Weekly Clarksville chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 185?-1857, 1857-06-12
NUMBER 81.

overbourd his sacred 36 so as he hadpreyi.
ously done his 81 40, ahd'suddenly he.
came the medium through which the Buffa-
loplatformists, the Nashville Hartford con.
ventiopist, and all the her ultraists that
hUve disturbed the peace Of the country
for the last sevea years, have gained mo.
mentary triumph and have nova potential
voice in the Federal Administration.
4 We are indebted to Mr.. Buchanan and
this alien squatter-soyereignty for the com.
position ofa Cabinet which represents no.
thing national, and which can do nothing
but reward the ultra partimns who were
the most active in arraying one section Of
the country against another. We see in
one of the Departments Secretary who but
a short period since denounced in terms of
the coarsest biIlingsgate the.whole States
Rights party of the South, declaring their
doctrines and designs false and traitorous
to the Union. BY the side ofthis Secreta-
ry sits one of the most notorious ofthelca
ders of this Southern rights party. There
too sits the man who declared that his heart
would break soonerfhan approve of the
compromise Of 1885, and he is in cordial
fellowship with the Cabinet Minister whose
chief pretension to public favor rests on
the fact that he united with Messrs. Civ
and Webster in giving that compromise a
cordial support. The natural result Of
such aeompound of contradictions Isl that
every corrupt faction in the land looks to
the Administration for protection and
countenanee Hence, like the preceding
Administration, it has Northern ana
Southern face on the slavery question, and
is providedwith Cabinet Ministers to speak
withforked tongues to both sections.
Letitbe our purposeto hold up to public
seorn this shameful feature Of party de-
generacy and corruption Let us con.
stantly contrast itwith the ennobling ex.
ompleS left usb by the early founders Of the
Republic. sir siAly a6l
3 There is nolonger room for humbug.
gerry on the slavery question This asham
Denocracys8 with the blood which it has
shed in KANSAS has lost this portion of its
capital and it is now obliged to submitto
the testsit has provoked in numerous 9TH
er intfigucs equally fatal to fhe true and
lasting interests OF the people. isIai 48i
Are aliens, without naturalization, still to
be recognized as squatter -sovereigns, and
in this characterize ,cide whatshall be our
organic laws and who shall be our ppbIic
oficers?' Are the public lands to cease to
be treated as the common fund of gthe
Union, and to be hearafter given away In
utter disregard Of the principal ofequality
which entities all the States to share alike
in this great inheritar CO Of wealth? Is the
question Of internal Improvement to be
settled according to the views of section al
ism which have formed the cabinet, or ac-
cording to the practice and recommenda,
ton those who have looked to the preser.
the Union as our great political
blessing? sa Esf-,i n eF iai
Are we to have new attempts at fillibus.
tersm in Cuba and the other West India
Islands in accordance with the sentiments
1i the Ostend Conference? Are Americans
TO be still prescribed for daring to uphold
the doetrins of Washington, Jefferson, Mad
son. and Jackson, ana for repeating their
admonitions against the dangers Of foreign
and the counsels of those dema.
5ogues who would lessen the attachment
1f the people to the Constitution and the
Union2 f--.s, .f. u-tatlfiV
The principles involved in these questions
are forced upon our serious atten ton by
the practice Of that modern' sham Den,oc-
rdcy.' Their discussion will show that
the American party occupies the only safe
1round and furnishes the only means of
extrication from the disasters which have
sprung from tue counsels of the dema.
5cgues who have not hesitated TO embroil
the country in civil war in order to make
political capital out Of the excitement
necessarily produced by such an evont.
Trusting that your deliberations willbe
marked by the moderation and forbearanee
necessary to the union Of all our friends,
and that no unnecessary issues will bo
created on the slavery. question or any
other local one, 1 conclude by assuring
you ofmy undiminished faith in the justice
Of our cause and in its ultimate success.
All that is Necessary is action, firm and
hneompi omising action, against the mon
'trous coalition Of factions which has been
in the name Of Democracy and
which is destroying all political morality.
This and a Jealous defense of the princi-
Piles embodied in our platform is the duty
Of every American in the present crisis.
irr l am, very respectfully, ~
Your obedient servant,
A. j. DQNELSON,
b. DUNCAN, Esq, See. Kentucky State
Council.
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