Year: 1878

| CLOSE Ol Tile WAT WAS Ou6 Ol DOWG
IN every State, we believe, excep
| Delaware, Maryland and Kentucky
but continued its organization anC
fight for the rights of the people
until it now has control of th'
House of Representatives, and viii
after the 4th of March, 1879, con
troll the Senate of the United States
This has been accomplished solely
upon the correctness of its prlnci
pies, and in the face of the
charges made to the prejudiced
mind of the North, that it was anC
had been in sympathy with the re
bellion. and also with the mighty
weight of the Federal patronage tC
carry.


The Democratic party is the party
of the people, and is and has been
the friend of the people. The green
back idea, about which so much
fuss is now being made, as if it was
a new principle just discovered, has
been for years a leading feature OF
the policy of the Democratic party
in many States South and West.


Here in Tennessee while yet un
der the Radical Brownlow yoke, and
DISTINGUISHED, the Democratic party
in its State convention by its plat
form declared as follows:


"6. The faith of the nation is
pledged to the payment of the ma
tional debt according to the terms
of the laws under which the bonds
were issued, and not otherwise.
The time of payment of the bonds
ought not to be extended; the prln-
cipal of the five-twenty bonds
ought to be paid in currency, and
the money granted to the national
banks to be withdrawn.


Z. The government bonds should
be taxed in the hands of the bond
holders, equally with other proper
ty."


And again in 1870, in the State
Convention at Nashville, it an
nounced the following as part Of its
policy:


'Resolved, That we denounce the





tute lately introduced in the house
of representatives from the commit
tee of ways and means, as a gigan-
tic robbery of labor and industry of
the country; that they are solely de-
sired to advance the interests of
few monopolists.


Resolved, That the power of the
Federal government to collect and
assess taxes on the bonds of the
United States is clear and unques-
toned, and we demand of Congress
that share of their taxation equal
to fair average of the amount lev
led in each State on money loaned
shall be assessed and collected from
all investments in bonds.


Resolved, That we are opposed
to the system of national banks,
and urge the immediate repeal of
the laws creating them; and that in
place of the notes of such banks,
the treasury notes of the United
States shall be substituted"


And in 1874 the platform adopted
at Nashville by the Democracy Of
the State contained the following !:


''5. That we favor the abolition
of the present odious national bank
ing system, and the payment of the
bonds ofthe government by the issu-
ance of its on-bearing interest
notes according to the contract ex-
pressed and implied at the time of
the creation of such obligation, and
a repeal of the present oppressive
tariff, and the enactment of law
solely with view of raising the
revenue"


The Democracy opposed the re-
construction measures of the Re
publican party which threatened to
obliterate Southern States, as States,
from the map of the United States,
and finally accomplished the eman-
cipation of the South, both as
States and as citizens. In this, and
similar measures, it has exerted its
energies, and Notwithstanding the
magnitude of the struggle then
going on, which involved the very
existence of the government, it will
be seen that as early as 1868, a
time when the effects of contraction
and concentration of all values in
money had not been felt by the peo-
pie at large, it's eyes were open to
the evil and it saw, and by its voice
for in the South it was disfran-
chised and could only protest
protested against the policy which
has brought so much suffering and
distress upon the whole country.


Notwithstanding the wonderful
results accomplished by this party,
even when in the minority in the
Federal government, and its clear
foresight of the effects of a policy
which it could not prevent, now just
as we can almost see the day of bet
ter times dawning, when the Demo
cratic party would arise in its
might by electing its President in
1850, and seating him, and repeating
the odious laws which have made
the poor poorer, and the rich richer,
division is attempted in its ranks
by what is called the National par
". A party now led by men, Ben
Butler, for instance, who helped
to make the very laws they
want repealed, and displaced men
like VOORHEES,, Hendricks, Ewing
and Allen. The only answer we
have ever heard offered is, that the
Democracy don't go far enough, or
fast enough.


They forget that safety and GER
tainty lie in conservatism, and that
''the mills of the gods grind slowly" ]"
They forget that the Democracy
will have the Senate for years to
come, and that no law can be passed
without the concurrence Of that
body. The Democratic party hav-
ing accomplished SO much and hay
ing by its past record shown that it
can be relied on, and will, and al
ways has, as soon as able, fulfilled
It's promises, it looks like folly to
attempt to divide and distract it
Just as it IS coming into power,
as it certainly will do in 1880, ifnot
defeated By the Radical party be-
cause OF part of its members going
to the Nationals Tribune d. Sun.
A RICH GIFT.


or all the good gifts so unsparingly
layiehed upOn us by an AllWise Being,