Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-11-03
FIRST VOTERS.

first vote it should be q sacred duty and
one deserving conscientious and care
full consideration, as to which one of
the parties he allies himself with. On
the one hand we have the party of the
people and the country, of protection
and prosperity, of good government
and education, of equal and exact JUS
tice, oil patriotism and faith in our
present greatness and future preemi-
hence as a nation a Iarty that has
never, by act or deed, in never SO slight
a degree, brought disgrace upon itself
by any threat against the life of the
Government or the liberties of the peo-
pie has never attempted to proloug its
own existence by interfering with the
rights and privileges of any portion of
the population in short, a party whose
birth was most opportune aud whose
growth has been at all times in such
proportion as was necessary to defend
and protect the Nation against external
threats and internal discussions.
On the other hand, is the only politi-
cal party ever having existence in this
country which favors the prosperity of
foreign countries rather than its own,
which would rejoice in the degradation
of Il people and dance with glee upon
the grave of American industry, and
find cause for congratulation in the de-
struction # our thousands of homes
made happy by the accommodations of
honest and protected workingmen q
party so treacherous and unworthy as
to become q veritable incubator OF trea-
son, fraud and crime a party SO lost
to all feeling of decency and honor as
to stop at nothing that can advance
their party schemes; the only party
that ever stole States for paItizan pur
poses and attempted the theft of others
as the opportunity offered, and there
was not honesty enough in the party to
resist the temptation, as in the case of
Pennsylvania. The only political par
ty in our history that precipitated a
war upon the Government and declared
the Constitution a fraud and a farce /;
a party that stops not short of murder
to prevent those who disagree with
them politically from voting as they
honestly believe to be right a party
that has always been unscrupulous and
dangerous, and the most bitter enemy
of education on earth, viewing our
public schools as SO many enemies to
it's existence, as was shown in it's late
acts in Wisconsin.
These are the two parties; in one or
the other all should find a political
home, and it is a duty the young men
owe to themselves and the country that
this choice be made only after careful
study. If you believe in your country
and honor the wisest of her men, past
and present, if you respect the teach
ings of her patriots and revere the
memory Of her heroes, men who died
"that this Nation, under God, shall
have a new birth of freedom and that
government of the people, by the peo-
pie, and for the people shall not perish
from the EARTH" then by all means
make your home in the Republican
party. But if you believe in feeding
foreign labor in preference to domestic,
if you stand ready to welcome want
and poverty, if you can be satisfied to
identify yourself with a party hat APP
proves secession and all it means, the
avowed enemy of the poor man, then
by. all means join the Democratic party.