Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1859-07-22
CL A RK SvILLE.
Friday, July 22d, 1859.

RA- As we can issue but one more number OF
the Chronicle previous to the day of election, our
friends will excuse for again reminding them of
the importance of making the best possible use of
the little time yet remaining by working with zeal
and energy for our whole ticket There has never
been crisis in State or Federal politics calling for
the exercise of better judgment and higher pa
triotism, than that which has grown out of this
contest and the Opposition must have changed its
character most decidedly if il cannot see the i'm
pending danger and has not the will and the nerve
With no higher motive than blind partizan zeal and
the pecmiary fruits of victory the democratic par
ty is actively at work. Even in this county, some
five or six of its most active emmissaries are con-
stsntly on horseback, threading every path and
highway, and by printed misrepresentation and
talsehooGs, are frightening the timid, deceivng
the ignorant and confirming the wavering whilst
the Opposition, armed with truth and justice wrap
themselves in the fancied security of good cause
and await defeat with placid indifference that be-
tokens neither the hero the martyr.
We say to our friends once more, go to work.
Emulate the industry of the democracy, but shur
its example in all things else. Furnish lights tc
those who need them; disabuse those who have
been deceived by falsehood, infuse zeal into the
lukewarm, and impress upon all our friends the
Importance of going to the polls. Caution the
personal friends of particular candidates against the
danger of swapping votes, and remind them thai
one democrat can swap his vote for fifty of tn,
"A tba, b;p
species of rlScality of no uncommon occurrence
and by which many an honest man has been vic
;iniled, aud his party defeated. We have reason
to believe that the swapping game is the one upor
which the democrats of this District rely for the
defeat Of Gen Quarles, and if rumor is TO bcrcle(
upon, this game is being successfully played in tn,
county of Robertson. Such is the report from thai
quarter, but we are not willing to believe it, TIL,
Opposition candidate for the legislature, in Robert
son, can be elected with ease without swapping
vote Dick CheathamS election is beyond even
doubt, and all the indications are that Horn will
beat Yanccy Then where is the necessity fol
swapping II single vote to swell the majority of eli
Their OF those candidates at the expense Of the can
ddate for Congress- There is no such necessity
and we trust our friends in Robertson, and ever,
portion of the District will vote clean Opposition
ticket and if cannot succeed by this honest an,
manly course, we deserve to lie beaten. But heater
we cannot be feycry member of the opposition will
do his whole duty. Let each one resolve to max
a vote if he can if he cannot, to save a vote b,
persuading his hess Jealous neighhor to go to tn
polls, II we work as patriots should work in tn
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ward our iabJrs but if we fUd our arms in listles
apathy, trusting to the justice of cause and tn
good sense of the million, shall suffer defeat
dsgraceful to ourselves as disastrous to the best in
terestS of the country.