Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-11-21

Right, have been charging for a
long time, but which Montgomery,
up to this point, has been denying
with great vehemence and impetu-
osity.
We will give the most salient
point in his indictment Of the Anti
Tilden leaders and wing, SC that
Democrats may have chance of
perusing it without looking through
Radical spactacles, which they de-
clare cause strabismus, myopia,
myopsis and every other disease
which the eye Of man
is heir to. We will not
try to explain what change
has come over the "spirit Of his
Dreams but will only give what he
says. 1t will not be lost sight of
that this indictment is long and
weighty, bat that We only repro
duce one point. He says that the
Southern leaders are big with a
purpose to indemnify the South for
all losses rising out Of the late war.
To do this, they expect as soon as
they get in power to present claims
for all property burned, damaged
or confscated and for all the negroes
set free by the Emancipation Proc-
lamation. Mr.. Tilden is opposed to
this scheme, and for this reason the
Southern leaders have combined
with Northern anti -Tildenites, which
conspiracy has for its end his defeat
for the Presidency. AS an illustra-
ton and proof, he recalls the defeat
Of Robinson and Barr.
Be it kept in mind that this does
not come from a Republican source,
but direct from Blair through the
New York Sun. Don't charge,
tender-footed Democrats, that it is
Radical lie, or a due regard for
your hereafter will compel US to res
mind you Of the exceedingly poor
accommodations the lower regions
offer for summer retreat.
Wrapped up in your mantle of in
tolerance, you might manage to get
along all right in winter, but when
the terrestrial thermometer struck
the nineties, the Internal one would
register along about 10900, and
that is warm. No; don't say it's
a Radical lie You can say Blair
is drunk, for as he is a Democratic
politician, this hypothesis will
strike many people who are &C,
quainted with the habits of the
species as in all probability very
nearly correct, or say he is crazy, OF
bought, or anything of that kind
that will relieve your over-burdened
soul; but, again we entreat you
don't say it's a Radical lie.
This very remarkable letter closes
with the following paragraph, which
Republican speakers can cut out
and put in their hats for future
reference:
The fact that the enti-claims letter
| had the effect to consolidate the pOliti
clans of the South against Tilden and
rallied their pathiZers in the North
to defeat his friends when nominated
by the people in the great States o
New York and Pennsylvania, is toe
| significant fact in fixing the charsc'
ter and objects of those controlling the
| Democratic organization to be lost OF
the country. No protestations that nc
| purpose is entertained OF "indemnify
ing the South for its losses during the
war of secession,n through such claiml
or otherwise, will avail to convince The
North that such purpose is not en-
tertained, when it sees that the South
does not hesitate to sacrifice the victO'
rious leader of the Democracy, and it
only victorious leader in the las
twenty-five years, when he refuses t.
consent to it. Hence it Is plain tina
the question involved in the exclusion
of TiIden from denomination i
whether the Democratic party shall b
burdened with indemnifying tn
South for its losses-the slave question
In another form.
A Freezing Future.
Henri VavareZ SAWS in recen