Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1860-04-20
Democracy Trembling in the
Balance.

Editor Enquirer find in Hon. Howell Cobb's
letter to Hon. l. T. Irwin this startling confession
ave approach a contest involving the issues of life
and death" Who put ''the issues of life and death"
upon the countryi In whose hands has the Govern
ment been since 1882 the Democratic leaders,
Who re-opened the agitation of the slavery ques-
ton the Democratic leaders. Who deceived the
people Of the South and country the Democratic
leaders. Which section has suffered most by the
re-opening of the slavery question the South
How was the slavery issue re-opened2 by the pass
age of the squatter sovereign Kansas bill. Who in
lS55-'56 told the people that the Kansas bill was
an affirmation of the COMPROMISE measures of 1850
the Democratic leaders. Who told the people the
Kansas bill, in its suffrage and legislative features
was a transcript or exact copy of the Utah and New
Mexico bills? the Democratic leaders. Who told
the people the Kansas bill was the best bill ever
passed by Congress for the South ? the Democratic
leaders. Who told the people the Kansas bill was
the best bill ever passed by Congress for the North
and freedom ? the Democratic leaders. Who told
the people of the South they had a chance to make
Kansas slave State? the Democratic LEADERS,
Who told the people of the North that Kansas would
be dedicated TO freedom2" the Democratic leaders.
Who denied that squatter sovereignty was in the
Kansas bill the Democratic leaders. Who con-
fessed that the nsidious serpent was in the Kansas
bill Judge 1ycisOn, who called that filthy bill "a
wretched and cursed thing of unmeanng generali-
ties" Who put this ''wretchcd and cursed billn
upon the South and country the Democratic
leaders. Who denounced every man as traitor to
the South and her rights that refused to endorse
the Kansas bill? the Democratic leaders. Who
enlogized Stephen A Douglas and held him up as
the political Joseph of the South the Democratic
leaders. Who incorporated the principle in the
Kansas bill that makes contest between the North
and South for the mastery in the Territories? the
Democratic leaders. Who sent Walker into Kansas
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who has robbed the treasury and squandered the
public lands2 the Democratic leaders. Who has
divided the North and South into sectional and
geographical parties the Democratic leaders All
these things the leaders of the Democratic party
have done, and yet the Daily Telegraph invites the
patriotic Constitutional Union men to unite with
these political vutures and robbers of morality and
liberty that the country may be saved from the in-
pending ruin brought about by their dishonesty and
deception The Telegraph tells the people of Geor-
gia there is no more Use for Constitutional Union
party in Georgia than there is for fifth wheel to
n wagon The people will recollect the Telegraph
assured them time and again in lS55-56-' 81 that
Douglas and the Democratic leaders, if kept in
power would restore peace and quiet to the country
They have remained in control of the Government
from 1853 to the present moment and no peace
and quiet spreads its mantle over this once happy
and beautiful land of ours No, Mr. Telegraph
your.leaders have showed themselves unworthy the
trust committed to them-they are no longer to be
trusted, for they are corrupt reptiles crawling
through filth and slime to accomplish their selfish
and mercenary political ends. They have proved
themselves unfit to administer the Government be-
ing totally depraved. The Telegraph thinks the
Union party will give them IA heap of bother =
and well IL may, for the mission of the Union party
of 1860 is just what the mission of the Union party
of 1850 was-to save the republic from ruin and
restore harmony between the North and South upon
constitutional principles. The people will laugh at
your calmity and mock when your fear cometh
To the Democratic leaders, in the contest of 1860
are "involved the issues of life and DEATH" Mr.
Cobb with his great sagacty there is no chance
to elect Democrat President in 1860; hence the
confession. "We approach contest involving the
issues of life and death"-not to the republic but
to the Democratic leaders. He sees and reads the
handwriting Of public condemnation by the people
of the Democratic leaders in the formation of the
constitutional Union party There is no chance
for the Charleston nominee, and Mr.. Cobb doubts
and stammers out the confession of 'no chance to
elect the Democratic candidate in 1860.
| The Constitutional Union party is just what the
circumstances require and the condition of the
Country demand suited TO the tastes and the in
herent love o%he people for their country and their
Government. The friends of constitutional right
and the Union should he up and doing Let them
send delegates from every county to the Conven-
tion to be held in May at Milledgeville. May the
hall of the Union party roll on and roll over and
crush to death every "agitator' North and South
HARPER.