Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-12-13
what the Radicals Demand.
Memnhis An,,ea1


The sweltered venom of the Re
publican. party has broken out anew
in the Northern States. We heal
nothing but abuse and vilificatior
OF the South. Our people have ac
cepted the situation and are quietly
laboring to rebuild their desolated
homes and to promote the great
material interests of the South and
of the whole country. They are
making no war upon the constitu-
tlOnal amendments or any of the
measures of reconstruction. Yet
they are lied about from day to day
as if they were outlaws. The
"bloOdy shirt" is the shibboleth,
the war cry, the only issue made by
the Republicans, and it seems we
are to have the old sectional fight
over again. The Republicans do
not want peace. The report of the
Grant boom in the South is offens-
i've to them, because they are de-
termined to place him on an ex-
treme platform, and will oppose the
nomination of any Republican who,
like Greeley, favored a fraternal
brotherhood between the sections.
In so many words the Radicals de-
clare that the Southern people will
be harrassed and prosecuted unless
they join the Republican party:
unless they acknowledge the wis
dom of carpetbag and bayonet rule;
unless they proclaim their willing
ness to become to the United States
what Ireland is to England, a sub
jugated province. The Republicans
show by their utterances that so
long as the South dares to vote with
the party which comprises major
ity OF the American people, there
can be no peace. In other words, if
the Southern people will give up
their manhood and rights as citf- |
zens, and vote the Republican |
ticket, they will at once, like Long
street, Mosby and Key, be recog-
nized as marvellous patriots. There |
can be no peace upon such dishon- |
orable terms. The war did not de- |
eide that the Republican party
must be kept in power by the votes
OF the Southern people. The South |
is not responsible for this new sec
tionai war. The Republicans are
determined that we shall have no
repOse. They are just as much de-
termined to SANDER, abuse and mis-
us as was the wolf to
devour the lamb which it met in
the stream. If we celebrate the
Fourth ofJuly and strew flowers on
the graves of the Federal dead, it is
said by the advocates of perpetual
hate that this is hypocritieal policy.
If we exercise the prerogative of
freemen at the ballOt-box, and vote
for our friends instead of our calum-
we are called unrepentant
rebels and accused of diSlOyaity to
the Government. We still believe
with Henry Clay, that ''truth is
Omnipotent and public justice GER
tain," and that the Radical fanatics
of the North cannot succeed in
again enthroning hatred between
the sections as controlling issue in
the next Presidential election. The
common sense of the people, their
inherent love of justice, and, above
all, those great industrial and COM
mercial interests that bind the sec
lions together, will, in the next
drive into oblivion the
apostles of hate and bring to the
front such statesmen as Thomas F.
Bayard, whose patriotism is broad
to embrace all sections of
BUR common country. If the vote !
Of the Southern people could be
aiken it would be found that there
ire not one hundred men in the
South who do not concur with Cor
Ion and Lamar and Hampton in !
heir views as to the duty of the !
south in regard to the issues de-
'ided by the war. Yet the South
,rn people are accused of following
he lead of Robert Toombs and the
)kOlona States and indorsing the
Tazoo murder. This new war upon :
he South has been inaugurated too {
Oon. It will have consumed itself g
)efore the next Presidential cleo i
ion. The business. men of the {
North and the real patriots will see s
hat the policy of sectional hate is '
by partisan office-seek- /
rs, and they will vote for Thomas I
:. Bayard, statesman Of enlarged I
who will not hate any /
ection of the Union or any portion '
# the people, and who is devoted to /
he peace, honor and glory of the {
epublic. '