF purpose, !
interfere with any mans Tlghts OF GU
. zenabip. If there is anything tha
Is the people of the North are unite
pr mon il is this, and it would, perhsp
he we'll that the South should Lo' io'
Z get it. ,i.n ~. Iii
nt The opportunity bN "hiCu -
sral men OF the South may Use To us'
al fnTness presents itself nO~, when u
~ inter absurdity and hopelessn'e,'
}, of attempting, while allied with u
ed Democratic party, 10 DO any UNI tl
more dignified than are the procee'
he inCs of the ward caucus, is so psteh
no an evident. By casting away Ifol
the eufangling alliances OF the pas
er and boldly striking out through Il
.ot sea OF error for the clear waters Oh u
civiIiZ alton of the nineteenth ceh'ur,
he in it, last quarter, the liberal men
o. the South may hope, first 10 max =,
o0' alliance at the North of the most ene
nc tive sort in national sffaiTs; an
IL second, to obtain that foot-holu
ll0 home which must some day lead US
he certainly as the operations OF tlme'
the control of local atf4ir5.
loI VIII this lesson be lost "l'h
tho our contempt for the blindness a.
obtuseness Of politiciaDs. we can l
ep- INIT believe that there ale ears IN |
,bs south upon which the verdict OF
late election will not fall dead
ed old"