Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1871-04-22
THE CANVASS OF 1879.

John Quincy Adams, are all spoken
Of by their respective friends rs COM
petent andlikely ~ be elected, if nom
mated. We, Of the South are fully
satisfied with the experiment of one
Federal General, as President, since
the war, and would, therefore, rather
not repeat that experiment, in the
person Of Gen. Blair. OfJohn Quin-
ey Adams, we need only say that his
habitat, rs n New Highlander, Is even
o Objectionable than the military
record of Blair. Chase is a political
circus rider who has been performing
OH two horses at once, and is I well
balanced between the two, TO let II
appear which horse he prefers. Be
sides his health Is precarious, and this
Is no time for 80 great a risk rs the
early death of u Democratic Presi-
dent, should one he elected. The
other three named above, are men Of
unquestioned ability and integrity,
and the election Of either would he n
blessing 20 the country.
The South, however, u take lit
tie part in the selection, and we doubt
the policy of its earnest advocacy Of
n candidate, inasmuch as that very
advocacy may injure his prospects,
by giving a pretext for charging him
with sympathy for the rebels and
nrousing against him the bitter hatred
Of the South which has nodded the
feelings and shaped the conduct Of
the North for the last six years.
We would also caution the South
against longer entertaining the too
common error that the Democrats Of
the North are Influenced by kindly
feelings toward our people. Their
efforts are for self-preservation. The
heel of the despotism they reared
upon the ruins of the Constitution,
il grinding them, when they thought
the South alone would he the suffer
err. 1t is the terrible reaction, upon
themsel YES, of the tyranny they de
signed for the South, exclusively,
that is arousing them to efforts in
self-defense. Let us not deceive our
selves by taking II more fiatterihg
view of the subject, but be content
with the knowledge that they can
not save their own liberties without
striking the mancles from our limbs.
The benefit they may confer upon us,
will be none the less real because II
will be a mere incident, and it il none
the less our duty to give them Our
active support than if their motives
were of II pure and more gen, rous
character, than we now have reason
to consider them.
This view of the subject leads us to
repeat, what We have so often urged
upon the consideration Of the South,
that its politics should be, s%ubsoiIing
and f%ertilizing its fields, producing
an abundance of breadstuilS and
making cotton and tobacco n secon'
Diary consideration and converting
the proceeds into machinery. Thi'
! the road to wealth, independents,
and the foremost rank in the popu'
lations of the earth. The people %
the North are, essentially, worship
pcrs of the "Almigity dollar" AND
the fullest Trcasury-no matter wh'
holds the kcy-will bring into ful
play, "the pregnant hinges of the
knee" IN the hope that "thriit may
follow awning" But n long as thu
South impovcriShcs itself to enricl
the North, it may expect nothing
hut hate, insult and wrong from
people who have eXpunged from tn,
catalogue of the virtues-magnauim
ity, integrity and justice.
But why dwell upon subject whicl
the experience OF every passing year
before and since the war, has so full.
rlucidnted, that none but the per
Ncrsrly unpatriotic can fail To prom
hy it. These say Ia the North, b.
their actions, give uS food aud cloth
Ing and We will furnish you wit
cotton aud tobacco, and il the account
be still against IA, we will work tn
harder and raise more cotton and /,
haccD that it may he balanced nc>
year. raey forget that the hard,
they work, the more food and ra
ment they will need, and that Il
moro they need them, the higher wi
ho the price demanded, and the le
the price given for their staple pr
ducts. 10 understand and profit |
this simple problem, in commerce
science, i, all that the South nee
t. secure its freedom, aud the hia
position Ia which its climate, q
anu productions cntitle il. The IA
urr TO profit by its natural adval
~ will entail upon it, for all tim
h2sgarly poverty and degrading su
scrviency to II shrcwd, selfish and u
srrupnlous northern faction.
TmE Southern Radicals, casti
about for n candidate to run on (
ticket with Grant, are divided |
tween Alcorn, Clayton, oar, VI,
nord AMI Reeves, Either once of Tia,
j. a match dog for " Lysscs," but I
trouble i to agree which shall he
Iccled where there is no difference
peculiar ltnoss. Maynard VIII pro.
nly Ice most acceptable TO Ora
MayuNrl's NaragauSctt blood, "