Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-07-24
WHOLE NO. 461.-
TO defend the right even against their
own mad passions?

TO defend the right even against their
own mad passions?
WHO ARE THE DfsFRANcuIsED?
hoeelaboring under disabilities, as
to Suffrage and Office, embrace the
brightest intellccts of the State
Among the DISTINGUISHED will be
found the aged pioneer, who, with AK
and rifle, released from the Wilderness
and the still ruder savage our fruitful
soil, secured to civilization aid culture,
her loSely valleys and plains and
maintained with Jackson upon the
ramparts of New Orleans the flag of
the republic. On the SAME list of
alienated citizens will be found the
great mass of the descendants of the
founders of the Commonwealth, who,
representing In their characters as
well as lineage the virtues and hero
ism of worthy ancestry, have them
selves, according to their varied abil-
tiles, served the country I'm war or i'm
peace. There must be added to this
aggregate of attained merit her adop-
ted sons, attracted from every State of
the Union, as well as from foreign
lands, to her generous hearthstone.-
We ask If 1t is no grevience, no wrong
to Tennessee, that In the administra-
ton of her affairs she should be de-
prived of the intelligence and virtue,
both ut the ballot-box and i'm Office, of
her noblest people? Is there no
wrong in thus depOsing from their
chartered rights thisgreat and worthy
body of American citizen?
CONCLUSION.
We have i'm the presentation of the
political condition of Tennessee alb
stained from impeaching individual
corruption and private derelictions.-
We designed to atraign a hideous
system of oppression, fix attention on
the good principles of constitutional
liberty violated, and, expose hateful
and therefore unwise pOlioes. The
best ministers of tyrannical laws will
become depraved, and vicious admin
istrations will necessarily breed bad
men. Nor has our State, i'm this re-
gard, enjoyed immunity, but, on the
contrary; has been duly afflicted by
these additional aggravations of her
situation. TO depict these, however,
might plausibly subject us to the i'm
putation of partisan heat. It is the
sysmtem at which we strike. Des-
troy that, and the offenders disappear
with their otienses, soon to be forgot
ten, like other calamities of life, in
restored happiness and resumed
prosperity. The business of four paper
is not to accuse this or that man, this
or that official, but to present to the
members of this convention, and
through them the people of the
North, the grave and solemn ques-
ton whether n sovereign State of the
Federal Union shall he retained in
bondage and thousands of her people
made miserable; to remind the North
ern States that on consenting to the
enslavement of any one of the Fed
eral circle they but prepare for the
divesture, at some future day, of their
own sovereign rights; to remind the
people that for them to instigate, on
even permit, the degradation and vas
salage Of an American citizen is to
forge their own inanacles for future
imposition, and to adjust their own
limbs for the gives Of the oppressor.
II. w. BROWN,
j. T.. BAILEY,
/ WIN. A. QUALEs, Com.
J. II. CALENDER,
WIN. CLARE.