Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-09-21
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Of 81 nc atroeiods vsllainies Of
the Rsdieals, none desere higher
place in the scale of gnilt, than their
effort to- make, tha South responsible
for their acts Everything they write
or speak, in refasence'to, the'poli6ed
condition Of the country, is designed
10 work up the passions Of their fol
lowers to the point Of resistance to
every cffort,- on the part Of the Rresi-
dcut and his friends, to restore the
Union and preserve what is lsft of
the Constitution. Their determined
purpose is to overthrow the present
form of Government, and to erect
upon its ruins a despotism, after the
model of the Thirty Tyrants. And
this, they intend to do even if it can
be done only through the agency of
a bloody civil war. ,-r., n,
That this is their object can be
clearly established by innumerable
acts and volumes of significant utter
ances. But, like all designing vii
lains, they want pretext to cover,
as with a vail, the hideous features
of their guilt, aud to throw over
them the faintest semblance Of justi-
fication. For this purpose, they avail
themselves of the glaring falsehood,
that the South is still rebellious, and
needs the appliances of a rigorous
tyranny to quell its spirit and bring
it under subsection to the Radical
will. To give plausibility to this oft
repeated lie, they send, out here, viii
famous egenta-in the shape of letter
writer's, school teachers, and secret
emissaries and spies--whose bust
ness it is to invent lies, pervert facts,
foment discord between whites and
blacks, and get up bloody riots-all
which are skillfully used to blacken
the character of the South, and to
blacken the hearts and passions of
the mob, over which Radical leaders
exert an unbounded sway. .a
This is deep game, and it may
enable those who are playing it, to
get up another war but let it be un-
derstood that, as the South is deter
mined to take no part in bringing
about war, it is equally determined
that it shall continue, as it will begin,
an exclusively Northern fight. To
fight about us, is one thing; to fight
with us, is quite another. In either
case, the radicals must shoulder the
entire responsibility. The people of
the South are peaceable and law
abiding, to a degree that shamcs the
purer morality and christianity of the
North and that the tales told of
Southern violence-pervading the
whole section-are false, is proven by
the fact, that no outbreak has occur.
red, except where Northern Radicals
and Union sneaks are congregated,
and can put forward the poor negro to
begin the riot and become its victim.
This is the history of every bloody
scene that has been witnessed, in the
South, since the close of the war.
Southern sneaks and Northern vii.
lains, in every instance, have been
the guilty instigators, the poor ne
groes have been the tools and the
principal sufferers, whilst all the guilt
is charged upon an intelligent, hon
orable and law abiding community
as far above all such criminal con.
duct as the Radicals are below every
thing that enters into the character
of a gentleman. If, by such gross
wrong to the South, they can get up
a war at home, let them do it. Truth
and history will hold the South
guiltless.