Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1860-11-16

every point should be deliberately weighed which
involves the qseation d pescc or war and he is a
sindictise or designing revoldtioaist who discards
all pacific measures and prefers South divided and
disconiant upon basis Of disunion to South uni
led upon policy looking TO an hcroable adjust
ment Of existing difficulties. All know that the
South is the market for nearly all the surpius pro
ducts Of the North at the sauc time that It furn-
ishcs nearly all the raw material which the North
ern manufacturer consumes. II, then, this market
be closed and this raw material withheld, it Is the
extreme Of folly TO suppose that the people Of the
North win long give up these sources Of wealth and
impoverish themselves for the maintenance Of fa-
natic anti-slavery sentiment; and when they see
manufactures spriuging up in the border slave
States, and England and France reaping the profits
of direct trade with the South the "rrepressible
conflict win be at an end, and the whole North
eager for renewal OF intercourse with us on terms
that will forever set the slavery question at rest.
But as before remarked, il this experiment fail it
gives us the advantage of united South and bet-
ter prepares for that separate Independence con-
templated by the advocates of immediate disunion.
The besttalents and highest integrity of the North
are with us already, but they are overridden by a
motley crowd Of fanatics, knaves and paupers, just
as the best elements of the South overborne by
reeaters and disorganizers and every sentiment Of
justice and patriotism, and every interest involved
in the great question Of human liberty, outraged
by the suggestion that she Union shall be dissolved
at the bidding of such combination, and against
the earnest wishes and entreates of large minori-
ty Of true-hearted patriots An effort to save it is
the first impulse of every good man, Shall we
take counsel Of its enemies as to the best means OF
securing the object2 1t is enough that they have
dragged us to the verge of the precipce--let them
not precipitate us at plunge, into the gulf be-
low, without an effort to find way Of retreat or
of safe descent from the point Of peril. Time and
prudence can save the Union without stain upon
the honor of the South but secession is itself dis
honor-a cowardly abandonment of the post as
signed to every true-hearted American when hi.
country is endangered whether by the assaults of Q
foreign or internal foe and the chvaly that shrnk'
from the encounter is but another name for treason
and every Gulf State that secedes, on its own &C
count is guilty Of a base abandonment of the Dor
der slave States which are left-aye, and by pre-
concerto bear the ills which are to follow year
of buster and misrule the part of Southern chi
valry. II was their folly and bravado that fomen
ted the sectional strife, and now they would braUe
and generously provide for themselves without be
slowing thought or a care upon the Gordon o
border States that stand as wall of fire between
them and danger. But we trust that the people
the boue and sinew of the country-will blocl
this game, and demand, in thunder tones that NJ
State shall sneak away from danger and that i
aught is done, in this crisis it shall be by unite,
South, and in the way best calculated to save tn
Union, if it can be saved, or to unite the South,
T disunion is inevitable.