Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-11-23


the party that offers it2 We know
of none, and the only proposition
that is just and honorable to both
contracting parties, was made by Lee
and Johnston at the time of their sur
render. 1t is we'll known that the
proposition was accepted as a final
settlement between the beligerent
powers, and it is equslly well known
that, after the South had surrendered
its arms, the radical leaders, with the
bad faith Of visdietive and unscrupu-
lous towards, repudiated the terms
and instituted system Of insult and
persecution that disgraces the name
of man. The Southern people are
not SO besotted as again to trust such
q people, even if disposed to sacrifice
honor for the paltry consideration Of
a nominal representation in Con.
gress.
The World seems to have forgotten
that the Radicals have presented
their ultimatum, with the distinct
enunciation that, if not accepted, it
will be enforced at the point Of the
bayonet. That ultimatum is as fol-
lows: The entire breaking up of the
present governments Of the Southern
States then the passage Of enabling
acts then the call Of conventions in
those States, with orders from Wash
ington that none shall vote for dele.
gates except negroes and sneaks,
commonly called loyalists; those
conventions are to frame constitu-
tons DISTINGUISHING all Southern
men, and comforting the right of suf.
frage exclusively upon negroes and
sneaks: upon the presentation of
these constitutions to Congress, the
States are to be admitted into the
Union, having been formerly decided,
in fee simple, to the aforesaid negroes
and sneaks.
Now, what proposition can The
South make, in the face of this proc.
lamation ? And we ask the World i'll
it would be either honorable or po-
lite, in US, to accept any terms, as
the price of admission, when the re-
suit would be representation by the
meanest Of all Radicals, those Of the
South 2 No honest man, unless
fool, would advise such course, and
it seems strange that the least crazy
of Northern Radicals do not see that
the cruelty and injustice practiced
towards the South, will eventually
recoil, with terrible force, upon them
selves. But be this as it may, the
people of the South are resolved to
accept no terms that are humiliating,
or that look to the overthrow of the
and the substitution of
the government Of the "Thirty Ty-
rants" What we may be required to
endure, under despotic rule, is not
yet clearly known, but one thing is
certain, and that is, that the South
will stay out Of the Union till the
sounding Of the last trumpet, sooner
than enter it with the seal of dis
honor upon its brow, placed there by
its own act.
The only proposition that justice
and patriotism call for, at our hands,
is either full compliance with the
terms of surrender. as understood
and accepted at the time, or to "let
the Union slide" AS matters now
stand, the South is a curse to the
North, and the North is a curse to
the South. The quarrel, growing
out of the condition Of the latter, is
the bittcrcst animosity
between the citizens of the former
promising to eliminate in civil war,
and fomenting an implacable hatred
between the two which will soon rem
Ter cordial union impossible, even
f it is intended that a union shall
ever be consummated. In the mean
lime, commerce, morality, religion
III the best interests of man, are be.
ng sacrificed on the altar of demoniac
ust for power and pelf, as man
Tested by the Radicals of tho North.
Rather than prolong this unnatural
quarrel, patriotism, philanthrophy
md justice cry aloud for separation,
The North should desire it for its
,wn sake, since a Union can not be :
Effected on a Radical basis without
irst destroying the government, as
,ur fathers made it. All that the
people of the South can conscien. I
iously say, in answer to the World, q
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