Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-10-11
THE CAMPAIGN OF 1880.

THE CAMPAIGN OF 1850.
Less than a month will have
closed the preliminary conflicts
which always usher in Presiden-
tial campaign. The important Ohio
election of next week, and the still
more momentous contest in New
York three weeks afterwards will
finish the skirmishing. The scouts
and pickets will have been driven
in on both sides, the smoke will
clear Off from the skirmish line and
the line of battle will have been
formed, the conflicting hosts being
drawn up in battle array in full
view of one another, each awaiting
the signal for the onset.
Not being disposed to waste
powder and shot before it was de-
termined what would be the posts
to be assaulted and defended, we
have in a great measure abstained
from party politics during the past
summer, deeming that it would be
time to fall into line when the lines
were formed. We conceive, how
ever, that there is not much to wait
for now; the controversy is pFactI-
cally CLOSED in Ohio, and the contest
in New York is evidently to refer
more to local than to national poll
tics, except that now and then
COnkling will shell the woods with
volley against Southern 0utrages
and Confederate Brigadiers, and
some sharp shooting will be prac-
ticed in reference to the personal
grievances of that gentleman and
John Kelly, but in the canvass al
carried out in Maine and Ohio all
the points at issue have been ven
tilated, and there is very little doubt
but that those which have been
discussed during the present sum-
mer and fall will also be the subject
of controversy down to next No
vember. Not all in one place, but
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forth according to the latitude and
the local sentiment to be appealed
to. Thus in New York financial
questions Will be raised on hard
money basis by the Republicans,
who will, however, carefully abstain
from such topics in Ohio and the
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Sherman should be held up there as
a typical specimen of the Green
hacker, as has already been attempt
ed, and indeed with some success,
John having been nearly everything
in finance at one time or another.
In Pennsylvania and New England
they will shrek for the tariff, pre-
dieting dire disasters if that sacred
institution is touched with sacrile-
giOus hands, but will be silent on
that subject in the agricultural dis
tricts of the West and South. In
the North the bloody shirt will be
unfurled, at least when other topics
fail. 1t is true that, except the
fortunate assassination in YazoC
City, the outrage mill has been ter.
ribly unproductive of late, but
something must be got out of il
occasionally to fill up. In the South
however, that will hardly be at
tempted. 1t is not worth while
lying where everybody knows it tC
be a lie. Fancy anybody telling
Cuffee he is bulldOzed here in Mont.
gomery county.
But one topic will be the subject
of Republican defamation every
where, without regard to latitude
or longitude: State rights, discussed
with special reference to the inter.
ventiOn of Federal officers, civil
and military, in elections. The de-
bates of the late extra session O
Congress will be overhauled again
and every argument again adj
vanced and again refuted until not
a shred of the subject shall remain
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out with it ourselves before we have
done with it, and earnestly pres:
upon our readers the necessity o.
acquainting themselves thoroughly
with its merits before it has beer
worn threadbare by stump orators
With this view we will devote TIT
rest of the present article to thu
subject, with the purpose of furnish
ing our readers some clear cOncep
tions what will be the points O
attack and defense.
1t will be represented, then, al
over the United States, that tn,
South is bent upon the repetition o
the experiment of 1861; that we ar
chatting under the restoration of tn,
Union, the abolition of slavery ant
the possession of suffrage by tn,
negroes, and that we intend to i'm
terpose the doctrine of State SOW
ereignty as a barrier against tn,
enforcement of these ObnOXiOu
measures. 1T will be represented
that this State sovereignty doctrin,
was the heresy the assertion O
which by the South brought on tn
war; that it was set aside by tn
issues of the war; that the Southern
people in alliance with the Northern
Democrats are now prepared to re
verse this decision and to reinstat
the heresy of State sovereignty by
counter-revolutiOn, with the ulterio
purpose of again breaking up tn
Union and reversing the cOnstitu
tional enactments made since tn
war.
Our readers will see that here
material for controversy sufficieu
to fill up almost the whole perio