Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1858-01-14

republicanism brought to the feet OF capri
cious and higher-law absolutism. Having
been brought into this condition OF depen
dence and subsection, how will we asser'
our rights, how vindicate the Constitution
Submission, tame, despicabIe and disgrace
| full, or revolution If revolution, ther
| what? What was the voice of the North
when the President ventured to proclaim
through his message that Kansas ought II
be admitted under the Lecompton Constr
tuition, and especially after the giant in
triguer and electromagnetic, Douglas, hac
joined issue with him thereupon? An I'M
conditional retraxit by the President Oh
war upon the spot. We give the alterna
tive as presented by the New York Courie'
and Enquirer, one of the leading organs o.
that party:
"We, however, have no such apprehension
A civil war we will certainly have, if Mr.
BUCHANAN does not repudiste with as hot
haste his late Message, as he has already done
all his pledges by which he reached the Pres
IueHCy. DuG III InaC WEI the eoplo VIII tli-
umph, the principles of the Constitution will
be vindicated, and the liberty of the citizens
be secured. 1t will not lead TO any dissolution
of the UDion, for two unauswerable reasons.
First, the great majority of the people of the
South, are as loyal to the Constitution and 10
the Union, and TO truth and the redemntion
of pledges voluntarily made, as are we of the
North; and, therefore, they will not counte-
nance disunion, however much their leaders
may desire it. And secondly, we of the
North, will not permit shy such folly. We
will adhere to the Constitution and faithfully
discharge all our dates under il; and having
done this. we tell those who seek disunion, as
we have told them before, that they may not
and shall not withdraw from the Union; and
any attempt at so doing, will be promptly put
down, and all concerned in It be most severely
punished. This is no idle threat. We mean
just what we say; and if now or hereafter,
any portion of the Contederacy ventures upon
rebellion-we care not whether it be the
North or the South the East or the West-we
will sohip them into subsection after the fashion
tina: a refractory school boy is brought into
subsection to his master and superior; and
they should govern themselves accordingly.
eve have no such apprehension" as a
dissolution of the Union, says this exponent
of fanaticism 1t will not be permitted
they mean to acAipths south into s~5jectiOm as a
refractory scAOOI-5Oy BY HIs MASTER.
We submit it to southern men, and no
less to the national conservative men of
the North, whether it is right, or just, or
constitutional, or patriotic to join in such
crusade. We submit whether any man or
party of men could live day in the South
that would thus join her most unrelenting
foes-or whether they ought to live. For
ourselves, we are decided. And we are
none the less national and conservative.
We plant ourselves, in this case, upon the
constitution and laws. We shall strive to
the constitutional rights of the
South, to uphold her interests and her hon
Or, and to foster, as far as lies in our power,
respect and veneration for the Union. Elk
remism Of every hue and form, whether
n the guise of Northern Philanthropy or
Southern Disunionism, shall find in us
constant and unfinching enemy. But, we
eel that the time for concession, in any de-
gree, to the demands of anti-slavery fana-
,iciSm has passed. The South has yielded
until she can dos no longer with safety and
lonor Hereafter, q firm aud infexible |
of her rights, to the fullest |
xtent, is necessary; and the man, or the
,arty, that falters, not merely invites fur
her aggressions but adds to the momen-
um of the moral and material power which |
or years past has been moving to our de-
truction. We shall take care not to be |