Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-05-04
ADDITIONAL JUSTIFICATION.

If We were asked to give the strongest
argument in favor of the late rebellion, we
would point to the conduct of the dominant
party towards the South, since the close Of
the war. Such inveterate hate and such
bloodhound cruelty are not the result of
the conflict Of arms, or they would he the
universal feeling of the North. This hatred
existed long before the war--so long, indeed,
that it had become hereditary, traditional,
educational, and only wanted the opportu.
nifty to develop all the brutality which now
characteristics every word and deed of that
beas:ly faction which has so thoroughly de-
graded justice humanity, christianity and
free government. The South has long been
aware Of the character and designs of the
blood-thirsty Jacobins, and saw, in the rap
id growth OF that party, that the only secu-
rity for Southern rights was an existence
outside Of the Union. However signal the
failure to accomplish this object, the attempt
has demonstrated the fact that Southern sub
lection to New England domination had
long been the purpose Of the Puritans, and
that war could only have been indefinitely
postponed by an ignominious surrender of
slavery, first, and then those State rights
which were designed to protect the Union
against the tyranny of consolidation. For
years before the bloody crisis, the people of
the North were admonished, by the great
men of both sections, that the consequences
Of their radical fanaticism must be disas-
trous to the Union, If not to free institutions,
here and elsewhere. Those consequences
were pointed out with the logical accuracy
of cause and effect, and left the radicals no
plea for persisten ,e in their mad career ex-
s. cept settled purpose to discover the Union,
or enslave tho South. Every step in their
progress brought them nearer to the consul
nation of the end in view, and every legti-
mate deduction from expressed opinions and
party evolutions lifted higher the fimsey
veil thrown, in mockery, over the hidcous
features of their designs The statesmen of
the South were not deceived ms to the motives
and objects of the Northern fanatics, and
eudeavorcd, by rcmonstrance, argument and
compromise to avert the impending crisis
All their efforts were unavailing, and now,
that the evil is upon US, the incarnate iends,
with devlish impudence, would fasten upon
the South all the blame and infiict upon Il
all the suffering that ought, rightfully, to be
endured by themselves alone. Whatever
may be the opinions Of this generation
opinions founded upon passion, prejudice,
ignorance and corruption, time will elicit
truth, and history will vindicate the charsc-
ter Of the South-the justice Of its cause
and the bravery and magnanimity of its
people. In doing this, history must disclose,
per contra, the baseness, injustice and cru
city Of the Northern fanatics-their disre.
gard Of Constitutional law, their savage
system Of warfare, hostility to free govern
ment and their abandonment OF every vir-
tue that elevates the man above the brute.
From all which must follow the inference,
that no people, of a high type, can live In
peace with self-righteoas, meddling puritans
IA fact well knowa Ines the day Of
Charles I.