Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-05-14
NUMBER 26.
From tx Loaii.y;il, ,Js.rro,'

"'S"SS'""eo 1VuiS NapOieOn ana
did assassinate and manglc more than
hundred others. The pageant, so far as
numbers were concerned, was an immense
success According to the New York Rx-
press, at least ten thousand persons werc
i'm the procession, and, Of these ten thous.
and, nineteen twentieths were men whose
origin and anteeedents are all under
cloud herce-looking foreigners, speaking
strange languages, and enunciating senti.
ments that probably we're never enuncia-
ted before away from the faubourgs Of Par
is, the cellars of Berlin, and the parrets
of Milan. Murder was exhibited a. one
of the graces, and assassination, the mean.
est of all crimes, was eulogised as not on
ly right, but duty, which no true lover
of liberty anywhere should shrink 'front.'
The following reflections of the New
York Express are just and forcible. We
believe that the time is at hand when tho
thousand dissertations Of our soil BY thous.
ands and tens of thousands Of foreign ruff
fans will open wide the eyes of all par.
ties in this country to the evil influences
lot the base batteries and contemplate ca.
;oleries by which the mass of foreigners
Especially in our large cities have been
made vain aud insolent:
"But after all, IL is we'll that this sh amo.
full exhibition took place--because the Nc.
tropolitan police may know now, how many
assassins, or assassin advocates, we haye
in this city. True, it was known before
that mysterious murders were on the in.
crease; that men were stabbed, when the
nights are dark, and flung into the river:
that horrible assassinations have been Of
frequent occurrence, especially in omar.
ters wherein these fierce looking stranger.
are most in the habit of assembling. But
It was never known till last night that ten
thousand assassins from Europe have their
rendezvous here. Assassins, we say--for.
if these "Red" men are sincere and hon.
est in what they themselves say in their
speeches--as ske.ched by our REPORTER
they are ready to slay, or to stab Ia the
dark, all who may chance to come under
their condemnation as enemies, or an en-
envy of what they choose to call. "Tbe
Rights of the People" 1t may be an EN-
peror to-day. It may be Queen or n
President tomorrow. The doctrine. be It
known, is universal in its applications, and
not hemmed in by geographical botinda-
ries. 1t may be practiced at the White
House IN Washington, as we'll as at the
Tuilleries in Paris--or it may manifest It.
self just as legitimately in destroyipp the
Governor of an American State, or tho
Mayor of an American city, as In firing
off its Internal machinery to deal deatR
and destruction all around, in the streets
of the French capital. These men, re-
member, do not go for the French Repub-
lie, nor the Roman Republic, nor the Ger
man Republic, merely-to quote their own
words, they go for the "Unipeysaz RepuL-
tic. The United States is included in
their universe-and the U States hence.
is just as much field for the dissemina.
ton and practice of those doctrines as En-.
rope could be, were they permitted to
preach and practice there.
1t behooves us, then, to keep an eve up-
on these profcssed murder nonrers. -
When ten thousand foreigners turn out
In our streets to recognize assassination as
sacred principle, it is time for the city
police to wake up; for, it is not safe to in
dulge any fine drawn distinctions between
theory and practice in such cases. because
we may be sure that he who has murder
on his lips, has it in his heart, and that an
assassin. in principle is just as carefully to
be watched as an assassin in fact"
The Baltimore American has some re-
hections upon the same subject that are
well worthy Of the earnest attention Of ey-
cry patriotic American citizen, be his po-
litical opinions what they may:
"We may hope, however, that the lesson
which lies upon the surface of this demon
stration will not be entirely disregarded.
That from its revolving aspects we NAV
gather the fact that school of foreign
opinions and practices is growing up In
our midst which is thoroughly obnoxious
to our conservative instincts and deserves
to be placed under an especial ban. It.
Tiled with ideas at war with order and de-
ceney, and ill-disposed to submit TO any,
thing in the shape of law. Its disciples
come to this country not to receive tho
benefits OF our institutions and become
prosperous, self.controlled citizens under
the laws which We have approved, but they
come to reform atd improve us, 70 enlieht-
EN- our minds and to engraft upon our So
ciety, If possible, tie insane ideas and i'm
possible systems with which they have dis
graccd the name and injured the cause Of
liberty in their own lands. They dcridc
our religious instincts, dcbauch our moral
habits, set up the obscenities OF Socialism
against the purity Of the marriage tie and
the sacredness OF the family relation, and.
In short, where they should be humble
learners and grateful recipients Of the
equal rights to which they ars so literally
admitted, they are the arrogant aspcrscrs
of liberty they do not understand and
are untitled to enjoy, They should be
taught that here in the United States we