Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1859-08-05

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could be compelled to perform military
duty thereP Do you think that such
service would not be violation of his
allegiance to the United States Think
you that the United States can accept such
allegiance, such'oaths, and not protect the
subject in keeping it? Shall contraes
be binding on one party and not on the
other?
A CAUTION TO NATURALIzEp CITIzENs.-The New
York Journal of Commerce, one of the most .inAucn-
tial Democratic papers in the country says
Such of naturalized citizens as may eontem-
plate visiting Europe, understanding their own po-
sitiOn at the time of their departure can best Judge
whether it is prudent for them to revisit the coun-
try of their birth, at the perscnt time, and if they
can do So they will know precisely how much re-
lance to place upon our Government for protec-
ton
PRoGREssIvE DEMocRAcY.-Keep it before the peol
pie that not long since the Democracy in one of the
counties in Mississippi, held political meeting on
Sunday for the purpose Of making nominations and
adopting platform.
Keep it before the people the W. r. Doak, the
democratic candidate for hoater said in speech at
the Court House in Shelbvvle, that "C;en. Jackson
was a hard money man, and that Jesus Christ and
myself stand on the same platform
Whittier aIe we tending l-SelJyoHie E,posi-
tor.
Nahant was purchased, $50 years ago,
by Lynn farmer, for a suit of clothes,
and instead of being fashionable water
ing place, it aboundcd in deer and wolves.
Nov, the wolves there appear in sleeps
clothing, and the dear in crinoline and
costly silks.
An editor who lived at a hotel, being
absent one night, the landlord took the
liberty of allowing a stranger to occupy
his room. In the morning the ungratefuI
lodger left the following written on the
margin of one of the editors old news
papers:
slept in nm editors he'd last night
And others may say what they please;
say there's one editor in the world
That certainly takes his case.
When thought of my humble cot, away,
could not suppress q sigh,
But thought, ms rolled in the feathery nest,
Lio,o easy editors lie.
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A lady being about to marry small
man, was told that he was very bad fell
low. Well, said the lady, "if els so bad
there is one comfort-thorc is very little
of him"
Hale, said brother senator TO New
Hampshire man, do you know what Cass
says of your NO He says you are
granite Goose. Just tell the General, for
me, that he is a Michi-gander.'
A woman about to sign a deed, the
Judge asked her whether or not her hus-
band compelled her to sign? 'IIo COM
PEELED me! said the Amazon, mo nor
twenty like himP
An impudent fellow says: SHOW me aif
the dresses a woman has worn in tha
course of her life, and l will write her
biography from them
The San Francisco Picayuno says that
the churches there arc determined to sing
no more long metre tunes, they being too
slow for the country and people.
why do you swing the seythc, Frank2
get my living by my wits.
well, Bill you can work, WITH duller
tools than can
DO you mean to insult me, sir, by caIs
ling your dog in my name2 'Oh no, sif,
not at ALL only mean to insult the Dig
what church do you attend, Mr. Par
tiugton?' oh, any paradox churcn where
the Gospel is dispensed with. a
An Irish lover has remarked that u IS
great pleasure to be alonr, especially
when you have yOur sweetheart win you
At what age are ladies most baPPyS-
Ans.-MarTi-age.
What a poor world this would be WIN,
out women and newspapers. How "ou'u
the news get about?
Only bachelors should belong to clubs.
TIcrculc, gave up his clab g6en he MAR
ried Dcianeira, and all god hpsg9nds
should follow his example,
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