Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-09-28
The Philadelphia Radical Farce.
From the Greenville (Tenn.,) New Era.

From the Greenville (Tenn.,) New Era.
The grand Philadelphia Radical farce has
ended. The scene has closed. The curtain
has fallen. The players have retired. The
programme has gone to the country, and ye
gods, what is IL?
The Convention was composed of all the
discordant elements between hell and the Po-
tomac. 1t was made up of the scum and
surface---the originalsin party-the real 'rag
tag and bob-tail" of the whole country.
Like Jacobs cattle, they were ring.sreakcd,
speckted and spotted" They were really a
motley crowd of white men, mulattoes, ne
groes and all. Like Shakespeare "necro-
mantle soup" the Convention kept up an ev-
erlasting boiling and effervescing from the
repulsve and discordant nature of its own
heterogeneous elements. 1t was really q +" he'll
brofh-boI and bubble" No power savo Om-
impotence could have neutraized it, and
made its action harmonious. II was made
up of political reprobates-men who are
damned by the covenant of WORKS, and who
are entirely outside of the covenant of grace.
Il may be land this only out of abundant
charity that there were few good men
there, but this only served to give the Con-
vention variety, and make it las It really
was) the most anomalous assemblage of men
that has ever convened on God Almighty's
foot-stool. We defy and challenge all Gre
alton to produce its parallel II is not to be
found in the history of Adams small family
"But," says the reader "what was the
action Of the Convention ~ What the devil
do you ask us that for. How do we know
what they did2 They don't know them
selves. They kicked up row. They had,
as we suppose, good time of it--a sort OF
glorious jollifcation. They throwed hats
it, and 6eniyered themselves
most awfully. They followed and yelled
like devils, and cheered Fred. Douglas and a
few other colored gentlemen, and tried to
convince the country that they wernt any
better than negroes. This they did, and it
is the only thing they were successful in, up
to our last information.
But" says the reader, "you don't un-
derstand me. What great statesman-like
policy did the Convention announce ?n
policy the hell Do you sup
pose Convention like that, composed of all
the q. .tag ends " of creation, would announce
any statesman-like policy2 As we'll expect
honey in tumble bugs nest, or intellect in
kennel OF hound puppies, as to think of
such thing. The radicals in this country
are really ashamed of the convention, and
they now say they think it had very little to
do with the matter any how. Poor fellows
we are sorry for them-we know how
they feel. No we don't either, for we never
had any capital invested in such an Internal
as that.
We suppose the Convention met for the
purpose of bolstering up sinking radical
Congress, but instead of subserving the pur.
poses for which II was convened, and pour
ing oil upon the troubled waters, it has sent
Congress in the direction that /" Wards ducks
'eent," and that, you know; was hellwards."
But, to be serious and in good earnest we
have tried to gather up what the con, ention
did do, and if it would save our neck from
the gallows, If we were to be hanged, we
cannot tell. The convention split in two,
and then split again, and exactly how many
subdivisions there finally were, we don't
know. Mr. Attorney General Speed, the
permanent President, split of, and ran away,
and we don't know that he has been heard
,f since. Perhaps he went back to see if he
,ould not get into President Johnson's cabi-
net again. Mr.. Bolts, one Of the Vice Pres.
dents, presided awhile, but the thing got
70 uproarious that he retired in disgust
Poor old Bolts, he mad something on paper,
md they wouldn't let him read land it may
nave been a good thing for all anybody
Knows But they squeezed Bolts and his
paper out of the convention.
Finally, amid conttsicn ,porse confound.
'd,' they adopted some sort of platform,
With the negro plank it, but large part OF
.he convention wouldn't swallow this negro
lose. We suppose, however, they will make
tremendous effort to ram, cram and Jam it
iown the throats of the people, But it won't
90, and if it does, like the negroes custer, it
won stick. That is our prediction of the
ate of this negro platform, at least in this
ocality. Brownlow and Fletcher and the
whole comPoodle, can't cram it down the
.hroats of Tennesseeans. So ended this part
IF the scene.
God Almighty did you ever think of it 2
This farce was enacted in independence
iiall-right where our fathers met in council
N l776; where Jefferson wrote the Declara
lion of Independence, and Stephen Hopkins,
with his palsied hand, signed his name there
70; where th.y appealed to the Supreme
Ruler of the universe for the recttude of
heir intentions, and solemnly pledged
their hpes, their fortunes, and their sacred
honor II the news of this convention,
md the disgraceful conduct of the actors in
he scene, could he communicated to the
grave, the venerable and sainted dead would
urn over in their collins. If this commune
,ation could have been made during the sit
ling Of the convention, and they could have
been released from the prison-hou of
ieath, the manly form Of Washington and
lhe tall form Of Jefferson, would have been
seen in Independence Hall, confronting the
delegates, saying :-"Be gone, you vile
'coundrels, you dastardly and degenerate
sons Of noble ancestors. Leave this sacred
hall, consccrated to liberty, and desecrate il
not with the tread of your impious feet, and
the confused jargon of your reasonable
tongues"
But it is useless to write further about the
proceedings of this convention, or attempt
TO analyze its doings. 1t is now numbered
among the things that were, aud while it
was first thought IL would be stll-bor,b the
better opinion seems to be, that it died in the
born,n. supposed to have been I" Of negro on
The BRAN" SO ended the great Radical
farce, and the friends of the deceased are
hereby notified TO attend the funeral obse-
quies. Grape will be worn for thirty days
as an external sign of internal mourning.
"RED WHITE AND BLUE."--Brick Pome-
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