Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-04-08
THE PARTY OF MCNSTROS-
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The history of the Democratic
party is blotted and blurred all Owe
with monstrositieS. 1t is unneces
sary for US to specify or particular
ize, for every one who is it al
familiar with the political history o.
the country will readily supply de
tails. If the leaders of that party
had any character whatever fol
craftsmanship, conservatism or pa
triotism, the effort now being made to
bulldoze the President into approx
ing bill for the relief of political
bandits and ballot-bOx suffers,
would be a matter of more than
ordinary remark. But a set of men
whose principal Characteristic has
always been to rule or ruin, may
engage in a campaign for the pro-
lection of the villains who make
the ballot-box the medium through
which to carry out their infamous
plots, without attracting extraordi-
nary attention. s..
But "Whom the Gods would de-
stroy they first make mad" Intox-
icated with having come into power
in Congress, these successors of the
Rhetts, the Wigfalls, the Toombses,
the JEFF. Davises and the Yanceys,
as Gen. Garfield aptly remarked in
his great speech delivered a few
days ago, have determined to starve
the Government or accomplish their
designs. 1t is a fortunate thing for
the country that this hostility
to free elections has mani
tested itself at this particular time.
1t is most Opportune. The inevita-
bic result is, the better sentiment of
the country will be aroused, and at
the ballot-box next year the sec
tional, insurrectionary Democracy
will receive such a blow from the
people that it will never recover.
Let the Okolona States, the expo,
nent of Mississippi Bourbon De-
mocracy, revel in the delusive hope
that the Southern Confederacy is at
last a success let the ex-Confeder-
ate Brigadiers chuckle in the belief
that Richmond has been trans
ferred to Washington; let the de-
voices of the lost cause rage and
heap their maledictions upon the
party that served the Union, if they
will; let an insOlent, bullying mas
jOrity in Congress go on in their at
tempts to bulldoze a Republican
President, but a day of reckoning
is near at hand, and justice will be
meted out to those who stir up strife
because their cause is too weak for
legitimate defense. a-s-s
1t is to be expected that the legal
representatives of South Carolina
notification, after having been kept
in the background for nearly
twenty years, should raise
good deal of Tophet upon com
ing in again, but their .predomi-
nance now is accidental, and they
may be sure that such an accident
will not occur soon again. Yes, we
repeat, let the good work go on.
We have an abiding confidence in
the good sense and patriotism of the
American people, and we know that
they are not going to endorse the
fire. eaters who now lead the major
ity in Congress. The editor of the
Knoxville Tribune assumes that we |
are alarmed at a threatened revolu-
ton. He was never more mistaken
in his life land his life has been full
of mistakes), when he imagines that
we are. Let these. representatives
of a former generation, when bludg-
cons, boHie~kniYes and Arkansas
tOothpicks were part of the equip /
ments of nearly every Democratic
Congressman, rant and rave to their
hearts content-the people will soon
put a quietus on them, and they will
60 down to their political graves
:" unwept, unhonored and unsung."