The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-11-09

is formed, we will say. II has triumphed. 1t has
got power in the free States 1t has got the gen.
eral government. 1t has chosen its President. IL
has got a majority in both houses of Congress-
The minority are a body of representatives OF
shareholders. And they have met in the great
chambers What to dol Now il is agreed, on all
hands, that in regard to what they are to do as a
party, on any subject, human divine, outside OF
slavery, we know no more than If they were so
many men let down in so many baskets from the
clouds As party, and they gained power as a
party they are TO rule party, but as party,
they solemnly adjure that they hold no opinion on
anything whatever, on anything bat slavery they
spread their arms wide open to every humor OF the
human mind, to all the forms of nonsense, TO more
irreconcilable belgerent temper and politics than
ever quarrelled in menagerie. To men of war
and men of peace; to the friend Of annexation, II
he can find free soil to annex, as you may in Cana
da, and the enemy of any more area; to protection
lists and free traders; men OF strict, and men OF
large construction, and men of no construction at
all; temperance men and anti temperance men; the
advocate of ten hours OF labor, the advocate OF
twelve; general trial for every opinion on any
thing with the pledge of the party to each and all,
that if they will roar with a common consent and
make satisfactory hulabaloos on slavery-every
man of them shall have fair chance, and no priv
ileges, and everybody may enact anything II nc
can.
Aud now, in the name of all common sense, in
the whole history of elective governments Was a
free people ever called on to commit power the
whole vast enginery, the whole thunder OF the
State, to such rule as this Slavery, they do say,
they will oppose, right and left; but what other one
maxim of government they will adopt-State or
national; what one law, what one subject, they
will pass what institution or one policy OF the
fathers they will spare; what one sentiment they
will inculcate; what one glory they will cause or
cure we have no more to guide US than II they
were an encampment of a race never seen before;
poured by some populous and unknown north from
her frozen loin! How mad, how contemplate to
deliver ou selves over to such yelled enthusiast as
this. Better the urn and the lot of Solon-better
the fantastic chances of hereditary descent thou
sand fold.
Well, on their one single speciality of slavery
what are they going to doP And l say that we
have not particle more of evidence, what spe-
ci6c thing, or what thing in general they mean to do
on slavery, than on anything else. do say this,
however, that those honest men, who, in the sims
plicty of their hearts have sympathized with this
new party in the hope of having the Missouri Com.
promise restorted, have not one particle of assn
rance that they would do it if they could; or that
if they could they would rest there, within half
the globe OF it. Loud they are in their reprobaton
of the repeal. So are we ALL But is it a restora-
ton they seek! No. nothing so little. When,
few days ago a respectable Wbig gentleman pre-
sented himself at of their meetings, and, being
invited to speak, began by saying that they were
all there to unite for the repeal Of the repealthey
Kissed him incontinently. Less discourteously in
the manner OF it; quite as unequivocaIy they have
set forth in terms the most explicit the address
OF their convention that the restoration of the
promise of 1920 is not what they desire. What
are they to do then, if they win power? Either
nothing at all which wings could not do, and would
not do if wise and large craftsmanship permits it,
or they bring on a conflict which separates the
States. Nothing at all which we would not do, if
our fidelity to the constitution would allow US, or
that which under the constitution cannot be done.
Nothing at all, or just what their agitation from
1885 to this hour has accomplighed--Tvet the iron
chains of the slave; loose the golden bands of the
Union. So much for the good it will do.
But now survey the evil it would do. We can
not of course, foreknow exactly, what it would do
if it could, how much exactly, it could do if it
would. We cannot know in other words, exactly
where, or when, or how, if it attained the whole
power that it seeks it would bring the final strife.
But one thing we know, emitting this that they
cannot, by possibility, 60 through the process of
merely and completely organizing such party but
by deliberately and carefully training the men on
the side of their line to ''sbhor" and "avoid" the
men on the other. The basis of the organization
is reciprocal sectional hate This is the sentiment at
bottom. This, and nothing elese. To form and
heighten this; to tOrtyfy and justify it; to show
that is moral and necessary tie whole vast engi-
merry Of party tactics is to be put in request. If
the ingenuity of hell were tasked for a device to
alenate and rend asunder our immature artificial
nationality, it could devise nothing so effectual-
| take my stand here! / resist and deprecate the
mere attempt to form the party. don't expect to
live to see it succeed in its grasp at power am
sure hope shall not, but | see the attempt ma
king. think | see dreadful influence of such an
attempt. That influence / would expose. VOL
wo! TO the sower of such seed as thsl II may
perish where it fslls The God of our fathers NAV
withhold the early and latter rain and the dew, and
the grain NAV die but wo to the hand that dare TO
scatter it, Painful it is to see some, of whom a
higher hope might have been cherished, mo-
tives and with views | dare say satisfactory to
themselves, giving aid and comfort TO such thing.
In looking anxiously out OF my own absolute re- |
tirement from every form of public life, to observe
how the movers of this new party mean to urge il
upon the people, what topics they mean to employ,
what aims they mean to propose, and above all,
what tone and spirit they mean to breathe and
spread, and what influence to exert on the section
al passions the national sentiments of coun-
Iry-l have had occasion to read something of their
spoken and written exhortations; this Inauguration
sloqdence Of sectiOnalism, and think comprehend
I. And what work do they make oft? Yes-what? |
With what impression Of our country-your whole
is the true test of party platform
md a party appeal-do you rise from reading this /
'xhortation. What lesson Of duty 10 all, and Of
he claims of all, and OF love TO ALL has it taught |
'ou Does not your America seem to lose her form
Ter color, her vesture, as you read? Does not the
magic OF the metamorphosis come to her? Her
pirts faint. Her blooming cheeks assume pallid
int, and scarce her form remains. Does it not
eem as if one half of the map we're botted out or
oiled up forever from your eye? Are you not
ooking with perplexity and pain; your spirits as
n dream-all bound upon different, another,
md smaller native land? Where do you find in
his body Of discourse one single reccolection that
Worth and South compose a common country, to
which our most pious affections are due and our
Whole service engaged? Where, beneath this logic
md this rhetoric OF sectonalism, do you feel one
hrob of heart Capacious of our whole America,
The deep, full, burning tide of American feeling,
hard to counterfeit, so hard TO chill, does it once
,adden and glorify this Inauguration oratory and
hese Inauguration ceremonies? IL it not the key
tote Of it all, that the Shareholders OF the South
re an aristocracy TO be 'abhorred" and avoided"
hat they are insidous and dangerous that they are
Undermining our republic, and at all hazards TO