Weekly Clarksville chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 185?-1857, 1857-09-04
THE SOUTH sETRAYED.


The above ID the caption Of many in
dignant phillipics, from the locofoco press
of the South, against the Kansas policy
of the Administration. We agree with
them, that the South is betrayed and has
been, again and again But, who betray-
ed it2 The locofocos of the South, and
nobody else. Had they stood up, like
heightened men, for its rights, those rights
would have been, at this moment secure
and undisturbed But they endangered
them in the election of Van Buren,; sub
mittcd to their insulting violation under
Polk; surrendered them under Pierce, and
sealed and delivered the deed Of cession
by the election of Buchanan. Then, what
the devil are they are "fussing" about it
now for7 In proclaiming their treason
and disgrace, they are telling nothing new;
yet number of the guilty party, now
raise the startling cry of alarm, and affect
as much surprise at the aspect of affairs,
as if they didn't have any hand in the be-
trayal, and knew nothing about it, till this
moment. A precious set they are, truly
They have stuck to their disorganizing
party, knowing it was taking the South to
the locality assigned to wards ducks"
and stuck to it for the spoils, and now that
they are loosing more, in territory, than
they have gained in money, they are be-
coming rampant patriots, and, as the
sole apology for their treachery, declare
that they voted for Buchanan to defeat
Fremont Didn't they have Buchanan's
record before them? What makes him
safer than Fremont Not his record, for
that is as black as HI. on the slavery
question. They had Fillmore's record be-
| fore them, too, and knew and confessed
that it was sound All, but he stood no
chancel Why dint he? Because the
tracherous locofocos, of both sections, the
renegade wings, the insidious catholics
and the foreign paupers and convicts com
bined in holy alliance, against him. This
combination could have elected him by a
majority. instead of plurality. Why
was it not done2 Because he was not q
locofoco This is the sole reason; and in
the election Of Buchanan, southern loco.
focos proved that devotion to party took
precedence of devotion to the South
And now that the mischief is done, upon
whom rests the guilt? They can not
charge it upon the hated Know NOthings
nor yet upon the Black Republicans, be-
cause both were defeated; then they mus
take it home to hemsclves-theirs is the
guilt--they have struck every single blo7
beneath which the South is staggering
they have knocked, from under the Union
every prop. that endangers its stability
they have begotten every corrupt practice
and fostered every radical doctrine tina
poisons public virtue and unsettles thu
principles of our institutions--theyh av,
cursed tho whole Republic, in all it
parts and functions-polluted the ballot
box for the spoils-bartered southern
rights for the spoils-degraded American
nationality for the spoils-humbled pro
testant christianity before the throne o
the Pope, for the spoils-given foreigner
precedence over natives, for the spoils--
exchanged party for patriotism, and tn
grossest venality for public virtue. Thi
is what they have done; and now dis
contented few call upon the South to dis
solve the Union, if need be, as the remed
for locofoco treason. 1t wont do. gentle
men! You must first try what virtue Their
is in honest patriotism, before you hav
: recourse to violent measures. Politics
knavery is the cause of the evil-rcmov
: the cause and the effect will cease.