Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-12-15
RADICAL HATE.


RADICAL HATE.
The extreme hatred of the South
and all things Southern which has its
Judgment and abiding place in the
hearts of the Republican extremists
seems to have been freshened of late
and is now evinced with more than its
usual venom. The election of Car
Isle was like shaking red flag in the
bulls face and the stalwart organs
blaze out with their old time abuse of
this section of the Union and flaunt
the bloody shirt with redoubled vigor.
No sensible person could believe in
the sincerity of these utterances. They
are all hypocritical can't inspired by a
mean demagogy that will stoop to the
basest falsehood and misrepresentation
to carry it's end. The following edito-
rial paragraphs that occurred in the
St Louis Globe-Democrat the morn
ing after the Speakership election are
fairly illustrative of the kind of talk
these organs indulge in:
"'We-uns' got the best of 'you-uns'
in the fight at Washington"
@Copiah county is indicated. John
Griffin Carlisle is a man after her own
heart"
"The election of Clark as Clerk of
the House will insure good many of
the boys who fought four years for
their Democracy a winters job in
Washington"
"The election of Carlisle as Speaker
is, as to the Republican party, equal to
Police Board scandal in every city in
the North. 1t multiplies Ed Butler by
hundred"
"The grand old shirt is showing itself
above the political horizon. 1t is on a
Democratic pole this time. Long may
it wave. Next to the star-spangled BAN
ner 1t is the finest piece of dry goods
we have"
with a southern Speaker, South
ern Clerk and a>southern Doorkeeper,
the next Democratic House ought to
accomplish considerable in the way of
tOning down sectional animosities and
making us 'one happy people whose
God is the LOrd'-as Mrs. Stonewall
jackson observes"
These extracts come from a journal
that pretends to long for fraterniza-
ton and a complete abolition of sec
tional lines. They are very indicative
of the brOtherly love and kind regard
that such newspapers and their fol-
lowers have for us Southerners and
their haunting tone is very much cal
culated to win from the Southern
heart full return of all the love and
affection they profess. The extreme
unfairness, not to say Righteousness,
of such talk becomes the more appa-
rent when we consider that Mr.. Car
Isle Is scarcely a representative
Southerner. He was a Union man
during the war, and living just across
the river from Cincinnati does the
most of his law practice in the courts
of that city. Such utterances are sim
ply the examinations of a powerless
malice and hurt no one but the party
that resorts to them. They are the
last spiteful spittings of an effete organ
ization that has lived too long on hate,
and now realizes that it must show
some better cause for its existence or
die.
The South has grown hardened to
Radical abuse and it now serves only
to excite her merriment. Her heart
Is not so much set on political triumph
as internal prosperity. She is devel-
Oping her home resources and feels
happy over the promised opulence
and power that is coming as the reward
of her industry. The results of the
late war and the constitutional amend
ments are fixed facts that no South
erner would alter or amend. The
South recognizes the truth that the
new order of things is the best and |
she is going to have all the benefits |
which that new order bestows. Fur !
thermOre, she is as much part of the |
Union as any other section and she is
going to have her full rights and rep
resentation in the Union. She is not |
trying to capture the Presidency and
don't wish to NEEDLE with the internal
affairs of any other section. She is
going to attend strictly to her own
business and send such representatives
TO Congress as she pleases. Those
representatives being typical Southern
men are not apt to be cringing fawners,
and their patriotism being equal to
that of the representatives of any other
section, they will take an active and
bold stand in the administration of
governmental affairs. The Radical
papers and politicians may gnash their
teeth and spit their spite at the South
as much as they please, and she will
only smile at their importent railing
while she continues to build factories
and develop her mineral resources.