Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1872-06-01
WHAT TO EXPECT.

It is not unusual to hear impracti-
cables PROFOUND the question-what
are we to expect from the election Of
Greeley We answer, that we expect
all that we gained By the election Of
Senter. Universal reimbursement;
State control over local interests the
restriction of the writ of hdbeds cor
pas to its legitimate functions as q war
measure-a necessity, perhaps, in time
of war, monstrous tyranny when
suspended in times of peace; the SUI
premacy of the civil over the military
law; the withdrawal, from the South,
of federal bayonets and with them, of
carpet baggers-the licensed thieves
of an organized sectional despotism,
and the restoration Of State govern
ments to the control of their best citi-
zens and the consequent correction Of
those monstrous abuses fastened upon
us by the fostering hand of a sectional
usurpation conceived in fanaticism
born of blood and now being suf-
located by the efiiuvia of its own rot
tenness.
This is what we expect to gain for
the South, and for the country at large,
wisdom and patriotism in high places
honest efficiency in the discharge OF
all official duties; the breaking up OF
all monopolizing and corrupt rings
suppression of Government gift en-
tcrpriscs whereby capital is conferred
in the hands of the few for the ulti-
mate enslavement of labor and the
establishment Of monied aristocracy
in short, a return to the shelter Of
constitutional liberty, which means
peace and prosperity, public integrity
and national honor.
These are the results foreshadowed
by the essential points in the Cincin.
natl platform endorsed by Greeley
and which he cannot evade, except by
the most infamous treachery. Can the
Democratic Convention, of July 9th
promise more than this? Can a purely
Democratic administration accomplish
more? So far from it, that it is ques
tionable, under the nearly equal nu
merical strength of parties, whethe
Democratic President, embarrassed
by powerful, embittered and unseru
lous opposition, would not be powerles
to accomplish for the country, tith'
of the good that may be effected thro
a different agency. But leaving on
of view, the probable ineficieney of
Democratic administration, for tn
reason just given, we insist that tn
election Of such an administration i
impracticablc at present, and for tn
reason that the contest, between De
mocracy and Republication, is purel.
sectional. and that a nomination b,
the former, will re-array against it al
the bitterness engendered by the wa
and all the fanaticism born of opposi
ton to slavery. Democracy will stan
as the Representative of the Soutl
Republicanism, Of the North an
thus arrayed, it is not difficult to Sc,
in advance, the fatal result Of anothe
sectional contest, similar to that {
1865.
Experience ought to have taught u
the folly of relying, for support, upo
northern war democrats, far less relia
BILE and infinitely less available tina
the Liberal Republicans who invit
southern cooperation for the gener;
good, Belmont and the New Yor
World are the paid agents of the Rae
zeal party; Voorhees,, the pettcd chan
pion of Democracy, has turned h
back upon tho South, and perhsp
these, MS representative northern den
ocrats, are the foreruuners of eoun
less numbers of similar dcscrters {
the Grant party enticed thereto |
immediate or prospective rewards
the shape of money and Offices,
honest, they are inefficient; if disho,
est, unworthy Of confidence. In c
Their case, they must not decide for Il
South, in q matter Of such grave in
portauce TO its future welfare NJ
present exigencics The Democrat
Convention is, in our opinion, IN
Of the politicians to catch the poop
and the people, in self defense, mu
avoid it by regulating any acti
looking to the reelection of Ora
through the agency of separate no.
nation. The government, nominal
at least, belongs to the people,
them make it practically theirs, by
fusing to be led blindfolded by CO
ventions, rings and cliques that q
always selfish and always dangerol
The people have long enough play
the part Of catspaws for politicians
let them, for once, assert their RIG
and their manhood by deiying the d
tation of the few who grow rich a
powerful by absorbing the hard car
!cgS o. -. Industrious Gills5aa