Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-08-03
WRONGS AyENGE THEMSELVES

that the Northwest, which found in
the South it's best and most valuable
friend, should have aided New Eng
land in its war upon long established
principles and rights that constitute
the basis of republican freedom. 1t
is stranger still, that this should have
been done, when the fact has long
been known that the policy Of New
England contemplated not only the
abolition Of slavery, but the subjec.
ton of the agricultural interests of
the North.wes to the interests OF
the Yankee loom and spindle. The
people Of the North west, if igno-
rant heretofore, are now learning the
fact, that in helping to conquer the
South, they destroyed their best mar
ket, and aided their worst enemies
in their. efforts to overturn the Gov
ornment, and to make the West and
South alike subservient to their sell
fish Interests. Having learned these
faessithc North western people will
not be long in discovering that they
committed great wrong, first, in
aiding to elect Lincoln, and, second,
in taking up arms against the South.
Thus enlightened, will they not hast
on to right these wrongs by crush.
ing the Radical party and saving all
Of liberty that is left us by those
enemies Of republican institutions ?
In common with the South, they are
to-day paying a forced tribute into
the Golfers of New England aristo-
Gratis, and looking on with folded
arms, while one after another of the
sirongholds of constitutional liberty
is being demolished. This is the
result of a first false step, and The
only hope of escape from still greater
evils, is in the speedy overthrow of
the instigators Of the original wrong.
The people Of the North west must
rise or fall with those of the South.
If both would be free, the Yankee
tyrants must first DO hurled from
power. Failing in this, both must
be enslaved by central government
in the interest of untaxed capital.
This is the position to which the
Northwest has brought itself by
hearkening to the wicked counscls
of the Puritans who never failed to be
the disturbers Of the peace wherever
they have lived, and whose higher
law theories can never harmonic
with the principles of popular lib
erty. Claiming to be saints, they
must be recognized as the upper-crust
Of society and the controlling ele-
ment in government, or they will
doff the livery of Heaven and do the
devils work Of ruin and dcsolation.
The democrats of the North west
have been taught, by bitter expert
encc, this popularity in New Eng
land character, and every days less.
on will tend to disclose to them,
more fully, the fact that New Eng.
land brought on the war, with the
most nefarious designs, aud that the
South, SO far from being wickedly
rebelious, was the wronged and insul-
ted champion of liberty--the gallant
defender of the form of Government
which it is charged with having at
tempted 10 overthrow. The charge
OF treason recoils, with terrible force,
upon those in tho North who aided
and allotted the--now developed
design of the Puritans to crush
slavery and the Constitution at ono
and the same blow. The South la
bored hard, first to avert, and then
to evade the impending blow, and
for this manly and righteous effort,
its fields were desolated, its homes
and cities sacked aud burned, and its
character assailed with the foulest
epithets and grossest SANDERS. The
Northern democrats are no longer
blind to the causes of the war, or 10
norant of its authors, and they are
now combating, in defense of their
own rights, the party in whose inter
est they fought to crush the rights
of the South. The wrong they did
us is recoiling upon themselves, and
every effort for self-preservation will
furnish additional proof that the
South was right that they we're
wrong and the Yankees arc the gull
~ authors of u wicked aud disastrous
war.
ONs of the last acts of Congress
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