Weekly Clarksville chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 185?-1857, 1857-03-06

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ether papers please copy until the Convcn-
ton. 'I tt""
.isti PARTICULAR NOTICE. sr
To suit our mails We are compelled to
close our papcbA THURSDAY night.
ThUsc having advertisements, commupfca-
tioasSetothGr matter to appear in the pa
per, will have to hand them in on Thursday
msrRiagsiss ,.) .c PwB,
ar Remember that the American Convention to
nominate acandidate for Governor, win meet in
Nashville, the st of May. Let the counties send
up full delegation, nt,@ 7Nor Nua
efV" The london Times, of January
2S'i', now before us, copies, entire, the re-
port of our Vigilance COMMITTEES, during
The late negro excitement, audi has more
than, a column of comment npons it-a
starge admiXture Of truth and error
TIE get of thc article may be inferred
from the four first sentences, which are as
follows.
HTbc planters of Tennessee arc about to
ty,a great experiment in social legislation,
A Committee Of Safety, at Clarksville has
devised arocrcivc system of stringency
such a. even our own Parliaments Of for
laor days would'haye hesitated to apply to
l'opish recusants or the Irish population
in general. WILLIAM the CoNQUERER
himself would hardly have venturcd upon
such measures with the Saxon serfs, II is
proposed to suppress all asscmblages of ne
groes under any pretence whatever, a t
frolics, balls, benevolent societies, and even
itpublic worship, where the preachers are
black mon"
The Tm's evidently knows but little of
tlc social, or political legislation of the
slave States, and reads the past and current
history Of his own government, to little eff
feet, if he has any sympathy to spare from
the degraded millions of Great Britain,
and to bestow upon the slaves Of the South
crn States, If we mistake not, there is
not restriction mentioned above, that has
not a parallel in the imposiions OF Eng
land upon the Liberties OF the poor Irish;
aud it the Ti"'cs would thoroughly inves-
ti%atc the subject, he would lind that the
measures, WHICH he esteems needlessly cru
cl, have been forced upon us by the unwar-
gntoble Interference of ODD and ~"
England in our domestic relations. The
slaves OF the south arc happier-better con
tcnted--than the dependent laboring elias
.srs o. any country on earth, and, in Oul
fopiaion, the greatest curse that could be
inflicted upon them, would be unrc7;ralnec
freedom, Were they set free, in our midst
1t would 6c the signal for the extinction o
tic race, in the south, and to emancipatC
aud coloIi,.- them in other lands, is apobt
ical impossIbilitv. These two points being
conccdcd-for they are ineoutrovortible--
the foreign and domestic fanatic, if no. {
fool, must see that interference in behalf o
the slave can serve no other purpose thar
to tighten his bonds. Then it is mercy t,
lie; him alone, and leave the evil, if it bC
one, 10 work out its own remedy,
"WnLAM the CoNoUERER himscl
would hardly have ycnturcd upon sucl
measures with the Saxon scrfs.' Here w
have the key to the false application of tn,
philosophy of the Tines. Mere the Sax
ga s,rIs black or white? Surely the Lon
.d,n editor must see that arguments which
.Ho,e the Justice and feasibility OF eman
cirutiur white slaves among white masters