Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-06-05

tural people in the world. There is no
cline or soil L have yet seen whose
capacities are more rich or Varied
The Wanted superiority of the mid
die States over these in the growth Of
cereals has originated, in my opinion,
only from their superior mode of cul-
tivating them. A proper selection,
preparation and tillage of the soil
here has yielded fifty bushels of wheat
to the acre, and would, am conf
dent, show like larger product of
the other cereals over those of more
northern ATTITUDES.
Improved plantations continue to
be offered here at figures that would
scarcely command the unhewn acres
of western Willis, and find no pur-
chaser, This apathy of capital to the
extraordinary inducements of south
ern lands at this time is something
astonishing to me. However may
terminate the problem of the recon
struction of our social, industrial and
political interests, which the carpet
baggers are so busily gnawing at,
there are ducats, my dear Chronicle,
and many Of them, in purchasing inn
proved plantations along the line of
railroads and navigable streams, and
/ accessible to all the appliances of
commerce and civilization, at like fig
ures with wildernesses yet untrodden.
Should cotton remain at the same
figures as now, by the coming harvest
the South, like the sick man of scrip
ture, would take up its bed and walk.
The capital which the growing crop
would bring to the South at present
figures, would swell its flattened
purses, and hearts, too, amazingly
1t would enable her farmers to begin
their next years operations, with
something like adequate facilities,
and these once attained, southern ag-
riculture would march on to those
brilliant results its climate and soil so
certainly include, and this too in spite
of political misrule. A good crop and
good prices this year, would at once
largely appreciate the present song
figures of land, and too late excite the
regrets Of timid or Indifferent capital
lists. Such crop would also go far
towards restoring the proper aud nor
NAL relations between owners of the
soil and its tenants or laborers, which
have here been dissipated, not more
by the desperate and INSCRIPTIONS
efforts of the Radical party against
them, than by the extreme impecu.
mostly of the land owners. With the
means in their hands to control these
lands and shape the operations there
on as desired, not all the efforts of all
the most desperate and tyrannous
agencies on earth could long keep the
negroes unpliable to such appliances
as could be eXerted upon them. 1 pre-
diet the day will yet come, when the
North will regret, far more bitterly
than the South has, the vindictive
addition of four millions of voters she
has forced upon that section. The
poisoned chalice she has prepared for
fallen foe will be commended to her
own lips, its venom ranker with the
recollection.
/ think greater decentralization of
Southern fidelity exists in this State
than in Tennessee, though it is true
political apostocy here is in favor of
nosuch diabolical clique as the Brown
low faction. Our Mississippi Radical
faction IS of abominable material, and
| would say, base enough for any pur-
poses, had | not felt and seen that
Brownlow and his satellites had
plucked out the deepest heart of Hell
and borne it flaming upon their stan
dards. Yet the great mass OF the peo-
pie here, and everywhere in the South,
| think, spurn these allurements of
the plunderer and carpet Dagger to
join him in the pillage and oppres-
sion of their own race and people.
L have just perused the details of
the scene in the Senate pending the
voteupon the eleventh article and the
Presidents acquittal thereon, and the
postponement of the vote upon the
remaining articles until the 26th.-I
Thus, you see, we are here entirely
aloof from all the eXcitements, pleas
urable orpainful, consequent upon the
great public events of the day.
You viii know by this time whether
the Radicals have concluded to COM
pass the Presidents conviction by the
further postponcmCnt of verdict and |
the admission of new Senators. They |
have indeed become impalcd upon the
horns Of terrible dilemma. There
is destruction either in submission or
persistence. As there seems less in
the former than in the latter, | pre-
dHt they will not attempt his convic-
ton by the admission of new SCna- |
tors, and therefore, believe they came
to verdict last Tuesday on all the ar
ticles. No enemy could have framed |
an instrumontality for the overthrow
of the Radical party with more dia-
bolical iniquity than they themselves
have done by this procedure of inn
peachmcnt. The fact that seven of
their own Senator's founda verdict Of
guilty 80 abhoTcnt to their oaths, and