Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1857-11-20

cent rise in the river, which has been pray
ed, and wished for so long. Business men
who had doled out their last dollar, 10 ca
ger and oxpeetant creditors, are flush again
in currency, and we almost feel as though
the pressure had never spread its blight
ing and whitening influence over our COM
munity. tits true that property Of nearly
every kind, has deprecated in value, but
altogether it seems a blessing rather than
a curse upon a respectable portion Of our
observation-disclosures and those who have
not been SO indiscreet as to run heavily in
debt. The first are enabled to purchase
provisions and clothing at a greatly redu-
ced price, while their wages have not suf-
fercd a proportional decrease. Those out
of debt, are happy in the contemplation of
their much-envied situation, and are salts
fed to sell their produce for a less sum,
when that sum will buy SO many more of
the l~uxuries and conyenicncies of life,
than it would six months ago.
Altogether this peaceful and happy state
of the public mind, presents a striking
contrast to some of the recent develop
ments in New York. 1t is really a hu-
initiating spectacle in this day of politi-
cal advancement and enlightenment, to
witness the civil authorities of that city,
"held at bay" by a rascally, shirt-tailed,
latter demallion, neutrality-suspicious.
mob, carrying through the streets a sedi-
tious and reasonable rag upon a pole,
bearing the infamous motto "Bredd or
Blood" and alleging their necessities as
an excuse for the crime of public robbery.
Truly this is a novel and most strange doc
trine equaling in political heresy the pal
miest days of the reign of terror, that ii
dcuolocs upon the government, as a duty to
support and maintain eUery loafer who pta-
ces himself IN a situation ,chere he cdntearn
% livelihood. Such however, is the natur-
al ienouement of Mayor Woods incendiary
and disorganizing proclamation, that the
citizens of New York should give no man
an excuse for violence or depreciation, up
on property by Withholding bread from
his children; and that the vicious and the
vile should be stuffed and fed until their
rapacious maws are distended to keep them
from plundering the worthy and industri'
Gus citizens. The argument of these mod
ern Revolutionists seems to be that when a
man is starving he has a right to resort to
force, to relieve his necessities. Once put
this maxim into practical operation, and
every ~unfrequentcd bye-way would imme-
diately become invested with these unfor-
t%unatcs, presenting a pistol at your breast
and demanding "your money or your life.
If this position be sound, we can very
readily perceive a reason why all the peace
able property-holdcrs of New York should
desire such despicablc rascallions to steal
their property, rather than to plumber
them as being a mode of acquisition less
calculated to produce a breachOf the peace
and a bloody public riot. This at least ap-
pears to be the inference, to be drawn from
the chivalric blacksmith, William Bowles,
who in a speech is reported to have said,
"the moneyed men must shell out to the
poor; and if they will not, the musket
must be the result"
We are shocked at this exhibition of
barbarism, jacobinism, mobocracy, and
earnestly hope that the civil authorities Of
New York may early take vigorous and eff
fectiye measures to put stop to this new
fedgcd treason.