Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-11-22

cy;" and at later day, in speech in
Richmond, discussing the question Of dis.
union, he said-'I deliberately say to you,
81 will do whatever you win back me in,
to save US, or die" He was ripe for
civil war, disuDion or anything.
The Richmond Enquirer on the It'll of
October declared that-"The only safe and
and honorable course for the Southern
States to pursue if Fremont be elected,
I" is to withdraw from the Union, and to
establish a separate government for
themselves" Remember, in 1850, the
Enquirer was union paper
Mr. Senator SIidell of Louisiana in a
letter last summer to his constituents, said ::
sat is but pithin tie last faro years that l have
permitted myself to think Of the possibility Of the
dissolution Of the Union and, until the nomination
Of Fremont have only looked at it in the distant
future. Now, it presents tselfas question which
we may be called upon TO decide in all its dread
reality in few short months Should Fremont be
elected, shall be satisfied that majority Of the
people Of the free States entertain towards US feel
ings that render the idea Of living with them on
terms Of equalty hopeless. The issues presented
by bis nomination, the antecedents Of those who
brought him forward the opinions and purposes
avowed by every speaker at every meeting of his
party, are such that no Southern man would dare
TO incur the infamy and odum of accepting Office
under him.
Iu such a struggle, not only will the proud spir.
il that now animates us have been impaired, but
we will have lost allies that earlier open resis-
lance would have rallied to our support.
do not hesitate to declare hct If Fremont be
elected he Union cannot and ought not TO be pre-
served"
Hon. A. G.. Brown, one Of the Senators
from Mississippi, wrote during the canvass
as follows:
Suppose we fall, what then is to be done9
Will the South submit to the rule of q Presi-
dent and party who come into power breath
ing undying hostility to our progress, our safe
ty and our domestic peace, and buoyed up by
the breath of deviish fanaticism that would
tear the Union from its moorings, and trample
the Constitution under foot? If pe are pre-
paTed for this, then let as take S1ithOut nlur-
muring that subordinate position Ohich oar
masters assign as, Gnd5e content to do their bid
ding. When zoe hare once submitted to disgrace
like this, there mill be no use Of complaining.
as weH might the sertS Of Russo complain q
the Gar"
The Norfolk Argus, a leading Democra-
tic paper called upon the people Of Virgin
ia to call meetings to appoint delegates to
a convention in Richmond to devise and
mature measures looking to peaceful disso-
luton.
At public dinner given to him by bis
constituents, after his return from Congress,
Mr.. Brooks, of South Carolina, said
ave have the Issue upon us now, and how
are we to meet it9 / tell you, fellow citizens,
from the bottom of my heart, that the only
mode which think available for meeting il
is Just to tear the Constitution of the United
States, trample it under foot, and form a
Southern Confederacy, every State Of which
will be slaveholding State"
The number of persons at the dinner
to Mr.. Brooks was estimated at ten thou.
sand by the Charleston Mercury: and it adj
dod-"There was but one voice in this
"great assemblage-that the dissolution Of
" the Union is necessary"
Mr.. BoYCE, member of the House Of
Representatives from South Carolina, in q
speech at Columbia on the 10th of Octo
Der last, said: 'The election of Fremont
"must not be submitted to. =
am in favor of secession, resistance
death anything|
Hon. Jas. L. Orr, one of the democratic
leaders in the House of Representatives
in speech on the It'll of October, at Union
vile, S. G, said: eff Fremont is elected
"he would be in favor of dissolution"
Hon. Mr.. Keitt, another South Carolina
Congressman, said, in speech at Lynch
burg, Va.,-'I tell you if Fremont is cleo.
"ted adherence to the Union is treason to
elderly"
These are evidences enough of the fuller
development Of the sentiment of disunion
during the recent canvass These leaders
spoke out plainly. We take it they are
honorable men and meant precisely what
they said. We heard no reproof from
any democratic quarter. On the contra
ry, we heard expressions of sympathy with
them. And with these disunion sentiment.
scattered broadcast over the South, what
was the RESULT Why, the majority IL
every Southern State except one, voted fol
the candidate for President whose claims
were supported by these men, thus up
holding them in, if not endorsing and sus
tanning their views. What a contrast
with the elections which followed the dis
union movements in 1850. In Mississippi
Foote triumphed over the disunionists. In
Georgia Cobb rode over them into the Of
fee of Governor by an unparalleled major
ity. In Louisiana and Alabama, the dis
unionists were also rebuked. Aud in Ten
nessee, Trousdale, who was supposed tC
Sympathize with them, was sent into re
tirement. Behold this contrast, and see
how much more fully the sentiment of dis
union was developed in the late canvass
than ever beforel 1t is so plain that "hC
who runs may readp
All of these alarming indications were
disclosed prior to the 4th of November; anC
vet the Union and American has the effron
terry to question the accuracy Of our state