Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-12-07

A@AVhleee enAa Aeot 4he issue IL coidly presented
through the columns Of The New York Tribune, and
q war Of determination IS declared agsinst the
slave States. Speaking Of the position Of the Re-
publicsn party, the New York Tines, which has al
ways sustained that organization, says:
In the absence Of any authoritative exposition of
lie creed and its aim--we have not unnstural-
y looked to the TTi5ue for indications al least Of
the views and purposes Of the pary which it justly
claims 70 represent Yesterday issue Of that paper
contained long and elaborate editorial upon the
question Of slavery, shieh it seldom discusses, Is
It's readers know closing With the following ems
phaiic proclamation:
''The present position in which slausholding aHG
free labor stand face to face lrh each ob,r is the in
eVitabs result Of all our past history and fully
foreshaaoWed in the very first Continental Congress-
and still more distinctly in the Convention that
framed the Federal Constitution. In this state Of
things It is in vain that the selfish, the quietiss
and the tmid, whether At the North at the South
CRY out Peacel Pescei There Is no peace Mr. Choeie
and Senator Hammond TO the contrary notgith-
standing. There Is no peace, and until hs greatds-
cisiUe battle impending Is fought there can be
SoHe The struggle has begun, and Il must 90 on
Even grant that over jealous aud fanatica zeal has
precipitated q contest which we would gladly have
deferred, and, slumbering our own time in quiet,
would willingly have thrust upon the days OF our
children, no matter. IN this thing cannot haze
orr rgy. IN such astTHggle there be neutrality.
II is time FOR every to choose under which ban.
ner be win stand Woe to him who, in this great
crisis, shall prove himrelf coward and trailer"
This " remarks the 7Tnass sounds certainly like
tie signal Of battle The standards seem to be
planted. The issue is apparently made up, and
certain portion Of are alphabetically proclaimed
"coWards and traitors" It becomes someWhat im-
Portant to know the nature Of the 6ght:- and we
fad it set forth, with tOerabls precision, in the
following letter from the T5uass correspondent ct
the Federal Capital"
This correspondent, whose entire letter we cannot
publish, goes on to say that 'ths impression pre-
walls almost universally among these gentlemen that
the Slavery question is settled, that the autislave-
y agitation has subsidized and that beneeforth the
topics with which the public mind of the country
viii concern itself are to be measures of financial
sad merely territorial interest The faulty of these
men reminds one Of the ostrich with his head stuck
in hole, snd its entire huge body exposed to the
hunter. Tsiy kHorledge Of the North their notions of
the origin, tendency, progress and aim of she anti
SlaVsTy movement are Of the Uaguest and most in
perfect sort formed either by blind and passionate
conjecture or from the Misrepresentation of North
ern dough faces, who, az dOugh>faees, know them
selves little nothing Of the. anti Slavery move
ment, and are dough-fsoes, because they have not
grasp of mind elevation of character enough to
comprehend it."
The people Ofthe South are here notified through
the columns Of the most influential organ of the
Black Republicans, that the anti-slavery agitstiOn
has not subsidized, snd that in the fancied securi
ty the South feels this subject, she initiates the
folly of the ostrich who hides his head and leaves
his body exposed We ask attention to these further
disclosures Of the purposes of the Black Republican
organization from the same letter which we quote
above. ..
/" The shareholders Of late years have so stimula-
ed themselves with fanaticism, 30 beelouded their
own minds with sWashy fallaces in the insane at
tempt to reconcile with Christianity and natural
justice the practice Of living on the earnings Of
others, and with Democracy and Liberty the forcible
keeping Of three four millions Of their people in
bondage, that it is extremely hard to make them
realize their true position, understand the attitude
in which they appear to the rest Of the country
and the rest Of the world All men whose eyes are
not dazzled by the himsiest Of fallacies can see
that the slavehoding class in this country is moth
ing but an sristocracy, and that Of the meanest
kind. It is not an aristocracy dgnifed by titles,
by high birth, long descent and lustrious services
but contemplate niger driving eottOn-groWing,
tobaccO-rRsing erisOcrRcy, into which any one can
get admitted who can scrape together thousand
dollars, and has not conscience or humanity enough
TO restrain him from buying Herewith another man,
and making him work ali the rest Of his life for his
(the buyers) profit aud convenience.
In a Republic like this founded principles of
freedom justice and equality Of rights, the t0lera
alton Of such an OdiOus drstoeraey for moment could
hardly Be looked for even if it confined itself pru-
IDENTIFY and quietly to It's miserable business of mig
ger-breeding, n-grOEing and tobsccO-raising,
without undertaking 10 NEEDLE with politics Even
in that case might reasonably expect that he Demo-
cratic Of people 1rold demand It's suppression
and abolition nuisance and disgrace to the b0atly
But when this privileged class, with is two millions
Of capital combines to control the Government. and
assumes to make and unmake Presidents, to dictate
who shall be Judges, who shall be ambassadors,
who shall be off holders, from the highest TO the
lowest; when it undertakes 10 put down freedom Of
the Press and Of speech and to prescribe and per-
seeute ell who not servile to it, hoW eTpsc,
10 bel alone while the spirit Of their fathers yet ami
mate the free and proud and prosperous people Of
the North ?,
The struggle agaigs' the saUsholaHg arisoerqey oU
continue long that aTistOcraey crisis Platforms
may be made and unmsde, Fugitive Slave laws
passed and repealed, Kansas admitted, and dozen
other Free States adu-itted-but the dHSldvery agi
fGtiOR aCH not stop until the SlgUehodlg dTisocrdcy IS
su6dusd and suppressed There may be lulls, and
there may Observation-Disclosures may be settlements and
final settlements remember, myself six or seven
anti SLAVERY agitation rN continue and gror stronger
and stronger eUey gear, making issues, If Il does not
find them made. Our Southern friends may as 1csI IN
dsrStaR6 first last that the only ray 10 get rid Of
the agitation about slavery is to get rid Of sJaCsy it,
self"
Our opponents are becoming arrogant since their
late victories The subservienuy of the Southern
Know Nothing press to their sectional plans and
purposes, the assistance they derived from BELL,
CRIrTENDEE and MARSHALL in their contest against
slavery have only rendered the abotionsts more in
solent and aggressive. They are satisfied from the
srvile syeophsney of the Know Nothing leaders,
that they may safely place their heel upon the
neck Of the Southern people. They now declare
hat they will not be satisfied with the repeal Of the
fugitive slave law, the admission of Kansas and g
dozen other free States, they win be satisfied with
nothing but the vassalsge, subsection and humilia
ion of the South. They tell us that the SLAVE |
FOLDING ARIsTOORACY MUST BE sUBDUED AND SUP
and inform us in the tone Of despots, |
hat GIVE MUST GET RID eF SLAVERY" The New
FORK Times commenting on the passages We have
luoted from the New York Tribune says:
* That represent ative and organ Of the Republican
,srty is evidently inclined to make the abolition Of
,averv the direct and immediate issue in the com
no Presidential canvass and it deuounces as a
coward and traitor" every man who does notrally
o its standard"
We may consider the gauntlet thrown down to US,