Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1872-06-08
GREELEY VIZ. GRANT.

A careful reading Of exchanges from
every direction, convinces us that there
ia steadily increasing sentiment in
the Democratic ranks, in favor of
Greeley as against Grant, and rapidly
strengthening conviction that the con
test ought 20 and must, be restricted
10 these two. This feeling has not yet
become as unanimous as ii is destined
10 be, because patriotic craftsmanship
is an unmeaning sound in the ears Of
those who are willing to grind their
axes at every hazard TO the best inter
eats Of country grooming under OPP
preston and struggling for relief
There are selfish Bourbons who pre-
fer ruin 10 salvation nj the hands Of
any but straighout Democrats, and
there are recognized democrats who
are evidently in the interests, if not
in the pay, Of the Radical party and
the role assigned to these, il SO TO ma
nipnlatc the Democratic Convention
a. 10 put another candidate in the
field and SO divide that Grant may
conquer. In this diabolical scheme,
are enlisted the capitalists and the
politcians--thc capitalists, because
an honest government will be fatal TO
plundering rings and the politicians,
who seek their own private advant-
age by keeping themselves uppcrmost
on the current Of events.
But, happily for the country, the
people are engineering this job, and
the earnestncsa with which they have
taken hold of it, IL beginning to drvcl-
op the fact that Conventions are not,
necessarily, omnipotcnt and that the
people, when they will it, are yet mas
tcrs of the situation. The wire-work
rrs nrc evidently in trouble The cf-
fort TO commit the Workingmen 10
Gran, through the agency of bogus
Convention Of hired strikers, failed
through the transparency Of the fraud
They are beginning 10 perceive, too
that their last chance, the Democratic
Convention, is not without it, embar
easements None but a straight out
Democratic nomination can bind III,
party, and whil.t such q nomination
may elect Grant, the oaium Of dcfca
viii NOT only iasten itself indcllibl,
upon the Democracy, but will bury i
beyond all hope of resurrection. TIL,
leaders will have accomplished thri
object. but the people will be- ruined
This perilous state Of things i
awakening the fears and qnirLchine tn,
perceptions OF the. masses who ar,
making up their minds to dsrcgar,
conventions, throw of the shack
lea of party and strike boldly for thci
rights and liberties, Grant and Bel
mont may huy up their trusted repre-
srntatiycS and secure u scpcratc nomi
nation by the Convention but the bill
of sale will convey no title to owner
hip of the people who will rcpudiat
both the Convention and It's nomna
tlutl.
The fact cannot hc disguised frol
the least obScryant, that the destiny Z
the South at least, for veal or wO,
new turns upon the action of the Dem
ocratic Convention. \ nomination
by it, of a Democrat will revive III
dead issues of the war, rckindlc tn
smouldrring rmbcrS Of lanaticism an
G,vr prrnnnrncy To the disastrou
power of corrupt usurpcrs. II vi,
hra repetition of the fatal cxpcrnnru
ct four years apo-With one diilcrcn
rrtalt that il the annihilation of IN
Democratic party whose want of wi,
dom and patriotism will have recon
aruca the South To all the horrors
military rule and broken down III
lest landmark of popular rights an
constitutional government Shout
the Convention shoulder this awfI
responsibility regardless of cons,
qucnccA, the only hopr of ESCAPE Ii,
in united rally of the people, ilr,
spcclivc oi party, TO the tandar,
hearers of the Liberal Republican
Greeley or Grant should bc the ra
lying cry of The massc- from this tin
forward, as liberty o, death g. W
the cry of our ancestors in the mid
or revolution far less momcntu
than the one in which We are engage