Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-07-20
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GAINESVILLE. TENN. July IA. ,ss

DEAR SIR Permit me to express my sor-
ow upon reading the leading editorials in
FOUR issues Of July eth and 18th. do not
lesre to offer my individual suggestions az
% the proprieiy Of any course your judgment
nay approve. As a stranger among you,
nave no right to thrust my personal views
,pon any one, nor do wish to make the
attempt But considering myself, wherever
am, as representative Of the mighty mil
ions of the North West, I feel that am not
,verstepping the bounds of propriety in ma
king the following
APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH.
For FIVE years the American people have
been under the iron heel of military des-
potism. Five years Of a tyranny to which
Poland is a paradise, and Ireland a heaven.
The Jacobin spirit of New England puritan
ism has stricken from his limbs the silken
cord that bound the African; while at the
same time with howl of fiendish exultation
she forged the Iron links that now bind the
freeborn, and once godlike American.
People Of the South you have never yet
cringed at the feet Of power, and when, in
the'noble cause of human rights, you were
compelled to yield, it was with lordly sub
mission, scorning to kiss the hand that gave
the blow. The clank Of chains again is
heard. A deeper and more damning dis
grace is yet in store for us. The arleady
CALLING and fostering letters are TO be rivet-
ed upon US. The Radical programme is be-
ing developed. We Of the great North West
are TO be forever hewers of wood and draw
ers Of water to the petty manufacturing lords
of New England, and the iron-mongers of
Pennsylvania. You are to be degraded still
lower than the brutal lustful negro, once
your slave. That which was once your
property, wrenched from you by the hand Of
fanatical wrong and injustice, aided by the
strong arm of usurped power, is to be placed
above you, in the eye of the law. Your es-
tates are to be confscated and divided up
among an ignorant and debased population.
The homes you have spent your lives in
identifying, are to be swept from you, to, be-
come revelng dens of African infamy. You
are to be made strangers in the land of your
birth, outcasts in the midst of your own dear
homes, your children cast off from society,
their lives an intolerable burden, without a
ray Of happiness, except in the prospect Of
death.
Alone, you are powerless to prevent the
success Of the Internal scheme. Then ava
ken to activity-spring to the rescue. Meet
with the Conservative masses of the nation
in the great Convention at Philadelphia, and
all may yet be well. Now is the time fol
action, while the political tiger at the ma.
tons capital, frenzied with human blood
and bowling for more, shrinks from the blow:
of the President The opportunity lost now
may never be regained. Then we may bid
farewell to constitutional liberty, as it sinks
into dark, deep, and tempestuous night o.
horrid anarchy.
Noble men of the South have said, "Let
us keep aloof. We can have no concert o
action, no lasting friendships with any por
ton of the Northern people" Onefull thirt
of that people have endured for the past five
years the most terrible oppression and per
secution, governmental and social, because
for you, when the terrible trials Of war wer,
upon you, they dared to show human sym
pathy and love, a persecution, greater, per
: haps, than was ever before borne by any
people in any age. Can you not meet in
grand social reunion with men like these
Men who felt that your cause in defense o
your own fresides, was one of that hol,
character that must at least enlist the sym
pathy of all good men? Men who rejoicet
in your success, and sorrowed as the cross o
liberty waned? Ifyou cannot then indeed
, is Southern magnanmity a thing of the past
There are others, too, now with us, whom
you have been accustomed to regard as enc
mics. But can you not forgive a generou
enemy, who, when the rage Of war has ceas
ed, can forget angry passion, and with hi
whole soul in the glorious work, do his ut
most to help raise brave, but fallen, foe.
Obec.ions to the principles enunciated il
the call for the Convention, pass for naught
when the grand object is to get the Nationa
Government out Of its present channel, il
which all is outrage and wrong, back to tn
J eternal principles, founded in justice an
right, from which all our glory springs.
The Government of our country is nobl
instrument of complicated and delicate work
manship, capable of giving forth delightful
sounds of harmony, of peace, ard joy, an
brotherly love, sweeter than The music Q
the spheres when its keys are touched b.
master minds, taught in the great school Q
; Democracy But woe to the unskillful play
err, whose touch awakens naught but horri
discord sounds of woe, bloodshed and nun
der. When the Government is once wreste
from the grasp of its present enemies, the
it will be time enough to concern ourselve
about minor points of difference.
That accomplished, then will come tn
following great changes as certainly as tn
DEGREES OF fate:
LIST. The great fundamental principle
This is q white mans Government founde
by white men, and for white men," will b.
too firmly established ever to be shaken.
I'd. Equal justice to all men, political priv
iliges TO white men.