Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1860-11-23

H. fprneyasf fess winds up a long argument
against secession, BY saypgs
'G.et Inc scattered fri,iasnts Of the lonr fri
umphaot democracy but gather itself together on
tbs platform of rs we'll established trincipes, 10
deience Of the Constitution and the Union aud no
lafm swill be attempted on need be feared. up-
on the rights Of the South OF the North but al
VIII go on prospciousir and harmoniously even
should Mr.. Lincoln ATTEMPT all that his enemies
have charged him With intending 10 do
There spoke the partizan who, even amid the
peril that impends over the whole country, il look.
ing to lie reconstruction of the democrats party
rather than TO the consolidation of the conservative
eiemtn,s Upon which alone VIC can rely for present.
safety ami future peace and harmony. For thirty
lyems the democratic party has ruled the country,
and behold the RESULT Not only has Il proved it.
self utterly Incompetent Is ggeSs corruption
ITO uphold the honor and dignity OF the Govern
ment, and to advance the domestic aud foreign in
tercsts of tie people but it has filled even to main
tain It's own organization. Every measure, tend
pg step by step, to the present disorganized state
/ Of things is Of Democratic origin; and every mea-
sure that has beenadopted for the purpose of arrest
ing the downward tendency of the government
has been repealed, or openly set at uought by the
Democratic party. The agitation of the slavery
queson--the prolific source Of untold evils-is the
food upon which democracy has fed and fattened;
squatter sovereignty, and noninteryention were,
for years its watehwords and its cardinal doctrines
and to these added alien suffrage for the Ter
ritores and the almost unrestraned access Of for
eignefs to the ballot-boS. But when these odious
political heresies, adopted, not from conviction Of
their Justice, bat means Of securing party as
tendency, had worked out their legitimate and
most pcrnicous results in Che formation of third
party likely to oyershadow democracy, then was
heard the cry from the Southern wing, of down
with squatter sovereignty Give US protection, Oh
VIC will secede. .... ..
This is the gallant and patriotic party that has
for years, bartered southernrights for federal spos
and now, one Of its leading spirits tells US that
when this rotten and disrupted organization shall
have gathered up its broken fragments all will &c
we'll We trust that it is as impossible to gather
up these fragments TO collect the separate fakes
OF the snow-drft after the sun has dissolved, and
the earth absorbed them. If the sole chance fol
the preservation of the Union aud the maintainanct
OF southern rights is TO be found in reorganiza
ton Of the democratic party Jet the North and tht
South separate at once rather than suffer the latte
tobe erslaved by slow and torturing degrees-death
in a manly struggle for freedom against ayowed en-
emies, is preferable to the bondage imposed b,
treacherous friends. Away, then, with the counsel
Of any and every man who can play the PARTIAL
in this hour of our countrys PERIL Spun tn
Suggestion, that cur countrys safety depends upor
the resuscitation of the party that has ruined it