Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-05-25
WILLIAM Arp IN EARNEST.

70 collect and publish his famous letters In q
book. This book win be forthcoming about
a month from this date. From q letter 70
his publishers, which is TO form the introduc-
tion TO the book, we make the following ex-
tracts, in which 1t will be seer, that William
gives the Radicals 'pieces Of his mind, |" in
words ''with the bark on:'
Conquered, but not convinced, we have
accepted the situation, and have pledged our
selves to abide by it. We have sworn 10 do
90. We have declared it most solemnly in
convention. We have asserted Il Ia every
act and deed; and Southern honor, which
our enemies cannot appreciate, but which Is
untarnished and imperishable, Is the seal Of
our good faith. Whoever testifes to the ex-
istence among us of an association designing
a renewal of the rebellion Is either the VIC
tim Of bis own cowardice, or else the author
Of selfish and heartless lie. say this with
feeling and Indignation, for we see in such
testimony willingness, nay, desire, on
the part of our military rulers. to retain over
US their power and their tyranny for malic-
ious or avaricions ends. We have long felt,
and We are still feeling their insults, their
black mail, their robberies. Ours is the
stranded ship and the Federal officers among
Us are the wreckers, ours the carcass, and
they the vulturcs who are picking our deuu
ded bones. The little that was left our peo-
Pile Is seized, and released upon paying a
part into private pockets. They get rich and
resign, and fresh corps OF vampires take
their places, TO renew the operation. They have
even been known to steal by night, and haul
awy the poor pittance ofdamaged corn that our
generous ~ Government had stored for dis
tribution to our starving poor. 1t Is for such
purposes that military dominion is to be con-
tinued. Would that this were all But not
content with even this exhaustion of our
&C nty means, they are annulling our con-
tracts made with the laborers who were con-
tent 10 work in our fields for fair wages, and
are tolling them of TO parts unknown under
false pretences. Our ploughs are standing
In the fields idle, our farms will 60 untitled,
and the land swarms with agents who are
bribing the poor negroes away under prom
ises Of higher wages, and under the sanction
Of Bureau as rotten as the promises OF
Pharoah.
Va victs But still we abide all these sad
results, and look upon 1t rs part of the war.
and in keeping with tho character of those
who have so long been our enemies. They
but exhibit the animus OF people whose
hate and avarice induced the rebellion =
Such oppression has turned from them almost
the last opponent ofsecession, and caused them
To regret that they did not throw their lives
and fortunes into the fgbt.
Perbaps this IA ali for the hest We c,n.
not tell. We have almost ceased IN nh;loso.
phize upon il, for we have no time 70 think
The work of actual reconstruction sbsorbs o,,,
time and eperpies. I mean the recon strnc.
ton of our individual fortunes. our bouses
lour f3elds and farms. our ra;lrosds oanuf.c \
|. iures prayeyards. schools and churches w,
have no time d, stop and mourn over the los,
of l;bertv -
Rut 6pa tim. IN ..r. wh.. h.. IN,
, Nor,b gained NV the var3 Wh.r n,;nc;nI.
have been eatab,isbed2 Wba, great ~ y;ra
questions have heen se,tled3 IL ths scv.,.;.rs,
OF a State forever annulIed7 Then lei mi
, nois take down her deceitfnl s;rn ohl;tera,
her great seal of State and chooss anothe,
for the one she has Ia ohsole,a-on .ooI
p,o,,dLv no,t,y,d und,r n ,crou ,,;tb .sS;a,
soper.;Sntv1 upon II. Ia IL the freedom n
: slaves that has been accomnlisbed3 Alas
the ons and a half millions who have perish
, cd in the war are certainly free. tbe rem.in
der are ranidlv realizing the same I;ber,v q
|, 6ra;no a new honda ce in other cI;mes :
) like the Moor Indian the race Ia doomad
!, and the MIGHTY North s,;II tr;umnb, In IN
, glory of its ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Rut will M
sneak mora ~ tbis To Tho char;,ah,a rs.d
,, ar ,et me saw Forg;ve me- n Won 6nd sone
= th;ng 70 condemn n The so,Iow;no nan.s
i. not in INV heart n ofssnS : gooS mar
whothsr he hva NORTH or So,,h snd ,har
or Nave not hean wr;,,ar +, NAV hs so;
that the cbaractar of ,hess ,s,,srs has n
tendency N soften the anir,os;,;ss srgsnds,
= ed hv the late unbannv s,r;fa csn onI
: answer that II Ia not IN rehoI rature 70 +
!. brmbIa ,o thosa who wo,Id mt Tho noe,
: tyranny mon ns Onr neonIs arc a nm
!, nnon the moral of The 6gbf thev made :
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!, tbe war was NO, of ,bsi, hsor,t;ng Man
!, a time and off have men ana natioo. hse
q cononered but not CONVINCED The siorv
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4 has hssr os,sn rsnrodncsa % ;I,,slra,s m ,hs
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!. nrefer he hand Of kindred love. lot me 81