The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-10-26
The Next Congress The Threatened storm-Tht
way it should be met

The Next Congress The Threatened storm-The
way it should be met
Il is a general expectation that the next
session of Congress will be q stormy and dan
gerous one--that the opponents Of the South
--of the Constitution and laws, will come up
full armed aud eager for the fray. The Wash
ington Sentinel, in view of this fact, makes
some excellent suggestions IN regard to the pO-
sitiOn which conservative men should occupy.
Opposition upon the floor, IN cords, is what
these agitators want, and without it they will
perish. Deprived of an opportunity to har-
rangne and humbug the people with hypocrit-
ical cant, and their occupation is gone. Dis
cusson is useless and unnecessary. The people
understand the points at issue as well as their
representatives do Let the agitators be met
with a silent, solid aud unbroken front, and
when the roll is called, let every friend of his
country lock well to his record. We have no
fears of the result The Sentinel says:
We are not of those who look upon the coming
session of Congress as such a Raw head and bloody
bones after all. There more ways than one of
dealing with refractory spirits. When we were a
boy, we feared more than the rod and the lecture,
the calm and passive silence of our governor. There
was more that was hurtful feelings in the lat
ter mode. Tue digrace OF not being nOticed-ot
being ignored, constituted coventry that went be-
yOnd the power that imposed it. In greater or
less degree it impaired to the other boys. Now
we have fought and lectured the unprincipled Abo-
litionists who it is said come here this winter TO
attempt the destruction Of the institutions OF our
country.
We have fought them with the weapons Of reas,
on; we have sought to win them from the error t
their ways by kind and gentle remonstrsnce,z Our
seed has been sowu in stony ground. aud fallen on
hearts of hardened natures They have warred
against our gentle counsels and with defiant fanat-
icsm have wildly challenged our resistance, and
scOrued our patience. We should bow, not in sub
mission, but in silence to their mad behests. Let
the tormentors begn-their threats in vain
there spirit in the country that they can neither
win nor subdue. Good and true men of all parties,
viii unite to tear the veil from their pompous but
evanescent power Their days are numbered. Let
them do their worst. The sooner the better. How
then shall they be met? IN DIGNIFED SILENCE!
Let them repeal the fugitive slave law-abOlsh
slavery in the District of Columbia-threaten its
abolition in the States-reuse to admit any new
slave State into the Union, and all things else that
their reasonable hearts can invent TO weaken the
tenure of the property of their brethren ~ and to
violate with blasphemous sacrilege, their oaths to
God and to man and they will accomplish nothing
but their own iufamy, and the contempt Of the
whole civilized world! Let there be no war of
words on the part of friends { BY whom We mean,
the true constitutional men Of the country whom no
geographical or sectional line can corrupt) let
not a word be uttered-no murmur escape their
lips and we shall see if their craven hearts do not
sicken ard faint before the storm Of silence at
their hendish attempts upon, not only OUR RIGHTS
but the rights of ALL under our compact.