Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-01-17
Never, until Saturday last, did W,

Never, until Saturday last, did we
fully realize the utter degradation
prepared for the South by fiend-like
puritanism; and never till then, did
we appreciate the depths to which
white men would debase themselves
in their eager ness to reach the level
Of the negro. So great is the impe-
tus of their descent that they can not
check it at the precise point of equal
ity. and go MS far below that point as
as it is possible to sink. For the ne
gro we can feel pity, because he does
not know what he is doing; but for
the whites who can seek or accept of
fee at the hands Of such a mob, Ian
guage can not express our contempt
and detestation.
It's strange, too, that these degen-
crate white men, whether hailing
from the North or the South, have
so little forecast, as not to see that
this state of things can not last for
ever, They ought to know that
negro suffrage is the result of vii
lainy and force, and that, in the
light Of returning reason, it will
vanish like a troubled dream and
leave the white betrayers of both
races at the mercy Of an outraged
and indignant people. That day is
not distant, and then the depraved
wrctchcs who are now rioting with
negroes amid the partial ruins of
constitutional liberty, will be SO low
in the social scale that it will be al
most a disgrace to lend them the toe of
a gentleman's boot. Ifthcy are con-
graduating themselves upon the pros
pect of retaining their ascendcncy by
drinking and sleeping with negroes,
they have learned little from history,
and less from the volume ofhuman ma
ture; they are strangers to the instincts
ofgentlemen and know nothing of the
inexting lishable love of liberty i'm
planted in the hearts of Anglo -Saxons
in all cliWes and under all circum-
stances.
The white man who could look,
without blush, upon the scene pre-
scented on the street and in the Court
house, last Saturday, forgot that he
was created in the image Of God, and
the superior of the race, which tho
now dominant, bears upon form and
lace, the marks and blight of Heav-
ems malediction. He forgot, too,
that Tennessee was the home, and is
the grve of Jackson and Polk and
Grundy and Cave johnson, and that
their memories are insulted by the
plcbald party of full blooded negroes
and white skinned knaves who brawl
and riot where the illustrious dead
inculcatcd lessons of wisdom and un-
dying love of liberty. =
We beg the readers pardon for
d dwelling so long upon such theme,
but we could not pass over unimprov.
cd the opportunity to warn the ne
grocs that every step they are taking
under the guidance Of their false
yankee friends, is towards their own
ruin, and that their unwisc use of the
privileges uulawiully conferred upon
them is demonstrating their utter un'
fitness for any participation in the adj
ministration of the government, and
their constant hostility to southern
whites is iorieiting everyclaim TO theil
future consideration aud favor.
We say these things in no spirit O.
viudictiveuess, but because it is tru,
us will be verified by the course of
events. When the change comes,
they will have no right to ask favor;
Of men whose rights they have strivcr
to destroy, whose prosperity they
have tried to blast aud whose socia
position they have sougt to degrade
Such has been the course of the col
orcd voters; they have been warned
hit have not needed, aud upon thci
oSa heads the consequences must fall
In the county elections, we wan
n see a Conservative candidate 70
every office, and if the negroes still
stick to tho yankees there will no
remain doubt of their fixed hostili
~ to southern men. Aud when tn,
day of settlement comes, we shall
know exactly what we owe them an,
how to pay the debt.
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Tho removal of Gov. jenkins, Q
Georgia, indicates that little has bee
gained for the people by the rcmova
% Dnnn W. hnn., thn EnrnrnnI