Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-07-12

REVOLUTIONARY coUNcrL-IMPENDrNe DE,
STRUCTT0N-THE GRAND UNION IN PERIL,
THE GLORIOUS NORTH ABBOTT TO BE
sNUBBED-WHEREIs THE NASHVILLE CITY
FATHERs?-WHERF is ALDERMAN FOGa ?
Another illustration Of stupsndous impudenoe is
about to be perpetrated by the presumptuous people
Of the South. Another convention of Southern
Merchants Planters and Farnsrs is about TO assem-.
Die logetner TO concoot the mans necessary to i'm
prove their section of the Unisn at the expense Of
our affectionate brothers of tie North. Yes and
Oh Tennesseans, cover up yctIr faces with impene-
traole Vels, Tor the diabolicaEdeed sis TO be did
within the borders of our os;a State! Within the
legal confines of the COMMONWEALTH, of which Nash
vile is the leading city, and ltr Aldermen the most
patriotic-the most sagaeioLS the most liberal
Especially to the North -thaost modest, and up
on whose broad shoulders resd the honor of having
first discovered treason to H. North" lurking be-
meath the attempted concert Southern people to
release themselves from the Essters of commercial
dependence upon others M only did they smell
out the impending treason, 1t they printed and
published ii to the world tS.y heralded the dis
covery to the four corners o. &4e Republic. Thro'
the daily press and upon h&Aghtning's wings the
intelligence sped. The W. ;ors grasped their
swords, and smiled to thin Eat forewarned they
were forearmed for the foe! M,thers clasped their
little babes perhaps not moi an month or six
weeks DID,, more closely to Il III palpitating bosoms,
and with their eyes rolled W the direction of the
clouds, spasmodically blesse - names of Alder
Fogg and the Nashville ~ Council generally.
The timid trembled in pres s:fe= of the impending
abyss, over which they had n ly thrust one boot,
turned back once more to the - zen track and with
fearful eyes and baed bre. Il 5.dewed their words
of grateful thanks
THE UlI0N-THE GLORIOUS
UNION acas again saUed. ',zirts throughout the
land breathed in a freer ard Goeper manner than
had been their won't since 90 last preceding occa-
sion upon which fresh glue had been applied to
the cOnfederaey by patriots vino had gone before
To whom the glory? Need ask grateful country?
The response ascends unbidlen from the heart A
becoming mOdesty might sesl my lips, (being an in
habitant of the same city, Cat appreciation and
predominating and consum Sg patriotism impels me
to speak Though but the IrhO of others, who are
similarly afected.) To th1City Paternals of the
City of Nashville belongs IL distinction of having
saved the glorious old Unol f these States, the
occasion of its tpo hundred and eleventh imminent
jeopardy
That grand confederation of independent sover-
eighties is once again in p,V large number of
presuming Southerners, r. krdless of the warning
voice of Alderman Fogg aIaslis worthy co-laborers
in the Union saving vineysN: are in few days to
assemble in Knoxville, to illuminate the same dia-
bolical purposes which WEI s opportunely frustra-
ted by the timely interver u = to which have so
feelingly alluded Andw than all, the citizens
of Knoxville have without " inction of creed sex
or party, invited all actual "a tide inhabitants, OF
squatters upon Southern tig' 10 join them in their
reasonable desgns?*
In view of the impendi z calamity, and in the
immediate presence, it wese of the t,Vo hundred
and tUeLh peril to the Union is it not time to cry
abound aChere are the Unici faUing Aldermen" and
" what are they abOut?" Are they supinely repo-
sing bottom upwards, upon their Aldermanic devel-
opments, so that their eyes being turned below
they not the portentious clouds which overhang
the political horizon? Or do they see but heed not
hear but feel not-think but speak not? Is the
patriotism which burned with such a healthy glow
within their hosoms, only one short year ago, now
extinguished forever? In BRIEF and with the ener-
gy of almost despair, we ask-while suffocating
grief stiles our words" Have Alderman Fogg and
the City Council of Nashville made up their minds
to let the Union slide p" | sincerity trust not l
have an abiding faith that they will even at this day.
once more throw their ponderOus persons into the
imminent deadly breach Have they experienced
the truth of the grave charge that Republics are
ungrateful ?" Let them remember that an appro-
wing conscience is the most healthy of all the re-
wards of glorious deeds. True it is, that upon the
solemn occasion, just one year agOne, when they
saved the Union, many of those who Toasted upon
the bounty of their wisdom and were the recipients
of the blessings secured by their sagacity, pro-
nounced them asses, but few discriminating minds
men of mark and merit, declared them to be full
bloOded cOnestoga horses and surely the high appre-
citation of these should be regarded as more than a
cusion, say, and when say it l mean it, Alder
men of Nashville, up! and to the rescue Stir
your stumps Shake off the dew drops which are
clustering upon your garments. Tear away the cob
webs which entangling the legs Of your patriot
ism-take another pinch of snuff, and once more
save the Union. Aye,
HOnee more unto the breach, der friends once more'
/ UNION SAVER.
The reader will remem3er that the Conven-
ton at Savannah in which OuS City Fathers could
see no purpose but treasOnf b the North, adopted
n resolution to convene theISsnext annual session