Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-10-01
RADICAL CONVENTION.

RADICAL CONVENTION.
Nothing can more happily illus
tmte the patriotic wisdom of Generals
Quarles and Brown, in adjusting
their respective claims and giving to
the Democratic party q single candi-
date, than the Radical Convention,
In Nashville, last week. That august
body, composed of carpetbaggers,
scallawags and mercenary scouts,
once INDUCED the hope that schism
In the opposition ranks, would ena-
able them to regain the position from
which they have been driven; when
they assembled, however, that hope
had been dispelled. The gap in our
ranks was closed up, and even the
devlish ingenuity OF Andy Johnson
failed to reopen It. The old line
Wings, however disaffected towards
democracy, saw the trap set for them,
by the cunning hands of Northern
Radicals, and shrunk, with instinct
I've dread, from the contemplated ALI
ance between themselves and degra-
ded Treasury thieves Of the Brown
low die-nasty.
That Convention, though disap-
pointed, was not without hope. An
dy Johnson, with his Greenville res
olutiOns in his brooches pocket, had
opened the campaign in the interest
of Tennessee Radicalism, and whilst
insinuating his Jesuitical counsels
against the Democratic platform, is
abetted by recruit from the COnser-
vative ranks, who fiaunts, In the face
of the people, the banner to which
he had renowned his allegiance
The Convention itself, entering into
the spirit of the willy scheme which
suggests victory by means of .divis-
ion, first denounced the assumed reb-
el character of the Democratic Con-
vention, pointed its finger, so often
inserted into the peoples pocket,
with affected scorn, at the antece-
dents OF Gen. Brown, and then nom-
mated an original rebel as the Radi-
cal candidate for Governor. We very
cheerfully concede that Wisener is
Radical enough now, but the record
shows that he was rebel under the
first passing impulse of his feeble pat
rlotism. But when that sort OF
patriotism no longer held out q
prospect of pay, either in money o,
Office, 1t persuaded its conscience that
there were richer pickings on the
other side, and, being on the fence,
the change was as easy rs "falling
Off log"
This original rebel, now the nomi-
nee of a Radical Convention, proves
himself the fitting tool Of his EN-
ployes, by the impudence with which
he assails the men with whom he
once stood shoulder to shoulder, and
by denunciations of the Democratic
party that ought TO blister his tongue
though they disturb not his ironclad
conscience. His boast of sell immola.
ton on the altar of duty, deceives not
even himself, and no bolstering he
may get from Andy Johnson will
protect him from the dire indigna-
tion of betrayed and outraged peo-
pie.
Mr.. Wisener was never n secession
ionist-not he. but only call II revo
luton and he "was in" If the revo-
luton had succeeded, IL would not
have been secession, though the I'm
ion were sundered forever-a distinc-
ton which even the hair-splitting ge-
MUS of Andy Johnson cannot ex-
plain to the ear of common sense
Mr.. Wisener's explanation is how
ever satisfactory 10 those who believe
him ut victim TO be offered up on
the altar Of Radical greed for power
and plumber. We concur In that be-
lief and accept the Offering with the
firm conviction that his ashes will
not be worth gathering up after Gen.
John G. Brown is done roasting him
or should u remnant be gathered
up, we suggest that 1t be enclosed in
the safe from which the School fund
was stolen and labelled, "the remains
Of w. IL. Wisener and of the sacred
School Fund" and the empty casket
serve rs u monument of the perish
able character of man and money
when the former Is selEdebased and
the latter entrusted TO dishonest
keeping.
The Radical Convention has made
the best possible showing under the
circumstances. 1t nominated Ten
ncsee renegade, and the platform
was, doubtless, framed and put to-
grther by the Naraganset halt-breed,
VITO has had long experience, rs var
nisheg OF dgy.rot In Radical timber.