Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-09-27
Democracy in the south looks 10 Dis
union.

attempt 10 renew Cnelr lease upOu Ihe oIn-
ces of the country, and having no use for
a country when it has no fat offices to
bestow upon them, they are preparing to
ruin" what they cannot "rule." To show
that we do not misrepreSent them we will
give few extracts from their speeches.
We have already published the following
language from the Charleston Mercury, but
bring it forward again:
'But upon the policy of dissOlving the Uni
on, of separating the South from her Northern
enemies, and establishing Southern Confed-
eracy, parties, presses, politicians, and people
are a unit. There is not single public man
in her limits, not one Of her present ReDresens
tatiUes or Senator's an Congress, SohO Is not
pledged to the lips an tacOr Of disuni0n."
The Norfolk Argus leading Democratic
paper calls upon the people of Virginia to
call meetings to convention in Richmond
to devise and mature measures locking to
peaceful dissolution.
The Richmond Enquirer thus diScourses,
suggesting feasible plan:
The election Of Fremont Mould be certain and
ineUitabLe disuniOR.
Let the South present a compact and undvl-
ded front. Let her show TO the barbarans
that her sparce population offers little hopes OF
plunder: her military and self reliant habits
and her mountain retreats, little prospect of
victory; and her firm union and devoted reso-
luton, no chances of conquest. Let her, y pos
si6Le. detach Pennsylvania and southern ohio,
southern Indiana and southern Illinois from
the North, and make the highlands 6etlceen the
Ohio and the Lakes the diUidipg line. Let the
South treat Nth California, and If necessary,
ally herself nth Russia Nth Cuba, and Bra
sa"
The ink is scarcely dry with which the
Governor of Virginia penned the following
letter. Dissolution has for years been
darling dream with him:
RICHMOND, Va, Sept. 6, 1856.
DEAR SIR-On my return from a short alb
sence found yours of the 29th ultimo, asking
nv opinion on the questiOn-"Would the cleo
ton of Fremont to the Presidency bring about
dissolution of the Unionl" My answer is,
that the very spirit of sectionalism which runs
such mere adVenturer as he is in every sense,
has ergendered so much envy, hatred and NAL
ice between various sections and factions of
our people, as to create wish 10 the minds of
MANY so strong for dissolution OF our blessed
Union, that to tel them his election would
bring that lamentable event about would make
some of his bitterest opponents vote for his
election, for the very purpose OF etfecting that
exeorable end. His election would bring about
the dissolution of the American COnfederacy
of States inevitably. Whyl For the reason
that if New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio
were slaveholding States, and Canada were to
asssil them with halt the violence and ''all
unchartableness" which Black Republicanism
is assailing us with, there would be public war
in thirty days by every patriots timepiece.-
Whether the present state of peaceful revolu-
ton, of warlike brotherhood, of confederated
antagonisms, of shske-hand enmity, of section
al union, of united enemies, shall unn6turally
continue depends precisely upon the issue
whether Black Republicanism is strong enough
to elect John G. Fremont, with all the demon
isms at his heels! You may do what you
please with this letter.
Yours, respectfully,
HENRY A. WISE.
John Slidell, of Louisiana, tells his trea-
sonablc sentiments in the following words,
in recent letter to his constituents:
at is but within the last two years that
have permitted myself TO think of the posi-
bility of the dissolution of the Union, and,
until the nomination of Fremont, have only
looked 1T it in the distant future. Now, it
presents itself as a question which we may be
called upon to decide in all its dread reality in
a few short months. Should Fremont be elect.
ed, shall be satisfied that a majority of the
l. g Il, F.oa
feelings that render the idea of living with
them on terms of equality hopeless The is
sues presented by his nomination, the antece-
dents of those who brought him forward, the
opinions and purposes avowed by every speaker
at every meeting of bis party, are such that
no Southern man would dare to incur the
infamy and odium of accepting Office under
him.
In such struggle, not only viii the proud
spirit that now animates us have been impair
ed, but we viii have lost allies that an earlier
open resistance would have rallied to our sup.
port.
/ do not hesitate 10 declare that, If Fremont
Be elected The Union cannot and ought not to
be Preserved."
Albert G. Brown, Senator from Mist
sissippi, and like Slidell, a special friend O
Buchanan, confeSses his infamy thus:
suppose we fall, what then is to be done9
Will the South submit 10 the rule of Presi-
dent and party who come into power breath.
ing undying hostility to our progress, our safety
and our domestic peace, and buoyed up by the
breath Of a deylish fanslicism that would tear
the Union from its moorings. and trampe the
Constitution under fooil II zoe are prepared
for this then tet US take pitl0ut mUrmuriRg
a
assign US, and BE- content 10 do their bidding.
When Toe haze once submitted 20 disgrace ike
fhis there wi4 be no uso Of complaining is
Soet might the segts Of Russia complain Of the
Car.
James c. Jones, in his recent speech at
Memphis openly avowed the same senti-
ment.
William II. Polk, Elector for the State
at large, at Murfreesboro' on Saturday
last boldly proclaimed that if he stood
alone in Tennessee he stood for dsunion if
Fremont was elected.
UNION MEN OF TENNESSEE THIS
Is BUCHANAN DEMOCRACY
WHAT THINK YE OF ITl
What does the UHion and Amrioam pro-
pose to do in the event of FremontIs cleo
tiong We demand an answer Are you,
as Mr.. Polk declared himself to be Oppos-
ed to the assembling of Congress IL Mr..
Fremont is elected, which is virtually dis
solatiOhl Speak out
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