Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1859-11-04

s<S@ When we remember ti,at, at thc opening
session Of the last Congress, the first thing the de-
mocratic members did was to meet in caucus and
pass a resolution insulting to every American dele
gate, and that the same party afterwards passed
plurality resolution which ensured The election Of
Banks, and then charged his election upon the
American members, we are utterly astonished ut
the brazen impudence with which they demand that
the Opposition shall aid them in defeating the cleo
ton Of a Republican Speaker Of the next House,
The Opposition will do no such foolish thing. They
know that the best interests of the country demand
a full and fair exposure of the deep corruption
which has entered into the democratic administrA-
ton Of the government and that such exposure can
not he effected with democratic Speaker to pack
the Committees of investigation Their duty, un-
der the circumstances is too plain 70 be misunder-
stood That duty is to vote for no democrat, no
matter what inducements may be held OFT, and ii
they cannot eject conservative Opposition man. tost
there and vote for of their own men the ycsr
ont or until the democratic members elect Re-
publican Speaker by means of the plurality rule, as
they did in the last Congress Let them pirate as
glibly they please about an Opposition coalition
with Black Republicans. That stale cry can do no
hurt as coming from party that has never failed
coa!cscc with freesoilism whenever a northern eandi-
date has been started for the Presidency and with
whom Stephen Arnold Douglass is a favorite
In choosing between the Republican and demo-
cratic part s. what is TO be gained for the South
The democrats elected Magoffin Governor of Ken
lucky, who declared that he prefers civil war TO
protection, by Congress, of southern rights. in the
Territories, and also Le;cher Governor of Virginia
when he was known to have heaped upon the in
stitution of slavery every vile epithet in the vo.
South advocates squattersovrcipnty the true doc
trne and is prepared TO vote for Douglass for Presi-
dent knowing, the Consolation asserts, that his
doctrine is more dangerous than that of Seward
And this is the party that calls upon the Opposition
to aid it in defending the rights of the South and
saving the Unionl When that cry was raised in
1856 thousands of old line Wings responded to it.
and aided in the election of the ''old granny who
now occupies the Presidential Chair And what
was the result? Has the slavery question been set
ted, as was solemnly promised? Has the South
secured the recognition of single right in con-
troversy though guaranteed by the Constitution it.
self So far from it, slavery is still The ISSUE ant
its protection is taken from Congress and the Con
stituton and vested in the squatters and aliens con
gregated upon the public lands and fully empower
ed, with the sanction of southern democracy. L
disfranchse the slave holder who dares to invade
their sovereignty by carrying his property into tn,
common territories of the Coniederacy This i
what old line Wings helped to accomplish, and will
this record written upon the very soil of the South
Democracy has the impudcnce again to ask aic
from the Opposition. But the game is played out