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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-09-19
THE LOUISIANA REVOLUTION.

Whilst the bloody scenes in New
Orleans, will startle the public, they
ought to create no surprise with the
thoughtful, who have marked the pa
tent endurance by the people of Louis
lana, of every form of tyranny and op-
preston which corrupt power could
devise or infict Legislated by Con-
gress into powerless submission to
bogus government and without the
right and the means to protect their
homes from robbery by the lawless
supporters of an usurper, the people,
under the authority of the federal con-
stitution, attempted to procure arms
for the protection of their lives and
property. The vigilant tyrant, Kel-
logg, seized those arms and placed
them in the hands of the mob that al
ways follows unlawful powers. The
citizens exasperated beyond endur-
ance.:by this additional wrong, con-
vened and demanded the resignation
of the tyrsnt Governor, and upon his
refusal to comply with this demand, the
citizens resolved to take their own
government into their own hands, and
hence the armed conflict which ensued
But why discuss the causes when
they have been patent to all since the
close of the war. 1t is part of the
machinery by which the government is
to be consolidated and placed in the
hands of one man and since Grant
intends to be that man-why hunt for
reasons for disturbances in the South?
They are originated and engineered in
Washington, and the way to quiet and
prevent is not by means of federal
arms, but federal justice. The tyran-
ny of the Radical party must crystal
ize into a one-man despotism, or the
process be broken up by some terrible
CONFUSION of which the movement in
Louisiana may the forerunner. The
oppressed of the South have lived and
endured, upon the faith that the sense
of justice, in the North, would revive
and come to their relief. But what is
to be hoped from a christian civiliza-
ton of which Beecher is the boosted
exponent, or from a sense of morality
and justice exemplified by beast But
Ter and all leading Radicals through
out the North. If nothing will satisfy
the North but a centralized empire, let
it be so proclaimed, and the South will
accept it as means of deliverance
from a government of thieves. But if
the people of the North intend to up
hold free government, and secure
equal and exact justice TO all, let them
speak out and proceed to enforce their
will, by such acts as will relieve the
South from mob-rule-murder and
robbery.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-09-19

THE New York Herald has suggest
ed national Convention to consider
the condition of the whole country,
and devise the means for the restora-
ton of peace, and measures for the
restoration of general prosperity. The
suggestion is a good one and, composed
of representative men of broad and
patriotic views, sucha Convention may
be productive of great good; but made
up of partizans, as will most likely be
the case, we can look for nothing bet
ter than angry discussion, the reafhrm-
alton of Radical policy, to be followed
by more bitter discrimination against
the southern whites by the Radical
administration. If each State will
send as delegates, its most honest, pa
triOtic and intelligent statesmen, back
ed by public opinion in favor of an
honest and wise administration of the
government, a restoration of the funda-
mental doctrines of popular liberty
and stern demand for official integri-
ty and the suppression of every species
of monopoly and special legislation
the suggestion offers a wide field for
the practical display of patriotic wis
dom, craftsmanship and public virtue
With such objects in view, every good
man will favor such Convention, but
We will await further developments, as
to its objects and probable compost
ton, before venturing to endorse it:
assembling.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-09-19
Into the Jaws of Death.

III. V. R." writes, in his latest let
ter to the Cincinnati Commercial:
The prospect now is that the Tennes-
see Democrats will make clear gain
of six congressman at the November
election. This is considerable of a
gain in State sending only ten Con-
gressmen, and an inquiry into the
cause of this revolution in sentiment
suggests itself. 1t is the civil rights
bill. That infamous measure has
ruined the Republican party in the
border States, and has been the main
cause of the recent disgraceful out
breaks in some of the Southern States.
| do not call it an infamous measure
because it has smashed the Republican
party here, for that is a comparatively
small matter, but because it has been a
fire. thrown into the South, and
has intensified race passion, hatred
and ill-will four-fold.
Should the bill fail to become a law
the injury done by its passage through
the Senate Is almost irreparable. |
cannot understand how any friend to
the untortunOte negro race, or to the
Southern whites, can support this
measure. Its enactments into law
will lead TO ruinous results for both
races. But, as is ever the case, the
negroes will be the principal sufferers.
The troubles we have had in the South
since a stupid Sena;e passed that bill,
is but foretaste of what will be upon
Us should Congress be so unwise as to
sanction the Senate's action. 1t is
hard work for the law biding portion
of the Southern whites to protect the
negroes from the crusades of the law
less-s0 hard, indeed, that they do not
succeed half the time but if that bill
becomes law it will be simply impos-
sible. Race hatred and passion, and
prejudice will then be at such height
that in no Southern State will the civil
authorities be able to protect the ne
groes. As | said before, they are not
more than half equal to the task now,
and with race hatred stimulated as that
bill will stimulate it, they will be quite
powerless. | beg of the Northern
friends of the negroes that they will
not force that issue, for | tell you
plainly that it is rushing the negroes
into the jaws Of death, and the whites
into a condition bordering ON anarchy.
The enactment of that bill as it passed
the Senate will be the ruin of the
South, and [ sometimes think that it
will lead to the destruction of the Gov
eminent itself.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-09-19

THE southern Radical convention,
soon to meet in Chattanooga, Is likely
to be a meeting together of the most
successful incendiaries and salaried
liars, for the purpose of getting up a
compact edition, in one volume, of all
the individual and local lies that have
been shipped North, in separate par
cells, and appropriately consigned to
the largest dealers in incendiary wares.
The large unabridged edition to be is
sued, by the carpet-bag and scallawag
publishers, from Chattanooga, will be
eagerly bought up by Plymouth
church, the Credit Mobilliers, the ring
thieves at Washington ct id OHlne genus,
throughout the honest christian North,
which boasts of purity whilst revealing
in every species and degree of moral
nastiness. 1t will be novel specta-
Gle to the world-this convention got
ten up to represent the condition OF
the South, made up as the Convention
will be of men who have robbed and
slandered every section of it, who
have won by their depravity, the curses
of every honest man in it and who are
to come together as a. conclave of
thieves and to bespeak the confidence
of the North in their foul utterances
against the people they have wronged,
among whom they live only because
they can steal under the protection of
bayonets furnished by 1.-The best gov
eminent" that ever cursed its citizens
and made odious the very name Of Re
public.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-09-19

IT is suggestive fact that ten of
the negroes taken from Trenton jail,
should have escaped and those killed
were the parties whose confessions dis
closed the murderous negro plot The
inference is that the actors in that
tragedy are Radicals-black or white
and that their object was to murder
those who betrayed them and to liber-
ate those who remained true to the
murderous scheme of blood and ra-
pine. The jail breakers not only
wreaked their Vengeance, but, in doing
so. fired the northern heart. As con-
frmatory of this view of the subject,
it is stated that one of the ten who es-
capped and now in the Jail at Memphis,
has been advised by federal official
to make no disclosures whatever. The
truth would be damaging to the Radi-
cal incendiaries and to Grants admin
istration.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-09-19
ArrEk all said about restoring peace

AFTER all said about restoring peace
in the South, the fact is patent, that
the best measure of reform is the re-
moval from Office ofthose scallawags and
carbet- baggers who infame the blacks
against the whites. in order that they
may hold on to power and thus make
thieving easy and safe. The scallawag
who calls for bayonets is miserable
sneak and renegade who hopes that
his fendlike zeal in the cuase of a
corrupt and despotic dominant party,
will be the means of placing him in a
position to reap the reward of his
treason. Free federal offices of such
brutes and peace aud prosperity will
prevail in the South. They are only
fomenters of race discord; the admin
istration knows it, and hence the thew
ing, cut throat character Of federal APP
pointees for the southern States
Peace is incompatible with Radical
policy. and southern prosperity is dep
recated by New England and every
form of northern monopoly.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-09-19

EVERY honest man feels proud of
the glorious triumph of New Orleans.
Its victory over Kellogg and Long
street eclipses that of jackson over
Packenham. The voice of congratu-
lation is heard from every quarter of
the Union, save and except the mer-
cenary partizans of corrupt admins
tration, and the willing defenders of
ring-thieves. Grant was quiet and
conniving when McEnery was deposed
by Kellogg, interference now will be
an open act of despotism-an init
nation to the whole country of its
early destiny.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-09-19
For Mayor,
THOMAS A. SMITH.
THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL.

The money-making shrewdness of
the New Englander is proverbial, and
it is scarcely less true that he subordi-
mates to his avarice the cardinal virtues
which make up the honest man and
the patriot. Every act of the govern
ment is viewed from a strictly fnanci-
al stand point, and all the influence of
New England is exerted so to shape
the policy Of legislation, that the in
terests of that sterile section of the
Union shall be made paramount to
those of the whole country besides.
The shrewd yankee knows, as if by in
tuition, that the advancement of the
South in manufacturing and general
mechanical skill, in white population
and improved agriculture, will remand
the bleakshills of his native land to
their original sterility and limit its
productions to granite and ice. To
avert such a catastrophe, the South
must be subjugated and impoverished
hence the war and the savage bru-
tally with which it was conducted.
But the abolition of slavery and the
desolation of southern homes and
fields, did not suffice to fill the measure
of New England's greed, because the
energy ofthe southern people and their
devotion to their sunny home, indicated
agricultural develOpmentand the policy
of manufacturing.
To cOunteract our efforts at recuper-
alton, it was decided to inaugurate a
policy of ceaseless oppression and in
suit by means of reconstruction; to
legislate for the negro and against the
white man; to Torrent enmity between
the races; to instigate acts of violence
as the pretext for armed interference
with our domestic affairs; to disgust
us with government, home and cOun-
try and finally, as we have heretofore
stated, to drive the whites from
the cotton belt, colOnize it with negroes
that New England may get cotton at
FIVE cents per pound, from the ne
groes, and sell its goods at its own
prices. To consummate this scheme,
the civil rights bill is considered the
winning card-believing that the de-
cency of the South will prefer expa-
triatiOn to social equality.
Every act of the government since
the war, has been dictated by New
England capital and yankee interest
and every violation of southern rights
has had for its object the colonization
of the cotton States, with negroes, 10
order that northern manufacturers
shall have no southern competition
and that the emancipated slaves shall
work for New England capital, and
pay their own expenses. Upon nc
other supposition can we account fol
the Radical policy towards the south
crn whites. 1t can not be love of the
negro, because that would be unnatu'
raj and monstrous. 1t must be then
that the policy is based upon hatred O.
southern whites and love of the pros
pective profits from southern product:
as the result of ignorant negro prOprl
etorship of the soil. This is the in
tent and scope Of the civil rights bill
nothing more nor less.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-09-19

An extra issued from the Bulletin
Office at P. NJ, contains the following
PROCLAMATION:
To the People of Louisiana: For
two years you have borne with patience
and fortitude a great wrong through
fraud and violence. The government
of your choice has been overthrow,
and its power usurped. Protest after
protest, appeal after appeal to the
President of the United States and to
Congress have failed to give you the
relief you had right under the Con-
stitution to demand. The wrong has
not been repaired. On the contrary,
through the instrumentality of parti-
san judges, you are debarred from all
legal reraedy. Day by day taxation
has been increasing, with costs and
penalties amounting to confscation of
your property. Your substance squan-
dered, your credit ruined. resulting in
failure and bankruptcy of your valued
institutions. The right of suffrage is
virtually taken from you by the enact
ment of skillfully devised registration
and election laws. The judicial branch
of your government has been stricken
down by the conversion of the legal
posse comita tus of the Sheriff, to the
use of the usurper for the purpose of
defeating the DEGREES of the courts, his
defiance of law leading him to use this
very force for the arrest of the Sheriff,
while engaged in the execution of pro-
cesses of the court. To these may be
added a corrupt and vicious Legisla-
ture, enacting laws in violation of the
constitution, for the purpose of guard
ing and perpetrating their usurped
authority. a metropolitan police, paid
by the city, under the control of the
usurper, is quartered upon you to
oyerawe and keep you in subsection.
Every public right has been denied,
and as If to goad you to desperation,
private arms are seized and individuals
arrested. To such extremities are you
driven that manhood revolts at further
submission. Constrained from sense
OF duty, as the legally elected Lieuten-
ant Governor, acting Governor in the
absence of Gov. McEnery, | do hereby
issue this my proclamation, callingupon
the militia of the State, embracing all
persons between the ages of eighteen
and forty-fve years, without regard to
color or previous condition, to arm and
assemble under their respective Off
GERS, for the purpose of driving the
usurpers from the State.
Given under my hand and seal the
14th of September, 1874.
ID. B. PENN,
Lieut.. Gov. and Aet'g. Gov.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-09-19

GRANT disavows any purpose to in
terfere with the South, except within
the limitations of the Constitution.
Yet, in the face of this declaration,
federal troops are arresting citizens of
Tennessee and sending them out of
their county for trial by federal otllei-
ais, and this too, in a section where
the Governor of the State is earnest
ly endeavoriug to bring TO jus
tiee, the perpetrators of an outrage
against the laws and citizens of the
State of Tennessee. So much for
Grants sincerity! He desires to do
all be csE for the South, and is doing
it with a will and a Eotiye perfectly
characteristic Of the man.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-09-19

THE Louisville Commercial thinks
it has made point, when it points to
kentuckyand Tennessee-both strong
Is democratic, as affording the strong
est cases of riot and bloodshed. The
Commercial does know that one Radi-
cal liar can furnish sufficient amount
of testimony against any one State, to
satisfy Grant that federal bayonets are
needed in that State. Truth and JUS
tiee are ignored in such cases, aud the
sollcitude is to place the bayonets where
they will do most for the success of
The Radical party. Grant, with one
Tennessee, or Kentucky liar can soon
put an army ip motion to manipulate
ballot boxes.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-09-19

THE St. Louis Republican advises
the people of the South, that so long
as they afford the carpet 5aggers pre-
text for infaming the northern mind
by stories of bloodshed and violence,
Just so long will the efforts Of their
friends in the North to help them re-
gain their privilege of local self-gov-
ernment be, in a great measure, neu-
tralizcd." VIII the Republican be so
good as to inform the people of the
South how they can prevent the pre-
texts alluded to. Every sensible man
in the North knows that the two races
in the South live in peace during the
Intervening time between general cleo
tions. and by the exercise of a little
common sense, the fact would become
equally apparent, that disturbances are
invariably created, or falsely reported,
on the eve of such elections, and are
gotten up in accordance with inStruc-
~tions from headquarters by the very
carpet baggers agaiustwhom the South
is warned. As well might we be held
responsible for strikes in the North,
as the people of the South be held
responsible for the disturbances, real
or imag nary, that are gotten up by
carpet baggerS and negroes forpolitical
effect. We opinc that the Republican
is equally mistaken in suppoSing that
the South has friends in the North.
Its worst enemies have been democrat
ic in name, and if there has been a
change it is not yet apparent. Self
interest is not friendship, and people
who tolerate corrupt tyranny, because
its effects fall heaviest upon others are
as incapable of friendship as they are
destitute Of patriotism.
If the Republican has no better adj
vice to give the people of the South,
than such as is predicated upon their
assumed responsibility for the lawless
violence of negroes and carpet-bag-
gers. instigated by northern Radicals
aud protected by federal bayonets,
silence were more honorable. Such
advice is an insult and the more cruel
because tits anunwelcome reminder of
patient endurance waiting for that jus
tiee which a purely sectio nal govern
ment maliciouslys withhold for the
basest end that ever prompted corrupt
mower to the exercise of its malignant
will-that end is the crushing of truth,
justiceand liberty that party may hour
III and corruption riot amid the ruins
Of government aud people.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-09-19

THE Memphis Avalanche, ofthe 10Th
inst. has the following sad intelii-
gence:
Hon. John S. Kerr died at 2 p. m.
yesterday at the residence of his uncle,
Rev. DIR. A. III. Kerr, on Poplar
street, after brief illness. His de-
mise, which was totally unexpected,
was announced in the Convention at
the Exposition Building, and the sad
intelligence spread rapidly through the
city, evoking universal expressions OF
regret.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-09-19

THE late seizure of private arms, in
New Orleans, is suggestive of the
meaning of the war orders from Wash
ington. They mean that the whites
must be disarmed and the negroes
armed. The next step may be to hand
cuff every decent white man in Louis
lana, and have them all shot by files
of negroes.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-09-19

THE future of the hog crop is yet
uncertain. Many believe that the pro-
duet will almost equal that of last year,
while others are predicting that it will
show decrease af from 10 to 90 per
cent. on account of the short crop of
corn aud the smallness of the hogs
now being sent forward. The serious
damage to the corn crop in Kansas and
the neighboring section has forced hogs
to Illinois and Indiana, where they
will be highly fed by the most extra
ordinary crops of corn and wheat ever
grown in those two States. Chicago
will have these stocks at her door, and,
as consequence, will beable to dictate
prices, to a great extent, throughout
the coming season.-UniOn and Amer
tcdn
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-09-19

THE Radicals of the North, are re-
sponsible for whatever lawlessness ex-
lists in the South and yet true to
their devlish instincts, they plead their
own wrong-doing in justification of
continuous and aggravated oppression
of those who are guiltless of negro and
carpet-bag crimes against law and or
der.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-09-19

Hon. JOHN S. KERR, of Memphis,
and candidate for Governor before
the Convention, died suddenly, on the
18th, inst, of heart disease. In him
the State has lOsta talented and worthy
citizen.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-09-19

Hon. G. A. HENRY, President o.
the Democratic Convention has ap
pointed the following gentlemen al
the State Democratic Central Com.
mittee;
Jas. L. Rice, of Davidson, Chair
man.
Jno. +. Helms, first district.
K. NJ. Hood, second district.
DIR. 2. ID. Sims, third district.
Jno. A. Fife, fourth district.
James W. Newman, fifth district.
+. C. Huntington, sixth district.
w. II. Morrow, sixth district.
f. T. TaIliafero, seventh district.
ID. NJ. Wisdom, eighth district.
Hiram johnson, ninth district.
Luke Wright, tenth district.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-09-19

IT is asserted that the Chattanooga
Radical Convention, in addition to its
lying report of the condition of the
South, will set the third term ball in
motion, hoping thereby to induce
Grant to do all he can to prolong the
rule of carpet-bag thieves.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-09-19
COaly COaIy

We have been appointed agents for the
Diamond Coal and Mining Co., and will
commence delivering Coal here about the
18th OF October. We intend to supply
good article of Coal at as low a figure rs
will Justify us in handling it; willtry to be
prompt and accommodating in every way.
but we must have the Cash for Coal when
delivered. orders left at our office. accom-
panied by the cash, win be promptly filled
all others Will have the bill sent with
them. We respectfully solicit share of
the public patronage.
ANDERSON & BRINGHURST.
Sept. % Tiff
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-09-19
NOTICE.

On Saturday, october 9th, 1874, will sell
to the highest bidder, at old Blooming
Grove Furnace, ii not disposed of private
ly before that time, n Steam Grist MILL Is
horse power, in good order. Any one wish
ing to examine said Mill viii call on the
undersigned near Woodlawn or Mr. John
Foster at said Furnace. A great bargain
will be offered. Terms made known on
day of sale. j. w. BARTEE.
Sept. l9-tds.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-09-19

BINGHAMToN, n. Y, Sept. 10
Rev. ID. ID. Gregory, prominent eler-
gymau of this State, and formerly
pastor of the Tabernacle Church, Gin
cinnati, died in this city to-day.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-09-19
WAR DEPARTMENT,

WASHINGTON, Sep. 10, 1874.
Under no circumstances recognize
the insurgent government of Louisiana.
Within five days from the date of the
proclamation to the insurgents such
action will be taken as the emergency
may require.
By order of the President,
f. ID. TOWNSHIPS, Adjutant General.