Weekly Clarksville chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 185?-1857, 1857-08-21
SEs~ The Charleston Mercury, replying
o the Richmond. Enqu6er, speaks thus:

~ ihe L"qntFey hcaHs Dy TINS, that
he Southern Rights Democracy do not
intend any longer to have foisted upon
hem, under the convenient term Of Ma
ional Democracy, on iasiiious asti-slaucryl
'drty or Policy, toorking foul rnds vnd,r
fair pretonces; If it means that they neither
intend to support now, or to help hereafter,
build mp again, in 1860, on Wnprincipic7
took .joJbing company Of Interested poll
icidns, TO frode on Southern capital and
,artcr o,cay orr institutions for party swc-
'ess, me Enquirer n right They intend
with the assistance Of time and sure com
ng events that tho yipers shall be kicked
out Of the grass and hung up as an ex
mple and warning. Treachery and in
gratitude will not be fostered. The Mer-
curry adds--'It (Eaquir9) has to learn
that the bulk Of the Democracy in the
cotton States denounce alike Gov. Walker,
AND THE ADMINISTRATIONS THAT ENDORSE
HIN" E.{
Such is the tone Of the nerery, and Of
almost every democratic State rights paper
in the South. But the question is--what
does it amount to? Time, only, can answer.
There has been, for years, mystery, in
the conduct of those southern locofocos
who belong to the State rights school,
which mystery VIC have been able to ex
plain only upon the supposition, that they
have supported the locofoco party as the
rcadiest and surest means Of effecting a
dissolution of the Union. And to this
conclusion we were brought, by taking it
for granted the high intelligence of the
leaders of that party and the impossibility
of their being ignorant of the fact, that
slavery agitation is the only ligament that
binds together southern and northern loco
focoism. To suppose them ignorant of
this fact, would be an insult to their in
telligence-they have played the same
game too often not to be fully aware that
southern locofocos are selling the South
for the spoils, or are using slavery as the
wedge to split the Union. Which is it?-
The latter is treason to the Republic; the
former, dastardly betrayal Of the South
into the hands of northern knaves and
fanatics.
A southern President signed the Viii.
mot proviso, in the Oregon bill, and that,
too, when Oregon was protected against
slavery, by the Missouri Compromise line,
and when the proviso could only have been
engrafted upon that bill, as a wanton in
suit to the South. Since that time north
crn locofocos have demanded concession
after concession, as the price of their al
lance with the southern wing. Squatter
sovereignty and alien suffrage have been
granted to the North. as the surcst means
by which all territories can be made free
and in addition to these invincible agents,
the Executive influence was welded by
Pierce, and is now welded by Buchanan,
to exclude the South from the territories
Yet Pierce was upheld by southern loco.
focos, who Landed him as surprisingly wise
and pure; and, as his successor, chose a
man who, from the first hour of his poll
teal existence to the present moment, has
never spoken one word, or performed one
act in defence of southern rights. l
: Now, We ask, why southern locofocos
have defended these men and these meas
: ures? If they believe them to be right
: their defence is abolitionism to all intents
and purposes, IF they know them to be
wrong, they are guilty of the basest
) treachery to the South, for the sake Of
; party and spells, or of treason to the Re.
public, in striving to sunder the Union
by means of slavery agitation. It would
be charity to suppose that they have acted
in ignorance of the tendency of the damn
able policy of locofocOism; but the piles
is inadmissable and should an opposite
policy now be inaugurated, it can only b.
ascribcd to better feeling a more honest
and patriotic purpose.
ray Remember that John X, Smitl
: will sell, at auction, on the 23d inst. som,
valuable real estate in New Providence
! consisting of first rate Tobacco Stem
merry, and good frame dwelling house
with all the necessary fixtures. He will
also sell, on the 9Th of September, so:
J acres of Christiln County land-known a
i the GhOlson place, This is a fine far n
j with every thing upon it that is necessary
Remember the days of sale, and attend.
r Sdy" GOdy's Lady's Book, for Septem
q Der, has come to hand. We have also t
thank the editor for the missing Jun