Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1872-04-27
TmEcrScINNAr, CONVENTION.

crisis approaches, the groans of the
fossil remains grow louder and more
agonizing. Disband the Democratic
party! No! As well blot the sun
from the Heavens isthe earnest pro-
fest Of the champions of the party
ButtIiey have never yet informed the
world how temporary coalition will
bring about the disbandment of the
party, whose cry used to be principles
not men! They forget that men make
the party whilst the principles will
remain intact, though all men deserted
them. IF giving aid TO the Liberal
movement viii annihiate those prin-
ciplcl, then they should be given up
as a mere mockery of the fundamen.
tai IDEAS upon which our forefathers
based the theory Of self-government.
If the men can be disbanded, by such
coalition, they are unworthy guardi-
ans of those principles and, like mer-
cenaries, fight under the flag that pays
best
But suppose the Cincinnati Conyen-
ton endorses the leading ideas of the
Democratic party and puts forward
men representative of those ideas, will
the Democrats repudiate their own
doctrines because they are espoused
by the Liberal Republicans If they
do, they will prove themselves foolish
partizans rather than honest patriots
-preferring centralized despotism
to sclf-government, secured by Fed
eral Union Of sovereign States. If
zach men constitute the Democratic
party, the sooner it is disbanded the
better. What matters il to the great
ends of political justice and popular
liberty, by whom the doctrines are en-
forced that secure those ends? If
those doctrines are Democratic, al
who defend them are democrats By
whatever name they may be known in
the present political catalogue. The
great struggle, now at hand, is to sub
stitMe an honest administration of
tile government, in lieu of the THEY
ing uaurpers who now rob the people
of money and Liberty; to give the civil
law its just supremacy over the mill
tary, in every section of the country
to secure the predominance of the
Constitution over the arbitrary will of
lawlcss faction; to tax the people
for the support of the government,
not to fill the pockets Of favored
class of political adventures, and to
secure, upon constitutional basis,
popular liberty and universal pros
pcrity.
We class as democrats-friends OF
popular governmental who heartily
cooperate for the accomplishment Of
these ends, regardless Of political no
lnenclature, and stigmatizc as anti
democratic, all who directly, or ind
rcctly uphold the Opposite policy, as
illustrated By the Radical faction and
tn" Grant administration. We accuse
man nor set of men, of dishOnest
intentions in opposing a union of par
tics for the overthrow of corrupt
dsspotism, but regret the prejudice,
which blind them to the true policy
to be adopted in the present cmergen
cy. We are willing to cooperate
with every man who endorses oul
broad and simple PLATFORM reform
in the administration of the govern
mcnt, and a return Of the government
within the limits of the Constitution
If the Cincinnati Convention endorse.
this broad reform and presents men
~ candidates, who can be relied upol
10 con-ummate the great work, We ar,
for them, and shall view any attemp
at third candidacy, as an avowal o
the intention to divide, that detea
may follow.
Much is said about the small Radi
cal majority in the last Presidential
campaign, and upon those figures i
ho.ca the argument that the disaifcct
ed Republicans will swell the Demo
cratic minority to a triumphant ma
iority. This would be a safe calcutta
laton, # the disoftctcd could, wit
certainty be relied upon as Demo
cratic recruits, but there lies the rul
There is No word in the language NOR
odious In the masses of the Radical
than the word democrat, and Shout
an open aud ayowcd member OF tn,
purity be nominated by party con
ycnGon, the Radical split will |
healed as If 10y magic; the smoulde
inc cmhcrs of sectional hate rokiudlc
into flame. tho Democratic cJndida'
defeated and AcspotiSm triumph oy,
liberty Bus should = liberal Rcpul
lien ticket standing upon the cssci
tai plank of the dcmocratirp iauou
Ice presented To the public and acccp
ed nv the Democrats, then the disa
footed WI swell the Democratic III
nor;ty and, a. in the caEc of sent
aud Stokc7, bring victory and roforl
constitutional liberty aud general pro
rcrity. honor toa degraded COVER
mont and peace 10 lis oppressed ell
gcny. Thi, L. the only hope for q
south a Democratic nomination "
ia,erpose federal haymets betT"