Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1865-09-08
rFrom the Macon (Ga) Journal and Messcngcr.l
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Truly the shadows Of great gloom hath fallen
upon u.s. But shall we therefore tread lies rugged
path with the head bowed down like n burush
Look up. Above afe tho heavens radiant with
worlds Of brightness and tcauty whoss light shah
yea scatter the rifted clouds and shed its bright
sheen upon our future pathway.
II is true, surrounded by difficulties on every
hand we are nov passing through political crisis
without precedent or parallel. Ni ,a
y ct we have much 10 encourage our hopes of tho
future The President is nobly breasting the storm
Of Opposition and rising like political Cibralter
above sea Of troubles echoes back over the proud
waves Of fanaticism, which surge around "ihus
far shalt thou go, land no farther" He seems de-
crmined TO guarf the rights of the Southern States,
and afford them every facility for assuming again
their proper position in the great sisterhood of
States, clothed with equal dignity and rights
And, no doubt, in a few months our State Govern
ment win be re-organized under the administration
of wise and just laws, appropriate to the present
crisis and we shall that Georgia has the recupc-
ratiye energy to rise superior to oil changes and
maintain her proud title as the Kmpire State Of tho
South. N'1
Then look up for brighter day win coon dawn
upon our political horizon with healing in its
wings. II Is true slavery is dead, buried, and not
even its most sangnine votary would presume to
prpphesy the ho'e Of its resurrection. By its sud.
den abolition the South has been impoverished
time at least, confusion aud disorder, peryades
every department Of labor aud business. But even
this, by wise and sautury legislation, may be fea-
dered only temporary embarrassment For sure
ly we do not mean to sit down supinely under this
loss-leave the land 10 become sterile waste-the
home of desolation and famine, under the huma-
ting acknowledgment that slavery Is indispensably
necessary to the Life OF tho South-that we cannot
live and prosper without Il rs others have done
No. We are Americans--heirs of the blood and
muscle, tic brains the bounding pulse and all the
activities Of the great old Saxon heart-dcscend-
ants OF the men who have made wildcrncss-con-
tinent to bloom as garden, and planted thereon
government which, as the model of the nations, Is
| the political Eopc and heritage Of the world
| That blood still flows In our veins; lot II not
stagnate around dropping heart hut set brain and
muscle to work, and demonstrate To the, world
that the energy and intelligence of the South
subordinate oil changes to her interests control her
industrial resources TO the best advantage of all IN
her midst and come forth from the present crisis
with that dignity and prosperity which becomes
her character and her history. Look up; tho
green grain will again wave richly DER your fertile
fields and the soSer and the reaper shall rejoice TO-.
! gether. Yonr hills and valleys, again whitcned
with the teeming crops, shall demonstrate that
though cotton is not king, yet it is tho unfailing
wealth OF the South, and the commissary general
Of the world. 7ii inif .esa fs1 u. n f2n'f
True to herself and obedient to every instinct OF
her nature, the Sonth will accommodate herself
trumphantly to the conclusion which has been
forcced upon her by the nexorabc logic Of late
events. Though she cannot contro, the turbid
waters whose surging pillows have swept away her
prosperity and her wealth, yet she can rise above
the highest wave survive the wrecks of the storm.
and rebuild again her fallen fortunes upon moro
| prosperous and permanent Foundation.
Look up; you are poor--we are all poor; but
! groaning and growling-sighing for sympathy and
pulling round with sickly, vain regrets for the unr
changeablc st, mingled with timid murmurings
against men and measures, will not mend your
fortunes. Let "the dead past bury its dead,p and
leave il to solitude and silence, aud wander not in
its graveyard, like one of old, who dwelt among
1 the tombs wounded and bleeding. But with God
4 above you, a heart within YOU and world of
activity and'intercst around you look mp, and be
man in misfortune and above misfortune, lo a1t
4 %, is" Let us then ho,up and doing, i ,lea
u With heart for any fate; f,,..,
7 Still achieving, still pursuing,
I "f Learn 10 labor aud TO watt W