Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-09-04
THE COMPUTATIONS.

ton as his left, and others rs impor-
tant cards in the greasy deck of radi-
calism, undertook to. play q shrewd
little game of bluff on Gov. Senter.
Horace, it seems. r. cxtremely anx-
ious to have the 18th amendment
ratified, and as he has very grave
doubts as to the legality Of the Legis-
lature elect, he wishes Senter to call
the old Legislature together, about
the entire loyalty of which the oily
Narraganset has not the slightest
suspicion.
We have M dMbt In The world
that Governor Senter would like very
much to accommodate Horace, for he
must feel under many obligations to
him and his Radical friends, for the
support given him in the recent cleo
ton, but Horace ought to remember
shat some things cannotal ways be as
well done as Others. The deep solicit
tudc felt In Senter's election by Hor-
ace & Co., we feel authorized in say
ing, makes 1t very painful to the
Governor to decline any request pre-
ferred by thtm; but really, und n
the circumstances, we think they
ought to excuse him.
The suggestion of the illegality of
the Legislature elect, was intended as
n thrust to the Governor; for if the
Legislative election is illegal, the Gu.
Lernatorial election is also void; for
the same votes that elected the Leg
stature elected the Governor also.-
OF course, we have no means of
know ing what effect this threat and
other influences, which may be
brought to bear, may have on Gov
crnor Senter; if he should be induced
to call the Legislature together, the
adoption of the fifteenth amendment
will not be the only thing they will
do. They will hold over-dcclare the
election of Senter and the Legisla-
turc illegal -inaugarate Stokes as
'ONtIliOi, anu Ctll VII thc TSuSlai
Government to sustain the barefaced
usurpation. If Senter designs to
hold his seat as Governor, there is
not an intelligent, ten-year-old boy
in the State, who cannot tell him it
is the climax of folly to call the Leg
islaturc together. Under the Consti-
tuition we believe the old Legislature
is .f'nctns oWcio, and that, if the
Legislature were called together, the
Legislature elect would be the only
legal body that could assemble
Upon this point we have no doubt,
nor do We think any impartial mind
capable of the investigation will have
any doubt of it, upon an eXamina-
ton of the question. We do not
purpose to discuss IL now. Governor
Scnter has seen enough to know that
the adoption of the fifteenth amend
mcnt is Ny no means The only thing
these men are after. Their ultimate
design Is II bold and unblushing
usurpation, to retain power in the
hands Of the Radical party, and to
sink the Ill critic of the people down,
down, into II "sunless sea" If he
concludes to lend himself to- their
base designs, which we cannot he.
lieve, il will only add one more dark
chapter to the history of our wrong,
and the trcachcries of our implacablC
enemies.
We have no doubt that they want
the fifteenth amendment ratified, fol
il gives to Congress the power to con
troll elections in Tennessee, and Bill
Stokes and Horace Maynard, not
outstanding an overwhelming ma
jority of the qualified voters in thcil
respective districts are against them
can still 70 to Congress, IL the power
is lodged in the hands of Congress t.
manipulate the elections in tn,
States, rs Is done by the fifteenth
amendment. Their anxiety to have
this fifteenth amendment ratified
springs from this consideration
They pretend To have fears that Tho
negro will be DISTINGUISHED if the If
tccnth amendment is not ratified
This is all prctonse. No intelligent
man believes that the negroes will bC
disfranchiscd by the party in power
There desire to have the fifteenth
amendment ratified arises from thci
own selfish aims. But, as hefor,
stated, they have designs, dark an,
infamous, beyond and outside of thu
fifteenth amendment. They are con
spirators against the liberties of tn,
people. Beaten at tho ballot box
rcpudiated 10y the people; the loaVe
and fishes fading from their sight
there Is no depth of inramy TO whicl
thcy win not go, to regain their pow
or, ami clutch the rcccdng cmolu
mcnts of oillrc. Can they manipu
laic Scntcr. into n participation il
their uiauolical schemes? Tim,
must dctornlipe this question.
WEAre sorry tTsre that disturbance
of the peace have taken place II
Rutherford county said 20 have bcci
caused hy the depre,iations Of arme,
men in disguise. This thing mus
stop. The pcnccfh citizens of on
state must rise in their might an,
put II down. The stolling scoun
drcls who 90 about in disguise to rol
the unprotected and modest the veal
and inollcnsivr, must hc checked, /
IT requires that all their nocks shoul,
he broSon society can well atlor,
an .nn lhn rnl of Ihnm III. NJ Tho ON,