Weekly Clarksville chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 185?-1857, 1857-08-28
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Geatlemen: have the honor to acknowl-
edge your note Of the 23d ult., in which
you tender me public dinner on behalf
of the State Rights Democracy of Marion
Iregret my inability to acceptit, as Iwould
most eheerfully counsel with you, both as
to the circumstances which surround the
cause Of the South, and the policy which
she should adopt in the present exigency
of affairs. - ra.-+ ,.4-ig'
Events, in my judgment, are hurrying
to a crisis in which the South will have to
stake her rights and safety upon her own
union, and vindicate her existence by her
own resources. .o "fA'a'1H T.
The day is past when treacherous con-
eession, and huckstering compromises can
stay back fanaticism; and trust that the
day will never come when unmeaning or
insulting hosannahs to the Union will be
able to, bind her arm when made bare to
strike her foe. The rival forms of society
at the North and at the South are about to
face each other, and shivering cabinets
nor convulsive Administrations, nor dying
parties, can avoid the conflict or mitigate
the shock. A spurious and lachrymose
philanthropy, synonymous with pauperism
and riot, is now fitting down upon the
pointed spears of Southern slavery, and
either Northern license, or Southern law
must triumph. Never before have they
fairly faced each other, but all artificial
obstacles are now rapidly disappearing,
and the contest is beginning in earnest
Hopeful and patriotic men believe that this
contest would be mitigated into rivalry,
and restrained within due bounds by the
principles of the Kansas Nebraska Bill
Under its sheltering provisions they believe
that the different forms of society, North
and South, could expand and develope
side by side, and that the machinery of
government might hence move on without
beirg broken in pieces or jostled from its
track. The bill itself was founded upon
the fact that the forms of society and ia
Dor at the North and at the South, were
different, and its provisions were intended
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ry between them. The federal govern
ment as the agent Of both, was pledged
to an inAexible neutrality, while the cham
pions Of each struggled to advance their
respective causes This neutrality of the
government, it was believed would allow
legitimate expansion and development to
the institutions of each section, and there
by arrest all improper collisions. During
Mr.. Pierce's administrator this neutrality
was maintained by the President though
perjured Governors, basely betraying their
trusts, violated it. They were removed,
and it was we'll known that the admins
tration did not sympathise with their trca-
cherry. rl l,rea
Has the present administration fairly
carried out the provisions of the Kansas
Nebraska bill2 Have they secured fair
play between the North and the South?--
The first act was the appointment as Gov.
crnor Of Kansas, of a man of broken for.
tunes and sullied name; a needy adventu-
rer, who traded upon tho sincerity of the
South, and stole into her confidence, thro
deceitful professions. What was his irst
act? To debauch Kansas from allegiance
to the South, and deliver her into the hands
Of freesoil fanatics To say that the cause
of the South was lost in Kansas, prior t.
the appointment Of Walker, is to pallatt
fraud by falsehood. A plain statement O.
facts will show the truth in this particular
Upon the passage of the Kansas Nebras
, ka Bill, an effort was Immediately made
by both sections, the South to establish
the North to prohibit slavery This Issue
absorbed all others, and constituted thu
, gravamen Of every contest in that Terrific
! ry, Companies were organized at the North
and money freely contributed by Legisla