Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1859-04-29

iuSH, hVI aS paItiIduS, anu ueClue llke ueIl,
not like the tools of selfish demagogues.
mA- When we are assailed for exposing
the corruption and rottenness of the loco
foco party, we cannot better the assault
than by giving high democratic authority
for the truth of our charges. Last week,
we gave pointed article from the Wash
ington Union, sustaining all we have said
against locofocosm, and here follows an
extract from the speech of Soule, a rabid
Southern democrat.--Read it, and say
whether our opinions and charges are not
fully sustained
We mean to disentangle ourselves from
the thraldom in which we have been kept
for years, by an unprincipald gang of po-
litical jobbers and blacklegs, aud we are
here to vindicste our rights and exercise
the inalienable prerogative of elf-govern-
ment.
1 That the time has come for us to assume
this position is made manifest by the dis
gust with which the more patient and en-
during in our midst have witnessed the
scandalous and revolving corruption and
foul dealing introduced in our party pro-
ceedings, under the direction and manage
ment of the few miscreants who claim alb
solute control over it,
And we'll might they have anticipated
that so disgraceful rule, as that to which
we had so long and so forbearingly sub
mitted, would soon or late, be repudiated
and secuted by every Democrat who re-
tanned the smallest particle of self-respect
and Independence, but that the success
With which it had heretofore been enforced
had deluded its authors and upholders in
to the hope that it was to be perpetuated
r under the abject and crouching servility
to which Machiavelian discipline had
turned their adherents:
Nor was it unnatural that they should
indulge the dazzling expectation, as long
as there were here, as well as in the State
at large, and throughout the nation, dis
tinct and adverse parties, in hostile array
against each other, irreconcilable in their
views and: policy, and always ready to en-
gage in deadly conflict. Division in the
ranks had when then been fatal to the
9 cause, and lost us the battle. We had TO-
E gether up all our strength, and to stand
by our banners, however unworthily borne
in spite of the humiliating infections to
which at times our fidelity would be sub
jected.
And because we suffered contemplate
and groveling oligarchy to spring up from
our troubles in days of hard trial, because
. we let them grasp the spoils after the bat.
y tie, because they are entrusted on all sorts
t of Federal and State spoils, they imagine
! that they have grown too big and powerful
to be resisted, ard are so insolent in Their
official bearing and despotism, that they
a will not allow the least manifestation of &
a will, Of sentiment. of an, opinion, that b.
not modelled on their own will, sentiments
and opinions. And woe to the Democrat
who does not submissively bend his neck
! under their heel. He is at once unmcrci
b fully ostracised cast away, and forever
e blotted out of their list of favors.
There be those among them who have
all their fattened on party preferment anG
Il patronage, who blush not to hue and CRY
g against office-seekers. There be those who
f having stained their hands, nay, STEPPED
4
. graceful ansactions-perverting public
' trusts into engines of pollution anc rob
berry, dare still to speak of honesty and
virtue; and those who, having transformed
v legislatures aud party conventions in the
g open marts, where robust and daring votes
might be put up at auction, and sold tC
the highest bidder; or into gaming houses
. where timid and bashful public servants
= might stealthily be enticed to gamble away
: their consciences at a faro table, will, in
d the land of patriotism, even aspire to have
a their names inscribed among those of {
9 Washington, an Adams, a Jefferson, ,
Monroe, Jackson!
Q Ay, ay, it was time that their turpitud,
s and infatuation were laid bare before thu
T. people, and that they should, themselves
be branded with the stigma of public re
probation
Il We shall have accomplished a meritori
e GUS and fruitful task, if our action at THU
. meeting is made significant of our abhor
. renee of dictation, from whatever quarte
it may come.
. We shall have performed mighty ofic,
n if we disconnect ourselves, and, with us
IS the well meaning, the good and the homes
). of our party from the turbulent faction
and despOtic coalition of those whose ONLY
y object is to glut themselves with power ant
@ wealth, and who would make party discip
IT line and organization sui servient to thei
@ nefariOus designs.