Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-10-28
BARBECUE Al HAMPTON STATION.


BARBECUE AT HAMPTON STATION.
The locality selected for this demon
stration last Saturday was calculated
to awaken serious thoughts and deep
emotions. 1t is the site of the we'll
known Camp Quarles, at which the
first regiment which left this city, the
18th Tennessee, went into training for
that terrible struggle from which so
many never returned So that for
GAINESVILLE it was the beginning of the
war.
The purport OF last Saturdays meet
ing was to make it the beginning of
peace to do something which is to re-
establish the feelings of brotherly un-
ion which can only grow where equal
ity of rights and unity of purpose are
the soil in which they are to take root.
For such peace and such a reunion
the masses of the nation, North and
South, were ready many years ago, but
its establishment was dreaded by the
leaders of a great political organization,
who foresaw 10 its prosperity death
to their political supremacy, and they
resolved that it should not be; aud by
tearing open old wounds, by persistent
iteration of by-gone animosities, by
misrepresentation of the real feelings
of the South, predicting passion for
renewed warfare, where nothing but
longing for rest existed, it was brought
about that all the rancor and all the
heart-burnings and all the mutual
distrust, which were the product of
the war, should shoulder for ten long
years, aud from to time blaze out anew,
when but for such internal policy,
peace and brotherhood would have
grown into union of all sections
more solid and more substantial than
that which existed before the war.
The popular movement in the North
in favor of the Democratic party and
against the present administration can
not be better defined than as protest
against this deadly policy, rebuke to
its authors, and above all proffer of
real peace, ofpeace in the spirit as we'll
as in tie letter to the people in the
South, and demonstrations such as
those at Camp Quarles, last Saturday,
must be received as the glad response
of the South, as the beating of broth
er's heart against brothers heart, and
the manly resolve that the profered
peace shall be practical reality.
I 1t boots not then to describe again
the long retinue of hOrse-meu, the
booming of cannon, the loud jubilee
of sonorous brass and the sweet sing
ing of the daughters of GAINESVILLE,
nor the orations, however cogently ad-
vanced or eloquently enforced-all
this, by repetition, reads as common
place in our columns, but the emotions
under which it all transpired were far
from common place the feeling was
that the North had sent her message,
shall we be brothers again, and the
South answered yea.
The booming cannon uttered yea
the brazen trumpets shouted yea the
eloquent orators, answered for thous-
and hearers, yea and the sweet sing
ers in their melody said, "Oh yes it is
our hearts desire"
This is our report from Camp
Quarles not of the outward details,
but of the inward spirit of the meet
ing. Let our readers, land oh that we
had readers North as we'll as South, J
let them take this as the true meaning
of every Tilden and Hendricks meet
ing which has been held North or
South in the United States throughout
this campaign 1t all means this,
shall there be brotherhood again ? and
the answer, a thousand times. YEA II!
We advise our readers to cut out
and keep the list of States with their
number of electoral votes which we
have printed on our outside; it will
render the election returns more in
telligible when they begin to come in.
Below we give our own impressions
regarding the probable distribution Of
these votes. In doing so we have set
down no State as Democratic without
strong reasons for believing that it
will so vote, and it will be noticed that
the extreme Southern States are put
upon the doubtful list on account of
the presence of Grants bayonets,
though we do not doubt that some of
them will vote Democratic in spite of
that. Notice that if we are correct in
our estimate it will require only 6
from the doubtful list added to the
Democratic list to ensure the election
of Tilden and Hendricks, the number
required being l85.
DEMOCRATIC. REPUBLICAN,.
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