Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-07-31
WHOLE NO. 462.
FROM the National 1ntelligcncer.l
"LET US HAVE PEACE"
Significant Article from the Presi
dents Organ at Washington.

bEI I'd uhVh IEAtE."
Significant Article from the Presi.
dents Organ at Washington.
More than three years have passed
away since the rebel armies were dis
perscd and the rebellion was crushed.
Not asingle effort has been made since
Lees surrender to resist. the national
authority, orto prevent friendship and
harmony. The South had and has
the greatest interest in a condition OF
perfect peace, because through that
agency alone can its prosperity be re-
covered or its losses repaired. And
yet the state of the country is really
worse to-day than 1t was at the close
of the war, and has been made so en-
tirely by the determination of the rad
ical rulers to fOment discord and pro-
long strife in the interests of their
political ascendency. Restore the
South to its normal relations In the
Union, let commerce and intercourse
resume their accustomed ways, revive
credit and confidence between the
two sections, and the radical party
would at once cease to exist, and be
dissolved by natural law. 1t lives
by agitation alone, and hence all Its
policy is directed to keep up agitation.
1t Is for this reason that all the va
rious schemes Of reconstruction have
been invented to opprcss and degrade
the Southern people; that military
despOtism more Odious and outrage
Gus than any devised by Austrian
tyranny has been continued; that the
Freedmen'S Bureau has been extend
ed, and that bloody riots have been
encouraged to influence public opin-
ion. All these diabolical inventions
were contrived for the single purpose
Of keeping up irritation, and Of ex-
cluding the South from the Union.-
Had there been the least sincere wish
for peace, or any capacity In Congress
to bring 1t about, all these differences
would have been settled, and all the
wounds closed at the very first session
after the war had ceased.
But there was no such intention,
and no such desire. The best proof OF
that fact is to be found in the bitter
ness with which the cOnciliatory
course Of Mr.. Lincoln was pursued,
and the manner in which he was per-
sonally prosecuted by the Summers,
Stevenses and others, who, since his
death, have been seeking popularity
out of the man whom they had UNI
scrupulously assailed while living;
They sought to stimulate bad
passions in the South, and to provoke
resentment by the most cruel and das-
tardly wrongs, hoping to convert that
resentment into political capital, and
to speculate upon 1t as an article Of
trade. This Is the spirit iii which
they have treated a proud and pros
trate people of their own blood, and
after imposing terms most disgraceful
to our age and civilization they ex-
.pect them to kiss the rod, and to ac-
cept their degration as boon.
Now that they have established
negro supremacy by the power of the
bayonet; that they have subjected the
white men, women, and children OF
the South to the brutal barbarianism
of the former slaves; that they have
elevated ignorance, vice, loathsome
sensuality, and crime into the high
places of trust and honor, above vir-
tue, integrity, intelligence, and edu.
oatioh, that thoy have overrun the
South With plundering adventures
canting hypOcrites, and carpet-bae
knaves; that they have, by force anC
fraud and villainy; secured possession
of the State Governments, and placed
the whole political power in the
hands of hired negro emmisaries and
and thieving agents of the Freed
mems Bureau; and that they have
robbed a ruined people of almost their
last dollar by an infamous system OF
taxation, imposed by negroes desti-
tute of property and debased in ignor-
ance, after committing these crimes,
and Others equally atrocious, their
leader, General Grant, under the in
structions of his keepers, has the as,
surance to say, "Let us have peace!''
The men who have kept up the war
during the last three years, and who
design to keep 1t up in the future as
they have done In the past, on the
eve of the election cry out "peaceb'
that Is to say, peace which Is to bow
down in submission before negro SUI
premacy, and to accept it as n condi-
tion of toleration.
We tell these vihdictive and des-
perate destructlves that there can be
no real peace so long, as the white
race Of the South Is subjected to the
rule of the black, and that the return
Of all material prosperity is impossible
while that domination contihues.-
They devised 1t with perverse inge-
nuity to shut out q possibility Of re-
conclliation, and as means Of pro-
longing strife.
Let us nat be deceived by the hy-
pocrisy of those who prate of "peace,"
and whose policy is war. They seek
to emoroil the country in q new civil
war, in the hope of distributing
another thousand millions of the
peoples money among shoddy con
tractors, radical demagogues, and
manufacturing rnonopolists. But
they seem to forget that If such n ca
lamity should again befal the country
by their wicked and willful designs,
it will involve no local passion or III
terest, but every man who loves the
Constitution, who respects it's obliga-
tions, who is determined to preserve
the liberties and rights which it guar
antees, and who is opposed TO the SUBJ
lection of the white race To the ne
gro. The soldiers who went into the
war of the rebellion Volunteered to
fight for the Union, under n solemn
pledge made by both branches " Con-
gress that it was not TO be prosecuted
forany purpose of subjugation. They
were betrayed then, but they viii not
he deceived agaih. The war was con
verted into a political crusade for
power, and now, with three thousand
millions of debt, and half a million
Of lives sacrificed, they propose TO re-
new it, with the sole object of preserv-
ing an ascendahcy thus fiauduently
obtained. And, In order to promote
that scheme, they have cast aside all
their own leaders, repudiatcd the men
by whose ability and skill the party
was created and adopted the General
of our armies rs q candidate, looking
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