Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-11-17

Where do these rHarr HUsDnHD THousAsD oil
oAnoHs DrsE who have been Bamed By Banks, vii
son & Cos Nowhere butin the fifteen slaysholding
States: in the States where Washington and Jefer-
son, Gadsssn and Marion, Macon and Jackson lived
and held slaves; in States that had CHI to recog
nize slavery Every word Of libel that these polia
clans, whom Massachusetts endorses, have uttered
agsinst holding slaves every spark Of hatred
these 6re>brands have Kindled in Northern breasts
against the South; the whole Of he stuff as vile as
it is shallow, that has found favor with the inte-
genee Of Massachusetts, is as applicable to the
FATHER OF MS Country as 1t is 10 any planter who
resides in any Of the slave States These are the
parties agaius; whom the Republicans have framed
their bill Of indictment. Again We ask what IS it
all fort
Seward has given the Interpretation Of the mean
ing Of the Republican agitators when they 60 into
every locality and promise thai, if The people viii
give them their votes tsey viii work on and work
on until the sun shall rise on no slaveholder and
set on no slave This is found in his declaration
that it is the mission Of the republicans to substitute
fer the hated ogarehy that now works slave labor
on the cotton and rice and sugar plantations, the
free labor system Of the North he goes for interior
enoe with slavery in the States. In what position
his party now is 10 carry this war let speech
he made at Rome attest The Republican party he
says, is ao practically organized and ready for cotton
freed from al the elements d HESITATION, TEMDITY,
oowARDIoE, AND CAUTION ,0hieAevT term may be pre-
tsrred This means; gentlemen Americans, Know
Nothings, begging old Wings, or whoever you msy be-
whining about our granting you bit Of nationality,
mark this: if you will join in IRREPREssIBLE
HOSTILITY TO sLAvERY-sewaFd's wOrds-weli; but
we despise your coRardicel March up, under me,
to the breach Of forcing free labor the Southern
cotton, rice and sugar fields, march not at all
See hov strong again are Stewards words, des.
cribing the Republican party united and firm a
front presents itsef Name, consolidated under the
lead Of HamIa and Fesssaden in Nsao Hampshire li.
der the direction Of Hale and Clark Massachusetts,
under The lead Of Wilson and adams; IN Ne'0 York. Of
Horace Greeley and Preston King; IN Pennsylvania
under The lsG5 Of Cameron and Campbell
ssNever was the Seward element stronger than it
| vas when Seward made this SKETCH never was
Seward himself stronger than he has been made by
the New York victory; never did be ayOw holder
sentiments. Suchis the sectional element embodied
in the Republican party. Reckless Of consequences
to our country, this party is pressing onward to the
goal Of its purposss-even though their accomplish
ment is 10 be over the PROSTATE body Of the consi
tuition and the PROSTATE interests of the country.
"On the other hand is the national element, as
embodied in the Democratic party. 1t is to-day in
Massachusetts, precisely as it vas in 1912, ithas
been many times sinoe.s defeated, minority party.
Who can measure the depth Of national degradation
that would have occurred had the majority of Mas
sachuset;s with it's determination to push Louisiana
QUE of the Union because Of its slavery been in18l2
a majority also Of the whole country Who can
measure the amount Of mischief that will come to the
country to-day, if the tTamrlees the Federal
Constitution, the wsr-msksrs on The Shareholders
and the South, come to be majority of the whole
country? Against such geographical snd fratricdal
party Of only the North are arayed the noble nation
al democracy of the Sokole country defending the
same principles, the same common purposes here.
in Massachusetts az they do in the Caro-
linas. They srrsign these suicidal Northern ar
raigners Of Shareholders and charge them with
wanton violation Ct the grand old fraterOal spirit
that made our country. Had there been Stewards
in the convention Of l7s7 in the Congress ofI776
in the Congress OF IVA or in the Congress Of 1865
procaimiug that the two systems, free labor and
slave labor exist in this country side by eide;
that collisions between them are inevitable in the
progress Of things; that ALL COMPROMISES AS
TO THEM ARE VAIN that one OF the ether must
PREVAIL that the slave dealer must forever continue
to sail out of Boston, or the free labor Of Boston
must till Southern fields, where would have been, not
MERELY the Constitution, bus the Declaration OF In~
dependence and he Union thai made it? Had the e
been Wilson's aud Banksss in that day here even on
Massachusetts, soil aud hsd they bat poured out
upon Shareholders a 1.-THE OF the odium they poured
out even the last month, where you'd have been the
liberties of our country? This wanton violation Of
the old fra.erual bead is what he national demoo
raey have, for half century, denounced. Aad in
place Of this terrible onset on the Sou h this nation
al party stands on The ground Of nOn-interfrrence
with the slsyeboIiers, uou legislation by Congress-
aai in support of such rights as the F, dsr4I Con
sLi-uion has guaranteed 10 all he States.
''As the ground Is solid the foundations Of our
country. We repeat what we said Ga the morning
after he election; the democracy need rot be dis
coursged. Lei officials, let Senator WILSON and
Judge RUssELL-iell It rot IN Gath-backguard
them by calling them slaves! The same terms were
dealt to their political fathers because they voted
fer JEFFEEsoE Let Democrats then fight On, con-
fdent that the patriotism and intelligence Of the
country will rally to the support of the Constitution
and achieve a victory in 1860
"Shich side DO you mean to take for 1860? VIII
you 90 for united North or for your whole ooun-
try ?"
The News.