Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-10-18

and without the poor cuns5lation Of knowing the
charge upon which they were arrested. The tanci-
ty of he church has been invaded and their minis
tiers driven from their pulpits. Woman, whose
person has been held sacred by all civilized nations,
has been taken from her home and imprisoned un-
der the reign Of this brutal despotism. And In
mere wantonnes of cruelty they have denied to
these victims Of tyranny the privilege of commu-
nication with their families and friends even IN the
! presence of their jailors.
4, In whatever direction we may turn to examine
The operations of the Government Of the United
States under the control Of the party now in power
we behold the game disregard Of the rights and
privileges Of the people. ~ NJ.
Look, for example at the fate Of down-trodden
Maryland A ruthless soldicrY lords it over every
city, village and hamlet within her limits. Men,
women and children are fleeing from their homes
to seek an asylum amongst their friends Of the
South. Many Of her best and noblest citizens are
the tenants of dungeons, and of the free men who
few short months ago discussed without restraint
the policy and measures Of the Government, there
remain none who dare to speak except in terms of
adulation of the tyranny which has robbed them
of their liberties. Not content with the degreda-
ton imposed upon the people, they have caused to be
arrested and imprisoned their elected Representa-
tiyes to the Legislature, who were suspected OF en-
tertang opinions adverse to the measures Of Pres
ident Lincoln. ,.,.. ,.-. 81,
In Missouri the despotic rule Of the military
leaders sent there by the United States, has been
even more CALLING and oppressive If such were pos-
sible. .-
The bloody code Of military laws by which that
unhappy country is at present governed, is equal
in enormity to 61y of which there is any record In
the pages of the history CT the civilized world
Martial law has been proclaimed and established, so
far as the Federal Government has tue physical
power to establish H. and the civil authorities su-
perceded by the military. A citizen charged with
an offence against the law is no longer allowed the
privilege of fair and impartial trial by jury Of
his peers but is subjected TO the mockery of trial
by drum -head court martial, composed Of mem
bers who may not even comprehend word OF the
languarge in which the laws are written; and who
have entered the military service of the United
States as mere Adventures, or mercenary cut
throats, who are willing to butcher their fellow
men for hire .t A -,
AS independent States, both Maryland and Mis-
souri, have ceased to exist They have been blot
ted from that catalogue of sovereignties, and for
egn master has placed his foot upon the necks Of
once free and happy people.
What may be said Of that once proud Kentucky,
Which Tennessee has always regarded as twin sis
teri She too seems almost ready to fall victim
to the arms of our common enemy. For the ad-
miratoh we feel for her noble sons who are rally
| ing by thousands to rescue her from the perils
which overhaug her present and future, and in
memory of her glorious past let us hope, and hope
without doubling, that she will hurl the manacles
from her limbs before they have been firmly ryet-
ed and cnce more stand forth amongst her sister
States of the South redeemed and disenthralled
the same as we have known her in other and better
days. ., ,,. ,.,a s.,.,,~, ......-1 .,.. e..
/ Maryland Missouri and Kentucky NAV have 10
bear yet little longer the torhres Of their enslave
ment but the day of their deliyerance will come.
Millions of their sympdthiztg friends Of the Sonth
regard their cause their own and fit is tic wish
will never Law down their arms until the last mer-
cenary hes been driven beyond their borders
4 The States of the Sonfh now engaged in this
momentous STRUGGLE for freedom NAV behold in the
present condition of MARYLAND aud Missouri faint
picture of what their own fate would have been if
they had DELAYED their declarations of independ-
ence and posponed THE work of preparing TO resist
the eucroachtnents of an subscriptions enemy
Had VIC remained short time longer in inglorious
case living in the endowment of the delusive hope
that returning sense of justice would induce the
Northern people to award to us our full measure of
Constitutional right VIC woald, like the victim en-
circled by the araconda have been crushed without
1 the poTer of resistahcs,
/ The condition of MARYLAND and Missouri furnish
es us with dim foreshadowing of what our fate
would be if The fortunes of war should result even
in the partial subugation of any of the Confederate
!, States
We would be blind, indeed, If wedid not see that
for us there be future in which aRnihilation
would not be preferable except in the establishment
of onr independence. All that we have, and all that
we hone for is dependent upon successful issue to
this conflict Not only our estates and our rights of
everv description but our liberties and our lives are
staked upon the result. The South has entered in
to the struggle with enthusiasm and unanimity-
knowing well the consequences which would surely
follow defeat
Already have our enemies parceed out in prospec-
tive the property of our people and their delued SOL
diers are revelno in itnaginaton in the nronised
homesteads of the gallant defenders of our soil.
, Tie Northern tax PAYERS Who hesitate to encour-
age the prosecution of war which ever in the
first months Of its progress is increasing the nation
al debt at over million dollars per day ere silenc-
ed into acquescence by the promise that the South
shall pay the Entire eXrense past present dnd fl-
ture so soon as she is subiugated. And visions of
prospective positions of dignity and power in the