Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-12-24

Credit System under which she has grown
great and prosperous, the end whereof Is
that precipice over which was plunged the
worlds confidence in the only two "bard
money" States of the Union--REPUDIA-
TToN. The proclamation has gone forth
that the banking system of our State is to
be, not reformed and Improved, but abolish
ed and erddicated. Young, aspiring and
daring politicians who, despite the frowns
or remOnstrances of their seniors have
leaped into the places of chieftainship of
the democratic party, put foath that as their
policy, and, however much they may tenn
porize with or seek to hoodwink their cold
fogy" contemporaries into a continued uni
ty of political relations, to that radical end
are all the aims Of the New Democracy Of
Tennessee directed. 1t is the Jacobs
Ladder" by which they seek to climb abOUe
the leaders against whom they have revolt
ed, and they will "take no step backward,
unless it be but temporarily in order to
get better and frmer foothold.
In such condition of political affairs,
what is demand. of the unchanged
Wings of Tennessee, alike by the duties
of patriotism and the promptings of AUST
self-respect2 Dispersed, scattered into diff
ferent organizations, following each the
impromptu impulse of his own judgment
in determining between what was at best
with him choice between things more or
less Objectionable, they have been as it
we're sojourners among a strange people,
who, however hospitable and however res
pectable, were uot their people. Like the
brol har ,f honcahold 1tcfrsh huf
ed among neighboring families they have
been powerless in the social organization
around them, and have yearned for the
responsibility and the influence of a home
oftheir oWn. The tine has arrived, in our
judgment, when it is their duty, both to
themselves and to their country, to pro.
vide one. They should ORGANIZE, and
lift up again the tattered remnant Of the
cid standard, and proclaim anew such as
are practically applicable of the old doc
trines. The permanent ell-being of the
State demands, now as aforetime, that
Radicalism, in whatever guise it may come,
should be met and encountered by Con-
servatism and who more fit to lead the
way than the Scared remnant of the Old
Whig Guard that, while they bent to the
resistless tide of adverse fate, never sur
rendered p That they will have, the
ball once set in motion, the cooperative
aid of hundreds and thousands of "good
men and true" who may now, or may here
tofore have been called by other party des-
ignations, who can doubt? From the
plains and from the mountains, from hill
side and valley, will they not come, the
patriotic "Americans" in whose veins cour
ses none but the old ,chig blood ?-and are
there not thousands Of "old line demo
Gratis, who, preferring Country and the
welfare of their children to Party and its
hceting triumphs, will swell the ranks?
1t seems so to US. At any rate, we be.
lievc it duty of the old wings to inaugu-
gurate the movement; and thus follow the
good example of their brethren in Mass
achusetts, Maine, and other quarters, by
making the weight of their influence felt
They will at least have fulfilled the obi
cations Of patriotism. 1t can scarcely be
possible that such Roeling as jealousy or
rivalry can be excited by it in the breast
of any for they are too few in number,
too unambitious of place, to furnish from
their own ranks a 1.-THE of the candidates
needed in any systematized Opposition to
the phase which democracy" has put on
in Tennessee.
We submit the matter to the wings of
the State, and of this city and county, for
their consideration. We shall be glad to
have their views, and will take pleasure in
giving place 10 them in the columns of the
BULLETIN.
Would it be asking too much of our
friends of the American Press throughout
the State, to lay the foregoing before their
readers
How THE TARIFF OF 1916 WAS CAR
RIED.-We have received communication
from gentleman, who was formerly a
manufacturer in England, which informs
us that to procure the repeal of the tariff
law of 1912, or as it is stated, "to dissem
inmate free trade principles, and to assist
the political party in this country which
opposed protection" there was fund of
100000 raised by taxing the manufac-
turers of England, each in accordance with
4 the amount of his business
Il The gentleman who gives the informa-
tion was preparing to leave England at the
Gme, and refused to pay his quota eff the
tx.
We have never had doubt as to the
means which we're used to destroy what
: Daniel Webster pronounced "the best
, taiiff law we ever had" If the sum stat.
ed, which is equal to $4,000, 900, was all