Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-08-15
NEGRO SUPREMACY, THE RADICAL
PROGRAMME.

Although the Constitution has been
the football of Radical leaders during
the past thirteen years, there has been
no grosser violation of its spirit and in
tent than the fanatieal abrogation of
the clause which denied the rights of
citizenship to the red men of the forest
and the gentlemen from Africa. But
the corrupt and phrenzied fugle men
of the dominant party, not content |
with their wholesale destruction of
private property, guaranteed By the
Constitution and laws of the United |
States, conferred upon that property |
all the rights of citizenship, making
the slave the equal in law, of his former
master, without the slightest attempt
10 prepare the ignorant mass for the
Radical change of OPPOSITION. The
South, accepting this change as re-
suit of the war, foolishly believed that
the wrong and insult, thus perpetrated,
would satiate the savage hate, even of
New England.
But the twin sisters--cowardice and
cruelty-stimulated by the helpless
ness Of their victim, and made brave
by non-resistance, ventured step far
Their, and conferred upon the semi-bar-
Gus citizens, made such by force with
out a semblance of authority under
the Constitution, the highest privilege
of intelligent freemeu, the right of
suffrage. This act, the outgrowth of a
savage spirit of vengeance, has done
more to lower the standard of politl-
cal intelligence and the tone Of public
virtue, than even the corrupt practices
of the Radical administration and
the thorough licenciousness of its
hordes of supporters.
But even this outrage upon the
Southern whites, upon the honor of
the government, upon everything pure
and valuable in free institutions, a
GROWING inquiry has been concocted,
and partially consummated, by which
the sanctity of our homes, our private
rights in the public institutions built
up 10y our own means for our exclu-
sive use, must, under heavy penalties,
be thrown open TO free participation
by every degraded negro whose inso-
lence, or cupidity may prompt him
to attempt the dangerous invasion of
reserved social rights. This act of
vengeful tyranny is unparalleled in the
history of civilization. yet many of
the hated and prosecuted whites of the
South. failing to see. or appreciate,
the fatal consequences of the mon
strous usurpation of power over
churches, schools and fresides. by the
sectional administration at Washing
ton, accept the wrong and court the
favor of those, in whose behalf, the
wrong is perpetrated. There is but
one hope of security against the COM
pletion of this damnable Radical
abuse of power, and that lies in the
immediate formation of compact
white mans party and thorough re-
pudiation of the colOred race as po-
litical element in the South. The ne
groes greed for privileges he can neither
understand nor enjoy, is as Unsuitable
as yankee vengeance, and unless the
whites stand in solid column, resolved
to check the persistent efforts of Rad
icalism to make them the political
serfs of their former slaves, or leave
their native land, the next step will be
enforced miscegenation and the exclu-
sive right of the negro to hold office.
The lesson taught by last week :
election. is having a happy effect upon
many of our best citizens, in so far
as it has determined them, in future
elections, to draw the color-line, and
to support no candidate who aeeks his
own promotion, and aids the degrada-
ton of his race, by Over-stepping that
line in search of colored recruits.
This course ought to have been adopted,
from the first, but, as it was not, the
contrary policy was viewed somewhat
as a political necessity, and was such,
during the period ofpartial white dis
reimbursement; but that necessity has
ceased wherever there is white ma
iority, however small, and the wisdom
of drawing the color line is made
apparent by the Social Rights bill.
The negroes have been, and are, firm
" united against the whites, and have
cloried 10 every Radical outrage against
the South. And whilst we contem-
plate no infringement upon their Civi,
Rights, we must teach them that we
have rights which they shall respect.
and if they will not live with us, or
terms of mutual good will and COM
mon interests, they must be taught
that they are not yet masters of the
situation in this State, and that every
white man who, hereafter, panders to
their arrogance. WILDE treated as their
ally. and a traitor to his own race.