Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-08-28

an element-a chief element-the chief
element of our government. 10
sphilosophic observer, the cotton states
seem to be falling back on the scale of
civilazation.n Now, we say, that the
unhappy Influences of that old system
which Jefferson forsaw and predicted
still gives rise To the paramount Issues
between the two great parties. AS was
said by the younger Adams, SO now
"Men still writhe with the agonies of
fear and disgust at the very mention of !
human rights as applicable to 10 en- OF
color"
1t Is q somewhat familier assertion,
and can possibly be found in the dem
ocratic press and platforms, that sia-
| very is dead and that we live In q time
of profound peace. 1t is quite true
| that the government, under repub'
lican ADMINISTRATIONS, has sought to
act upon the theory that slavery was
relinquished and Abandoned; that the
late saves, as we'll as all white men
who assert the manhood of the blacks,
are entitled to the full exercise OF all
| the rights of American citizens, ana
on the theory that the brave leglons
| who surrendered under Lee aud John.
ston would forever cease armed ana
| forcihle opposition to the constitution:
to the government, and to the political
| rights of all its ci liens. But need
ask any candid aud clear-headed man
within the sound of my voice what
has b en- the course of organized Ce>
| mocracy during The last fourteen
years-in Kentucky in the CaroiiDas
in Georgia-in AlRosma-in Louis
iaua-ln Mississippi?
So far as these democratic cohorts
| A,a
borne in the history of these fJurtt Ell
years of profound peace? Have III y
nOl, rs b party, declared and couu-
selled, during every year OF this pro-
foundry peaceful epoch, Fore bic,
revolutionary aid relentless opposi~
ltion to the edicts of a victorious army,
and to the provisions of the constitu.
ton? Will a2y man who knows
the current history Of his
country, deny, that as individuals, and
as q party ORGANIZATION in the states
named, they have all these years held
the attitude of secret or open war, and
depended upon force to establish and
maintain their proscriptive policies, to
crush opposition, and stifis and des-
troy free speech and personal liberty
need not recount the horrid cata>
Iogue. The facts are Known and read
of all men. No wonder the southern
/ press is sick Of the recital Of these
CHASTITY crimes. No wonder the north
sverts lis eyes in unbelief. Deeds
before uuWritten in the annals of bar
barism-too cruel for invectfve--:oo
foul for demonstrations.
/ Il is true, Indeed that the work OF the
Republican party in the south is
J scarcely begun. 1t can not progress
until the principle for which Luther
peTiled his Hfe-tbe right of free
speech-is either accorded or protected.
It's work can not end until all the is
sues of the war become the Settled, ad.
.mitted, uuquestioned and cheerful
policy and practice-in deed and in
truth-of the whole country and every
; part of it; until the citiz sns of every
state in the uDi III shall bs entitled, in
spirit aud in fact, To all the privileges
aud immuuities of citiZeps of the
United States.
: 1 honor the sentiment which droE 8
the tear of regret alike on the sod
which covers comrade and foe.
$50 with an equal splendor
The morning sun-rays fall,
With touch impartially tender,
On the blossoms blooming for all.
| So when the summer calleth,
I
With an equal manner falleth
The cooling drip of the rain.
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day;
Under the blossoms the blue,
Under the garlancs the gray"
Bot laws are eternal. Deity itself
! can not subvert them. The ideas of
the union and the secession are,
, and must forever be, antagonistic.
That Cancellation which leaves
lout Of sight the underlying principles
in VOIved in the confess, must, while
God reigns, be hollow and transient.
II there he those who yet stand be-
{ You'd a bloody chasm, We offer to
them the hand of faith and honor,
aud ask them to ascend with us the
deiectable mountains OF peace. union
= and freedom. 10 believe with US, in
fair play, without exception, and
without men tai reservation Ito believe
with US in the American bill of rights
that all men, high and low alike,
are entitled before God and man
kind to equal and impartial
: iustice-that each man is free,
and equal to any other
man in his right to the fostering care
= of his government and country, and
y his right to life, liberty and the pur-
= y suit of happiness. 81.
u If there is yet great gulf betwixt
u YOU and US, we believe it ia because the
u bloody chasmp has not been rightly
J, filled up. In this work we are willing
to aid, and as to the best material II
l. be thrown in, we give our advice
= gratis: Into the very bottom we would
. hurl "the right of secession" Their
throw in Alexander Stevens confed,
crate cornerstone and squatter sover
:, eighty. Then goes the Drew Scott de
- cision and all that it implies, including
the maxim, 81 like q niger in hi
- places" which simply means that yol
70 consider that he had better be q slavt
than man. r.-.f...
E Add 10 this debris all that the de
:. mocracy means by Estate rights" ant
estate sovereignty" . :ErF
- On all these, tumble without cere
!. mOny the pameless principles an
70 practices of the kuklux and whit
70 liners, and the maxlms and method
= of rife clubs, and all semi-military
a political clans. Lay the rag bah.
~ gently in soft curner. and cover tn
). whole mass over With the presidents
- platforms of the democratic part
a. a. during the forty years prior to 1880.
- Then If the chasm still yaWns, 10
heavens sake. just fill to the very su
;. face, aud level off with miscellaneOu
III and rnuIlitudinOus nTeDsratiOu, whic