Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-03-19

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sATURDAY, ....MARCH 10, 1870.
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GOV. ALLcORN AND DEMOcRAOx.
,ih%e aJvsrAa of(Afisa,Idpp,,anhh
late Inaugural, volunteered tn per
form The burial service OF the demo.
cratic party. Having buried his own
patriotism and love for the South
carly In the war, JIG takes for granted
that cvtfy prin-ipledrarto theHodth
rs a people, and indispensable TO
Southern honor md prosperity, died
bttbe same time with his allegiance,
He thus shovels the dirt into the
grave: sssflte.-r'iii' ai Asi.-sinli afiuc
y "The Democracy retains, II Is true,
N semblance of lfe; but can never
Ipcop,e a living power again until II
shall, have. entered on an existence
Totally distinct from that Of the past.
The Demnctatic party fIi-
-herited the theories which have been
pronounced by the war a system Of
brilliantfollfes. .,,, .,1 49, 4, , aas,,
@, Upon what does this wise and pat
lriotic Governor base his ''procfama-
toni that dc n,ecracy IL deade First,
;oaipoB, the assumption, that II has not
discarded all its past theories and
principles, and, second, that the war
was the supreme arbiter that pro-
nounced 1t "a system Of brilliant
theories" He forgets that it inner
tied from the fathers Of the Republic,
and from the iefunct Federal Consti-
tuition Upon which they Stamped Fin
seSer& d livihS light the fuhdansn-
tai doctrine, that the States shall reg
ulate their own internal affairs as to
then may seem beyt.l Aiicorn may
well deh6dnce this as a brilliant the
DRY 'exploasdf By!the wait hecause he
secs In it, q stumbling block, in, the
path or usurpatlon and the brilliant
RADICAL idea Off Imperialism. But
Democracy must abandon this fun
damental principle Of State sover-
eighty before ii ican again become a
living power. .IA5IfI,Ti. = /
God knows we are not the man to
become the champion Of democracy
against which we have ever battled
mot because of It's views in relation
4 to the respective powers OF Federal
Hgnnd state governments; but BECAUSE
nof its tendency to demoralize by dem
ingoguism, both the Representatives
.l6f the people and the, people them
''selvcs, and because we hold II mainly
responsible, by its tendency to radi-
calism, for the war that has ended so
disastrously, in the overthrow of the
government with all the blessings OF
liberty. In rs much, however, as the
Democratic and Wing parties, prior
to the war, recognized the sovereignty
of the States, the careful limitation
sofFSdsal avNhority as well asiall
Nke checks and balances against che
sncroachnients of the one upon the
other, we speak In defense Of both
parties and, indeed, of every party
save that Of the old. Blueligl,t Fed
eralist which is now resurrected in
y inc shhpe of Haiicalisn,.j IlH ls'a
... The war changed no principle, he
cause principles are Interchangeable
but 1t demonstrated that the South
betrayed by pretended friends ant
weakened by the desertion Of able
bodied towards, could not cope, sue
,.cessfilly, with the North, recruitet
from every nation in Europe. Itwa
at the close Of the war that the,ma
lignant cowardice Of those Iieroe
protected from danger, by substitute
and bomb.proof positions were per
:" mitted to declare that the war settle,
whatever they deemed essential t,
their possession OF power and TIL
Qualification Of q towards revenge.
;',g 1t Is from these men, not from an,
pretended war-settlement of princi
pies, that Allcorn borrows his BRILL
ant idea of democratic "follles" II
the past, and that other idea, that al
political opinions not Radical ar
based upon ''dead issues" and tina
the issues upon which, alone, the re
generation of the South can be effect
ed are, total disregard of the pro
4 Visions Of the Old Consiititions cor
ruptien' In fofiioe ana the robbing o
1.-The poor to swell the Golfers of tn
rich. Such being the theory AM
Npractice.of bis party, ~ tsas natura
for him to shrink from Democracy u
the Devilfrom Holy water. A lcori
Is a man of'too much SENSE to belicv
his own twaddle, and whilst we agre
with him that the South ought no
- to ally itself With the democratic
party, North, and we may add, will
no party, except that which look
solely to the, development Of tn
~ wealth OF the South and Its consc
Quent power, still we soorn the al
monition to repudlate the principle
OF liberty and the manly spirit q
freedom because Radicals have crgrsl,
Led the one and epudiated the other
This last sentiment the Governo
repudiates when he declares tina
the sold Constitutional parties of Il,
country are dead" and, by inference
endorses the Radical idea that n
party not in direct antagonism wit
the Constitution can, or ought to su,
coed. such sentiments from the lil
ofa NAB bornand raised In the Sout
and an officerin its armies, gives on