Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-10-16
WHOLE NO. 47s.
THE GREAT DANGER.

The prosperity of the United State
Is beyond Question, If the wounds O
war are SO healed as to secure the res
toration Of the Union In fact, as wei
as In name. The question for thos,
who desire the spediest return of In,
old days Of wonderful growth and thu
re-establishment of the national cred.
10, is which party Is most likely ts
restore. the reign of good feeling
Throughout the country. Radical or.
gans tell us that If Seymour and
Blair are elected there will De war.
but II that means anything, Ii means
that their party do not propose Ia
submit to the will Of the majority
In the event of the election of Sew
mour and Blair, there can be no dis.
turbance unless created by the recns.
ant minority. The Democracy cer-
tainty Will have no occasion to resort
to arms, unless to quell violent resis-
lance to the popular verdict, II Sey-
mobr and Blair are elected, the Gov
eminent will be administered on con-
'stitutional principles. The rights OF
the people in the States will be res,
pectcd. The disabilities now imposed
on large class Of white men will be
wiped out. Each State will, without
the intervention of Congress or the
Executive, settle its local institutions
to suit the people concerned, Even
granting that negro suffrage will be
upset, there will bc q steady pressure
In behalf of the negroes growing out
Of that provision of the constitution
nj amendment which excludes from
the court as representative population
that class Of people which IL excluded
from the polls. But the government
of each State will be framed to suit
the majority of the people, and will
be left in the hands Of It's most intel
ligent and experienced classes. The
Democracy will be restrained nom
any excesses In national politics, even
ifthey had the disposition, by a Rad
ical Senate. The true theory of our
Government, as one of checks and
balances; will be restored, and concil-
iation and compromise will inevita-
bly, be the order of the day. We
shall have peace; and with peace,
prosperity.
On the other hand, If the Radicals
are left In power they will be more
violent even than heretofore. That
disposition which leads them to de-
nOunce as rebels all who differ from
them In opinion will prompt them to
greater acts of intolerance than have
marked their history for the last four
years. The Executive may not be
further assailed, for the reason that Il
Is substantially shorn OF its preroga-
tives, and the further reason that
General Grant has declared that he
will have no policy. But the Su.
preme Court will be manipulated,
and its functions overridden utterly
by the legislative power. That spirit
of bitterness towards the South which
Is so characteristic of the Radicals
will find expression in further acts of
of legislative hostility, will engen-
der i'll feeling down there In turn; and
instead Of having peace and good
feeling, We will convert the whole
South into Tennessces, ifnot Irelands.
You cannot pacify the South by put
ting its meanest secessiOnists-like
the Holdens and the Hunnicutts and
or its most stupid negroes. Yet this
Is precisely what the Radical policy
has done, and il likely to continue to
do.
The election of Grant and Colfax
will be substantially the completion
Of an utter revolution I'm the charac-
ter of the Government, changing IL
from one of constitutional Limitations
on the part of Congress tO one of su-
preme Congressional authority. No
what the professions Of the
adherents Of Congress are, these are
the facts. 1t has asdisredardcd the Con-
stitution. 1t has exercised powers
never vested in 1t. 1t has trampled
on the Executive and assailed the
of the Supreme Court, and
II endorsed by the popular verdict, its
will be continued until
the entire structure of the Govern
ment will be changed, and the Con-
stitution will become a dead letter i'm
the hands of an arrogant Congression-
al majority. This Is the serious dan
ger which threatens the Republic,
which should induce all thoughtful
citizens to work with might and main
for the election of Seymour and Blair.
National Htettigen Ger.