Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-07-26

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up to the Federal courts which had
in former days been decided in
those of the States, and the States
had resisted in vain. In short,
should the Democratic party fail to I
retain the predominance it has Sc
laboriously acquired in Congress,
and should it lose the Presidency in |
the coming election, both which the
speaker earnestly deprecated, there
could be no shadow of doubt that
the debt will be collected dollar for
dollar in the Federal courts unless
settled on the terms of the exceed
ingIy liberal compromise now Of
fered. These considerations were
presented to those who were incapa-
bic of being reached by any higher
ones. He refused to believe, how
ever, that many Of his present hear
ers were in this category; he knew
the people of Tennessee; he had
lived among them all his life; he
had seen them tried as by fire, and
he knew that deeply seated in the
character of every Tennessean was
a sense of honor that need only be
appealed to to be called into action.
lie had seen then. tried, he said;
he had seen them after their repulse
at Nashville, when the cause of the
Confederacy had become hopeless,
turn their backs upon the homes
which were within their reach and
march with their retreating colors,
barefoot and hungry, away from
home and rest and plenty, to a ser
vice of WEAKNESS and privation,
and all for honor They had given
their plighted faith and honor for
bad desertion. Let no one tell him,
then, that appeals to right and
honor are wasted upon such men (;
he appealed to them now again to
stand to the plighted faith of their
State and to trample on all induce
ments to desertion.
This portion of the speech (of
which we can of course only indi-
cate the general scope was a speci-
men OF exalted eloquenee which we
admit to have astOnished us. We
had heard many Il cogent argument
from Col. Bailey, but we were I'M
prepared for an effusion of impas-
stoned eloquence such as is rarely
heard in court or in Senate or on
the hastings; it had its effect, too.
Men who came to that meeting
with the sheer OF cold disdain on
their faces, left il with an expression
of serious thought which we think
will produce fruit in season.
Gen. Campbell followed in a tell
ing address. He was a little en-
barrassed at first by being antici-
pated in some of his arguments by
Col. Bailey but if he partially GOV,
cred the same ground, he illustrated
his topics by a fund of original
thoughts so as to make the old ap
} pear new, and the truth to appear
more clearly by being illumined by
light from different directions.
On the whole, our speakers have
done good work in Sumner, which
can only fail of its legitimate effect
, on August 7th if our friends in Sum
ner fail to carry out the work by al
! active canvass from now till then
But this they will not fail to do
| they are already well organized and
) hard at work, and old Sumner viii
yet astonish those people who i'm
; agine that her voice will be giver
t for reputation and dishonOr.
Our return to GAINESVILLE neeC
not be recorded, as it contained NJ
: incident beyond a most uncomfort
: able night-journey, with which, be
. ing sufficiently wearied ourselves
, we will not weary our readers.