Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1871-01-07
GRANT AxD STATE 0 vEREraNrx

Rrcts, exceedingly, that he did not !
express his views on amnesty but
the man WHO wrote the message for
got that important point. And what
are the views which Grant wanted to
give on the subject Of amnesty
They are just stfeh rs no honest man
would hay e entertained, and no Rad
ical, Of ordinary sense, will dare to
endorse. The first II, that the dis
fracfiseynent of the southern Whites
was the work Of the Legislatures Of
the Southern States. No honest man
would be guilty of so contemplate a
prcyarication. Grant knows that
those Legislatures were elected by
Federal bayonets, under laws passed
by Congress, and that instead of be-
ing Southern Legislatures they were
nothing but Radical agencies, gotten
up in the interest of Radicalism, and
manipulated by the Federal Execu-
tive and Congress. Knowing these
f,cts, Grants prevarication degene-
rates into a direct and Intentional
fnlsehood.
The next view which he regrets
having omitted from his message is
that Acknowledgement being the work
of the Legislatures Of the Southern
States, Congress has no right to in
terfere for its removal. In vino pcri-
tos, or in plain english, u drunken
man is apt to tell the truth, and
Grant must have been very drunk
when, in the face of his party's pre-
ccpt and example, he reasserts a
truth rs old as the Constitution, that
the States are sovereign in the MAI
ngement of theirown internal affairs.
But what are we to think of his hon
esty when, though acknowledging
this fundamental truth, we find him
sending Federal troops to New York,
Philadelphia, North Carolina and
Georgia, to violate the freedom of
elections in those localities? The
right to interfere, in this particular,
IS as clear as the right to send carpet
bag Governors and Legislators from
tho North and inaugurate them, by
the bayonct, rs rulers over the South;
hut the right TO do either is found
nowhere hut in the despotic will of
absolute power.
We are pleased to have Grants
admission that Congress has no such
power, and although the admission
comes from Il fool, he Is a fool in au-
thority. His implied condemnation
of the theory and practice of Radi-
callsm is u question he must settle
with his party, OF his reporter.
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THE Congressional swine are re-
turning to their wallow. Those
pennel in the various Departments,
though fat, are still thievish and APP
Iropriatc everything that mt
within their reach; those which
Grant has bought with a promise of
the fruits of San Domingo, are i'm
patiently granting and %squealing
in anticipation of the rich repast,
and those which the people have
turned out on the commons are no
sing around the public crib with Il
well grounded expectation of find
in, abundant grub in some M Of
the fat "rings," especi,l y provided
for loyalty in distress. And the big
boar of the herd who feeds and counts
them, occasionally lifts his head from
the swill-tub to see that none stray
gle from the pen, or heed the call OF
;he disconnected, that have been
elected 10y the great dispenser Of the
good things In which Radical swine
especially delight. All are fat enough
to kill, and the democrats are act
lively preparing to pickle and smoke
the Inst n of them-not for home
consumption, but for export TO the
hcadwaters of Salt River.
SOME Radical paper has suggested
Grant and Greedy rs the next presi-
Dental ticket, and another, Greedy
for the chief place on the ticket
Together, they will make a poor
team. Grant has neither sense nor
honesty, and Greedy, though rcputcd
honest, il a mere bundle of abStrac-
tionS, with n certain sort OF ability
that makes him dangerous because
he possesses none of those enlarged
ideas of practical craftsmanship, til,
want of winch has brought the gov
ernment, and, with It, the people, t.
the verge of irrciecmabIe ruin. Still
II were better for the honor Of the
country, that we have an homes
visionary for President, than II cor
rupt and besotted fool like Grant
Then of the two < x, we prefer Gree
ly; but the Lord deliver Us from both
GRANT In said to he in favor a
female suffrage. Being II feeble OLE
woman, il Is natural that he shoul'
sympathise with bis sex. lie is no
only an old woman, but from hi
mndness for the bottle and Similarit.
nf name, II Is probable that he i
nearly related to Sairy Camp. III
calculations are, that II he can ~
the women and the negroes upon ia
same political level, he can prohahl
beat Miss Woodruff or any other {,
male aspirant to the Presidency.
Squash GREELY thinks that Ia