Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-02-01

EsD- eThe State Rights Anti-CQgeion Commit
tee in lie heated appeal to the pcop of Tennessee,
&c behalf Of immediate secession pa,hetieaily says
.our hearts would sink within us at TIE bare
I"thought OF the degradation and iofhmy Of stan-
6oning our more Sontbern brethrsn united 70 us
"by silthe lies Of syropashy and interest,"" no
Now, We like TO see questions fairly stated and
hsirly argued and despise any AMI every effort a
throw dust in the eyes of the people Tie 20 4
name Of this committee ia an insulting libel ls@e
except Andy johnson and Emerson Etheriage, we
know Of no coereionsts in Tennessee and the most
conservative Of her people only ask that all oons,i
iuiional means to save the Union, In the Union,
shall be tried, and II these fall then they are for
secession. This is the position of all who are not
or disunion per e. and yet the committee takes the
came Of anti-coercion for the sole purpose of
cheating the honghtless and impulsive into the be-
lief that there Is dangerous coercion party in
Tennessee which threatens to play the devil in gem
eral
But the committees 'hcarts sink within them at
":he bare thought Of the degradation and infany
"of abandoning their more Southern brethren. -
And what have their more South ern brethren done
for Tennessee Have they not abandoned us, and
spurned every appeal for cooperation Then where
ought the infamy and degradation to rest2 Upon
those who have eontsmptuously abandoned MS, aud
not upon Tenuemeeans whose sacred duty to them
selves, to their posterity, TO the cause of liberty
throughout the world, demands that they shall
strain every nerve and exhaust every constitutional
means for the preservation Of the Union before
they Snmson-hke-- down the pillars of the
temple of liberty that they may have the honor o;
perishing beneath its ruins. But the committee
may, perhaps, reply that tour more Southern breih-
rem have sent Commissioners to Tennessee. Sc
they hava-but for what To take counsel v it'll
us as to the best mode of preserving the Union
aud failing in that, the best means of uniting the
South for its common safety and interests Not
at ALL The Commissioners were sent to inform us
that their States have gone ont Of the Union and
that Tennessee must go too or be treated enc
my. This is the plain English Of the whole matter
and we beg that the people of Tennessee will not
suffer themselves to be cheated into the belief that
there is coercion party in this State, that there
is degradation and infamy" in want Of sympa-
thy with those who have none with ua The deg.
radiation and nfau,y is in breaking up such a gov
eminent as this without effort to it terms
just and honorable. The degradation and ntamy
rests upon those who have sought, for thirty years
to dissolve the Union, and hope TO eec it now, by
precipitating themselves and their neighbors into a
revolution which they have attempted to avert by
recourse to no constitutional mode of redress. Yet
the specific gravity of the committees great heart
causes it to sink at the bare thought that Tenncs-
secans, instead of bending the knee in homage to
the Moloch Of dsunion, may make effort to save
the Republic. Let Tennesseeans spurn the incendi-
airy appeal, and Contemplate secession not as rem
edy for their wrongs, but ns refuge from tyranny
ond dishoGor--not a. a manly vindicatou Of their
/ rights, in the Unon, but as the last dread stand
against Northern aggression and insult.