Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-03-27
Old spitarc, in his last prOnuncia


mesto, expresses apprehension that,
should the democrats obtain power, |
in Tennessee, Union men will not be |
safe. lis fears are natural enough,
knowing how much he and his tools
have done to merit the olium of all !
honest men. With all his herecies,
religious, moral and political, he has
n faint conception of the truth, that
there is retributiye justice awaiting
him and his coworkers in iniquity ard
reasonably enough expectsit through
human agency. His fears are just
such as are felt by a thief in the
midst of well ordered society. Aware
that he is marked he feels that safe
ty lies in his ability to gather around
him thieves enough to defy the law
and successfully resist its officors.-
This is the game now being played
by Tennessee Radicals and accord
ingly, mo- able bodied rogue or muir
dcror is allowed to serve his term in
the Penitentiary; aud, but few
days since, a man was pardoned who
had been convicted of a rape upon his
mother-in law, and the villain was
subsequently commissioned as Cap
tain Of negro militia, to be raised to
insult and Cypress the virtue and in
telligence of the State. The annals Of
mankind do not bear record of more
shamelessly base and tyrannical out
rage upon law, dccency and morality,
christianity, justice and liberty. a
And who are the union men whose
safety must be cared for at the cost
Of the life, liberty and property of
the worthy citizens Of the State p
Of those not "to the manor born, :"
many left their native land because
it was unhealthy to remain there, and
the best of them were transported to
the South in the interest of Congress,
to aid in keeping the Union severed
until it can be reunited as a vast
consolidated despotism. Not a few
were in the South during the war and
having stolen all they could under
the protection Of bayonets, have re-
turned to gather what is left of the
wreck of once prosperous section,
invaded and devasted because it had
boarded an amount of spoons and
other shining trumpery too tempting
to the avaricc and envy Of men in
dootrinated with New England ideas
of the virtue Of theft under the guise
of christian beneyolence. The char
acter ofthese last may be illustrated
by an incident, said to have occurred
in Virginia, a good many years ago.
Two Connecticut peddlars of wood
en- clocks traded in certain district,
until every mantel was ornamented
with one of their wooden timekeep-
ers and their trafc in that line played
out, They knew however, that their
gullible southern customers still had
money, but how to get it, was the
difficulty, -r......
Upon consultation it was resolved
that one of them should provide him
self with n bad case of itch, travcI
over district mapped out for him
and shake hands with every one he
might meet. In week or two, the
other was to follow along the SAME
route with cheap itch ointment.
The glorious patriots, who tough
aud stole ty save the Union, fndn.
that trade played out, have provide,
themselves with the itch for Office an,
como back to shake hands with tn
negroes and barter cheap loyalty 70
the coveted Offices Such are tn,
Union men for whose safety Brown
low is so solicitous, aud in whose be
half his christian charity and fellow
feeling are so deeply enlisted.