Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-10-04
SATURDAY, OCT. 4, 1879.
NORTHERN WAR DEMOCRATS.

Any one at all conyersant with
the signs of the times can not but
notice the profound and deep-seated
dissatisfaction with which those
men, known as War Democrats,
view the present political status of
the country. These men affiliated
with the Democratic party in ante>
bellum times, but when the boom of
cannon, playing on Fort Sumpter,
was borne northward on the
breeze, all their innate patriots
ism rushed FORTH. and, casting
the Confederacy behind them,
they sprang to the rescue of the
Republic, and battled nobly until
the "Silent Man" held the rem
nants of the Secessionis lists in his
grasp at Appomatox Court House.
When slavery was no more, when
Lees army had returned to their
homes, when JEFF Davis was in the
hands of the Union authorities,
when the dragon, States Rights,
was supposed to have sue
cumbed to the st. George in blue,
they once more returned to the
bosom of the party which, although
responsible for the terrible war,
they supposed to be purified by
blood. Now, however, the scales
are falling from their eyes as in 81,
and they see that, deprived OF its
outward cloak, the Democratic
party of to-day is the rebel party
of the last decade, and once more
they are fiocking over to that grand
old party which saved the Union.
Every day witnesses the desertion
of some one heretofore prominent
in their councils. A perusal of the
following will corroborate our state
ments. 1t is taken from the Mil
waukee wis Sunday Dispatch,
the editor of which, Mr.. E. A.
Calkins, was formerly the editor of
the Milwaukee News, the leading
Democratic paper of Wisconsin
"There are indications that the War
Democrats of 1853 and 1864 ia this
State ara beginning to think that q
condition OF affairs exists in the coun.
try which is not altogether unlike that
watch existed when they once before
adopted separate and decided course
OF political action, anu assumed their
distinctive appel alton. The state of
things is such that ali but The mere
form of slavery exists Ill the South !;
there is no more 10y atty in the South
ern States than there was when the
rebellion was at its height, aud the
Systematic, determined, continued and
ruthless assaults at the South on he
established results of the war, consti-
tute causes for the gravest apprehen-
siOUs. In fact, firm a look at the
EOutu anu 1t II WOul III all
To superficial observer, except for the
thousands of maiQ2ed veterans all
around Us, matter IF d5ubt whethe r
the war had been fought at all.
1.-THE utter and incomprehan sibie
faulty of the exeIeoels is a matter Of
profound establishment. Their AFRO.
CANT attempts at Congressional domi-
nation, the impudeUce Of their claims
and attitude, the contempt eud hate
for the North which they do not at
tempt TO conceal, their shot guns and
Ku kluX policies, their terrorism and
murders, are making it impossible f0l
the Democrats to carry q Northern
election, and difficult to vote the same
ticket they do and preserve self re-
spect. But every Demo cratic
victory gained at the North appears
10 have been the signal and encourage
ment for new aggressions, new out
RACES and new atrocities by the ex~
rebels of the South. These victories
in few States have been game by
the greatest sacrifices, the most ardu-
Gus endeaVors, and especially by
pledges to the people Of the North that
the South would be peaceful
would sctupul0usiy adhere TO the set
Elements of the war, and would
guard the institutions Of freedom
which it established; and that they
would deal with the negro in spirit
of enlightened humanity. Then,
when, by such means, the Northern
Democrats have gained new victory
or confirmed an old one, the Southern
braves and ruffians have appeared tC
consider it as q warI ant fer sgaiu com.
ing out aud shooting some Union mar
or Republican neighbor, Fedora
official, OF for ku'kluxing negro set
Element. These courses have mai,
Democratic victories fewer instead o
pIentier. and sre likely tn cause then
to disappear altogether.
"The War Democrats Of this Stat
will consult the part of wisdom b.
considering whether other potitica
Issues had not better be placed il
allegiance till it is ascertained with {
toIerable degree of certainty whethe
there has been war, and if there ha