Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1860-11-16
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unparalleled madness, has elevated that party |
to power. What will it do now 2 Dissolve the /
unioa ? Disunion is no remedy for any Of the evils
complained Of, whether they be real or imaginary,
and partial secession is only more indirect way of
bringing about civil war with all its concomitant
horrors aud ultimate ruin. And whilst we admit
that the administration Of the government by a
purely sectional party is deeply humating to the
feelings Of every true Southern man, cannot
agree that il is wise patriotic to resist before
there is overt act and must insist that the rem
edy proposed by extremists will prove worse evil
than that which II is designed to cure. The threats
which have been made by the Hotspurs Of the South,
Of resistance to the Inauguration of sectional
President have had no happier effect than appeal
to the worst passions Of the Northern heart and an
invocation Of the malign spirit of disunion which
has so long cursed the South with dangerous and
unprinciped agitators of abstract nonsense and in
stigators of moral treason. 1t is as we have said
before, to the corrupt ambition Of Southern Demo-
cratic demagogucs that we owe the origin and SUI
premacy Of the Republican party, and we call upon
true Southern patriots and statesmen--upon the
conservative masses to stay the ruthless hands of
these dsorgani2ers and arrest the further progress
OF the fell spirit Of disunion Constituted as the
three departments Of the Government now are Lin
coin commit no overt act against the rights of
the South and, surely, the preservation of the In
ion and the value Of American nationality to the
cause of liberty throughout the world, are consde-
rhtons too important 70 be sacrificed on
the altar of disappointed ambition, or to appease
t1e unworthy passions Of the wicked and misguided.
Int Iat hat he ;sif 6 faua t;o;,,
will encourage the REPUBLICAN Administration to an
attempt to violate the rights of the South, dsunon
Is not the remedy which wisdom and patriotism
would apply. The safety of both sections is in the
Union and we, of the South, have the game in our
own hands, if we will but play it like true men,
and not like excited and desperate gamblers. And
in offering the suggestions that to follow let it
be distinctly understood that we are looking TO a
remedy for the extreme case just supposed-that of
an attempt to trespass upon the rights of the South
and not the mere apprehension that an attempt may
be made. It will not be denied that, in the North
we have a host of intelligent and conservative
friends-such indeed, majority of the North
ern people were the question fairly tested nor will
II be denied that dissolution of the Union must
convert those friends into alien enemies These
points being conceded, II will be no difficult matter
to prove that in the Union, we have it in our power
not only tomultipy these friends but to make them
t1e active and efficient agents for the peaceable
dress of every grievance of which we complain
Is not this better than civil WARP But how is this
to be done2 By mastery inactivity No; but
By active preparation for separate independence,
II aisunion must come, and for greater degree of
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boast Of the South that cotton is king and by the
direct exercise of his power all this can be done
without disunion, without bloodshed, without an
increase of sectional rancor, with United South,
and divided North
Should it become manifest that Lineons policy
tends to aggression, convention of all the slave
States should be called, and that convention, with
out bravado, and in tone temperate, but firm,
should say to the North "You have the numeri-
cal strength and You have in your hands the reins
Of the Federal Government your policy is viola
tive of State equality and aggressive upon South
cru rights and whilst we do not mean TO dissolve
the Union until forced to do so last resort ev-
cry consideration of honor, justice and patriotism
compes to take such stepsas necessary to the
peaceabe vindEatiOn of our rights therefore, We
resolved to withdraw Representatives from
both Houses Of Congress- and take no part, what
ever in the administration Of the Federal Govern
ment. We are resolved, too, to offer no mpedmen
to the enforcement Of the Federal laws, in oul
midst involving all postal arrangements, and thu
collection 'of the revenues but, in the meantime
all commercial intercourse between us must cease
We win 10 our own export and import ,haac AM
that In foreign vessels, until VIC can proerlq ship
ping Of our own and every pound of cotton yot
manufacture, hereafter must be purchased in for
eign ports. And this policy we viii firmly adhcr
TO until you give us such guarantees for futur
peace and security 10 rights shall Justify us il
re-establishing the Federal and Commercial rela
;ions with you that are, this day, suspended"
Nc one can doubt that such course as here in
dicatod, would speedily build up an anti Republican
party in the North Of such, overwhelming streugu
as to crush the fanatics INTO passive nsinfcsnce
and to give to the South the ampest security agains
all future aggressions; or did Il tail to do this
would at least secure TO us the sympathos of man
kind, and cast upon the North all the odium tina
must follow the breaking up of such government
Separate secession holds ont no hope of any AMIGA
ble adjustment of existing difficulties, and disunion
immediate and unconditional, would convert on
Northern friends into alien enemies, and furnish ey
cry ground for fear that disunion may 60 on ndef
nitely until We are subject TO all the pickering
and bloodshed incident to the condition of clustc
of petty States held together by no general inter
ests and revolving around no common CENTER
But by 'he plan we have suggested, secession an
disunon may both be avoided, and at the sam
time, our relations with the North be placed upo
surer footing than ever before or il there shout
be civil war; it win he between the conservatives an
fanatic forces Of the North. Were it necessary an
proper TO adopt this line of policy at this time W
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