Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-25
THE DYING SNAKE.

The following envenomed SANDER
was uttered by Oliver P. Morton
lately in Oregon, and then he sue
cumbed to the attack of paralysis
which will probably end his politi-
cal career if not his natural life.
There is something at once revolt
ing, appalling and pitiable in con-
templating the end of this noxious
reptile, who has so long been pois-
oning all the blood of the body pol
itic with his accused views, and at
last pours forth this torrent of his
evil passions and then sinks in
helpless imbecility. Hate, revenge
and SANDER to the last and then the
life, which has for long time been
sustained only by the stimulus of
evil passion, shoulder down like the
wick of an expiring lamp, which is
known to be burning at all only by
the evil Odor that it gives out:
There is a solid South against us. How
long III Will ltlSL i 90 not know, Dub ulOer-
stand this is the situation to-day, and that
the South expects to WELD the sentiment as
one voice in the approaching political con-
test. 1t is important, therefore, that the
North should stand together; that you
should stand together in the great struggle,
that we shall not lose all that we have won.
We must preserve the constitutional amend
mentS; we must preserve the fruits OF the
war all our interests, both Democrats and
Republicans, are alike. If the people of the
South are struggling,for their own recupera-
81 q Democracy
/ of the North. Nothing has happened show
/ ing that they care a whit for them. They
have not forgotten that the Democracy of
the North encouraged them to go into the
rebellion, ana made them believe that they
| would not permit them to remain in the
/ Union. But they act with the Democratic
/ party of the North because they have an OBJ
/ ject. The people of the South have their
| own policy to carry out, their own wrongs
/ to redress, their own losses to pay off. And
they want to make the Northern Democrat
and Republican pay for their losses, and if
| we have to pay them the Northern Demo-
| Gratis will have to pay their share; That Will
| be some consolation. The South-we have
| forgiven them. They cost 100000 lives and
S6,OO0,OOO,0 900 by their crimes. There is scarce
| ly q family in all this land in which there Is
| not vacant chair. But we fOrgave them
| all that. All we ask is that they shall be
good citizens. We claim the right TO go
| there, live and have our own opinions and
| access to every privilege that we give them
| when they come here. With that we will
be satisfied, and with nothing else"
We once witnessed a curious phe-
nOmenor in a captured snake, which
the fall of Morton irresistibly brings
to our memory. A friend had cap
tured a small snake, of what species
we know not, but evidently a ven
Omous one; for the purpose of OBJ
serving his motions he was enclosed
in a glass jar; for some time his con-
tortions were furious and he would
bite viciously at objects held to the
outside of the jar; baff1ed in his
purpose he would then remain mo-
tiOnless and sullen for a while, and
fits of rage and stupor would alter
nate; at last with flashing eyes and
struggles so vehement as to be
scarcely distinguishable the reptile
reared his head to the top of his
transparent prison, and furiously
struck his fangs into his own body
and in a few seconds lay dead at the
bottom of the jar, poisoned by his
own venom. Morton is that snake