Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-03-01
MTLITARY.

We, the undersigned SUBSCRIBER, your most Que
dent servant Ex-Ranger of Montgomery County,
and one Of the local Editors Of the Chronicle beg
to announce to the brave soldiers of the 9lst Regi-
ment of Tennessee Militia, that we are Candidate
for the distinguished position Of Leutenant-C Colonel
of said Regiment
! We announce ourselves such at the request OF
several of the +" first Families, whose honorable
solicitations we take as fatterng recognition of
our military genius; and holding, as do, to the
sentiment that, in times like these every man---par-
ticuarly military geniuses-is the property of his
country, we do not feel that we have any right to
disregard the call that has been made uponus. We
know, too, that our announcement win give peace
and quiet to the hitherto disturbed sumbers Of our
people, and bring assurance of safety to those who
for months past have lived in dread fear Of the in
vason Of our 6re-sdes, and the dissertation of our
home-altars by the Black Republican hordes of the
North No more, now, need such fears disturb our
people. Insane, indeed, would be the temerity of
any set of fellows who would set hostile foot on this
dirt, when they know that we are Lieut. Col. of the
bloody Ninety-frstl They amt a-goin' to do It'll
No sir; nary hmei Lincoln knows US; and ali
the dread perturbations of that miserable mans
day-visions and night-dreams, when he shall learn
that we are running for Lieut. Col, of the Ninety
drstl Ear well,' win he then say TO Mssis Lin
colni to all my cherished dreams of taking forts,
and collecting Southern customsl"
Scott knows US Before the prestige of our
name, Lieut. Col of the Ninety first, the fame of
his puny deeds at Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo, Moline
del Rey and the City of Mexico will "pale their
Intellectual fires like the stern lamps of light
min bug in the spendors of meridian day-beamsl
(NoTE.-I beg to call tho attention of the regiment
to that beautiful fgger of speech Your Lieut..
Col. is mighty hard to beat in fggers of speech but
his ggers of speech aint patchin to his military
fggersD
Fellow-soldiers and fellow-ctizens Our quail
icatons for the dangerous post we SEEK are prodi-
gious, but it is not necessary to detail them. Do
not then commit the fatal error of supposing from
one miserable failure in onr midst, that no printer
can possess military genius, nor any editor make
! good Colonel. The case alluded is an exceptional
one 1t was of extreme executive favoritism
meant as experiment in time of peace; and one
of those appointments that are made to convince
the world that " the Empire is peacel" The Coy
ernor however could not fosee the turn that events
have taken. As things now stand that appointment
harmless as it at first appeared, comes fully up to
the standard of democratic blunder.
Has that Colonel done his duty2 Has he borne
out the military fame of our State? As Lincoln
would say "Tm just asking few questions, and
don't want to bring on bostities with the Colonel
in question, yet If he should get his back up, and
want satisfaction, we would say to him that we can
be found at our sanctum every day, and that Had
den and Wthers have on hand lot Of short, crook
ed collins.
mol soldiers Of the 9lst--that Colonel has not
doue his duty. Had he been animated by spirit
worthy of the age, he would, when he heard of
Scots having big muster, at Washington, have
gone down to Bratton's Slaughter House, and got
him to cover him over with blood, and with this,
added to his naturally alarming face, would have
gone to Washington, and presented himself to Scott
and Lincoln that they might behold in the bloody
fgger before them, representation of Southern
chivalry, aud the champion of Southern Rights !
Had he done so, old Abe would have gathered up
his feet and laid down like one skeered to death,
and old Fuss and Feathers would have emigrated to
Canada
And now fellow soldiers, if you will allow me to
say word about myself will tell you that if cleo
ted to the proud position seek, foreign foe shall
ever pollute our soil with their tread. will turn
from the art preservave" to the art destructive
abandon the pursuit of fame, in the peaceful walks
. of letters and amid the din of war and the loud
alarum of battle,
:" VIII seek the bubble reputation
Epea in the cannons mouth