Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1859-11-04

Efig- Our cotcmporary of the Nashville Banner
insists that demot racy must assume portion of the
responsibility for the bloodshed Mt Harpcrs Ferry.
We insist that the democratic party is responsible
and not very indirectly, for the whole of it. The
sectional agitation which led to it, was begun, and
has been ceaselessly kept up, by that party No
solemn pledges of their own no rcmonstrances by
the true friends of the Union, have sufccd even to
check the recklessness with which they have scat
tered the seeds of discord and famed the flame of
fanacism. And yet more, the leaders of blood
thirsty abolionism and of cold-b!ooded crafty Re-
pubcanism have been supplied by the democratic
party and those very leaders declare that they have
abandoned no democratic principle and not few
of them--the Van-Burens, for exampc-cla,m still
to be, and are recognized, even in the South, rs
members, in good standing, Of the democratic
family.
Nor is this the only way in which democracy has
made itself responsible for the outbreak at HaIpers
Ferry. True democracy and slavery can not CO.
exist under the same political institutions The
very equality for which it contends forbds the re-
lation of master and slave and the author of the
Declaration of lndepondencc-the first Black Re-
puhliCan-furnishes this doctrine which is the basis
of the Republican creed. The tendency of demo-
crncy is to level downwards. The bread and I'M
distinguishing equality which it inculcatcs brings
to a common level the most towering intellect and
assinine stupidity prosl eous enterprise and squad
bcgGary, and whilst such are the teachings and
tendency of democracy, it is not only legitimate
hut just inference on the part of the more fanntica
Of this radical party, that color shall be no bar to
an equality which measures the statesman and the
Gown the convict and the man of integrity the
pauper and the man of substance by the same
81 ndnrd. Aud if these opposite extremes are to
meet on democratic level, IT ought not be expect
c that the northern democrat can see why color
sAIu.d authorize a discrimination against the negro
He is more responsible for his color than the fool
is for his want OF brains; and the politician in Il
South, who breaches democracy, rs taught by JEFF
tcrson and prac,ced by his followers, is responsible,
in proportion to his influence for the anaticism of
Gnti-s!avery.
The founders Of our Government seemed to have
arm,h'nded erlio6r h'm di,o d,mo0acy mud
took especial Iainfto luOId i, against Il c influence
of popular cnlrice y placing tie judiciary beyond
its immediate reach and inlul osing intermediate
agents between the PEOPLE and the Executive and
I The SCuaiC-the iClmCr to he filed solely hv ar-
pointmenL and the TWO latter to lie chosen bv
agents chosen 10y the people, The State govern
mcnts, in the beginning adopted the same system,
and every thing went on smoothly aud prosperous
ly until democracy stepped in with its radical and
dwelling doctrines, Dishonest aspirau;s seized up
on them; quoted the Declaration Of lndcndcncc Il
the masses, and by arliu appeals TO their passions
and prejudccs, by degrees, succeeded in converting
4 safe, conservative government into a near ap-
Proclamation TO molocIC,y. And whilst the
radicals, in the South, preaching ii,m the text
universal oquaty--labor to array the poor against
the rich the fanatics of the North, frcm the same
text, preach equality OF races and lend their energies
to the abolition Of tie relation between master and
slave. And between the two sets of knaves the
stability of the government is impaired aud its very
character is chauGed. No other result could hGv,
followed such means, and the fNct is established
that The difference between democracy and mob
ocncy, is the calling tie same thing by diGeycn'
names.
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