Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1872-09-07


every candidate now before Them
whether for State or Federal positions,
The breach in their ranks was but a
temporary escapade--an ebullition of
patriotism and self-assertion, prompted
by no adequate cause and looking not
beyond the immediate local admins
tration of their county affairs.
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IT may seem inconsistent in us to
support Greeley and repudiate Andrew
johnson. From our standpoint, how
ever, such a course is perfectly consist
ent, as we think will appear upon an
investigation of their relative claims
to southern support. Mr.. Greeley, be
it remembered, was born in New Eng
land, the hotbed of "isms, and has
lived nowhere but in the North
Whatever else may have been said of
him, dishonesty has never been impu-
ted to him even by his enemies, and
however radical and disorganizing may
have been his ideas upon leading top
les presented for his discussion, every
one believes the views he expressed
were honestly entertained, they being
part of his education, as well in
school as in association and sympathy.
Thus born and bred, much can be said
in palliation of his error of opinion,
and however grave they may have been,
there can be no evidence produced to
chow that they were not honestly en-
tertained and ably defended. Find
ing in him honesty, consistency and
ability, we cannot doubt that he will
act up to the pledges he has given and
faithfully discharge the duties of the
position he seeks, in accordance with
his self-assumed obligations to do so,
in truth and sincerity. These are the
grounds of our confidence in him and
upon which VIC base our advocacy of
his election to the Presidency. Per
contra:
Andrew johnson was born and rails
ed, and has spent his life, in the South.
Possessing talents of high order, and
not wanting in the tact that can
mislead when higher qualities fail to
convince, he succeeded in winning the
confidence of the Democrats of Ten
nessee and even made himself their
master. lie filed every position the
majority could give him, both in the
State and Halls of the Federal Legis-
laturc. In return for this confidence
and those high positions, he was UNI
firing in his professions of thanks and
of endless devotion TO the Constitu-
ton and the principles of Democracy
He even went so far, when the invas.
ion of the South by northern troops
was imminent, as to say that he would
die in the last ditch, in defense of the
South and its peculiar institution
But when the roar of cannon was
heard and the CLEAN of bayonets flash
cd across his vision, he was so con
fused and blinded that he could find
neither the first nor the last ditch, and
even, innoccntly, COMPOUNDED Democ-
racy with Radicalism, the blue with
the gray, and years elapsed ere con
seriousness was sufficiently restored to
enable him to discover that he not
only did not die in the last ditch
but, like Pillows dirt, was thrown oil
the wrong side of it. A traitor to hi,
party, his State and the South, wha
are his claims to confidence and pro
: notion
As Presidont-an Office conferre,
, upon him not by the people, but b,
, the arm of an assassin-thc first stel
, taken, was not to prove that his disre
gard of democratic principles and con
stitutional liberty, whilst militar
p Governor, was the result of his pecu
| liar attitude rs descrter of his peo
Y pie; but to show that his zeal in be
o. half Of his Radical allies, was not
y pretence, but an instinct That ste
@ was Reputation of the terms of Lee
C surrender to Grant, the deposition c
4 Governors of the southern States an
@ the Inauguration of that system of II
q destruction under which the Sout
@ endured more wrong, insult and los
D. than during the whole time that, wit
$ arms in its hands, it resisted its mya
c sion on the field of battle. Eve
l. Grant had to rebukc his thirst fC
y blood Dy protesting against arrest an
$ trial of the leaders of the Confedel
j. ate cause. jefferson Davis might hay
: rottcd in his prison cell, but for ii
J. maguanimity of northern men VIII
Is released him from the grip of ii
r apostle of Tennessee Democracy, an
Il honest convert to tho dcspotio tcne
J. of Radicalism. And what was III
l. plea for his monstrous conduct I,
n wards the South? Why, that treaso
J. must be made odious. We hope i
e has made it odious in his own perso
$50 odious that Tonnossoeans wi
Il rcpudiato him in commemoration
Il all the tyranny aud wrong they SUITE
u ed al has hands, during and since tn
K war.