Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-03-22
UNION CIFY COURIER.


ments upon his new State Of Jackson,
and pays us some .baekhanded COM
pnments which wcappreciate, but viii
not repay in kind. The truth is, We
look upon the scheme as so utterly inn
practicable that we feel no disposition
10 treat it gravely. The motives of
the Courier, or of those in sympathy
with it, we have not impeached, nor
have we CLEANED from Its editorials an
amount of information sufficient to
unfold those motives. But however
pure and exalted they may be, they
cannot alter our views Of the imprac-
ticability of the project soilpng as the
Radicals are in power. We spoke OF
West Virginia as a State born Of gross
usurpation and yindictive hate, and re-
ceived into the brotherhood of. loyalty
because of its treason to the South,
and TO indicate that it is no precedent
for the subdivision of other Southern
States. fg M
1t will not be denied that the pur-
pose of the dominant party is to keep
the South in state of political yassal-
age. To do this it was excluded from
any participation in the government
for years, by means of Andy johnson s
reconstruction scheme, and even now,
several of the States have no repre-
sentation except such as has been pre-
rided for them through the joint
agency of force and fraud. With a
purpose so fixed and power so I'M
limited, it is idle to assume that the
South will be permitted to increase Its
permanent strength in the Senate, by
the creation of new States. 1t two
new ones were made by cutting ofboth
ends of Tennessee, two others by the
authorized subdivision of Texas, and
still another by the division OF
Florida, the South would gain ten Sem
ators, an addition to its political power
which the Radicals will never consent
to. as long as they have the usurped
authority to forbid it.
Whilst the government has been pur-
suing this repressiye policy towards
the South, its foul intention is salts
faetorily explained by its indecent
haste in erecting territories into Radi-
cal States solely witha view ofincreas-
ing the political asscendancy of the
North over the South. that the latter
may continue the hapless and hopeless
victim of sectional tyranny. As there
is no southern territory out of which
new States can be created, individual
ly, we are inclined to favor the subdi.
vision of the larger States for the sake
of gaining powerin the Senate, but oul
advocacy of such policy would be
solely upon the ground of an increase
of sectional power-certainly not, a:
in the case of divorce upon incompat
ibility of temper or interests. We be,
lieye as firmly as ever, in the right o.
secession as in full accord with the let
ter and spirit of the Constitution, al
its trainers shaped it, and if WestanC
East Tennessee will secede from Mid
die, on the plea that the latter is dis
loyal, and if the discontinued fractions
of Kentucky, Mississippi and Nortt
Carolina will do likewise, for the same
reason Congress will promptly sanction
that secession and erect the new States
without delay, or regard to the formal
ties prescribed bylaw. But withoutsucl
plea a Radical majority will repudiat'
the scheme as promising no more Rad
zeal Senators from the South. 1t wa
this secession from southern Stat
that gave West Virginia its status as
member of the Union, and clearl,
establishesh the willingness of tn
Radical party to endorse secession
provided it be from the South instea,
of the North, but in the former cas-
the plea must be disloyalty.
Wehope the Courier now understand
our position and will give US credi
for having pointed out the only mean
by which its pet scheme can be con
summated whilst Radicalism is in pow
er.