Bristol News

The election of Maj. F. W. Farnes to succeed Dr. Sevier in the 1st Tenn. district is a piece of luck; nothing more. It is due more to the apathy and divisions in the radical rank, than to our own energy as a party.

It was certainly not down in the bill which accompanied the resignation of our sapient and disaffected aspirant to the presidency of the Senate and a seat in Congress. How that card was to show that our district could by a mad and disappointed man be turned immediately over to the tender mercy of our enemies and how that card did not play worth a cent, is one of the curiosities of disappointed temper. We are truly glad that it has failed as it ought to have done. Major Earnest was elected to the Senate during the war, while he was absent in the service of his people. He never was permitted to serve in the Senate. and it is quite just and every way becoming in the people, to see that he yet represents them in the Senate.

Now let us go to work and keep this district in good hands. The new party movement of the disaffected, will burst as it ought to. and it is time these evil doers had been taught the lesson, that they cannot ruin that which they cannot be permitted to run.