Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1856-10-25
rRAIross IN OUR OWN BoUsEHoID.


We have no hesitation in giving it as our indi-
slave States fsr more dangerous to our interests
and hazardous to our constitutional rights than the
widest fanatic at the north. We do not hesitate
to affirm that class of newspapers and politicians
in the south have done more to encourage fansti-
cism at the north, have done more to endaneer our
peace, and to dissolve the Union than all the Sam.
ners, Hales Giddingses and Greeleys have done
through their entire career. And that class OF
politicians are those who condemn the south and
applaud the north on the Kansas and Nebraska
question; conceding, falsely, that we were wrong
in the repeal of Compromise never regarded, and
that the fanatics of the north were right in de.
nouncing 1t as the violation of sacred compact;
are those who conceded to the fsnatical cry of
New England fanaticism that it was southern peo-
pie who were creating the disturbances in Kan
sas and trying to drive the Free State emigrants
from the country; those who concsde to these
fsusticsl ..disunionists that this is confede-
ration in which the minority Lave no redress
for the tyranny Of q reckless and unscrupu-
lous majority those who denounce Pierce, Cass,
Buchanan, Toucey, Douglass. Bright and their ma.
tional companions as demsgogues and traitors
and the unhinching men Of the south as corrupt
disunionists; those who, at our own door, stig-
natize the south as disloyal to the constitution
and in the same breath urge and applaud their
party north in fusion with black republicans abo.
itionists and free negroes; those who nerve the
arm of the northern assassin by assuring him from
that he md daopOI
ofour property, enslave US, and murder us, snd We
will not resist.
Let the reader reflect and he will see that prac-
tically all this has been done. Let him read the
speech of Mr.. Bell in the Senate, of Mr.. Davis in
the House, of Mr.. Bolts at Richmond of Mr.
Marshall at Louisville. Let him read the Balti-
more Patriot, urging the restoration of the Mis-
souri, Compromise; the Louisville Journal, urging
not only the same proposition but modification
of the Fugitive Slave law, advocating the claims
of the abolition candidate for Governor in Indiana
| and ct the same time denouncing the democratic
| party of the south as disunonists and traitors.
Let him read the rejoicing of all the know nothing
press in Kentucky and Tennes see over the suppo-
| sed, success of the black republicans in the
recent State elections Of Indiana and Penn
| sylvsnia. Let him look impartially to those and
the hundreds of other facts daily Transporting, and
he can come to no other conclusion than that th
men in our own midst, with their widespread per-
sonsl and political influence their hundreds of pre-
JUDGED readers and listeners in the south, are Civ
ing more encouragement and strength to the arm
of the sggressor-are doing more to pull down the
national men at the north and to build up the
tionsl-thsn Sumner, Hale, Giddings, Greeley &
Co., could do unsided in long life time to come.
Let the south, then, know her treacherous foes.
Let the honest people throw off their party bias
and look the facts sternly in the face. Let them
discard party and look to their country. Let them
smte the traitors, though of their own blood, and
hold them up to public infamy, exposed between
heaven and earth, terror to the mad abolition Of
the present hour and solemn warning to the bad
men that may rise up ir the future.