Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1859-04-08

B6r Capt. jackson and DR.. Peyton
opened the Congressional canvass, in the
second District, in Kentucky, short time !
since, when the latter, democratic candi- {
date, in reply to the questions propounded
by the former, placed himself in position
very antagonistic to the South. He de- !
clared that Douglass is a Simon pure de-
Notwithstanding square upon the Gin
cinnati platform; that he endorsed his
views of the power of the people over the
subject of slavery in the Terr!tories--alias
squatter sovereignty; that he would vote
for the little giant for President, and would
not vote for law of Congress to protect
slave property in the Territories. Seward,
Giddings & Co., seem pretty well content
with this position, and it remains to be
seen how far the people of Peyton's Dis
trict will endorse such concession to
freesoilism.
If the Cincinnati platform-upon which
Douglass stands fat footed maintains
the doctrines, that the rights of the slave
holder, and a decision of the Supreme
Court may be annuled by the unfriendly
action of parcel of squatters upon the
national territory, then the southern dele
gates to that Convention either knowingly
bartered away the rights Of the South, or
ignorantly suffered themselves to be over
reached by their shrewder allies in the
North, or, by collision, fixed up platform
that could be construed to mean one thingin
the South, and quite another in the North.
Either supposition fastens upon the south
ern delegates, ignorance, or corruption
But, be this as it may, the recent course
, of Douglass, in maintaining the worst
t form of squatter sovreignty,-that which
| wrongs the South by evading the Constitu-
ton, and conforming the Supreme Court
and the decided stand taken by leading
, locofoco southern Senators against his
| glazing political heresy, ought to warn
every southern man of the danger of
endorsing that heresy no,o, whatever may
, have been done before the late debate in
t the Senate upon this subject
= If Douglass stands square upon the
t platform, he maintains its doctrines, and
it sustains him but it does not follow
e that he or it should be now endorsed by
the South, because the South once endors-
ed both and he is not a safe representa-
D tive of the institution of slavery who will
do either under the coercion of party dis
j.. cipline. Whatever may have been thought
of the Cincinnati platform, two years ago,
i the construction given to it, by the North,
" and the declaration of leading southern
o democrats, that the Kansas bill is a
o swindle, furnish abundant reasons why NO
southern man should endorse Douglass
4 or his construction Of the platform but
4 when, like DR.. Peyton, he does both, and
f then declares that he would vote for nc
. law to protect the stakeholder in Terri
10 tory, the people ought to repudiate him
!. as unworthy of their confidence. Especi
ally ought they to do this, when they see
n the locofocos of Virginia running man
q for Governor, who is eulogsed, by the
y abolition organ at Washington, for his
20 anti-slavery antecedents. The man who
Il labored for the abolition Of slavery in
% western Virginia, is opposed to its ex
J. tension, and that lie the sole doctrine o.
- the freesoilers and the man who insists
=. that the people of territory have the
% right and the power, in their territorial
,e capacity, TO exclude slavery, and who re-
fuses to extend the pr rejection of Congress
,e over the STAKEHOLDER, is opposed to the ex
d tension of slavery, and, whatever hi
a. opinions may be, is the practical ally o
n the freesoilers. These insidious thrust,
,t at the institutions of the South, through
,s its pretended ocofoco friends, if no
;e parted by the people, must, ultimately
prove fatal, and the man who supports
"a Letcher or Peyton, however honestly, il
4 working an extent of mischief for which
there will soon be no remedy.
The second District of Kentucky lie
h broadside of ours, and is separated from
" it only by marked line, and we are very
sOlicitous that the heresy, taughtby Peyton
shall not cross that line. Locofocoism
by its habits, is exceedingly liable to catch
as we'll as to spread, infections from on
to another of its votaries and not being
=, MISREPRESENTATION, lifts safety is not care,
~ for by those who see the danger, they viii
continue to shake hands with Douglass
=, and rub themselves against the Cincinnati
- platform, totally unaware that they ar
~ catehing the political itch by the contact