Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1872-02-24
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we Wlsneu 10 aSSlgn Tor the ADOPTION
of that policy. Prior to the last
Democratic noDbna ting Convention
we took the position, that the South
ought not to be represented in that
Convention, because the prssrace oi
such delegates woulcs ssise the hue
and cry, that IL was y rebel move
ment; that it would give renewed
vitality to northern fanaticism and
defeat the nominee. AS we believed
then, we believe now, that the abb
sence Of the Southern delegates, and
the nomination Of Chief Justice
Chase would have defeated Grantand
that the countrywould now have been
incidentally more prosperous than
1t is, and that the Government would
have been spared the damning dis
grace inflicted BY the foul corruption
of Grant and his aiders and abettors.
But the petrified specimens of De-
mocracy would have it otherwise,
and the result is the present degraded
condition of both government and
people. Shall we try the experiment
again2 Perhaps, it will be attempt
ed. But before it is repeated, we
would like to remind the advocates
of such policy, of q fact which has
been ignored, but is worthy of grave
consideration. Before the war, there
was large body of intelligent Wing
voters in the South. At the close of
that bloody INVASION when party
politics wsrs att err pied to be revived
those Wings resisted from mo-
tives of patriotism, the re-organiza-
tionof their party aud urged union
of all true southern men, that the
South, in solid column. might the
better resist the political aggressions
of the vindlctive North. In pursu
ance of that patriotic resolve, they
co-operated, heartily, with every
phase of political sentiment that
looked to the common end-the good
90 the South Believing that the
policy which did succeed in Tenncs-
see, was the one to be tried for the
redemption Of the federal govern
ment, the Wings, as far rs we know,
opposed Southern representation IN
the nominating Convention. They
yielded, however, to what seemed to
be popular, sentiment The result
was defeat, with four years of law
less usurpatiou, plumber and tyranny,
shat have demoraliAed and ilnpov-
erished q people long boastlul of their
Christian civilization and intellect
ual progress. &c.
The question now is-will tire old
line Wings consent that the South
shall he sacrificed again, in order
5iEtt Democracy may have the chance
of clarifying Itself in an unequal
tight with legions of demented funat-
les and an army OF web trained mer-
ecnarics, whose hope is reign of am
archy and whose ambition is the
spoils of victory, or will they assert
their right and evince their patriot
ism by giving their votes to some
conservative Republican, who, like
Scnter, can beat n Stokes and redeem
the country from utter ruin? We Dc
not wish to see revived, former frud,
between Wings and Democrats. Fol
the present, one party, in the South,
opposed to federal Capitalization, is
enough, and we hope Democracy
will not revive these feuds by pre-
summing, too far, upon the prominence
given IL by circumstances growing
out of the necessities of the period
We are ready and willing to act with
it, in the line of safe precedents, but
are not willing to risk all that Is left
of liberty and honor, by n dangerous
attempt to retrive what is lost, by
means that haze signally failed.
Had the Conservatives, OF this
State, tt3minated q candidate, with
tTls hope of running him in, between
Sentor aud Stokes, Gen, Brown would
not have been Governor to day, nor
Tennessee enfranchised. Should the
Democrats, OF the Union, attempt Ia
run in II candidate between such IA
man - Trumbull, and Grant, the
attempt will consolidate the friends
of.the two, and Grant continue to be
Pes dent. But il the disatIectcd
make no nomination, or make hut a
small show of strength, then let the
prmocratsput their mOu Ia the field,
aud let us have n square fight. This
- our programme, for the Presidcn.
tial contest, of this ycar~-baSed upon
n conviction that three coraerrd
cket will result in a triumph ful
Grant, which will be the more com
plcte, if n thorough Democrat i,
Nominated, because his nomination
viii cause n fusion of the two Radi.
cal wings with their first cousins
H." war Democrats, and because II
VIII split the opposition, in the South
upon thequcstion of availability. IL
amy point of view then, it seems I,
~, II will be a fatal mistake to make ,
Democratic nomination, and the for
mcr Wings, of tho South, have 4
ril;ht 10 demand that the safety O
the government shall not he furthe
jcopar,llzel 10y tho hope Of triumph
tor Democracy -eNcept In the even
that there is ho Other opponent o
Grant.