Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-01-22

Ii proof were wanting of the mallg-
ant hatred of the South still ranking
n the heiirts Of Northern Radicals, it
AN be found abundantly in the late
ipeech of Blaine. As an eager aspir-
int to the Presidency, it is fair to pre-
sumo that he has weighed carefully the
means by which his success is most
likely to be secured; that he knows his
people, and the productiveness of the |
soil in which he is sowing the seeds of
discord. Could we believe him honest
and patriotic in his utierances, there
would be some justification for his
course, but none for his elevation to the
Presidency. because his ignorance, 1T
honest, and his sectional Indignantly,
if patriotic, would make his election
curse TO the country and disgrace to
its institutions.
But in order TO make clearer the
foulness of his motives, we must look
ct his surroundings On one side of him
is Grant striving for third term and
hoping to secure it By asserting that
there will be war in the near future,
between Catholicism and Protestant
ism, and in the fulness Of his vanity
holding out the idea that, unless he be
President, the Pope viii be victorious.
Blaine, having been reared a Catholic,
cannot endorse this view and in order to
checkmate Grant, takes issue with his
suggestion ofuniversal amnesty, though
once its advocate. On the other side
of him is Morton ignoring all other
considerations and relying solely
upon the devlish inspirations of the
bloody shirt."' Thus hemmed in by
the pre-occupation ofthe strong points
of Radical strategy, Blaine's only
chance, as he foolishly supposes, con-
sists in his ability to wrest from Nor
ton the whole or the larger portion OF
the sbloody shirt" Hence the hend-
like malignity of his assault upon JEFF
fersou Davis, whom he makes the en-
bodiment of all the crimes which he
fouly and falsely charges upon the
South. And to give blacker hue tc
that demagogue motives and utter.
ances, he brings them before the coun.
try in all their hideous deformity a
this particular iuncture, when all good
men In both sections are striving t.
make this centennial year of jubilet
the era of renewed sectional harmo'
ny and general peace and prosperity
And as if to leave not doubt of hi
purpose, he cast from him, as an in.
cumbrance, every consideration o.
truth, justice, honor and humanity, anC
regardless of them all, stood up in the
presence of his whole country and un
blushingly appealed to ignorance
prejudice, passion and fanaticism t.
come to the support of his unworthy
claims to preferment. Nor must We
omit here another illustration of the
vileness of the party which Blaine as.
pires to lead-which illustration ii
found in the fact that whilst be, on the
floor Of Congress, charges upon Davis
and the South treason. murder and {
cruelty known to only two conditions O
life cauni5alism and civilized fanati
cism-the South is denied the right tt
defend itself through its representative
men on the same floor, under the impli
ed threat that such defense will be fol
lowed by the prolonged injustice ant
tyranny of brutal sectional DONNA
ton.
And in this connection, we take thu
liberty of asking the Southern delega
ton in Congress in what particular
-of-the-way nook in the bogus Cen.
tennial jubilee any Southern State car
hide its dishonored head and its sense
of wrong and humiliation from the
gaze of the representatives of the civ.
ilized world? As long as a solitary
citizen of the South is DISTINGUISHED
by sectional tyranny and usurpation
the whole South is dishonored and
constitutional liberty a mockery-fol
the fact can not be disguised that the
power to disfranchise one can disfran.
chise all, and so long as this power is
claimed by the dominant party, liberty
is ours not by constitutional right, but
if ours at all, by suferance-the elem
ency of usurpers. Is it at the Centen-
NAL of such government the South
err States ought to be present as IN
dorsers and participants? Is this the
sort of jubilee TO which Southern Con.
gressmen should vote a million and q
half of dollars? As much as we &c.
sire sectional harmony and equal polit.
ical Justice to all the States, we are not
willing to obtain either or both by
the Trostration of the South at the
footstool of Radical power.