Weekly Clarksville chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 185?-1857, 1857-07-17
CUES rIoNs FOR TIE SOUTH.


Is the decision of the Supreme Court,
that negroes can not be citizens of the
United States, correct? If correct, has
Congress the power to confer upon them
the right of sufTrage2 The first question
will, without hesitation, be answered in
the affirmative, and the last ought to be
answered, aspromptly, in the negative-itis
folly to affirm that Congress, under the
Constitution, has any such power, and no
policy can be more suicidal--more sub
versiye of the rights of the South-more
favorable to the fanaticism of the North
than the exercise of such power. Yet
the democrats of the last Congress, in
league with the Black Republicans, actu-
ally exercised that power, by directly con-
fcring the right of suffrage upon every
buck-negro residing within the limits of
Minnesotas. And what say the demo
crats--the sclf-stylod guardians Of the
peculiar institution of the South-to this
disregard Of the decision of the Supreme
Court, this palpable violation of the Con-
stitution, this concession to abolitionism?
Their candidate for Governor of Tennessee,
boldly defends the act, whilst, here and
there, a candidate of that party, family
whispers that it is no part Of the demo-
cratic creed
OF what practical use is the Constitu-
ton, and its wise Interpretation by the
Supreme Court, to the South, so long as
party, and that party in the ascendant,
disrcgards both, and, for the sake of the
spoils, surrenders to the North the very
citadel of our safety? In one single act
of the last Congress, the democratic party
violated the Constitution by destroying
the uniformity Of the system of naturaliza-
ton, and again by confering upon negroes
and Indians, as we'll as aliens the right of
suffrage and in each instance, the direct
effect is to increase, unwarantably, the re-
presentation of the North and to diminish
that of the South. At the very next ap-
portionment, the North will have gained
some forty members of Congress, mainly
through foreign immigration and the for
cign vote And as the number of Repre-
sentatiyes is fixed at two hundred and
thirty four, every one gained by the North,
is loss of one to the South. The free
Territories will soon be furnishing from
two to eight members members created
by the privileges granted to foreigners,
and BY lands granted by Congress- to the
territories, and, in the name all that is
dear to the South, We ask how long it will
be before our representation in Congress
will sink into numerical insignifcance?-
The next census will tell fearful tale Of
the growth of northern power and the
history of the government will unfold Q
damn,ng record Of dem ocratic treason to
the South. All the fostering power of the
government has been directed, by south
ern democrats, to northern interests
The northern scabord is indented will
habors bearing tho marks of lavish govern
mental expenditure northern nils are
perforated, and northern plains checkereC
with railroads and canals built by tn,
general government, and northern popula
ton is Indefinitely multiplied by the in
duccments held out to the citizens OF ever.
climate to flock to that favored region.
And what of the South-the centra
power of democracy? Look at its peculia
institutiou-tho Legitimate prey of ever
fanatical ncgro-stealcr, the destined victiI
Of the northern allies Of southern demo
cracy, the joint capital of both wings, b
means of which tboy plumber the treasur,
Look at its people grooming under ii
weight of debt incurred in the laudab
effort to keep pace with the commerce.
progress of the age, Tennessee, backC
only by the resources Of individual wealt
and enterprise, struggles to keep pa
With Iijnsiy whose internal improvement