Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-06-14

B9- We have been giving, and shall
continue to give, extracts from Northern
papers to show that reaction has com
menced in the land of fanatics, and that
the dawn of reason is disclosing to many
minds the utter injustice and madness of
the war now being waged upon the South.
Men of intellect, in the North, are begin
ming to learn that the Union can not be re-
constructed by force, and the signs of the
times teach them that England mist, as an
act of self-protection, have access to the
Southern cotton-feld, and that she will
open the way to the same by force, if all
peaceful means fail. These, with the ad-
ditional facts that the South cannot be
subjugated, and that the continuance of
the war can bring to the North nothing but
ruin, are awakening the reason that has
been paralyzed by passion and fanatieism,
and imparting the moral courage to speak
out. The following extracts from late
letter of Vallandingham, member of Con-
gress from Ohio, is strongly confrmatory
of the foregoing views; and when it is re-
membered that no man can thus speak, in
the North, unless under the shield of pub
lie sentiment, more or less powerful, and
that no man dared so to speak, even few
weeks since, the conviction is forced upon
us that peace party is rapidly growing up
where all were so recently for war. Mr..
Vallandingham, after quoting from speech
of Judge Douglas, thus proceeds
Waving the question of the doubtful legality of
the first proclamation, of April 18TH calling out
the militia for "three MONTHS under the act of
l7s5, will yet vote to pay them, because they had
no motive but supposed duty and patriotism to
move them; and, moreover, they will have render
ed almost the entire service required of them before
Congress shall meet. Butthe audaeious usurpaton
of President Lincoln, for which he deserves i'm
parchment in daring, against the very letter of the
Constitution, and without tie shadow of law, to
! 'raise and support armies and to "provide and
maintain navy" for three or five years, by mere
ezecttire proclamation will not vote to sustain or
ratify-never. Millions for defense; not a man OF
a dollar for aggressive and offensive warfare.
|, The war has had many motivesfor its commence
ment; il can have but one result whether it last
one year or fifty years-FINAL, ETERNAL sEPARA-
TIoN, pIsuNIoS. As for the conquest and subjuga-
ton Of the South, will not impeach the intelli-
gence of any man among yeu, by assuming that
you dream Of it at any time or in rny way pos
sible. Remember the warning of Lerd Chatham to
the British Parliament: ''My Lords you cannot
conquer America" A public debt of hundreds Of
millions weighing us and our posterity down fol
generations, we cannot escape. Fortunate we shall
be if escaps with our liberties. Indeed it is nc
longer so much question of war with the South
as to whether we ourselves to have constitution.
and republican form of government hereafter in
the North and West.
In brief am for the CONSTITUTION first and al
all hazards; for whatever can now be saved of the
UNION next; and for PEACE always as essential Il
the preservation of either. But whatever any ont
may think of the war, one thing at least, every
lover Of liberty ought to demand nexorably, tina
it shall be carried on strictly subject to the Consti
tuition.
The peace policy was tried it arrested secession
and promised a restoration of the Union. The pol
icy of war is now upon trial in twenty days i
has driven four States and four millions and hal
of people out of the Union and into the Confedera
cy Of the South In little while it will drive out
also, two or four more States, and two or thre,
millions of people. War may, indeed, be the poll
cy OF the East but peace is necessity of the West