Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-02-09

81 ASA .LL-----~-~---->--~----- 1tLt VII
FEBRUARY ......"........" ..."..."..",,"'9, 1860
Mr.. Baldwin, one Of the Massachusetts represen.
tatires in Congress- writes to the Worcester SPY o.
which be is the editor and proprietor, as follows
an conversation, general officer holding high
command in Virginia, who has just returned from
Richmond declares that it Is bis conviction that that
city now has. but enc loyal man in it. Formerly
there were three. He gives a most discourage ng
view os the growth Of loyal sentiment. All opin-
ions Of that kind are growing smaller by degrees
and beautifully less. The increase OF avowed ha-
tred open hostility and dsloyal sea,ments Is moot
marked There is but little safety 70 any Northern
man outside Of our military posts The Legislature
10 openly jub;lnnt whenever the names oil leading
rebels are uttered upon its floor" - ,
. This is sAir specimsn of Radical misrcpresenta-
ton Of Southern feeling and this Mr.. Baldwin, as
a member Of Congress is fifty employed when
manufacturing or retailing such gross tabrca-
TONS The theory, so strongly insisted upon du-
ring the war, that the dominant party Is the gov
men,, has not been abandoned, and the wilfully
blind, or UNANIMOUSLY malicious adherents to that
party still measure Southern loyalty by that
standard. The question they ask is, not whether
We are IOJul W tuc NOhStNutiphf Jus ""SN''NA w
are tamely submissive to the wrongs and insults
daily heaped upon us. They act upon the idea
that, TO make man love you, you must spit in his
face; If that will not do, knock him down, and II
that fail stamp him. This is the treatment which
the South receives, and after each repetition OF
insult, the cry is that the rebels are becoming more
and more aisioyal--not to the Constitution but to
the dominant majority in Congress. Is it strange
that il should be SO? Is it not human nature to
detest the petty tyrants who insult and Cypress us'
Yet this member of Congress informs the public
that there is but one loyal man in Richmond and
40 will venture to add that that one is a Yankee,
if his loyalty is based upon his devotion to. the
dominant party. :.... -t-..i.i a..l.
The truth is that the people Of the South arr,
to,dag, the only party on large SCALE that hon.
esfly uphold the Union and the Constitution
against both of which the Radicals are in open
and active rebellion. We do not deny that there
are very many in the North who are true TO both ;
hut without organization, and apparently indife-
rent to the struggle npon the issue Of which de-
pcnds their own liberty, as well as ours they might
as well be in Jericho as where they are. The
filters which being forged for us, will well
fit their own wrists; the government which the
ndieals are 50 apidly demolisbing ia much their
government as ours yet they quietly look on
seeming to have forgotten that the ruin of the
South must ultimately, bring ruin upon the North.
The people of the South, though powerless, ale not
blind to the dangers which impend over the
whole country, and because they despise the vici-
GUS fanatics who are laboring 10 effect this wide
spread ruin, they are charged with disloyalty, and
insult and oppression follow the maliciously false
charge To resist the Northern va,rials in their
attack upon the Constitution and the liberty of the
people, the President stands almost alone. Where
are the Democrats of the North who once stood At
tho helm Of Ststc and, with the Constitution as
their chart SO calamity rode the waves of Radical
innovation? Overawed by the violence of the
storm, they yielded at last the helm to other hands,
md drifted with the madiened crew-compass and
chart overboard-until the good ship was driven
upon the breakers of bloody revolution. Where
nre they now2 Striving to save the fragments of
the wrcck7 Let them answer the question
The Boston Commercial commenting upon the
extract at the head of this article says;
admitting this and other similar representations
which come TO us from the politicians at Washing
ton to be correct it becomes interesting question
whether the two sections Of the country can eve
live together again in peace and on terms of eqU
ity, and in the next place bow long we shall,
able to hold in subsection such people.
England, although not more than half or two
thirds Of the Irish population are dsafiected to-
wards her government, has Ind an immense amount
rft rnuble with IriSh nd ypt the ability If
England to dominate over ireland, taking into
consideration the nature and extent Of the country
AMI the humber and character Of the population
n hundred fold greater than is our ability to hold
the South as suhjugated country and people,
We may rely upon H. that il one half of what Gen.
Shurz, Mr. Baldwin,, and their associates tell us is
true, we shall have new and fierce revolutionary
outbreaks all over the country as soon as they have
had breathing spell, and time to recuperate their
resources
Whether the North and South can again live to-
rclhrr in peace, Is question easily answered.
Let The North endorse the Presidents plan of res
ioraton, admit the Southern delegates and be done
with insulting prescription, and peace and har-
rnony will ut once prevail throughout the length
and breadth of the land. But if, as indicated the
South is tobe made an Ireland, and the North become
he unnatural and the length of time we could
le held in subsection, would depend upon how long
time it would take for the present debt and
the cost of subjugation to bring ruin upon both
sections Nothing but unaagging energy under
she most favorable auspices uphold the national
credit aud revive the prosperity of the South
The hope of return to their former status as citi-
zcns in the Union, is now stimulating the people of
the South to put forth all their energies that they
may retrieve their ruined fortunes; destroy that
hope, and national bankruptcy is the inevitable
Consequence. The loss Of one crop OF cotton viii
explain our meaning and verify our prediction-a
loss becoming, every uay, more probable under the
damaging influence of the Freedmcn's Bureau If
the Northern people wish to avert national disaster
and to do simple justice to their Southern neigh
bors let them discard, at once and forever all idea