Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-05-31
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Friday, May 31st, 1851.

maA- From time to time we have collected
facts TO prove that the leading object of the
Northern movement against the South, is
the abolition of slavery, and upon this fact
we have based appeals to Union men to be
no longer deceived-to meet the issue like
men and freemen, and discard, now and
forever, all connection with our implacable
foes, the Northern abolitionists. With the
same object in view, we invite attention to
couple of short quotations from the n.
Y. Times, leading organ of Abe Lincoln.
That paper, venting its spleen upon Eng
land for its evident sympathy with the
South, and sneering at the bare suggestion
that such sympathy can result in aid to the
Confederate States, or incline the North to
peace, thus holds forth:
at must not he understood that the American
people demand or need sympathy from England in
this domestic 1t has already assumed such
gigantic proportions and the fe-blood Of both the
North and South have so entered into it, that If
even the whole world should throw their sympa-
postpone or change the fearful impending contest
Our free States fired by their love of country, and
the hatred Of human sldDery rising up with una
nimity ever witnessed in history do not care
whose sympathy they gain or lose"
Here we have the whole programme
compressed into the single sentiment
hatred of human slavery and fired by
this fanaticism, the " free States can, in
no way, SO well evince their glove of coun-
try as by abolishing human slavery, re-
CARELESS of the sympathy of the whole
world, whether it be the impulse of hui
manity or of common justice, And these
are the friends with whom the Union men
Of Tennessee covet peace Snd alliance on
terms of unconditional submission. And
80 infatuated are these Union men, that
they do fiotscruple to discredt the plainest
facts, as set forth by Lincoln organs, and tc
give implicit credence to the most bare
faced lies as told by Lincoln's Southern
apologists. But again, the Times, after in.
dulging strain of irony about the pro
fessed anti-slavery sentiment Of England
and its emancipation of slavery in its Gown
Island" thus rebukes its want of 'sympa
thy with the Nor'h now struggling to com
pass the same glorious object in the South
when at length the great Republic takes up thu
same problem in such way rs to risk the fortunes
and lives Of a whole generation, molly offering he
sons and her gold, without stint measure, in tn,
contest the English Press, In its great representa-
tive, is philosophically neutral or is occupied will
the effect of the struggle on Lincolnshire cottoi
spinners"
Yes, the North has taken up the same
problem-the abolition of slavery-and il
ready to risk "the lives of whole gener
alton" in order to solve it, and yet Their
are men in Tennessee so craven in spirit, o
ignorant of the designs of the usurpers a
Washington, as to be willing to fold thei
arms and take the consequences though
they be slavery and dishonor. Aread
have these men seen the Constitution over
thrown and the highest powers of Congre
usurped, as the means Of working out thi
"problem" of the abolition Of slavery i
the South; already have they seen the be
ginning of the war which is to be urge
with fcndish hate upon the South and it
institutions-yet, so far from manifestin
the spirit of freemen and patriots, by takin
mp arms in defence of their rights, thei
honor, their homes, and their country, the
proclaim their willingness to submit to tn
wrongs and indignities heaped upon then
and to hold all that makes life dear at tn
mercy of a horde of fanatics claiming t
be the Government of the United States
Such men can not be the legitimate dc
scendants of the past generation of Ter
nesseans
pA- The Kentucky organs of Abe Lir
coin take special pleasure in expatiating W