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tout It is■!OV-lonserrotives and Radical*°Ut jnt- The country is now divided into two political partite— Cenaervativei and —and under thet,je banners of these parties all men who take pan in Und the politics of the day ere fast arraying themselves, and all journals~ not neutral—are taking one side or the otbar. All parties pretend to coniermifm in one way or another—corner v a tit m they intcr-pn i it, and a* they rfcttrs it shall be understood; endwe 1 nd in them all, and eat ride of them all, a classwho profess to be diutiauUy conservative. We pro-p%« in this article to set forth what we understand by conservatism and radicalism, and to shew precisely where we stand, and where this Journal intends U- stand.Conservatives, in their own lay, are general dis-^ sen ters, pro tasting egfii net the powers that be, end ell they do, fault-itndors, critics, who want reform —they are the out* whose high calling is to fight the nt. Many of them are bankrupt politicians; somev»e iters.Onoftaina.— i ateake I ^9D ha?e% during the last four year*, been on ^ both aides of the great struggle; some of them haresore heads: moat of then den t believe in party politics at all, but are for organising a party which isL ofrit bnot a party, and go for the adoption of a creed that is not political. They are in favor of things as theym. ere«•, i afir 9dtceldiedretailBY-thefl lien. 3ttenITTthe I tic•09L—■ tint the•anor* opposed to tinkering with the Constitution ; and ♦ hey are for trusting the people of the South. Theywould like U see all radicals swing up by their necks. They hare no patience with those who lack faith i« the patriotism of those who brought on the war, and fought against the In ion far four long years. An out-and-out genuine Conservative ad- jmite the negr»- is free, and lets his slaves go as theresult of the war , but he asserts that they were mads free by fraud and usurpation, and that the Govern-meni ow^ him a fair price for his negroe*. and ii not honest if it refute to pay. Mis peculiar affection k* for the Constitution of bis country is inspired mainly by the dauio which protects those who have tp t ' pon t and trampled that sacred instrument under H5 their traitorous feet. They are the advocmtea of leniency. of humanity, and of the benign precepts ofChristianity; and he is wanting in patriotism whosees any wr#ng in the robberies, niurdm, impriu«n-menta rapes and cruelties inflicted by rebel solditra and officers, who were acting uader orders from a tie Judo goverment. They beliere that men out of the rebel army, whose hand# are dripping with the blood of loyal men, should be at once admitted to , A the halls of our Legislatures, and of Congress, at- wlt; tired in rebel uniform^. They are opposed to any and all franchise laws, limiting the right of suffrage, uacept where they are intended to keep the negro from the polk, Such if CoassBVAiisw, and theeditors of this paper are not of that cist*.A radicai is one who, without any conditions. iatoim-AS -
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Brownlows Knoxville Whig and Rebel Ventilator
Knoxville, Tennessee, US
Wed, Feb 07, 1866
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