Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-06-26

A vESY mistaken fmportanc,
seems to be attached, by the Pres
generally, Co the atteraHces Of tn,
New York Wortd, whose chief edi
tor, Ike Capt. Dalgetty, is ready, fol
pay, TO enlist under any banner, ant
unlike Capt. Dalgctty, is ready, with
ont any regard to discipline or sol.
diopyy honor, to enlist under two
opposing banners at once. Whilst
seeming to fight in the democratic
ranks, the World is q most efficient
ally Of Notwithstanding, at one
time, the double part of traitor and
spy. IL is in this character that he
assumes to dictate to the New York
Convention whatits policy should be,
ond sketches for IT, a platform upon
which Wendell Phillips could stand
and feel perfectly at home.
And what is tho character of that
platform 1t consists of two simple
propositions. The first is, that all
which the Radicals have done shall
be accepted by the convention, as ir-
reversible decrecs; and second, to
avoid unpleasant illusions to the
past and disagreements in the future,
the Convention shall, by its silence,
endorse all the Radical enormities
which 1T is the purpose of the demo-
cratic party to denoucc and correct.
We differ, IN toto, from the World,
as to what should De the character of
The democratic platform. We pro-
fcss no desire to see it made up of q
labored and heightened enumeration
OF democratic principles, but prefer to
sec 1t gotten up after the model of the
Declaration of Independence, clear,
concise ard truthful enumeration of
the wrongs and expressions inflicted
by Radical tyrants upon the rights
and liberties of the people: cnormi-
Ties greater and more numerous than
those charged upon the government
against which our foretathers re-
he'lcd. Tho enumeration of each
charge will be the clear enunciation
OF Il democratic principle or doctrine,
the evil and the remedy embodied i'm
the same document. Let that docu-
ment be, not only a catalogue of
grievances and declaration of prin-
ciplcs, but Il declaration of war, if !
need be, against the usurper of des-
potic power over Il nation of frcemen
and the subvcrters of Christianity. !
morality and every blessing attend
ant thereon. b.. ,..r .....
In the midst Of revolution, abstrac-
lions cease to bear weight with the
masses, whose cry is for the practi-
cal--for relief, by the most direct and
means, rather than through
the agency of nicely balanced theo-
ries reduced To practice by the slow
process of popular ratiocination.-
They want a sharp, clearly drawn
against the enemies of the
country; they want their wrongs in
scribcd upon the banners horne by
their leaders, and the Constitution, as
II was, held up as the modeand meas
IRE of redress. This is our idea of
what the platform should be; but if,
~ the World thinks, the democratic
party has no higher mission than To
cndoIsc, by its silence, Radical cnor-
mites, merely because those cnormi-
ties are already perpetratcd; if it has
no higher motive of action than to
to obtain individual advantages by
selling out to n bond-holding aristoc-
racy, it had been better that democra-
cy were numbered among the dead
issues of the war, than revived as n
living example Of Il spirit so mcrcc-
nary and corruption so gross.