Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-09-05
FRIDAY, SEPT. 5, 1855.
Democracy and Disunionism.

In portion of the South these are con
vertible terms-they mean the same thing
they are embraced by the same men-thev
make use of the same means-they hav,
in view the same end. AS in the North
free-soilism receives its sustenance anC
cOuntenance from Democracy-is increased
in numbers by recruits from it, and il
moral strength and influence by the supper
Of distinguished men, once recognized al
orthodox apostles in the Democratic faith
and still claiming to be such; so in the
South, secessionism and notification would
have no life did not those who avow then
receive encouragement and sympathy from
Democracy-did it not esteem them as true
disciples and proper and consistent Demo
Gratis. In South Carolina, Georgia, Ala
bama and Mississippi when you say of a
man that he is a disunionist, you say that
he is a Democrat, for none others are
dsunionists, nor can be. Disunionism i'm.
plies temper and spirit entirely foreign to
all, whose politics have not been indoctrin.
ated with the loose and lawless dogmas
born of French JacobiniSm, and crossed
into the American system by Jefferson, and
since bastardized through a succession of
meaner demagogues, until what to-day
calls itself the American Democracy, is
a mongrel compound of every grade and
modification of ultraism.
OF it sprung aboltioniSm-a fanatic
spirit of reform, and interference with the
social state of others-an equalizing, level
ing, agrarian attempt, prompted in part by
envy, and partly by mistaken philanthropy,
and morbid ideas of freedom, fraternity
and equality-but chiefly given strength
by that view of our system of government
which teaches that in the people reside the
power, and it is their duty to reform at
pleasure the supposed abuses of govern
ment, and if necessary. to upheave its very
foundations in the attempt. This is pre-
ciSely what abolitionism has been and is
now attempting-frst by memorial and in
struction to Congress, and lastly by open
resistance to the execution Of the laws, and
denunciationS of the constitution and its
wholesome restraints. We repeat that the
anti-Slavery sentiment OF the North never
would have become disturbing element,
had it not received encouragement and
prospect of success in the destructive doc
trineS which are the beginning corners and
basis of Democracy. With those among
the abolition agitatorS of the North, who
attempt to sustain their course by any show
of argument and reason, this is the main
stay. Any one who has for the past two
years read the New York Tribune the
oracle through which the ableSt Of them
speak, cannot fail to have observed the fire.
quent use of the terms, "the free Democra-
cy"-"the true Jeffersonian Democracy
identifying the cause of abolition reform,
with the maxims and principles of the great
Democratic apostle, and deducing from
them, arguments in its support.
From the same armory do notification
and secess;onism draw their weapons of
defence. The men who hold these doc
trines, and would not regret to see occasion
to Justify their use, are the descendants of
those. who when the constitution was
adopted, cried out against Capitalization
and consolidation of power in the federal
government, and with touch of the vim
dictivenes of their transatlantic cousins,
denounced Hamilton, and Jay, and Wash
ington, and Franklin, as monarcbists; and
who after the adoption of the instrument,
under the lead of jefferson, succeeded in
enforcing those pernicouS views of its pro-
visions which have now brought forth fruits,
which seriously threaten the entirety of the
Union, and which have already destroyed
its peace. Had there been no attempt to
force construction of the constitution
which regarded notification of the federal
laws, or secession by a State, as remedies
of constitutional resort, and not as revolu-
tionary-the monstrus ideas could never
have gained tolerance for moment. They
would have been secuted, and their pro-
iectors branded as traitors. But Jefferson
and Calhoun, the law-givers of Democracy,
have prepared the minds Of great portion
of the people to receive these doctrines,
and the mischief has been done. Democ-
racy has sown the seed of abolitionism and
disunionsm, and the country is reapiug the
harvest.
In the North, abolition, alias free De-
mocracy," alias the "true Jefersonian De-
mocracy," is waging a war against the
social fabric Of another portion Of the
Republic, and would ruthlessly and without
a care for the consequences, deprive il OF
the rights of property aud Of equality in
the Uaion-whlle in the South, the cohorts
of null fcaton aud dlsunion claiming 10 be
the real Democracy, the followers Of Jeffer-
son and Calhoun. are combating one ultra
an 18th another, both the offspring Of a
eonaloa 100, her Demooray, and both justi-
l.sS their conduct by the teachings of the
n masters Then when We say that
ID 40 rae. aud i8uplonism are syuony
terms. aud look 70 the same end, We are
correct.