Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-11-19
OLA TRESWIILI 1E.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1858.

F1B a W dsHibEtpb ltAlSi-NiilC Buys
with the confidence of one who knows,
that the Richmond South and the Wash
ington States are to be fused into ono, and
made Douglass organ, in the latter city
If true, this is an additional fact in proof
of our oft-repeated declaration that not
single concession has been made to the
anti-slavery fanaticism of the North ex-
cept by the locofocO party of the South,
and that every such concession has been
made for the sake of the federal spoils.--
When Douglass proclaimed that the people
of Territory have the power to exclude
slavery therefrom, by unfriendly legisla-
ton, and that the bred Scott decision is
imperative, in view Of such legislation,
apostate traitor were the complimentary
epithets applied to him by ninety nine out
of evey hundred of the southern locofoco
organs. But as the canvass in Illinois
progressed, and Douglass prospects brigh-
tened when it became apparent to every
southern dcmagogue that the locofocos, of
the North, Rugged the traitor and the
treason to their bosoms and when the
earlier northern elections sustained the
hero of tbs Kansas bill and foreshadowed
disintegration Of democracy, change
was at once porceptible in the tone of his
southern revilers. JEFF. Davis, rabid
fire eater, cooling his spleen in the latitude
of Maine, discovered, as the fire of dis
union cooled down, that Douglass is right,
and that the people of Territory can
lawfully exclude slavery and slave holders,
in the face of the bred Scott decision, and
that the creature of Congress has more
power, over the subject of slavery, than
its creator.
WELL what do these signs portend p
Nothing more nor less than that southern
locofocos are ready to bow submissvely to
the dietation of Douglass and surrender
to squatter sovreigns full power to exclude
southorners and slavery from the Terri
tories, rather than hazard the defeat of the
party. jeff Davis has boldly planted
himself on this PLATFORM Senator Hap
mond, Of S. c., has proclaimed that both
democrats and Republicans, at the North,
are anti-slavery, thereby intimating that
nothing is to be gained by the defeat of
the former, to whom the South may as
well adhere the Louisville Democrat, the
Richmond South the Washington States
and other organs of immaculate locofoco-
ism, by upl olding Douglass, have conced-
ed the same heresy so lately condemned
in the arch traitor of Illinois, and none
can be so blind as not to see tat the
South is once more to be victimized that
locofocosm may fatten upon its life blood.
Is the doctrine Of non intervention thus
set aside upon principle? Not at ALL
The southern asprants to the Presidency,
and other fat Offices, are so circumstanced
that display of honest patriotism and
individual integrity must defeat their as
pirations; and possessing neither of these
virtues, they are willing to sacrafce prin-
ciplc and the South to ensure their own
promotion. jeff Davis knows that he
can never be President without the aid of
the anti-slavery fanatics Of the North, and
to secure their aid, he appeared before
them, in person, and surrendered to them
the very principle upan which the South
bases its claim to equality in the Union.
The lesser southern locofoco lights, who
look to promotion on a lower scale, follow
this lead, aud every step is taken with a
perfect knowledge that the people are
such cgrcgious fools--such plant slaves,
or such eonsummate knavcs as to do the
bidding of their masters without daring
TO murmur
There is no danger of di union, says
Senator Hammond because the opposition
to slavery, in the North, is purely polit-
cal. The bait takes, with the army of
demagogues, and, overlooking the papable
absurdity Of the position, that an opposi-
ton, purely political, can not overthrow
au Union which is purely political, they
yield TO the North all that the North de-
mands and only ask in return that both
wings Of looofocoism he allowed an equal
share Of the plumber. BY thus conceding
what Douglass claims the party can be
held together, and southern Ospirants have
some show in contest with him for the
nomination to the Presidency; and as
there is no danger Of disunion from north,
orn lomioation over the South, why-"go
it boot"
rGr The Washington Union rcpudiates