Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1859-03-25

ees- The Unioa &c American, true to
the policy of the party, has already charg-
ed Black Republication upon the Opposi-
ton, and affects to have found basis for
the charge in the short speech of j. NJ.
Quarles, Esq, on accepting the nomina-
ton for Congress. Now there is no man,
unless he be monomauiac, who will be-
lieve that one word was uttered by our
candidate, on that occasion, which can be
tortured into advocacy of Black Republi-
canism, or that there was a man in that
Convention who would have applauded
such sentiments had they been uttered
Do the editors of the locofoco organ know
what Black Republicanism is2 1t is
nothing more nor less than opposition to
the extension of slavery into the Terri
tories of the United States. Who, then,
is Black Republican The man who
adopts that one idea, and makes it his
political creed. Did Mr.. Quarles take
that position, or advocate any doctrine,
whatever, with the slightest squirting
towards it2 We call upon the Union L.
American to point out the expression.
measure, or doctrine embraced in that
speech having the remotest affinity with
ireesoilism and if it can not do this, we
invite public attention to the grave charge
made by that paper, and based upon moth
ing but its own hatred of the opposition
and its determination to uphold the thing,
called democracy, at all hazards, and to
the last extremity.
But who arc they that make this charge?
Men who claim that ex. President Pierce
is national democrat, even since his
declaration that, under the Nebraska bill,
which he approved, there can never be
another slave State, even if we absorb the
whole Of Mexico This is the quntescenco
of freesoilism, avowed by democratic
President, who has never been repudiated
by the organ at Nashville Buchanan,
now the President of the locofoco party,
has declared in substance that, under the
doctrine of the Nebraska bill, the squat
tiers upon the public domain have the
right to exclude the slave property of the
South from Territory. This is freesoil-
ism, yet Buchanan is in pretty fair stand
ing with the Union & American. Cass is
still good democrat, yet he is the father
of the squatter sovereignty doctrine en-
braced in the Nebraska bill, which is to
make all the Territories free States.-
Shields pronounced that bill a better free
soil measure than the Wilmot proviso he,
too, is democrat. Douglass and Sam
Smith are squatter sovereignty men, but
none the less democrats on that account
although squatter sovereignty and freesiol.
ism are convertible terms. Can the Nash
VILE organ point us to whig or Ameri.
can, in the whole South, who advocates
this heresy? Has the Union & Amcri.
can repudiated the anti-slavery clause OF
the Nebraska bill Perhaps it contends
that there is no such clause Then it is
at issue with all the democrats we have
named above, and comes in for a full share
Of the denunciations of Hammond, tn,
) Charleston Mercury and the News, anC
!, other leading southern democrats whC
have proclaimed that the Nebraska bill j.
swindle..
: Acting, in full fellowship, with men, a
= the North, who rely upon the Nebrask,
bill to exclude slavery from the Territories
= acting in full fellowship, with men, at tn,
e South, who denounce that bill as chea
s "a bill never yet repudated by its
o far as we have learned-the Union
g American occupies position which ough
IS call to mind the old adage-that he
n who lives in glass house should no
IS throw stones. Mr.. Quarles, 10 the speec
in question, briefly recountcd a few of tn
instances of democratic corruption an
misrule, and avowed his determination t
. expose and oppose that party with What
:, ever ability he possesses. This is tn
substance of what he said, and if thi
- makes man black Republican, wha
> are Toombs and Andy johnson who pre-
claimed this the most corrupt government
on earth? "Answer me that, Maste
Brooks" Here is what the Union
- American says:
:? MIR. Quarles speech was all that Kno
Nothing or Black Republican audienc
, could desire, and was received with som
NJ enthusiasm by his party
lie For the Chronicle.
Mr. EDITOR