Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-07-31

,ic HeeulesS tramp OF u mop. NJ Is
law, no less in physics than in meta
physics, that extremes meet. and the
experiment of the last eight yedrs has
taught its that the difference between
an absolute despoism and free gov
eminent degeneratcd into n mob, is
that the latter is the most oppressive
rule, and that 1t is better to trust a
single man-an autocrat-than n
clique, each vieing for distinction and
precedence in the political Pandemo-
mum boiling over with lust, avarice,
ambition and every base passion that
makes demons of men and their gov
eminent a hell.
1t is conceded by the ablest writers
on the subject, that learned and up
right judiciary is the bulwarll of lib
erty-justice being the groundwork
of every social or political system which
secures the rights, prosperity and hap
piness of those Inject to its influence.
Learning and integrity can never be
leading characteristics of an elective
judiciary, because integrity yields to
selfish ambition and the arts and
trickery necessary to secure office, and
learning is swallowed up in the whirl
of popular excitement, or supplanted
by the study of the current questions
upon which hang popular favor, and
the success of candidates for judicial
positions.
Whenever the legislative depart-
ment holds out the temptation to trail
the judicial erinine in the mire of pol
tiles, peculiar fitness ceases to COM
mandits just reward, and the briehess
pettifogger is placed upon an equal
footing, before the people, with the
profoundest lawyer. At this point,
justice becomes matter of chance
and the whole fabric of government
begins to totter to its inevitable fall.
The only security for liberty and
justice, is to remove, as far as possible,
from the people, every branch of
the judiciary and secure to it q tenure
of office Independent of popular igno-
rance and caprice, political excite
mcnt and party prejudice. Begin
with the Supreme Federal Court and
come on down to the humblest tribu-
nal known to our system, if you
would see the evil consequences of a
judiciary connected by interest and
sympathy with the political contests
of the day, and from the lesson learn
enough of wisdom to frown upon all
such efforts as that which Andrew
Johnson is making to bring the gov
eminent nearer to the people by
mixing both, as now, in one vast,
seething mobocracy, on the surface of
which floats the filthy scum, whilst
liberty and justice Testified under the
putrid mass of moral corruption.
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THE most savage and ficndish act
that has hitherto blackened the char
acter of Radicalism, is the bill for
arming the negroes of the South
True, such is not the profcsscd object,
and, with u devilish sort of cunning,
they pretend to make it a general
law-naming carefully all the North
ern States as recipients of their ratio
of the distribution of arms. But the
f.., a 4
ical Governors of the Northern States
viii studiously withhold said arms
from any but Radical militia, and that
the proviso requiring that the South
ern militia be loyal to the existing
despotism, will withhold from all but
negroes and scallywags theguns to be
distributed.
None but the most stolid fools can
be deceived as to the intent of the
law. But the Radical Congress seems
to forget that the brave, sturdy and
intelligen. Anglo-SaXons who can not
be induced 70 bow to the tyranny in
augurated by Il portion of their own
race, can not and will not submit to
the rule of Ethopians no matter by
whom upheld, or how armed. They
forget, too, that the more brutal their
legislation, the more violent the rcac-
ton when the point is reached which
makes death preferable to the degra-
dation and suffering inflicted by n
worse than savage despotism.
The President, obedient, as hereto
fore, will doubtless see that the arms
are placed in the hands of those for
whom they are intended; but we shall
be deceived if they do not ultimately
pass into theposScssion Of those whom
they are intended to murder And if
the majority at the North submit to
this brutal act, thisgrcat national dis
grace, the fact will bc demonstrated
that the rebellion, rs ii is insultingly
called, was glorious and righteous
effort to dissolve all connection with
such people.
DEMOCRATIC NETTING.
We are authorized by the Mont
gomory County Democratic Club to
announce that there will he n public