Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-10-09

Y liant men who returned to stan
+ here in peace, in honor and
a strength again Because that
\ the question. / hold the war fC
t the Union to have been a success
4 and from my heart I thank 60
: for it. Gentlemen, those galIaI
/ lives were not wasted, those wound
r were not inflicted in vain; tb
7 hearts of the mothers, the wives
, the sisters, the brothers, did nc
5 bleed in vain, and all we have to d
? is to insist that all our countrymel
: shall have the fruits of their victory
The republican party says they shal
} not, and none say so more loudl'
! than those whose bodies were far
! thest away when war rode through
the land. The men who riskeS
least talk the most, and show ml
anywhere a man who insists on rec
onciliation and union as the strength
OF this country, and you will show
me man ready to do battle for thu
candidates of the democratic party
How can a limb mortify and the
modification not spread How
can you degrade one state in the
Union without spreading the deg
radiation through all? When ]
think of what must be, by the very
logic of events, the consequences ot
following out the plans and pur-
poses in this sad. dire extremity oi
the managers of the republican par
ty, / think that it is indeed the
hour of their extremity and must
surely precede their dissolution.
How can it be that the energies of
/ this country, its vitality, should
continue and grow with one-half of
it in condition of paralysis? 1t is
not reasonable. The strength of
this country is its unity; the great
pulsationS of common interest and
common feeling must flow through
all the land, and never may they be
less than now. But they will tell
you that the circulation of a mans
body is not to be impaired or in
jured by paralyZing limb. Cen
tlemen, it is just as false in social
policy as it would be in physic; we
cannot remain a sound Union with
diseased or unhappy section.
Don't forget it it is a great fact,
but a simple fact; it is a principle
which should be the great principle
of American politics that man is
foe to the interests of character or
repui alton of any. There was in
the olden times a punishment in
flicted upon the fratricide, upon the
man who slew his brother, and it
was that the body of the dead
should be attached to the form of
the living man, and then he was
cast loose and allowed to pursue the
dreadful journey of his life. And
this victim of the law found his way
among his fellow men, day by day
the burden growing more dreadful
day by day his misery increasing
until the mans very heart went out,
and he cried, "Who shall deliver
me from the body of this death ?''
And, my countrymen, shall it be
that we shall ever permit the dead
body of our brother to be attached
to us and to stand in the way Of
that great march of progress and
humanity which the benehcent God
has plainly marked out for us
There was a southern woman dur
ing the war, who had lost her hus-
band and her children and her prop |
erty, until life seemed dark and |
black to her, and some one asked |
her one day, "Don't you hate the
Yankees 4? Don't you hate the /
Northern people that have brought |
you to this great sorrow ?" and !
She said, II might hate them, but |
my sorrow has swallowed up my 1
power to feel" So / say when / |
the acts of the men !
and the party who shall deliberate
ly fifteen years and six months after
the war has ended, when new gen.
Grafton of men and women have
come into active life who know /
of that war except that
which they have learned at their
fathers and mothers kneeS-fOr the
boy Of six years old in 1866 is to-day
a father, and he who was then tif-
teen is a mature citizen of middle /
age-seek still to stir up the pas
5ions, the hatreds, the animosities
and the jealousies of our country
men. When / think Of all these
effects, indignant as / may feel, re-
sentful as | may feel, there comes
over me such a sense of sorrow as
stiles resentment, and can scarcely
describe to you my sentiments
when / consider the attempt to-day
made to array one portion of this
country against another portion of
it. But, gentlemen, don't let us
1Well upon that which Is gloomy
alone. IF there are forces of destruc-
ion, there are forces of conserva-
ion and preservation; if there are
apostles of hatred and malice there
ire also apostles of peace and good
viii among men,"
Senator Bayard then spoke of his
'ecent visit to South Carolina and
If the prosperity that he witnessed
here among the eolored people,
md from this point repeated sub
tantially a part of his speech of
he previous evening. Several
lines he essayed to stop, but the
audience, not one Of whom
eft the building-insisted upon his
eoing on, and remained delighted /
listeners for two and a half hours. ]