Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-01-31


lts black population numbered three millions
eight hundred and ninesy-six thousand
There that population, trained 10 labor ro-
mains to day. The ravages of war and the
results Of emancipation have been made up,
or nearly 50, by the law of natural increase.
The statesmanship, then, of the country, finds
a vast laboring population in possessions Of
the most fertile and productive region Of the
earth, and by its policy turns that region
into barren desert and a bowling wilder
ness. The rich lands are all there. The
brawny and stalwart labor Is there, and ac-
tual want is there. But the miserable and
incendiary politician from the North is also
there; the infamous Union League, which
TO ssduce the negro TO his ruin, is there; a
vast appalling military despotism, created
and used by political party for purposes Of
party abomination, Is there; the Freedmens g
Bureau, that guarantee of your pockets that
the negro may live without work, Is there,
with its mighty clan OF per,icious, poisonous
cmmissaries; and the darkness, reptile, To-
Gusts and plaques were not more fatal TO
Egypt than are these gigantic evils Of that
ruined land. We hear the dreadful cry Of
actual starvation coming up at this dreadful
cry of actual starvation coming up at this mo-
ment from q country richer iar than the
delta of the Nile. A loan Of thirty mill
ions, TO be paid by you is in contemplation
by the officers of the Freedmen's Bureau at
Washington, with which to maintain peo-
pie who will not work or let others work, in
the garden spot of creation. Is this the ban
quet to which you were invited by the abo-
lition Of slavery? Is this the feast Of good
things to which you were hidden by Aboli-
ton emssaries ~
Wba, 6,r,bor of tba Radicals.
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ines hae'eh recohs'ruc',on Proceeu'
ana u is tne open ana avowed purpose OF
oongress " aunN ."ese o's'es, ,hus 'n 'ne
nands anu unuer 'ne con'ro, OF tue negroes,
oelore tn,s session Closes. me grea. er'he
Is pressed now eacn Gay ana eour WIN nerce
desperation, ana VINO 80 Dnnu as NOT 70 sec
the odious purpose, a rresldentis lsieclion Is
at hand, anu tne nrst fruits OF thls accurseo
conspiracy are 70 oe seventy electoral Vo,es
deposited ior tne haaicai candioate oy 'ne
hands OF tne negro. Inc negroes OF Oeofgia'
In their dense oaroarity, are 10 outVote 'ne
freemen Of lnoiaha IN the cnoice OF Cniei
Magistrate. The negro on the ievees OF the
Mississippi Is 70 drown the voice OF the in'ei,-
gent farmer OF the North' speak ADVISED
y.
"Tbe RADICAL leaders, since me late eiec-
tions, expect to carry but lew OF the North
ern States. They despair OF controlling any
longer the white vote Of the country. They
seek no Longer to govern this great hepno-
lie by the white mans influence. Ihey
yield al! that TO the Democratic party, ana
denonnce "A white mans party as an into'-
cradle offense. But with seventy negro eiec,
toral votes, and to them added the votes OF
Tennessee and Missouri, both bastard on
springs OF the bayonet they are preparing 70
rob the people OF their legally expressed puo-
lie will. The act OF reconstruction is uncon-
stitutonal, II there is constitution ID the
land; It is fraud on the purposes ana oo-
jects of the war, upheld BY perjury and du-
ress, If there be such crimes and yet we are
expected to quietly yield TO us claim, sha'
the negro shall make tne next ffesiueht.