Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-11-11

as three millions of white people in
| Pennsylvania ten times as much as
two and half millions in Ohio; ten
times as much as two and half mil
! lions in Illinois; ten times as much as
| one million and a half in Indiana.
These three millions of blacks will
have twice the representation In the
Senate, which will be possessed by the
five great commonwealths-New York,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and IL
! linois-embracing thirteen and half
millions of our people.
THE LATE SLAVE POWER"
The Republicans have educated our
people to overthrow what they call the
'Slave Power" Analyze it. What
was it? 1t was the influence which
$4,000 heads of families, embracing
100000 of the white race, owning
slaves, and living intermingled with
100000 of other whites not owning
slaves, were capable of exercising over
public opinion, aud thereby upon the
government. 1t gave US Washington,
Jefferson, Madison, Munroe, jackson,
Marshall, Clay, and hosts of other
statesmen and patriots, and whatever
influence could be exercised by it was
only through the consent of millions
civilized people of our race.
The struggle to overthrow it has
cost the whole country million of
! lives, and four thousand millions of
dollars.
And now what is it proposed to the
| people of the great populous common
| wealths of the North to accept in ex-
change, and as the recompense for such
immense sacrifices
THE COMING NEGRO POWER.
The political power of the States
where slavery once existed will remain,
and after the next census will be en-
| larged by the representation of all, in-
stead of three-fifths of the former
slaves. That power in the ten States.
| if the system of the Republicans shall
| prevail and cOntInue-at any rate for
| the next two years, which involve
peculiarly all the business interests of
the country-is to be welded by few
hundred adventures, through the
| three millions of emancipated slaves.
And the Capitalization of our govern
mental authorities will cause it to act
vastly more upon all our interests. 1t
will give us Hunnicut for Washington,
Underwood for Jefferson. and Brown
low for Jackson. Every element of
this power would be inferior in moral |
ity and intelligence to the one which
has been overthrow; and its influence |
upon our welfare would be immensely |
greater.
Will the people of our great North
ern States accept domination of such |
negro power" erected on the ruins |
of such slave power?
CONCLUSION.
do not ask what will be the con-
sequences on the white race of ten
States-whether the white race will be
expelled; | do not ask what will be
the effects upon our industrial or com
mercial interests; or on the civiliza-
ton of portion of our country three
and half times as large as the French
empire.
If the authors of this policy tell you
that the white people of the South de-
serve this infiction. ask you whether
you also deserve it? If. taking coun-
sci of hatred, you think you are making
a government for your late enemies,
remind you you are also making a
government for yourselves Do the |
twenty-five millions Of the white people
out of the ten States deserve such
government as you are imposing on
them2
The masses of the Republicans do
not understand the real nature of the
system they are contributing to estab-
lish. They are misled by party asso-
citation and party antagonism, by the
animosities created by the war, and the
unsettled ideas which grow out of the
novelty of the situation. The leaders
are full of party passion and party am
bitIOn, and will not easily surrender
the power Of a centralized government,
or the patronage and profits which are
incident to an official expenditure of
FIVE hundred millions a year. The
grim Puritan of New England, whose
only child, whose solitary daughter, is
already listening to the soft music of
Celtic wooer-stretches his hand down
along the Atlantic coast to the reced-
ing and decaying African, and says
Come, letus rule thts country tOqetheri" !
The twelve Senators from New Eng
land-with twenty from the ten States,
would require Onlya few from Missouri,
Tennessee, West Virginia, and from
new States-to make majority.
| do not forbid the banns. L simply
point to the region which stretches
from the Hudson to the Missouri. 1t
is there that the Democracy must dis (
play their standards, in another, and, {
I trust, final battle for Constitutional {
Government and Civil Liberty. in !
yited YOU to that theatre last year. |
come now to bid you, God speed '
Every business, every industrial in {
terest is paralyZed under excessive tax s
system of fnance-ex- {
travagant cost of pr0duction-dimin
ished ability to consume. You cannot {
obtain relief until you change your
policy. You cannot
change that unit! you change the men
who administer your government. The
causes of the dangers in respect to our :
political institutions aud civil liberty,
and the causes of your suffering in
business, are identical. For the safety :
of the one, aud for the relief of the !
other, you must demand of the people !
3 change of Administration as now
carried on by Congress. F. /.
The counsel of Mr.. Tilden was at i
that time but little needed in the t
North, but with the progress of cor !
ruption in the predominant party and !
their great loss of moral aud elective 5
force in the Northern States. together Il
with the evident determination of the I
executive to retain the slave power in (
It's hands, men even in the North have h
begun to ask themselves, have even
We the power to put down this cor
ruption in high places if it retains in e
It's hands so vast force of resistance s.
10 our opposition The minimum a
power of Opr 100000 Office holders Q
acting as interested election agents, =
together with the slave power retained f.
n the hands of the administration. tC
ire we'll celebrated to alarm those who g
,alue Republican institutions in the a.