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Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-05-31
Tennessee and the Southern
Confederacy.

An act to admit the State of Tennessee into the
Confederacy on a certain condition.
The State of Tennessee having adopted measures
looking to an early withdrawal from the United
States, and to becoming, in the future a member of
this Confedsracy, which measures may not be con-
summated before the approaching recess ct Con-
gress therefore,
The Congress Of the Confederate States Of Amer
lea do enact That the State of Tennessee shall be
admitted me mber of the Confederate States Of
America, upon an equal footing with the other
States under the Constitution for the Provisional
Government Of the same upon the condition that
the said Constitution for the Provisional Govern
ment of the Confederate States shall be adopted and
ratified by the properly and legally constituted au-
thOrities of said State and the Governor Of said
State shall transmit to the President Of the Confed
crate States before the re-assembling of Congress
after the recess aforesaid, authentic copy Of the
proceedings touching said adoption and ratification,
by said State. Of said Provisional Constitutions up
on the receipt whereof the President by proclama-
ton shall announce the fact whereupon and with
out any further proceeding on the part of Congress,
the admission of said State Of Tennessee into the
Confederacy, under said Constitution for the Pro-
vsiona Government of the Confederate States,
shall be considered as complete; and the laws OF
this Confederacy shall be thereby extended over
said State, fully and completely over the other
States now composing the same. =
HowELL CoBB,
President Of the Congress
Approved May IT, 1851.
JIPFERsoN DAVIS,
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-05-31
A Day of Fasting and Prayer
appointed.
PROCLAMATION TO THE PEOPLE OF TIKI
CONFEDERATE STATES.

When a people who recognize their dependence
upon God, feel themselves surrounded by peril and
difficulty, it becomes them to humble themseles
under the dispensation of Divine Providence, to re-
cognize His righteous government to acknowledge
His goodness in times past and supplicate his mer-
ciful protection for the future.
The manifest proofs of the Divine Blessings hith-
erto extended to the efforts Of the people Of the
Confederate States Of America, to maintain and
perpetuate public liberty individual rights and ma
tional independence demand their devou and heart
felt gratitude. 1t becomes them to give public man
Hesitation of this gratitude and of their dependence
upon the Judge of all the Earth and to invoke the
continuance of His favor Knowing that none but
Just and righteous cause can gain the Divine IA
vor, we would implore the Lord of Hosts to guide
and direct our policy in the paths of right, duty,
Justice and mercy to unite our hearts and our eff
forts for the defence of our dearest rights to
strengthen our weakness; crown our arms with
success, and enable us to secure speedy just and
honorable peace.
To these ends and in conformity with the request
of Congress- invite the people Of the Confederate
States to the observance of a day of fasting and
PRAYER by such religious services as may be suit
able for the occasion, and | recommend Thursday,
the 9Th day of June next for that purpose; and
that we may all on that day, with one accord join
in humble and reverential approach to Him in
whose hands we are, invoking Him to inspire us
with proper spirit and temper of heart and mind
TO bear our evils, to bless us with His favor and
protection, and to bestow His gracious benedcton'
upon our Government and country.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
BY the President;
r. TooMBs, Secretary of State.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-05-31

pa- II is industriously circulated, in
certain quarters, that the South has gone
to war with the North because the latter
denies the right Of the former to carry
slaves into the Territyries, and the object
of this report is to impress upon the nom
stakeholder the belief that the South is the
aggressor, and that none but shareholders
are interested. We had supposed such a
lie to be too bare-faced to need contradict
ton or exposure. The South stands upon
the defensive entirely, and all it has asked
of the North, is to be let alone. But that
request has been denied, and Lincoln has
declared war and raised armies, on his own
responsibility, and now threatens to "wipe
OUT the South from the face of the earth.
The war is the work Of the North, and
whilst the fanatics are moved by the fren-
zed wish to exterminate slavery, the South
is fighting for self-preservatiOn and for
liberty. We have no choice but to fight
for our rights or surrender them, uncondi-
tionally, to an invading foe; and the man
who would choose the latter, whether he
be stakeholder or not, should go North
Lincoln's soldiers will make no distinction
between the STAKEHOLDER and the non.
stakeholder They are ordered to subju-
gate the South, and if all its citizens were
like some we could name, the conquest
would be an easy one.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-05-31

R@- Some of the radical Union papers
would convict us Of Inconsistency by re-
minding us of our earnest and long con-
tnued efforts in behalf of the Union, and
comparing our views then and now. We
were a Union man, as every reader of the
Chronicle knows, until Lincoln overturned
the Government by usurping the powers
of the coordinate Departments and made
war upon the South. Then there was no
longer a Union, no longer Government
to which we could owe allegiance, and we
are not so craven in spirit, or deficient in
judgment, or wanting in sympathy with
our own people, as to become the tool of a
usurper, and an enemy to the South. II
this be Inconsistency, make the most of it
If this be inconsistency, it rises thousand
fold higher in the scale of manly virtue
than that consistency which makes a man
the slave of tyrant and traitor to his
section, his people, and his interests.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-05-31
The Right of Privateering.


Two incidents are related in the public Press
both Of unusual interest and Importance in the
consideration Of the privateering question, at pres
ent
Afssr the United States had recognized the Jua-
rez or Liberal Government of Mexico under the
late administration Of Mr.. Buchanan two priva-
teering steamers armed at Havana in behalf of the
party Of Gen. Mramon were intercepted and cap
tured by our squadron in the Calf and carried As
prizes into New Orleans But the United States
District Court there decided the capture 70 be HE
gal, and the steamers were ordered to be released
The right Of the Revolutionary Government Of
Miramon, which scarcely could be claimed TO have
had an actual existence at that moment TO use let
tiers of marque and reprisal, appears to have been
conceded by the United States in this case II sure
y sets precedent for the recognition Of privateers
of the Southern Confedera"y by Greet Britain and
France, If they desire to do so. The New York
Press is indebted to the Courier des Eats Ups for
reminder of this important precedent.
The other instance is related by the London
Times and is if correctly given still more decisive
against the right Of our government to oppose the
recognition of privateering An American ship
was captured by cruising vessel of Francis H. of
the coast Of Sicily, after the Neapoltan Govern
ment had declared that coast in state of blockade
The Tfmes AYERS that the United States protested
that no Government bad right to blockade its
own ports, and that we actually demanded and OBJ
tanned restitution from that unfortunate monarch
on the express claim that aas he claimed Sicily as
part of his dominions'" Just as Mr.. Lincoln now
claims the seeded States" he could not lawfully
blockade the ports of Sicily. The Times would
seem to intimate that this point is one which the
British Government is still considering before re-
cognizing the claim Of Mr.. Lincoln to the right O
blockade of the Southern ports.--M Y. Necs.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-05-31

nsA- Abe Lincoln is being urged by in
terested parties in Illinois to call out q
large force in the West, and purchase pro.
visions for them from suffering spectators
in breadstuffs. The injurious effect of the
blockade of the Ohio and Mississippi is be.
ginning to tell upon the blockading party
and to relieve themselves they are calling
for troops, not to fight, but to feed at the
expense of the Government at Washing.
ton, and for the benefit of suffering hold
ers of breadstuffs.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-05-31

n6T We would respectfully ask the I'm
ION men of Tennessee what they hope to
accomplish by voting against the ordinance
passed by the Legislature The majority
in favor Of Separation and Representation
is large, and the fact is beyond dispute
that Tennessee is going out Of the Union /;
and this point being conceded, every reas-
enable man and true Tennesseean will
perceive, at once, that every vote against
separation is that much evidence TO the
North that there is division amongst us,
aud to that extent will the perjured usur-
per, at Washington, be encouragedto pros
ecute his hellish designs of subjugating a
people already divided amongst themselves.
Could the Union men see fair prospect
of defeating the proposition now before
the people, there would be an apology for
their opposition; but with no such pros
pect, every feeling of interest, every i'm.
pulse.of devotion to their State. every mo
tive that has its origin in love of liberty
and detestation Of lawless tyranny, should
prompt them to yield to the will of the
majority and make Tennessee unit. The
North is unit for the subjugation, the
humiliation of the South it is unit il
the endorsement of Lincoln's usurpatior
and overthrow of the Constitution ant
shall we fail to be unit in defence of life
liberty, and property Everything mos
dear to men and freemen is in danger, anC
it is almost incredible that any one can b,
found unwilling--nay, not eager, to repe
the lawless invader. But--we say it will
sname-there are such.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-05-31
ncn Lndre Tnrner nddressed a lnr

ms. Judge Turner addressed large
crowd, on Monday, at the Courthouse,
and we were pleased to see that his long
seclusion from the rostrum has abated none
Of his zeal, vigor and force as a debater -
The earnestness with which he took hold
of his subject, and the ability with which
he handled it, were well calculated to arouse
the lukewarm, and convince the hesita-
ting, were there any such in the crowd
We can not do justice to the speech by
an attempted recapi;ulation of its points
and arguments, and, therefore, shall at
tempt none. The Judge was followed by
Gen. Quarles in few happy remarks, par
ticularly applicable to those young men
whose health, or pressing engagements,
will not permit them to volunteer, and for
whose protection the ladies are organizing
themselves into home cusr',s
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-05-31

Boy 1t is a singular coincidence that
Ellsworth, the first man who violateda Con-
federate flag on Confederate soil, was killed
on the spot, and that the first man-one OF
Elsworth's company - who attempted to
raise the flag of the Black Republic within
the Confederate limits, fell from the poll
and broke his neck. We are not believ-
er in signs and omens, but this coincidence
is remarkable.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-05-31
Opinion of John @. Adams on
Military coercion of a State.

In 1889, ex-Presdent John Q. Adams delivered
lengthy address upon the principles of our Gov
eminent, before the Historical Society of New
York. He took strong grounds against any attempt
to hold States in the Union by force against their
consent. We make the following extract:
Nations acknowledge no Judge between them up
on earth, and their governments must from neces-
sity, in their intercourse with each other decide
when the failure Of one party to contract to per-
form its obligations absolves the other from the re-
ciprocal fulfillment q its own But this last earth
ly power is not necessary to the freedom or indie
pendence of the States connected together by the
immediate action of the people Of whom they con-
sist. To the people alone is there reserved, well
the dissolv ng the constituent power, and that
power can lie used by them under the tie of con-
science binding the retributive justice Of Heaven
With these qualifications we may admit the
same right as invested in the people of every State
in the Union. with reference to the General Gov
erument which was exercised by the people of the
United Colonies with reference to the supreme head
of the British Empire, of which they formed part
and under these limitations have the people of each
State in the Union right TO secede from the con-
federate Union itself
Thus stands the right. But the indissouble link
of union between the people Of the several States
of this confederate Nation is after ALL not in the
right, but in the heart. If the day should ever
come, (may Heaven avert itD when the affections
of the people of these States shall be alenated
from each other TIE fraterna spirit shall give way
to cold Indifference or COLI 3ons of interest shall
foster into hatred the bands of political association
will not long hold together parties no longer at
tracted by the magnetism of conciliated interests
aud kindly sympathes, and far better will it be or
the people of disunited States to part in friendship
from each other than to be held together by con-
straint Then will be the time for reverting to the
precedent which occurred at the formation and
adoption of the Constitution, to form again more
perfect Union, by dissolving that which could nc
longer bind and to leave the separated parts to be
united by the law of political gravitation, to the
ntre -
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-05-31
From washington.

WASHINGTON, May %.
Brig. Gen. Mcdowell has been appointed in COM
mand of new Military Department just formed
out of that portion of Virginia east of the ALLIE
ghanies and north of James river. He will take
command of the Army of Invasion now concentra-
ted in Alexandria and on the Arlington flights
can state positively that large army will be
concentrated in the course of the next three weeks
in Southern Illinois, for operations down the Missls-
sippi river.
The army on the Virginia side was reinforced to-
day by three regiments, in the New York ~. and
the Ohio brigade of two regiments The 0ssotfeg.
iments crossed this evening via Georgetown, with
rations for three days, 1t is said they will be en-
ployed in accommodating service tonight. They
left their camping equipments.
PHILADELPHIA. ga western movement of the
Philadelphia troops is on foot Several regiments
under Gen. Patterson leave at once the Pennsyl-
vania road Their destination is rumored TO bt
Harper's Ferry.
New York, 29.-The Herald's dispatch from
Washinton 10th, says there are constantly coming
to Fort Monroe from the surrounding country quit,
a number of slaves who are anxious TO be set Al
work. Gen. Butler holds them contraband o
war. O.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-05-31
pa- The Kentucky organs of Abe Lir

sG- The Kentucky organs of Abe Lin
coin take special pleasure in expatiating up
on the assumed reign of terror in Ten1es-
see, and special pains not to give names,
dates, and places. The truth is, all they
say is false, and knowing it to be so, they
deal in generalities-basely SANDER by the
wholesale, avoiding specific charges which
would be followed by certain exposure
In this dirty work, they are sometimes al
ded by some bastard Tennesseean, whose
cowardice and Inherent meanness make him
traitor to his State, to honor truth, and
the principles of constitutional liberty anJ
equality The spirit of ircemcu can not b,
appreciated by slave, TO whose bringing
subservency it is standing reproach
neither can the apologists Of tyrannica
usurpation see aught of mauly virtue ia the
proud and defiant bearing Of those who pre-
fer death to submission.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-05-31

BH- Alexandria is under martial law
The New York seventh regiment have re-
turned home-their month being up. So
many officers of the abolition Navy have
resigned and deserted, that it has become
necessary to remodel the navy signal book.
The visitors to Alexandria are carrying
away mementos of the locality where Els
worth expiated, with his blood, his crime
against the South. Gen. Butler is going
to take Richmond by the goth of July-it
he can. The Marshall House, in which
Ellsworth was killed, is the hotel at which
Gen. Washington stopped-an appropriate
spot on which to sacrifice the tool of ty-
rant. All the vessels in the port of New
Orleans, and belonging to the North, have
been seized by the authorities. These are
the leading items of news up to Tuesday
morning last.