Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-09-30
HAYES AND WHEELER or WAR.

This is the substance of an editorial
in the radical organ published at Nash
Vile, date Sept. q.
The article bristles with Federal
bayonets and sabres and Southern men
are earnestly exhorted to vote for the
Radical candidates lest hOrdes Of
Northern invaders should again be let
loose on the devoted South with the
bloody shirt waving as their standard.
If it were not evident that this bel
ligerent farrago was, for purposes sui
fieiently manifest, inspired by instruc-
tions from Radical head quarters, it
would not be worth a moments notice;
as it is, it may be worth while to call
attention to it as a feeble effort to aid
in the policy Of intimidation whereby
the Taft-Cameron conspiratOrs en-
deavor to scare the Southern people
into the Radical fold. The author
dwells with awful premonitiOns on the
excitement which in the North has fol-
lowed upon the agitation of the South
ern question, most of which he accounts
for by the rebellious conduct he at
tributes to the Southern democracy.
I'VE appeal to the history of the
last eleven years. Every attempt by
the Republican party to engraft into
the Fundamental law the results Of the
war-results that ought to have been
accepted by the Democratic party and
by the Southern people at once as ir-
reVerslhly dpcreed ~ 1AfuItSHty Hdt'
results that hundreds of thousands
had died, that millions of treasure had
been spent, to secuTe-was persistent
~ and vehemently opposed. Look at
the facts :"
And to establish this position he re-
lies partly on the fact that the 18th
and 18th amendments were gener-
ally opposed by the Democratic party
and partly upon the wild vaporings of
Southern fire caters like Mr.. Toombs
which are condemned by every infu-
entail Democrat in the South.
Now let the truth be stated in refer
ence to these amendments at least the
18th and 18th. The South accepts
terms of capitulation not approving of
them but binding herself to submit
to them and obey them. No one was
deceived it was we'll known in the
North that the South accepted them
as the result Of conquest without APP
proving them. Nor did the North it
self approve them; the mis-giving and
reluctance was universal with which
1000, 600 ofslavesj just emancipated were
without preparation or previous discip-
line and experience suddenly invested
with political power and that under
such circumstances as to have rule
over the white people in the Gulf
States. Hardly State in the Union
was at first prepared for such a step,
protests against it were raised by all
parties and by none with more elo-
quenee and power than by some of the
most distinguished members of the
republican party and by original abo-
litiouists; need we mention the names
of Garfield and Garrison and above all
of Oliver p. Morton who now de.
nounees so furiously the State of dis
cord in the South which he himsel
wilfully and with his eyes open brough
about, knowing (for he predicted 1t
that it was necessary result of negro
suffrage wherever white men, were il
the minority. No, it was with the
disapproval of all but the mos
INSCRIPTIONS of party leaders that ne
gro suffrage was first mooted, but un
der the ruthless application of the
party lash by Thaddeus Stephens, frs
radical politicians and then very grad
ually the people of the Northern States
were brought round to it, and not theT
as to measure wise and prudent IL
itself, but as an essential expedient fol
maintaining the radical party in power
To say that the Union soldiers WIN,
Tell IN tue DdlIiGS Ol tue ldle war ulGN
for this is to falsify history and t,
Islander the men Of whom it is assert
ed; they no more desired it, no NOR
conceived it as a possible result of tn
war in which they were engaged thai
did the Southern soldiers-it was a
after thought Of willy politicians not a
idea inspiring brave soldiers, and whe
the South accepted it she made no pre-
tence OF approving it, she was know
not to approve it-she simply accepte
it as the conquered accept terms fror
the conquerer-but having accepted
she adheres to it as a soldier to his pa
role, aud those who make of few dis
turbances as often originated by tn
negro as by the white man an evideuc
of her breaking that pledge, dishono
themselves By the Islander withou
tanitiug the honor of the Souther
soldier. Such occasional outbreak
were predicted by Mr.. Morton whe
he spoke his honest sentiments as tn
evident result of negro suffrage