Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1859-11-25
[From the N. Y. Express, 4tb.]
KEEP COOL.

! We regret to see the Richmond Wing
"a journal which so often stands up il
defence of what is right and just between
the two sections Of country, and between
man and man, Recommending spirit o
retaliation towards the North, in answer
to the weak threats and fierce assaults o
the New York Courier and other Northern
journals against the South. The best WAY
to answer such missives, it seems to u.s. i.
to rise superior to them. 1t is not thu
man who talks most. or threatens most, ol
abuses his neighbor the most, who is tt
be feared. Such recrimination on either
side Only engenders the worst spirit, ant
these are not the times for cool heads tc
indulge in them. The North is not re-
sponsible for the Harper's Ferry outbreak
and expressions of sympathy for thai
reasonable outbreak and those engaged
in it as the chief actors are confined rather
to certain leading politicians and fanatical
literators, who in no way express the SEN
timents of the mass of the people of the
North. Blinded by the glare of false
lights, and following the lead of few
irrepresible conflict men, of large personal
influence and extended political experience,
thousands have seemingly been persuaded
to sympathize with man, whose crimes
against the safety of society and against
law and good government stand without a
parallel in the history Of the nation. II
is one of these excesses of human nature,
and no doubt one of its infrmities, to
sympathise with great offenders, when
about to receive the just penalty of their
crimes. In the case of Brown, the body
of men, innocent and guilty, whom he
was the instrument of sending out of the
world all unprepared for their fate awakens
little or no personal or public sympathy
while thousands here are lamenting the
fate which awaits the chief offender who
led them on; and in the case of Emmer-
son, one of the most intellectual and trans
cendenta men of the North, madness
folly and impiety goes so far as to compare
Brown on the gallows to Christ on the
cross
If the Richmond Wing, or anybody
else, supposes that there are many such
men at the North, outside of the lunatic
asylum, it greatly mistakes both the men
and the opinions of this part of our little
American world. Bold, bad, fanatical,
irrepressible conflict men there are among
us,-men who rejoice inwardly and often
outwardly at every excess, every sign OF
disunion, every bitter word and act at the
South,-butthey are not confined to the
North, and wherever they are, they deserve
the gallows more than the respect OF
sympathy of the really human ortion Of
society. We protest against holding the
conservative men of thecountry response
Bile for the Giddingses the Smiths, tn,
Emmersons, or even tha Stewards of tn,
North. As we said thcAother day, ther,
are three.quarters of million Of voter,
in the free States, disgusted alike will
both the Republican and Democrat,
parties, who have staid at home at tn,
recent State elections. These voters will
be heard from in 1860, and so heard from
we trust and believe, as to give practica
evidence that no sectional man or no sec
tional party can receive at the hands o
the People an election for the first Offc
in the government.