Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1856-10-21
NEW FORK CORRESPONDENCE.

8 Srw Yosr, Oct. Il. 1855.
Atssrs. Editors 6ssiOa ana Amsriean:
To the mass convention al Nashville on the Dist
inst, the democracy of the rorlh are looking for.
ward with abiding corfdencs and solicituGs, for it
| is to be composed of those "who desire to resist
The election of FREMONT and the success of black
republication. " And you are right in assuming
that the on'y possible manner in which this
can be accomplished is by voting for BUCHANAN
aud BREcKIERIDGE at the Presidential election in
| November. Ex
For The last quarter of o century Nashville has
been regarded not only the first seat of learning
in the West but as capital city Of more political
influence than any other beyond the mountains.
The resolves that shall go up from your beautiful
valley of the Cumberland on thst day Gas the
united voices of the patriotic thousands who may
meet ia council there) will be heard in all quarters
of the Union before the day of election and they
viii be regarded as the voice of the great valley
of the Mississippi.
Be it remembered that " the ultimate abolition
of slavery in this confederacy" is the one grand
and paramount object of the black republican or
| ganzstion. They look to carrying every north
| ern State for Fremont; and then they look to
carrying through all their disastrous measures, if
need be, by force Of arms. Their threats and
| mensces have become intolerabe. If we tell them
that fifteen independent States of the South will
never be subjected to absolute northern rule with
out struggle to preserve their independence
that we shall never submit to o foreign govern.
ment which not even minority of our subject
| States of the South have voted for--that we can
never sustain government in the choice or form
alton Of which we have had no part nor lot
| they shake their heads with sardonic smile of
defiance and significantly refer to Gen. JAoKsoNs
| Proclamation in the case of South Carolina. But
they will learn that a single stick is more easily
broken than bundle, and they will learn too Ithat
there is wide difference between the mere threat
ened resistance of one State to law of Congress
and the united resistance of fifteen independent
States totha absolute dominion of a foreign power.
Conservative men have ceased to speak of this
fearful issue 10 anger. 1t is an hour of sorrow.
For if Fremont is elected they can see nothing but
disasters ahead. And every body seems to admit
that the presidential question is now narrowed
down to direct issue upon the slavery question,
with BUCHANAN as the representative OF the Con.
stitution and the South, and with FREMONT as the
representative of the North, whose success is in
their opinion inevitable disunou.
The consequence is that thousands of the patri-
otto men of the north who had determined to vote
for FILLMORE because they admired the man and
believed he would at least preserve some of the
compromises Of the Constitution, have resolved
not to throw away their votes upon ons who can
the support of BUCHANAN as the only method left
for preventing the election of FREMONT.
Let the hearts of these conservative men and of
the gallant democracy of the north be encouraged
by the resolves of your mass convention. Let our
hands be strengthened by your aid and cordial
cooperation to overthrow the cohorts of fanati-
csm and treason with which we are now so active
ly engaged in hand to hand fight. Will not the
descendants of those veteran warriors who follow
ed JACKSON to the fields Of Emucfaw, Enotochopco,
Talledega, the Horseshoe, and New Orleans,
forget all partizsn differences, all personal predi-
lections all individual friendships and animosities,
AT THIS EvENTFUL CRISIS, and do as the conserys.
tive FILLMORE men of the north are doing, SAVE
THEIR VOTES by casting them for BUCHANAN, and at
the same time save their country from that dsun-
ion and desolation which il apprehended in the
event of FREMoNTs election?
1t is not enough that the South shall give mere
msiorities for BUCHANAN Let her speak for our
ieoparded Constitution with voice that shall be
heard ell along the lakes and our northern seabosrd,
and which shall be most distinctly understood.
She will then be respected--her constitutional
rights will no longer be tinkered and tempered with
by the political hucksters of the north-snd she
will have credit for sincerity when she asserts that
there is point at which forbearancs to be
virtue" The northern democracy expects this.
EMUCFAW.