Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-08-29

lncendiary speech OF u. A. Henry,
the presiding officer of the Democratic
Convention, who was not astonished
beyond measure, that man to whom
age. experience and unbounded OPP
portunities of observation should have
brought high degree of regard for
truth, wisdom and moderation, should
have given expression to the extraor--
binary harangue which he delivered
before that body.-NdshUitte Bulletin.
This carpet-bag teacher of Tennes-
see statesmen, the grinder of the Rad
zeal organ, whose dulcet tones are in
unison with the very spirit of love and
peace, justice and truth this holy
pilgrim from the blest abode of the
Credit Mobiliers and the Beechers,
whose mission is to enlighten and
bless heather Tennessee, adopts that
novel mode of reform which illus
trates. in the conduct of the teacher,
the vices to be reformed. The venera-
bic and venerated patriot and states
man who presided over the late Con-
vention, is to be taught that his pa
triotic and eloquent utterances are but
the heat and fame Of the ineendiary's
torch. that upon his honest and intel
lectual face are inscribed the words,
rebel. and traitor, and that his devo-
ton to his native South, is foul
imputation upon that mighty par
ty which overrides the laws of the coun-
try and defes the laws of God. Oh!
no! the pure the gifted reformer who
penned the insult to our honored
townsman, embodied in the paragraph
which heads this article, would not re-
kindle the fame of sectional discord
by falsely aspersing the motives, utter
auces and acts of the wisest and best
men who survive, in either section, the
wreck of public virtue and the ruin Of
the government. And to illustrate
how ugly such conduct would look In
print, he spreads upon his Bulletin
board, for the inspection of his north
ern brethren, such samples of mitga-
ted and unmitigated false misrepresen-
tations as the following:
"a large portion of Hoods army
has been in camp in Nashville for sew
eral days.
Why this allusion to Hoods army
in connection with political conven-
ton? Simply because i. is an incen-
diary spark intended to fire the north
ern heart.
1.-The Civil Rights bill is but the
fiimsy pretext which is being made use
of by the designing leaders of the
southern Democracy to inaugurate a
war of races between the white and
colored population, and in the end des-
troy the power and authority of the
government of the United States. :
This is whopper, and made of whole
cloth.
"* it is very evident that the
leaders of this new movement have
nothing less in view than the absolute
subversion of Republican principles
and ideas, in the South at least" (if
Republicanism and Radicalism are
synonymes, this is truth told by
accident.) "the taking away from
the colored citizens their rights as
such \ ~ This is an intentional
falsehood, and brand from the
hand of a Radical incendiary. And
then follows a wholesale SANDER
upon every honest Tennessean, and as
every SANDER involves wicked false
hood, We need not be more explicit on
this point.
Such has been the magnanimity of
the party in power, that the revolu-
t!onary measures of these wicked and
treacherous cOnspirators are already
far advanced and they have already
done much, not only to endanger the
peace of the country, but to bring
reasonable designs to successful is
sue
We might extend such extracts, to
4 much greater length, but these will
suffice as samples of the material with
which the campaign will be enlivened
by this peace-loving, truth-telling,
self-appointed teacher ofthe venerable
sages of this benighted State. We omit
his powerful argument drawn from the
frequency of crimes in the South, and
the more discreet than honest reserve,
with which he withholds the doubly
numerous crimes, against law, religion,
and morality, perpetrated in that
northern paradise from which he is,
perhaps, voluntary exile. But when
this conscientious dealer in the
facts of current history, draws his IL
Illustrations from the oppressed States
of South Carolina, Louisiana and Ar
kansas, justice bids us pause, in our
running commentary, and ask the
Bulletin man the name of the party
which dominates and curses those
States upon which nature has lavished
its choicest blessings, but which Radi-
calism. reeking with corruption, has
blasted with the combined curses of
Pandora's box.
The editor of the Bulletin, whilst
candidly confessing that he does not
approve all the features of the Civil
Rights bill. gives us to understand that
the Democrats should take it entire
without murmur, and that its prOvis-
ions will be enforced, if it BecesSitateS
the reduction "of every southern State
to a territory, and every town and vii
lage garrison of armed soldiers. y
There is nothing incendiary in this in
sulting threat uttered from the Capitol
of our State, by waif from the surg
ing tide of strife which he would again
lash into fury, because part of the
noblest work of GOd-the honest white
men ofthe South will not grovel at the
foot-stool of corrupt power and assume
the badge of inferiority to the lowest
type of mankind Oh no! There is
nothing incendiary in all this, and the
boilers. Independents and chronic dis
organizers will fail to see in it, any in
vocation to harmony and union, as the