Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-09-17
GEN. JOHN G. BROWN.


The declension of Gen. Quarles, and
the letter of Gen. Brown, are signifi-
cant sings in our political heavens,
and demand more than passing no.
tice from US. 1t fixes the fate of Ten
nessee for q series of years, and aligns
her steadfastly I'm the Democratic col
umn. Henceforth there is to be, as
we predicted, no division of the true
men of the State; and when the Con-
vention meets, in the emphatic lang
uage of Gen. Quarles, at will be Wig
liant, and will sternly rebuke every
effort to interpolate heresies or to
withhold an expression of the full
party creed"
The withdrawal of Gen. Quarles
insures the nomination of Gen.
Brown, and, so far as q standard bear
er is concerned, the Convention need
only nominate by acclamation, and
the formality of a ballot will be dis
pensed with. But 1t is necessary that
the good men of the State shall con-
vene, deliberate and erect a platform,
and adopt a name. A platform that
will mot palter In double sense" q
clear, bold, ringing one, like that
which the Democracy of Ohio, pro-
mulgated on recent occasion, and
which has commended itself to every
lover of liberty, peace and fraternal
brotherhood. The Convention must
meet for a purpose, and we hope it
will not dissolve and leave us mot
ley host, united by common name,
to be again dived by party jealousies
In our household, aud to be encum-
bered with stragglers, who must fall a
prey, too often, to the snares and
wiles of Radicalism. In surveying
the field, candor compels us to say
that there Is but one party North
with whom we can affiliate, and from
which we can reasonably expect or
solicit any aid or comfort. That par
ty has come down to us from a purer
and better generation, and has main
tanned intact its organization amid
the shocks of revolution, and the all
consuming flames of civil war, except
the wing led astray by Butler, Logan
4 Co. Boldly, unshrinkingly has 1t
maintained the rights of individuals
and Of States, and to-day it presents
living dyke ofheroes to the usurpa-
tions of Grant and mobocratic Con-
gress. We are tired of any further
division in this State. Let the
"white and the red rose commingle, /"
and heaven will smile upon the fair
conjunction"
Is not hatred to Radicalism a bond
that will bind us all together, Wings,
Democrats, Conservatives, Liberals
Independents? Edward 1, King of
England, and Robert Bruce, of Scot
land, were sworn foes, yet each de-
sired that their hearts might be en-
balmed after death, and buried in the
Holy Land, and had their wishes
been performed, the hearts of these
two inplicable warriors would have
met and been inferred in the same
sepulchre. Hatred of the Saracens
and love of Crusaders was common
bond, so strong that 1t developed it.
self as the "rullng passion in death" I"
The Radicals are the Saracens Of our
Holy Land, and laid their sacrilegi-
Gus hand upon our dearest rights
Ought not the houses of York and
Lancaster to unite in order to over
throw and disperse them? Ought
not our crusade against them to alb
sorb and swallow up every sentiment
of our nature i? Such, we are proud
to say, is the tendency of the times,
and we shall interpose no obstacle in
the way of the blending of our hosts,
who, moving on parallel lines, have
so nearly approached each other that
they accepted the same leader, and
rally to the wind of the same buglcs,
and must be known by common APP
pellation. To this end Gen. Quarles
has patriotically withdrawn from the
canvass, and thereby recorded, in the
history of our State, another signal
instance of concession on the part of
the old Democracy for the sake of
harmony and peace. AS a compile
ment to his noble sacrifice-as a cap
stone to the monument of magma
nimity which he has erected, we have
a letter from Gen. Brown, whose
tone, scope and tenor meets our fullest
appreciation. 1t settles everything in
Tennessee. Let its utterances be our
watchwords i'm the coming canvass,
and when 1t closes we may exclaim
one to the other,
"Victory sits on our helms"
[ West Tennessee Wing d Tribune.