The Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 18??-185?, 1855-07-06

"A nOunVod " t1o leddln6 UemOcTatlt
Journals Of the South.
We canAot ccnyeaieutiy comply with ,hs
Union and AfasSiesns modest suggestion thai
we should ''piini mo whole Of lhe Washing
ton Uaion's article Oh " The Demcs.s,ic posi.
ti1n siF The slavery :aest;on." Ibis would BE-
occopying TOO much space with ao article
whichever the Union and Americds. does no,
'lregard as worih endorsing, though Ii comes
from the National organ Of the Pierce adam
islfs'ion. dho 90 owing paragraph wiIIserve
asa ample specl.aep a. once ef It's Jysuitsm
! ana ~ p''sssy :, 'ssssss. -ss !
we are rishi 10 assanine that the North
ana the south cad aver haFmlnze on tne ap-
slfac' subject oi slsve.y, Il follows that ihese
I eau be no s;ch things as national parties, cx
lcept upon The basis of 81 ss,sfre exclusion OF
4 the subjtcf from their 3liiicai creeds. No
mathematical PROPOSITION Is more true than
thas the only bass of pirtl Organization Is an
/ lagreeuient amongst those wlc inter into ii up
ou the Subjects which they rec"gsiz as belong
ing to It's creed They may difr>s az widely
as is possible as to all subjects rot epibraced
by their party creed, but 10 be hsrmoniohs In.
! side their organization they mts S'ave cor'1
mon sentiments, aud stand siOgoil dron-e CON-
mon PLATFORM hese tfuls ~Nll command
really assent, Npd they. deavnstrtte the proPo-
sition that 40 pirty eass,.sci6g members Al The
I NORTH and he South cshve hesiouul or bar
monious IN its organization which does NOT sE,
lclude the question OF sl,vegy from lie creed
IL Nor.bern men insist rpon engratilng upon
I their party creed The doctrine that slavery Is
moral or political evil. they raise an insuPera'
1 BILE barrier against a harmonious eSsociAtion
with Southern msn. In ,iae manner, u Souln-
( iern men insiss On making !. party creed tnat
slavery is morally and politically right. they
thereby cut OF NouheTt men from poiiiical
association with sbem l'4e necessary result
is that, without yolsrstion pt differences OF opln-
ion as 10 the abstract question OF slavery, par
ties are necct ssarily seetisnai and crnnot pos
sibe be n"'iorHti'" So oA -
Mark how tho Jt.aen idly Pratcs in one
breath Of the abstract subject Of slavery
and in the next prop ,ses tie "entire" exclusion
of the subject (the "sbstr.ct' is not the SEN
tire" subjec) of slavery from political party
cre'ds. Again; 1t proposes, in broad, upquali-
fled language, to 'exclule The ouEsrloN OF
SLAVERY from any poRiicai party creed, and
attempts TO susiain the proposition upon the
ground Of necessity. N the language OF the
Washington (Democatic) SeniieeE "lf the
Uaion wishes 10 speak plainly and inielligibly-
why does it not do so! Is II cursed with a
detective utierance! Can i,not say that black
is black and white Is whie!" ain these peril
ous times slavery is too delicate and too vital q
subject to be sporled with. There should be
no riddles and unbguities about it," 'lf the
organ mas no tongue, let il be dumb, If has,
let il speak plainly on this, the Fi'af dpestisn,
of the day, or be scondemned." Butenougl
on this head. Lut US see what leading south,
ern Democratic Journals who are not afraid 10
speak out, say Of the Washington Union's srli
Gle. We quote fcst from the Richmond En-
qurer. which the Nash Vile Union and Amerl
can endorsed a few days since, as ''the frs
Democratic paper in the Uuion." The Enqui
quirer, referring to the Union's article. say
'But we have no patience with doctrine
like this. We shall not undertake to set forth
painfully and argumentaiyely the monslrou
nature Of this new cancn of Democratic faith
To the South nothing could be more dangeruu,
or repnlsive Neutrality as policy! To be
neutral on the slave question Ut this crisis OF
public affairs is TO be hostile TO the South. He'
ease In the Union is like that of the Saviour in
Judea Whosoever is not with her Is agains
her. There Is no halfway ground between
the Souih ard bolitiunism--.between the Con-
stilniion end it's asssilaats. The one g,eai
question Of the Repub ,ic, absorbiug oil oihers
testing the complexion Of Parties she Integrity
Of The Constitution. the invlolabifey' o''hs lP"'a
and the coDtinuance Of the Union, Is this slave
question. To claim TO be nnii0nal party, and
YET hive no principles on this leading absorb
ing, overs hadowlng question Of nationality, Is
a mockery OF political fonesty. To have no
views nor principles on that question, Is to be
destitute OF all principles -Shatever. SAW the
principles Of the loevss and fish es. Abolition
ism vaunts its Higher Law and assal,s The ma
tianal Consti,niian with fendish blaaphemy and
venom. The Dsnocracy stands liEllessly by,
rluu,iug iseIt m - S,n'ioHsS1y' s,nF treaf
ino Inc nssnilanls with office and plunder!
Neu,rnlii, like this is, If possible. worse than
Abolitionism, and the South will have none OF
n,Y
So the chief organ of old Virginia DemOcrn-
ey speaks.
Hear also the Charleston Mercury, another
Democratic paper of high authority:
"Bui the proposition of the Union not only
exposes the unworthiness Of its motive, but, as
we have shown again and again. involves a
condition. .reacheFous aud insulting TO the
South On this ground, more Than all others
we meet aDd denounce il When we express
sed few weeks ago ouF suspicious that such
proposal would be mude 10 the approaching
canvsss, iiile did we dream that they would
he 90 speedily realized and from suci quar-
ller. Ne thought likeh enough, that some par
Iiy at the North, well kEowing that ine policy,
| II acceded to by the South. would make her
own hands the instruments Of her overthrow,
would urge il upon her as a fair and pueific ea.
SIS Of party orgsnizntion. II would be the old
Itrick over amin, which Northern parties bad