Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-05-16
THAT LITTLE STREET..

Reader, has it ever been your lot
to witness the agOnizing writhing:
Of q worm in hot sand Did you
ever notice the frantic twistings il
made to get cut? If you have, you
can fully appreciate the lamentable
position the Tribune and with it the
rest Of the Democratic press out of
the immediate South, is in now. We
say out of the immediate South be-
cause there the hot sand is essential
to their happiness. The cause
which produces this squirming is
the rabid utterances OF the radical
observation-disclosures party as set forth
By the Okolona States and few
more men and papers of that stripe.
The Tribune of yesterday contains
whole column Of these contor
tions. After due consideration Of
the matter that goes to make up that
column we are unable to discover
anything TO controvert our former
remarks On this subject. This ar
ticle is the follower of one in that
paper published a few mornings
ago, stating that the States had sold
out to Gen. J. S. Robinson, Of
Ohio, the Chairman of the Republi,
can Executive Committee of that
State. Now We would like to know,
in the first place, whether or not an
honest man could sell out? That
he could not will be the verdict of
every sensible man. We so consid-
cred the matter and gave some ex-
tracts from Mississippi papers to
prove that his contemporaries were
fully convinced that the proprietor
was an honest man. The Tribune
is convinced, also, and says: Sol.
Harper is said to be brave, hon
o,.abIa man < s. :" His
private character is said to be unim>
peachable. : * "Harper,
the editor land it might have ad-
ded, proprietary" sis a man Of cor
rect private character.
Yes, he is a man of good character
AMI yet the Tribune would have the
people believe that man of I" corr
rect, private character has sold
out his opinions and devoted his
paper to treason against its party
and fidelity to the Republicans
VIII anybody be deceived ? We
opine not. The editor, or one of
them, for they are many, the 0Sten-
s.Jle editor of the Tri6une may de-
NJ that the States reflects the senti-
ments Of its party until he is black
in the face, until he hears the roar
ing of thousand cataracts in his
ears, until his eyes stand out like
the bumps On a black oak, but he
can not make sensible men doubt it.
Now it may be asked why it is
that we give so much time and space
to a little paper published in little
town in Mississippi. The answer
is A metropolitan paper moulds
public opinion; country paper fol-
lows it. The States gives US an in
sight into the feelings, passions and
purposes of the South. The South
rules, nay, is the Democratic
party and what it desires the whole
party desires. We wish to keep
before our Republican friends the
fact that the same principles and
the same men they battled in 1861
So are once more to the front, and
the contest is the same, with only a
difference in means. The old rebel
spirit is revived, and the old States
Rights principles, with their
threats of secession and kindred
evils, will be one of the issues. tits
not only the States that gives these
battle-cries publicity. Has the
speeches of Blackburn and his fierce
Brigadier followers during this extra
session been forgotten . No.
Have the threats to starve the Gov
eminent been forgotten No.
Have the reasonable sayings, trea-
sonable anywhere except in the