Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1859-08-26
NELL s. BRowN,
JAMES Z. RAINS,
ALLEN A. HALL,
s. N. HoLLINGswoRTH,
JOHN H. CALENDER,
JOHN LELLYETT,
Committee Of Limitation
Letter from Hon. BENZ. H. Hill,

M Dear Sir Your letter of the 10th
was not received until this day.
You say that it is reported in that Con-
gressional District that am canvassing
certain portions of the District for Mr..
Clopton, and you ask me, in behalf of many
friends, to give public denial to the
charge. Vague rumors have once or twice
reached me, giving me very false posi-
ton. Not being citizen of your State
and having for some time taken no part
in political movements anywhere, | would
be at loss to account for such report,
did not know from positive experience,
the unlimited capabilities of Democracy
for saying anything near the close of a poll
teal canvass.
Mr.. Clopton is gentleman, personally
and socially, highly esteem. Outside of
his political position there are many points
Of sympathy between US. Nor would l
oppose Mr.. Clopton simply because he has
been a Democrat. | have no preiudices
against name But he is member
leading member-even nominated leader
of an organization, which, in my concien-
cious, opinion, has done, is doing and, if
tolerated, will do, the South and the coun-
try more real injury than all other politi-
cal combinations together. / mean the
PartyiSnt OF Modern Democracy.
For several years this party has made
itself clamorous throughout the South,
during every canvass, with its professions
Of devotion to the interests of this section
of the Union. 1t has Wanted itself as the
only reliable party for the South, and
everybody who refused to act with it, has
been denounced as untrue and the ally of
Abolitionish. But what are the facts Of
history?
In the first place every Abolition leader
for the Presidency from 1848 to now, has
been taken from the Democratic party.
And what is yet more significant, every
such leader, when he chose to return, has
been received back into the Democratic
party, without any repentance, and icith
out the retroetion Of a single scord of his
Abolition herey Mr.. Van Buren, went
back openly declaring that under the Kan
complish its mission, and with this strong
declaration on his lips and printed and pub
Hshed he and his Soft associates acre re-
ceiued into the Democratic fold
Again, we have heard much of the Will
mot Proviso, Squatter Sovereignty, I'm
friendly Territorial legislation, and non
protection to slave property, &C., but will
the people of the South learn the signif-
cant fact that each of these heresies had
its father in the Democratic party? Yet
this is not only so, but the most vigorous
and powerful of these fathers, are at this
very moment the leaders of the Democratic
party, aud aspiring to the highest honors
in the Nation
Freesoil leaders, and Freesoil principles
then, received their strength FROM, had
their birth, and now find their home IN, the
Democratic party
But this is not all nor the worst The
party as an organization, through its lea
ders, has been guilty gilmore acts of freach-
cry and bad faith to the South than all
other parties. In 1856 that party urged
US to elect Mr. Buchanan as our only hope.
The people Southern people elected him
Now who of them dare support him-how
many of them abuse him? And yet the
foundation of all his works has been in
administering the government to keep mp
his party In 1857 we were told the only
way to secure the rights of the South was
to elect Democrats, and give Democratic
President Democratic Congress The
people did So What is the result? The
English BWl-that degradation of legisla-
ton, and abOmination of hypocrisy II
was devised, perfected aud made law by
the Democracy and the Southern Headers
themselves admit the bill was wrong-a
trick-and a sacrifice of Southern rights
Then why did those Southern guardians
pass it? viii the honest people hear the
reason. They say Il ,oas necessary 10 pas,
the Bill IN ordcr to sare he Democratic par
|V! That is, the party that was elected to
s1oc the Soa'h, acrifced the South to sarc
the ppry! During the canvas the cry
was elect rs and save the South After
the election and the work was done, the
cry was, we sacrifccd the South to save u.s.,
And now (can even gullibility itsefcredit)
this same party is calling 10 the people
again select us and save the South" Was
ever wrong so mean, or impotence so bare
/ faced?
The great evil of tho Democratic party
/ is, that it gives repeciabaiiy TO wrong 10
the South, which it could acquire from no
other source. If the Republican party
had passed the English Bill, what would
our Southern Governors have dOue2 II
VIM H. Seward was the father of Terrific
rial Sovereignty, and non protection tC
slave property, how many Southern met
land newspapers wonld be recommending
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