Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1860-10-26
A United South.

lcey-Brecknridge olIponents9 ft means union Of
the South upon the disunion ticket The thin COW
erng they have heretofore kept upon their designs
is now thrown of, They have with one accord
since the Northern elections, sounded the tocsn o.
alarm. Their drums are beating and their trumpets
Changing The hidden fires are now thrown open
to the winds, and the Southern heart is to be put
into blaze. The lines to be drawn, the hostile
sections to he put in battle array, and the
cry is to he victory or DEATH
Men of Tenncssee men Of the land of Jackson
are you prepared for this2 Thoughtful menl bus
mess menl christian menl Bell men Douglas
menl conservative men Of every party, are you
ready, are you willing, to see your great and glOri-
Gus country torn into "dishonored fragments -
Shall that which is now the glory and admiration
of the world, become kissing and by-word to
the nations Shall you live to look upon estates
discovered. discordant, belgerent? on a land rent
with civil feuds or drenched with fraternal blood2
AMI for what Forfanced, or at least for partial,
distant and contingent wrongs.
A united South! Yes, by all means united,
but not defiant South, nor one which cuts off all
hope of union with the North nor one which
hreathes out war and threatenings, and scouts the
very idea of conciliation and compromise.
Unite, forsooth upon Breckinrdge-the represen-
tatiye of all that is aggressive Of all that's defiant
Of all that is uncompromising, ofall that is extreme
and offensive to our Northern BRETHREN Tell them
the Constitution followed in all its forms but waste
paper, that the only price of peace is that the
quished shall be proclaimed victors. And what is
to be the result? Obi you cry their coward spirits
will fail them; their pale squadrons will be
dissolved like the hosts Of Sennacherib their das
tard knees will knock against each other, and their
craven hearts will bring them to submission.
Believe you so, men of the South Then exalt
your horn and raise high your shouts of challenge
and of eXpccted victory,
But you forget that these men Of the North are
your brothers in blood; that they arc the sons Of
men who defed the cannon of Britain behind the
Hay embankments at Bunker's Hill, and laid down
their lives upon the bloody fields of Monmouth and
Brandywine; that they are men of stubborn wills
and dogged spirits and that they think they know
their rights and dare maintain them.
Away then with these peurile threats--ths idle
gasconade. We are dealing with men, and with
bearded men, and with thoughtful men, who how.
ever wrong-headed and fanatical some of them may
be, are neither scolded into good behavior scared
out of their propriety.
They may be told that upon the election of lin
coin there is danger of disruption of the Union,
and they will be told the truth But this should be
held out as a fact, and not menace. Our ora
tors who have gone North should appeal to the
sense of right to the forbearance to the interests
political, social and material of the enon7saveholding
States, and asking for them respectful consideration.
They may tell their Northern brethren of the wrongs
we have suffered under the Fugitive Slave Law of
the irritating and insulting conduct of mobs and
public meetings in the North-of the passage of
unconstitutional laws and attempts to enforce them,
Of emissaries in the South preaching sedition and
melting to rebellion and ask them are these the
acts of brethren and countrymen So may we talk
and appeal to the thoughtful the conservative, the
law-abding and law-loving portion of the people
Of the Northern States.
Prt 10 hats ebol1 ID In,
the South Shall we appeal TO them there to for
bear while here are blowing up the fires ofcivil
war? Shall we among ourselves, be displaying our
wounds and opening our sores, and lashing our
selves into incorporating fury and madness p
With what hope, with what expectation, with what
design is all this done? Ii is done to drive our peo-
pie into an expression of this temper by the cleo
ton of Breckenridge who is its representative and
thus cut Off all hope of cohcaton2 1t is not in
many instances from the lower and meaner motive
Of keeping local and temporary power in the seve-
raj States; for keeping party and party men in
power?
Vote for Breckenridge, say youn Tennessee, and
thus keep united SOUTH Why do you not speak
out plainly, and say keep Mcssrs johnson and Mich
olson in the Senate, and the subordinate offices un-
der our party control ? And is not this monstrous
and most past belief that while country is hang
ing the edge of precipice, while civil war is
erecting its hdeous front when we are almost at the
beginning of the end, men should be found who can
be engaged in this miserable scramble for offices the
very foundation of which are Just ready to be
swept away The madness of the people of Jcrusa-
lem when the city was beseiged by Titus-the mad
ness of the crews of sinking ships who quarrel over
the spirit casks before they are engulphed, is wis
dom compared to this
| How then should the South he united? 1t should
be united in spirit OF concaton toward the
North; it should be united in holdidg out the Olive
Branch of peace. Gcntleness and kindness should
be united with firmness We should unite upon
some man who is true son of the Union; some
man who, while he has maintained all Of our rights,
has respected and conceded the rights of other
tions; some man who has not yet narrowed his
mind to the idea of a Southern Confederacy; some
man who like Washington and jackson, has regar-
ded the union of these States as embracing their
liberty, their glory, their peace, and their happiness
Aud such man is JoHN BELL. Unite upon him,
and you may have a united South, a united North,
united East united West and these may be all
united.
Bell men of TENNESSEE stand by your colors-
your cause is the cause of the whole country. Lis
ten not to the siren song of the narrow-hearted
men who tell You of a Southern Union. Know no
country hut your own--that mighty country Ia
which belongs the glories of our Revolution and
our past history; to which belongs the names o
Washington and Adams, of jefferson aud jackson
of Webster and Clay
EDWIN II. EWING,