Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-11-06

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should they not. On one side power,
place, plumber, on the other -.
But the Southern people do not trent
them well now. Who would? II
you ask fidelity, go to your dogs, do
not look for 1t among men. 1t Il no
longer an attribute OF manhood. Per-
fidous treatment has taken its place.
The speech ofJudge PETER on We'd
nesday night was we suppose but the
compliment to one that the writer
heard him make scarcely two years
ago. In that speech his political
friends whom he now addresses 80
lovingly were denounced in the most
unmeasured terms. In that speech
Brownlow's government in Tennes-
see, and the Military governments In
the South, were spoken of In tho
most opprObrious language. In his
speech here he wants four more years
of just such rule. In a former speech
We heard him call upon Heaven to
witness that he would stand by to the
bitter end the very people whom he
now asks us to hate. Then the old
Court House rang with approving
shouts of rebel Statesmen, General,
Colonies and soldiers. Now he Is
greeted with applause by Repubii-
can meeting. Then he called those
who were stirring up strife among US
accursed. Now he Is ut that business
himself Then he eulogized the Pres
ident as one Of the noblest characters
Of any age. Now he pronounces him
one of the worst. Then Brownlow's
gold sent seditious men North, now
1t does the same and Judge Peffer
quietly pockets his share, and accord.
ing to agreement, spits his venom
broadcast among the people. We
have positive proof for what we say
in regard to this matter. Republi-
cans, what do you think of your man.
Bring him out again, not that we
wish to buy however, the article Is
worn out, but let the people see how
a traitor looks.
People ofthe North, Democrats and
Republicans, beware Of these pur-
chased emisaries of evil, who live
upon the vitals Of the people, and fat
ten upon destruction, horror and des-
olation. What to them are the
moans Of widows and orphans, or the
cry of the famished for bread? Men
of the North, be ye what ye may,
scorn these men OF double tongues
Can you feel assured that man who
has once betrayed his friends, will not
do 30 again at the first opportunity
when it will pay? Such men are
enemies Of our country and our race.
Reader, one word more. We are
I'm land where few dare to say aught
in favor of q subdued, spirited, heart
broken people. Wrong they may
have been, but oppressed they now
are.
That bright tSouthern land of almost
fairy-like beauty is rapidly becoming
one vast wilderness. The land Of
flowers is rapidly passing into one
great bramble of thorns and briars.
Her prosperity has gone never more to
return, until her mighty rivers cease
to flow, until the waves of the South
ern Gulfcease to best upon her shores.
No people or race of man while
time lasts, will ever bring back to her
the riches, grandeur, and magnifi-
cence that rested upon her like a
crown Of glory. She is yet in mourn
ing. The sable threads still fresh
In her mourning. The bones Of many
of her children are yet unburled,
bleached and whitening In dismal
swamps and mountain gorges. She
yet with tears of sorrow, wears chap
lets of flowers to adorn the tombs Of
her dead. Do not insult and annoy
her in her misery while the home OF
her people adorned and bcautified by
them are yet heap of ashes, while
the bones of her sons lie scattered
around her. At this time let us exer-
else little of that charity of which
we boast as nation. Can we expect
these men Of our own proud blood, to
permit few adventuers foreign to
their soil, with the aid of negroes, to
govern them against their will. Judge
PETER not a year ago, In conversation
with the writer, characterized this
system as "tho most damnable on
record" J. NJ. PEFFER.