Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-11-01
WHOLE NO. 2,298.
The southern oulraEe q ls1o.

-NSM ApAk NpiiAs
An able philosopher calls our at.
} tentiOn to the curious fact in con.
necti0n with these deplorable blots
] on civilization and the census
J known as "Southern outrages, " that
southern Outrages" are never com
mitted until just after the Republi-
can nominations in the North have
been made and the campaign ora-
tors begin TO paw the dust and
below. The fact is indubitable.
The explanation of il demands re-
fiection. 1t seems to show analO-
! gies with the action of that law of
hextraOrdinary coincidence evolved
by Professor Anthony Weller from
his study of stage coach accidents
and elections TO the House of Com
mons. but il has peculiarities Of
its own. No State or Congressional
elections-that Is, no State elections
OF consequence-take place in the
South this year, for example, so that
there can be no special political
necessity felt there for bull-dOzing
and committing outrages; yet, IL
we are 10 believe our Republican
contemporaries, the Southern de
mons are at it again with the re-
curing autumnal equinox. 1t
might reasonably have been expect
ed that out of a natural interest in
the success of their brethren at the
North the Southern Democrats, who
exhibit such patient magnanimity
and perfect self-contrOl throughout
the summer of 1876 and the spring
of 1877, would be slow to furnish
the Republican campaign orators
with patent kindling for the firing
of the Northern heart, and not over
anxious to tap negro gore where
with to reimbue the multitudinous
and water-faded bloody shirt. 1t
might have been supposed they
would put off their murderous re-
creations say till the second week
in November, after getting on so
comfortably without them well on
into the early autumn. Alas !-if
we are to believe our Republican /
contemporaries-the Southern DEM |
ocrats are as reckless of their own
interests as they are of the lives of |
mankind in general. In the days !
of Grant and the carpet baggers the I
Southern Democrats used TO live at /
peace with their negro neighbors /
from the beginning of November i'm /
one even-numbered year till the /
middle of August in the next even \
numbered year, when Just about 4
the time at which English aristo- /
Gratis go cunning after birds the Ku-
Klux would sally forth and begin |
shooting holes through the hats of .
the friends Of Senator Spencer and /
chewing Africans with blood
hounds with such ferocity that a pa
ternal Government was literally
compelled to quarter troops through
out the country and keep them
there till the Returning Boards had
completed their work. Why have
they abandoned this sweet period
icity since the carpet-baggers ceased
tom of popular dementia, if we are
to believe our Republican contem-
pOraries, has recently made its APP
pearance among these detestible
Southern Democrats. We are as
sured that in kind of frenzy they
all insist on comprising a new re-
bellion, and on tipping the Union
up on end, rather than submit to
the operation of certain clauses Of
the Federal election law which
were meant to worry the great
cities of the North and do not affect
their section of the country at all.
How is this to be explained +? An
other popularity of these strange
eminently deserve notice.
born with a shotgun in
his hand, as one might say, and ac-
customed from his cradle up to use
it freely upon all animated things,
from the Judge chewing his quid
upon the bench to the negro on the
lead run for the swamps, the mo-
ment that the close season for the
,olored Republican Is over and the
southern Democrat goes out gun
ling for them in company with the
ItaR correspondent of our esteemed ;
contemporaries, all his
kill deserts him. Six or seven {
years ago the best he could do was ;
o shoot the hat of Mr.. Hester. T;
This year at point-blank range his /,
bullet only perfOrates the
clothing of Postmaster. Every
hing favOrs him-the darkness
in which he crouches for J
his aim, the dusky form of his vic :
i'm well defined against the glare of !.
he official pine-knot blazing high
within. He pulls his trusty trigger
-and, 10, nir cum herdltSy Now,
Why is this thus? As mankind IS "
Indebted exclusively for such in r
as it now possesses about
hese Southern monsters in human
hape to our esteemed Republican 5
contemporaries, would il be asking y
90 much of them to beg them to Y
something likes working Il
heOry of the causes which lead the
southern buIl-dozer to bull-doze on
y when bull-dozing is sure to be
most incOnvenient TO his friends
nd most useful to his enemies-tO ,
ct up rebellions against the United y
tates with an exclusive eye to the y
of a stalwart campaign Y
n behalf of laws intended solely To =
acilitate the incarceration in iron J.
ages of all the Irish and Germans II
n New York and Cincinnati, and o
0 waste his shot and powder delib- a
rately in the interest of Northern p
ALTERS and the makers of ready q
made clothes? u