Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-06-12
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
rwo DOLLARS A. YEAR. IN ABVASCE
$3.50 II Paid Within six Months.
500 M the End or the Year.
J o ID w .. II X
Neatly and Promptly Executed.

: In aA these questions, I Would say
: that the colored people are eqymllyin-
: terested, and when their new-made
Radical friends come like the dough
tiers of the hbrseleech and cry Give |
I Give they shpn1d ask how they stand
on these great questions which are the
) foundations and buttresscs ~ their
/ new.f1und liberties as well as those OF
the, white race,
II The public debt Is more than two
and half billions, and expenditures
near five hundred millions Yearly
Let us explain how the goverylffent
borrowed money. Capitalists bought
greenbacks at two and three dollars
for one and took government bonds.
The government never saw gold, for
none. passed. 1t was gigantic infia-
ton based on credit only, and gold
was out Of the question. AS property
vanished at the South, IL reappeard
In the North, Millions IN slaves dis
appeared, ard three billions of bonds
appeared In the North, The misfor-
tune was too that bonds went TO men
who lost nothing and sacrificed moth
ing In war: Great applausc.] Irec-
commended Congress to change the
debt to- afinuities and pay q hundred
and fifty millions per annum; and In
seventeen years extinguish the entire
debt, stop the INTEREST," take The Hov-
eminent out of market as borrower,
and set equivalent to $500, ono 900 free
for commerce, industry and sgrfcul-
ture. The advice was rejected but
creditors will never get BETTER No
permanent debt was ever paid except
hvr Inf
l am for paying all that is just, no
icy of paying bondholders lii gold, and
borers in paper was adopted. Why
this unjust and indefensible coursey
Let us ask Radicals to explain. am
for paying all alike-either In gold or
paper.
What condition is Tennessee in ?
All the elements of wealth are ours.
We want law, order, confidence, more
cheap capital, Why Is capital high?
Extravagance and corruption keep
the government, State and federal,
borrowing and paying high prices for
money then we turn around and tax
the people to pay interest and perpet-
uate corruption and extravaganza
The government rests only upon con-
fidence, respect and affection of the
people, and 50 long as this state Of
things continues, we can not have
these.
During the rebellion It IL we'll
known that l fought I'm the Union for
the Union and the constitution. At
the close of the strife / found q party
for overthrowing the constitution by
violating II deliberatelyand wantonly.
fought them. lam still for the con-
stitutiOn. The Radicals went to
Richmond and turned Jefferson Davis
loose, and then came back to impcach
me for high crimes and misdemean-
ors. The disuuion usurpers at Wash
ingtoh, after secession and rebellion
We're over, rebelled against the con-
stitution and republican liberty. As
between Jefferson Davis and Charles
Sumner, Iconsider Summer the greater
enemy to the constitution. The for
mer, though for secession, was still for
constitutional government, while
the latter Is for overthrowing the con-
stitution and establishing u de pot
ism. [Great applause.
have an Indictment against these
enemies of the constitution. Iquote
from my address to the people OF the
United States, on retiring from Office:
"Let us turn for moment to the
history Of the majority I'm Congress
which has acted In such utter disre-
gard of the constitution. While pub
lie attention has been carefully and
constantly turned to the past and ex-
plated sins of the South, the servants
Of the people I'm their high places have
boldly outraged their trust, broken
their oaths of obedience, and under
mined the very foundations Of liberty,
justice and good government.
When the rebellion was being sup
pressed by the volunteered services Of
patriotic soldiers amid the dangers Of
the battlefield, these men crept with
out question into place and power In
the national councils. After all dam
ger had passed, when no armed foe re-
NAMED, when penitent people
bowed their heads to the flag and re-
newed their allegiance to the govern
ment of the United States, then 1t
was that the pretended patriots APP
peared before the nation and began to
prate about the thousands Of lives and
millions of treasure sacrificed In sup
pressing the rebellion. They have
since perslstently sought to infiame
the prejudice engendered between the
sections, to retard the restoration OF
peace and harmony, and by every
means to keep open and exposed to
the poisonous breath Of party passions
the terrible wounds of four years war.
They have prevented the return of
peace and the restoration Of tho
Union In every way rendered delu-
sive thepurposes, promises and pledges
by which the army was marshaled,
treason rebuked, and rebellion crush
ed and made the liberties Of the peo-
pie and the rights and powers Of the
President objects of constant attacks.
They have wrestcd from the Presl-
dent his constitutional power OF the
supreme command Of the army and
navy; they have destroyed the
strength of the executive department
by making subordinate officers indie
pendent OF and able to defy the chief
magistrate; they have attempted TO
place the President under the power
Of a bold, defiant and treacLerpus
cabinet officer. they have robbed the
Executive OF the prerogative OF par
don; rendered null and void the acts
persons under the provisions Of the
Constitution, and committed gross
usurpations by legislative attempts
TO exercise this power In favor OF
party adherents; they have conspired
TO change the system OF our govern
ment by preferring charges against
the President In the form of articles
of impeachment and contemplating,
before hearing or trial, that he should
be placed under arrest, held In du-
rance, and, when II became their