Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-08-30


Letter. whose series of resolutions for fifteen years
spoke one language-beginning in the Democratic
I Conventions and ending in the Republican Conven-
tiOns--with unity Of sentiment and language de-
Tying the detection Of the point where the Democrat
shaded off into the Republican Il is FOR this rea-
son that this blow has been so Eiial 10 the Demo-
I cratic party Of the NOrth-thst the hatred OF the
North is deadly against it and vet is conhaed TO
it. and yet so sagaciously under control so much Of
method in their madness that they viii not allow
chance to Nr. Buchanan Of election by pluIalities
/ but viii defeat that by any combination.
! This view shoud determine the South 10 disen-
tangle its cause from the fragments Of the broken,
! powerless, and obnoxious Democrats. The Demo
! cratic party are no longer ft mrdiatOrs between
/ North and South How can they exact performance
/ OF the Texas compromised How protest against
4 repeal of the fugitive slave law How demand that
the Wilmo Pr1viso be not extended to oil the Ter
ritories? How claim the admission of more slave
Sptes? Their mouth is sealed on these topics be-
/ fofe The revenge of the Republicans By the law
ofretaiation these things would be natural and just
pupshnents to that party which has swept away the
coRpromses aud denied the principles on which all
/ thsse rights rested. The Republican closes his
moUth with the reply, you the Democratic party,
has no right TO sppea! to u.s.
/ HI ia only u the name Of the Southern people, Of
the men who do not join Ia the outrage, that these
! dire consequences be surely avoided The re-
pudation of the Democratic party is the rst eondi-
tion and best security of peace and safety II ST.
lences the plea OF revenge and retaliation. The
people Of the South owe it 70 themselves and TO
their future as completely to discard the Democrats
as the people Of the North have Withdrawn from
them ther confidence.
But there are Democratic gentlemen who antci-
pate the success of the argument in driving every
body to support Mr.. Fremont and who speculate
on the consequences.
There are men who 20 about the country de-
claiming about the inevitable Consequences of the
election of Fremont /; and the question Is asked
whether that simple fact is not sufficient not
mere by to justify, but TO require dissolution Of
the Union. The question has been asked me to-
day. That is question which l do not regard as
even subject OF discussion. 1t never will be
done while men have this reason. Il never will be
done until some party bent upon acquiring party
power, shall again and again and again exasperate
beyond the reach of reason the Northern and
! Southern minds, az my Southern friends have now
exasperated tho Northern mind. 1t would be an
act of suicide, and sane men do not commit suicide.
The act itself il insanity II will be done If ever
in a tempest Of fury and madness which cannot stop
! to reason. Dissolution means death, the suicide
of Liberty, without hope OF resuueeGon--death
without the glOries Of immortality; with no sister
| 10 mourn her fsil none to wrap her decently in
her winding sheet and bear her endsFly TO sepnl-
chre-dead Liberty, left to all the horror Of cor.
rupdon, losGhsome thing with stake through
the body, which men shun, cast out naked on
the highway Of nations where the tyrauts of the
earth who feard her living win mock her dead
/ passing by on the other side, wagging their heads
| and thurSting their tongue in their cheek at her
saying, behold her. how she that was fail among
the nations is fallen! is falenl--and only the few
wise men who loved her, cul of every nation will
she'd tears over her desolation "a they pass, and
IL Il
names, while We children, stumble about her
! ruined habitatious to find dishonOrable graves
wherein to hide our shame. Dissolution! How
shall it be?-who shall make itg Do men dream
of Lot and Abraham parting, one to the East and
the other to the West, peacefully, because their
servants strive That States will divide from
States and boundary lines viii be marked by com.
pass and chain? Sir, that will be pOrtentous CON-
mission that shall settle that partition tor cannon
! will be planted at the corners and grinning skele-
tons be finger posts to point the way. Il will be
no line gently marked on the bosom Of the Repub-
lc-some meandering vein whence generations Of
her children have drawn their nOufishment-but a
| shrap and gRed3cbasIn, rending the hearts Of
great Commonwealth, lacerated aud smeared with
fraternal blood. On the night when the stars OF
her constellation shall tal from heaven, the black
ness Of darkness for ever viii tile on the Gber-
ties of mankind in this Western World. This is
dissolution. .-- 81.
lfsuch, cir is dissolution as seen in glass dark
ly, how terrible will it be face to face? They who
reason about it are half crazy now. They who
| talk OF il do not mean it, and dare not mean il.
They who speak in earnest Of dissolution OF this
Union, seem to me like children or madmen. He
who would do such deed that would be the
msnaic without tongue 10 tell his deed or reason
to arrest his steps-an instrument of a mad inn
pulse. impeed by one idea TO smite his victim.
Sir, there have been maniacs who have been cured
by horror at the blood they have shed
Gentlemen ask if Mr. Fremont be elected, how
will Maryland go?-what will MARYLAND DO, do
not allow that question to be asked. She knows
but one country and but one Union. Her glory is
| in it, Her rights are bound up in it, Her chill
dren shed their blood for it, aud they viii do it
again. Beyond H. sine knows nothing She does
not reckon whether there is more advantage in the
Union to the North or the South-she does not
calculate its vaue--nor does she cast up an ac-
count Of profit and loss the blood Of her chill.
| dren. That il my ansW er 10 that question.
But, sir, il is portentous to hear the members
Of party cOntesting for the Presidency menace
dissolution and revolution as the penalty they will
infliet on the victors for defeating them People
who do not hold the Union worth four years De.
priyatiOn Of Office scarcely safe repositories Of
its powers
But il these are 10 be the bloody consequences
Of successful concentration OF the Northern vote
on Mr.. Fremont, will not my Democratic friends,
as the result Of the argument allow the moderate
and conservative men OF the North and Of the South
a chance TO cling 10 those around them who being
open TO reason, yet doubt how they shall vote, and
reiterate in their reasons why they should not
drive this dangerous issue 10 decision. They sup
pose that because ia the wreck Of parties they must
90 to the wall, or to the bottom, unless Mr. Fill
more can be got rid Of that which is necessary 70
save them is likewise necessary 10 save the Union
I've are he Siats"-wbat is good for Us therefore
is good for the State is their reasoning; and the
Kansas act and civil war Is ths eonclasionl Self
love, party devotion, have nised them. Their
safety and their involve great danger TO the
Republic, and ia their rliiH iiss The sasty Of the
Republic.
Sir, they boast at the Southland L Is their 10
trilen Dhe-that thew have defeated and overthroWn
ABOLITION Is il from this great 50 uggs, then,
! that the Democratic anks weak and van and
lhins Why, sir. the Abolition party tell beneath
the blows OF Mllard Fillmore, leading the cOnserv-
alive men Of AL parties-the CiayS, the Websters,
the Foote's the i3cntons OF thar great era Of 1880
IL died Of the C0mpromise Of ls5Q and vas laid 10
a tomb Inscribed With those acts, and bearing on is
base the words. .HiiiarR Fillmore fssi,
Their lrsde covered tie journals " the Senate
with their protests against those wise but obnoxious
concessions which lAd the evil spirit But when
the monster vas OycrthToNn ana the heid deserted,
they dug up the dead body apd laid it Al the feet o.
the South, and claimed their Feward-"LO our TO
phy-lo scalp-to yoa be tbe spoil Of our sword
and spear"-Aye, sir, they fought an hour by
Shrewsbury clock"
While Prince Hal made Percy food tor vorHss
Fallstaif. eoautetieised death and when the light
vas DER and the victor gone, FuistAf thus solio-
quizing
"Zounds, am afraid Of this gun-poUdsr Perez,
though be is dead. Therefore. IA make OF
hin-yea, and ia swear l killed him Nothing
oonfutes me but ryes, and nobody sees me-
! Stabbed the dead BODY IN the thigh, shouldered
| il, and cast il al the leet II the Vicior--