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

ate, Major Brandon Of Stewart. We
doubt not that Major Brandon is a
gentleman Of ability though VIC prefer
in this section of country, Rolfe FL
bridge, Esq, of Montgomery county,
long known as one of the ablest mag
istrates upon the bench. gentleman
eminently qualified for the position a
man of high scholarly attainments
ability and worth. A Virginian BY
birth apd education, his antecedents
establish him as man who holds his
country's good paramount to all things
else, and we most earnestly solicit Es-
quire Eldridge TO become a candidate
for Senator from the counties of
Montgomery, Stewart and Robertson
as a candidate of the People, subject
only to the ballot box.
MANY CITIZENS OF DIsTs. 0 AND 10.
c. FREDERICK, Esq.--Dear Sir: In
reviewing the condition of our coun
try, the status of political affairs, and
having conferred with large number
of our people, we feel constrained by
sense of duty we owe to the best in
terests of the State, to solicit you in
the most earnest manner to become a
candidate to represent US in the next
Legislature. Knowing your natural
aversion to the strife and contention
which necessarily follow in the train
of intrigue, seliishness and party leg
islation which has usually pervaded
even our national law making assem-
blies, we approach you in making
this request, with many doubts of your
willingness to accept the position, even
were it ours, alone, to give. But ad.
monished by our knowledge that you
have ever been actuated in your course
by the most kindly feelings to your
fellow creatures, in your private life
and by dealing out even handed justice
in your public capacity without fear
or favor, Injured by sentiment and
habit to practice these qualities, re.
gardless of personal interests, we in
dulge the hope that, convinced in your
own conception of the available as.
sistance you can render in giving a
healthy tone and sound discretion tC
our deliberative bodies, you may be
induced to accept the position with
which we desire to honor you.
We look in retrospect with chagrin
and sorrow upon the past, and are
ready to exclaim with the old Roman
"Ob, Judgment, thou art fed to bru.
fish hearts, and men have lost theil
reason" Where, oh, where, are the
Querites? Alas buried beneath the
ashes of civil discord and domestic
strife, and as Byron exclaimed in eu.
logy upon the Spartan race, "Of the
three hundred grant but three to make
a new Thermopyl@." Let us go back
to first principles, justice, honesty and
truth, and from the ashes of the dead
past bring forth reaction, regene-
Grafton, guided by the cardinal virtues
Down with pride; down with egotism
down with balderdash, sophistry
down with ':you be friend to me and
| will be friend to you" Let us act
by a principle. Principles never
change, but men do. Let us go back
to such men as Squire Frederick, who
has pursued the even tenor of his way,
veering neither to the right or to the
left, through fear or favor, and let u.
thank heaven that out Of the fog and
mist of degenerate times, we can yet
call out few of natures pure chill.
dren who know our rights and dare
maintain them, too. Such is the mar
we advocate. Risk our judgment
fellow citizens, and, Squire Frederick
we implore you to accept the position
Yours,
CITIZENS OF Nos. 8, 9 & 10.