Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1860-03-23
For President in 1860.
HON. JOHN BEII.
or TENNESSEE.

VIZ AHuut tnls tmei loul years ago, Inc CITY
Was raised that all who wished to save the Union
should unite with the democratic party to defeat
Fremont Many timid Wings alarmed by the out
cry rallied around the democrutc standard, and
Fremont wos defeated and buchanan elected. The
promise held out to the country, the inducement
TO vote for the present aetmbymcs Of the White
House, was the fna adjustment of the slavery qucs,
ton and the Inauguration of permanent peace between
the North and tho South. Buteo far from fulfilling
this promise the democrats have continued to agitatc
the subject oe slavery thereby tanning the fame of
sectional discord until apprehensions are aroused
in the minds of those most sanguine of the per-
petuity Of the Union and during the entire period
that has elapsed from the date of that promise not
single effort has been to settle the vexed question
the condition upon which thousands Of deluded
Whgs gave their support to the democratic nomi-
nee Hi
The time has now come when parties must place
before the country their respective nominees for the
Presidency and again is heard the periodical cry of
democracy-the Union is in danger, and the only
chancc 10 save it Is union of oil the elements Of
opposition upon the democratic candidate How
mains to DE seem but surely no sensible man can
fail to see the utter folly of heorkening to the cry
thrice repeated of the very party that gave birth
to the Black Republicans, and has wrought oil the
mischief which alilicts the government. The most
prominent leaders Of the democratic party have,
sgain and again. denounced it as corrupt rotten to
the very core the investigating committees Of Con-
gross confirm that declaration; the bitter sectional
strife that threatens the most disastrous conse-
quences, attests the fact and the endless ac-
counts Of official robberies and detacations and the
general and rapid depreciation Of public morals bear
incontrovertible testimony TO the democralizing
mndency of democratic theories and practices
But in the face Of broken promises, and Of al
these evils, the leaders Of the democratic party,
with an eflontery only known to those hardened
IN iniquity, coolly call upon the Opposition to hell
them to elect another democratic President that
they may for another four years. pillage the treasury
and debauch the morals of the country by precept
and example. For one, we spern the insulting
proposals and should there be but two candidates
in the field we will not stultify ourself by choosing
between Seward and Douglass or any other Re
publican and any other democrat The difference
between the evils consists in the fact that the choice
of Republican would be an experiment. whilst
that of a democrat is an oft tried and unmtigatef
enrse.f Had Fremont been elected he could mo-
have done worse than Buchanan has donei and al
for the danger to the Union, that was phantom
conjured up by ohce-seeking freeaters to frighter
the timid and delude the weak Then, as now
threats were uttered by extremists which they hat
no thought of executing and those very men an'
States ARE now preparing TO give their support tt
Douglass whose territorial policy leads, sueakngly
to the very results apprehended from the election
Fremont; and before we can listen 10 the appeal
Of the democrats for aid to defeat Black Rcpubli
can, they must show that they not, practically
Black Republicans themselves We can see no dit
ference between Buchanan or Douglass, and Sewart
or Chase except that the former sail under ias
colors.