Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1860-10-12


lie useless sacrifice Of Themselves by the generation
u l77e, TO acquire seli-government and happiness /
70 their country is TO be thrown away by the UNI |
Use and unworthy passions Of their sons and that |
ny only consolation is TO be- that live not to weep
aver IL. II they would but dispassionately weigh
The blessings they will throw away, against an alb
tract principle, likely 10 be effected by union
han secession, they would pause before they would
perpetrate this act of suicide on themselves, and
uf treason against the hopes of the world To your
self as the faithful advocate of the Union, ten
Ger the offering Of my high esteem and respect
THOMAS JEFFERSON.
joins HOMES, Esq"
The foregoing is the closing paragraph of letter
dated April 22d 1890, and having reference to the
passage Of the Missouri Compromise. As Mr. JEF-
FrPsos is styled "the apostle of liberty" and ia
Their of Democracy, we reproduce this portion of
his letter, that his pretended followers may see
what he thought Of disunion, and the traitors who
contemplate it, He lives not "to weep over it,"
but even as early 1920, he foresaw and foretold
the crisis now upon us--the work of 81 the unwise
and unworthy passions of the sons of Revolution
AIRY sires. He saw in the then) future, the brood
of traitors which slavery fanatcism would hatch
out and knew how willy demagogues would shape
It to subserve the purposes of their grove'ling am
bition, and his only consolation was that he would
not live TO weep over" the wreck of the Govern
ment which he had abored to establish and perpet-
uate.
But WAsHNoToN and JEFFERSON have been gath
cred to their fathers, and though their wisdom and
patriotism survive, in the lessons they taught yet
hat wisdom is but folly when compared with the
reasonable oat-givngs of YAscEY, and that pa
riotism but base submission when compared with
The frantic rawlings of sectional hate. CLAY, WEB
9rER and JACKSON long kept treason at bay, and
their living presence hushed its voice to the low
inutterngs of criminal discontent but they, too,
have passed from earth, and SEWARD and YANcEY--
The embodments of opposite fanaticisms-have
reared their serpent heads and hiss, with startling
distinctness, the word "dsunion," and denientcd
people, spurning the wisdom of these buried sages
rush madly on to their own ruin. II, p said JEF-
fEssoN, they would but dspassionatey weigh the
blessings they would throw away, against an ali
ctract principle, more likely to be effected by union
than secession, they would pause before they would
eEpetraie this act of suicide on themselves aud OF
treason against the hopes of the world" But there
ere thousands incapable of weighing those bless
ngs Demagogucs and traitors have bound them
East in the letters of party spirit or blinded them
with fanaticism, and thus stripped of every attrb
ute Of the freeman they are doing the bidding o.
their masters--SAMPsoS-lke, pulling down the pill.
ars Of the temple beneath whose ruins they are tc
be crushed and buried.
JEFFERsoSs tearsfor the safety of the Union were
he result Of no passing misgivings in the volume
# human nature, illustrated by experience, he read
the dangers that threatened il. He saw before him
system of government based upon the leading
lea of the capacity of man Tor sefgo serDment and
dependent for its success upon virtue and inte
;ence; he had learned from the history of all ages
hat whatever the theory OF government may be
"A the very nature of things the many must be
governed by the few and his own experience taught
him that selfish ambition might prompt the few
lcading minds of the country to seize upon any ant
every radical idea that might enable them to swa,
The multitude at their will. Knowing, but too well
he controlling power Of intellect over the unen
ightened masses, distrusting the integrity and pa
lrotsm of the ambitious aspirants to office, an,
loreseeing the corruption that would aecompan,
lust for power well nigh, he trembe for the safet
# the Union, and the prosperity Of government
designed for man, as he should be, rather than a
els.
Aue SAuses NnlCh JEfFLtsoN saw AT WolAi Wnel
he wrote the letter from which we have quoted
have been increasingly developing their effects dow
TO the present hour. The few who govern the ma
ny have become more and moro corrupt aud III
l'oople more aud mora enslaved, until they blindl
follow the lead Of YAScEr and SEWARD withou
pausiug 10 cnqulIe whittier tliey are going, wha
dire calamity awaits them In tho future Passio
and prejudice have dethroned reason, and sections
hate has supplauted patriotic devotion TO the Who'll
couutry, Treason strides through the land in tn
broad light of day, and the deluded victims Of il
vile plo,s greet il with smiles and shouts Of al
prevail I, leaves lis boody footprints in It's walk
The fame of ARNOLD awaits the TRAITORS, aud III
ute Of distracted bleeding Mexico awaits tue oouu
~ ia the eveat Of dissolution Of the Union. Bu
urce weeks cmAn for the decision of this momeu
toRs quostion---ia that short period, all may be 81
''i OF all may ho lost. Let the people decide
&, libery--al worth having, hangs upon the de
sion.
B-y. T ", Beaumont, Esq as we learn, made