Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1860-07-20
CL A r X 8 WILLIE
Friday, July 90, 1850.

H6y- The great point of'solicitude with the Yam
ceyites who spoke here last Saturday seemed TO be
to purge themselves of all suspicion of disunonism.
We mean to deal fairly with them and therefore
acquit the democratic masses especially OF the bor-
der slave States of such foul treason, and excuse
them upon the ground that they know not what
they do. Democrats have so long followed their
leaders blindy, without asking whittier they go, or
what for that they have rendered themselves wholly
incapable Of investigating motives and weighing
the consequences of given acts. They have too long
been dependent upon the will Of demagogues 10 be
capable of independent thought and action--hence
the facility with which they now lend themselves
10 the reasonable designs of the Gulf squadron led
on by ,Yancey and without knowing-the masses
of them-wbat they doing The dsunionists
broke up the Charleston Convention because that
body would not support Douglas on any platform.
Alter this. they nominated, at Baltimore, two can
didates who stood upon the same plank in the Gin
cinnat platform with Douglas, and who repeatedly
denied the right in Congress to interfere, in any
shaps with slavery in the Territories. Does such
seeming inconsistency cover no Interior design? The
men who SO eagerly seek an opportunity to ''preci-
pate the cotton States into revolution" arc not
such fools as to take step that makes them APP
pear ridiculous to the casual observer, unless they
clearly sec that such step brings them nearer to their
cherished object They do not hope to dissolve the
Union by the election Of Breckenridge, and would
mover have nominated him had they belived there
was the rcmotest possibility of his success But
they do hope by using him, SO 60 divide the demo-
tlot L. IL
which they have for years, declared would author
re the secession of the Southern States.
The ianceyites do not act without a motive, and
since il would be an insult to their shrewdness to
suppose that they would break up the Charleston
Convention to get rid of squatter sovereignty, and
then nominate n squatter sovereignty advocate, they
can have no other object in the nomination of Brock
enridge than the election OF Lincoln, and the
strengthening of the dsunion party by committing
TO its designs those who are now bndy following
its leaders. We say again, that the masses of the
Breckenridge party are disunionsts by intention
but that they practically So is clear to every
mind capable of weighing testimony, and deducinl
actions from motives We shall hear it proclaimed
from every stump in Tennessee, that the Brecken
ridge democrats are Union men, but at the sam,
time the effort will be earnestly made to keep bach
from the people the fact that all the disunonist
belong to that faction and that its nominees TIN
choice of the very men who pray for an opportunity
to "procipitate the cotton States into revolution.
This fact Is incontrovertible and no ingenuity car
evado the legitimate inference that common
purpose is contemplated by the leaders of this ca
IRENE faction, aud that all who follow them ar
laboring--however ignorantly-for the consumma
ton OF that purpose. Yancey and his coadjutor
earnestly desire dissolution Of the Union; the OK
perience Of years teaches that they striving
nestly and increasingly to bring about that grca
national calamtyi they seeded at Charleston t
hasten that result, and at Baltimore enacted tn
same part and having split the democratic part,
at both places, what are they doing now2 Work
ing for Lincoln by supporting Brcckenridge--th
ambitious tool in the hands of traitors Aud wha
are they doing who loudly shout for Breckenridg
and Gane2 Helping to dissolve the Union1 Oh no
they are good Union men--don't dream of commit
ting treason, and MS innocent as the followers
Aaron Burr and for the same reason--they ar
ignorant ofthe designs of their master, William l.
Yancey.