Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1867-04-26
THE PROGRAMME.

The Radical organ, at Nashville,
more ingeniously than reputably,
discourages the idea that there should
be community of interest between
the labor and capital Of the South.
Such suggestion, however cautious
ly made, is calculated to startle the
prudence and arouse the apprehen-
sions Of the better CLASSES of both
races. 1t might puzzle logician to
trace the connection between the
false assumption and the Ubiquitous
inference, had not the organ removed
the difficulty by informing its readers
that Thad Stevens has introduced a
bill in Congress which proposes to
eonfscate the lands of Confederates
and give a portion of the same to the
loyal blac ks. This solves the diff
Guilty, and gives clue to the leading
points to be made in the canvass.
1t is true that Thad has introduced
such bill, but the organ fails to
point out the clause which makes the
bill apply to Tennessee, State in
the Union. 1t may be so, however,
for Radical unscrupulousness will not
hesitate 80 to construe the Decalogue
as to make it uphold the basest acts of
which they are guilty. But it is not
whether Thad has introduced such a
bill, or whether it is likely to pass,
that claims our attention so much as
the malignity and meanness that sug-
gest the employment Of such base
means in political contest. The
organ addresses itself to the negroes,
in substance, as follows: 1t is true
that the Conservatives are the land
owners, at present, and such owner
ship, if not broken up by violence,
appeals, irresistably, to the interests
of the freedmen in behalf of their
hearty cooperation with the landed
proprietors. But old Thad has in
troduced bill, and if the negroes will
vote for the Radicals, that bill will
be passed, and the negroes will get
part of the property of which the
whites are to be robbed. This is the
argument in brief, and it is difficult to
imagine anything more infamous
than this attempt 10 bride the freed
men to vote the Radical ticket by
promising them an interest in the
contemplated robbery.
Too poor, or too stingy to pay
their hired voters out Of their own
pockets, the Radicals propose to save
their money and crafty the avarce of
the negroes by promising them the
lands of the southern whites--know-
ing full well that old Thad's bill does
not apply to this State. They show
their love for the freedmen by Incl,
ting them to acts Of lawlessness i'm
prove their morals by making them
receivers Of stolen goods and in
crease their chances for Heaven by
tempting them to violate the COM
mand--thou shalt not covet thy
neighbours goods. Under such guild.
auce, the freedmen are truly to be
pitied. There are few vices with
which their leaders can not make
them familiar-there is not one vir
tue they will teach them by precept
or example. 1t is deeply to be re
GREETED that those who know then
best and feel most interest in thei
welfare, arc made powerless to aiC
them in an upward progress by the in
tcrvention of the heartlcss wretche
who traffic in human rights and fattei
on soeial and political discord. Th'
negro who is made to believe that h,
is to get farm for his vote, is no
much to blame for supporting tn
Radicals, but the knaves who deceiv,
him, knowing that he will never ge
the farm, deserve the excavations o
all good men, As State in the u
Mon, Tennessee is secure against tn,
inroads of the land pirates, aud wher
the freedmen are told of Thad's bill
they should remember that it doe
not apply here, and they should re
member, too, that it was the devi
who once tried to enlist recruits TO
hell by offering Il bounty in land,
that did not belong to him.
THE number Of murders and othe
horrid crimes perpetrated in the civ
ilized and christian North, call foI
the reconstruction of that section b,