Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-03-05

national party! Can you not perceive,
Mr.. Editor, that the whole controversy
depends on what the word natsononty
means? And that this again depends
on what the words nation and state
mean? Il.
Now. as / write for your enlignten-
ment. let me ask you to go to- Webster's
nigh school dictionary and you Will
there learn that Irrational" means
anprtaining TO nation,o and q patton
10 defined to be ''people living under
one government" "a race, a stock"
Now. it is true that Frenchmen,
Germans, Italians, Spaniards, Swedes,
| English men and Portuguese, are all
Eur opeans, just as South Carolinians,
\ Mississip pians, Gsorgians, Ohioans,
| Kentuckians, &C, are all americans
BuE,who but an idiot does not know
that Europs Is. not q nations? Who
does not know that America is not q
nation? Who does not know that
| France lie q nation, and South Caro-
lima a nation? that Georgia is q
nation, and Portugal nation
| Now, we all know South Carolina,
and Ohio, and Kentucky, and Texas
are states /? But state is body poll
tic. A nation is body pol'!io, A
state is nation, These are truisms
1 And SO South Carolina is nation.
! South Caroliniaps live under their
own government, They dc not live
under the government OF Massachu.
setts or Rhode Island, thank heaven !!
They are of an entirely different stock
fronl the long nosed yankeesof New
Hampshire and Maine.
Blood will tell. 1t does tell. One
can tell yankee when be comes
among US, and his progeny bear the
marks Of the inferior breed.
Now, Mr.. Editor, can not any body
see that the noble democracy OF South
Carolina is a national party? w no is
so blind as not to understand and rec.
ognize Wade Hampton, noble hero
that he is, for national statesman
| Who is 30 mean as to deny that Gen.
M. @. Butler, after what he has suf-
| fered for the nation OF South Carolina,
is a national statesman and his party q
national party? 4fthNAt
The fact is that the democratic party
In every one Of the thirty. eight nations
which make up the American con-
| federaey, or union, is national party.
WHO doubts that the democracy OF
France is. national party? Or the
democracy of Italy . national party +?
editor, why not see that the demo.
cratic parry Of Tea es1ee is national
party in each of the democratic states ?
why 40 yen, gay amer Gay, week neant 81
sneer at the nationality Of Gordon,
s Son snd sIl those s' n " msn whom
you call "tbe brigsdiers," when you
fo m far f %u h,o 10 " Years to main
tain their separale nations2 They
sand battlefieIds. And thew are not
going to apologize now to you or to
Radicalism Is not nstionalisn, but
s ssd rights { democracy IT, ! have
A DEMOCRAT.
? REMARKs.-We surrender. This
is a game of two pluck one. We
didn't dream when we undertook
the somewhat extensive job of con-
verting the editor of the Tribu ne,
that We had to fight all the great
men in his party. But we intend to
be liberal and die game if We do
have to go to the wall, and notwith-
standing our correspondent, GA
Democrat" is rather hard on US in
some points, he is SO candid, and we
so seldom meet with candor among
his kind, that we give his produc-
ton in full just as he wrote it. We
will not call him imbecile, or write
him down a sap-head or anything Of
the kind. But we will say, he ap-
pears to know just about as much as
a really conscientious democrat can
know.
The logic of the Tribune man
leads directly to the same conclu>
sion reached by "a Democrat, 7
viz: that the democratic party is a
notiopo1 xoo,t- booorao - Aonol no