Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-12-16


pablo, feel that comment is wholly unnecessary.
speech of Hoa. Taos. A. Il. NeIsOa.
This is a remarkable production, and coming
from gentleman claiming TO represent, part, the
people of Tennessee deserves TO be read through
out the State We trust that it will be sought for
and perused With care Mr.. NELSON is evidently
Of more than ordinary ability IN debate, aad is
likely to take front rank with his party in Ten
nessee In one respect the speaker met with great
success in sci;ing vocferous applause from the
Black Republican side of the House. The occasion
for this applause should be overlooked by South
readers. and Is ominOus of worse state of pub
lie affairs than we had until recently anticipated
As stated in yesterdays issue, the subject un-
der discussion was a resolution introduced by MIR
CLARK, of Missouri declaring unfit preside
the deliberations Of the House any member vino
had endorsed and Recommended to the public the
luuonary and iHcendisry pamphlet Published by
HELPER, and about which there has been much said
of late, entitled - The IMPENDING CRISIS OF riE
S,Um," encouraging treason ald instruction
abolition, by violence, of the institution OF slave
~; and the accommodation from social, religious
and business fellowship, all who uphold that institu
ton; hundred thousand copies of which have
been recently circulated by the leaders of the Black
Republican party. majority of the Black Repub-
ican members ofthe House had cordially endorsed"
this book and among them their candidate for Speak
er. One would scarcely suppose that the resolu-
ton of Mr.. CLARK would have found al opponent in
any national man. North South, who detested this
reasonable faaaticism and was anxious to protect
the country against its inroads, but especially
in one from the South, representing Southern con-
stituency And yet it in opposition to this
into the breach and won for himself the rapturous
applause of the Black Republican side of the House,
the cordial endorsers' of the insurrectionary and
reasonable doctrines put forth by the HELPER
pamphlet.
But the member from Tennessee was not satisfied
with this mission of love in relieving the feelings Of
the endorsers of this infamous publication; he must
go farther and essay to fix upon the South the I'M
tiative in the war Of aggression. He said:
when you look at the history of parties in this
country, 1t is undeniabe fact that notification
had is origin in South Carolina; and from that day
TO the present the spirit Of notification Of secession
Of GisunIOn has never slept slumDered The snake
OF notification has been scotched, not killed. That
feeling existed during the lifetime OF its great lead
er; and one OF the last letters he ever wrOte-his
letter 10 Col larpey-was one IN which meeting
organization of the Southern States was re
commended. In addition 10 that, we have had fur
ther proceedings on the part Of the South which,
trust cannot command toe appreciation of MAORI
" OF patriots the country With all that not only
did the spirit of nuIficaton display itself IN 1882
but has continued 10 exist Sine that time, in
rious forms and shapes which will not now take
time 10 portray.
d. And that same cling Of disunion which existed
In 1859 portion the Southern States. not only
existed at the ZINE when the Southern Convention
assembled in that year but it has existed from the
days Of notification down to the present period"
By this, and similar angdage-with reference to
POD r. 80 . /
1850, and tie repeal of the Missouri Compromise in
ls54-there seems TO have been a studied effort up
the part Of the Speaker fix upon the South the
chief responsibility and censure for the impending
crisis which now overhangs the country and threat
ems the peace if not the perpetuy, of insttu-
tions. True, the gentleman in a subdued and 7
tone-wh an apparent desire to as
sumo a fairness if he had it not-asks: i
And when we look North are their skirts clear? 3
When we lock North, there no sentiments of 7
that kind existing there? Is there nothing to cor
respond with the Nicksburg Convention, which was
held no longer ago than IN the month OF May 1883?
Wen we look 70 the South. feeling of dissat- i
isfacton with The Union manifestng itself upon all R
occasions and under ali circumstances. Is there
feeling of that kind upon the part of portion of =
the North? Why. sir. since came into this House
have heard sentiments attributed TO Northern d
which il seems me, Cua anything that has been r
Isid at the South sentiments which | regret to .
Northern brethren here agree l
How very considerable, He had heard sentiments
attributed" to Northern men which seemed to him
equal any thing said the South, AID he DELHI
.ratsy proceeded to read some extracts Inscribed
10 Northern gentlemen, showing that have in a
his Union extremists at the North and extremists at
he South" Now Mr. NELSON would not vouch for 6
he correctness ofthese attributed" Nor
hern gentlemen bat would give his authOrity-it L
was the Democratic Standard, paper Of which he W
aid he knew nothing published at Concord, New II
Hampshire Having dwelt briefly and touched ten O
ery upon the extremes of Northern gentlemen, he CT
Informed the House that he from a slave State,
suggested probably, by the thought that RI
or his speech might lead different i'm pression) al
nd although not a man of wealth, he owned few Ill
laves, land ashamed TO say it here" What ID
display Of moral herosm. to be How proud ID
he people of Tennessee must feel to know that they 81
ave one representative in Congress who has the
ourage TO tell the endorsers of the HELPER pam
het that he owns few slaves and he is not asham- is
to say it there, But he then proceeds to show in
nat the two great parties fighting battle in sd r.
Ance of the times. To U.s. his words I'll
u do think that We or rather the two great par 90
es of the land fighting battle altogether IN =
ivance OF the time. To borrow the idea, though ~
snnot quote the language Of that eminent and dis oc
nguishei man. Mr. Webster the question of slave tjC
: has been practically settled 10 regard TO much
lie greater portion Of this Union 1t has been set -
ed, he in substance said, by the laws OF nature Nv
I'd by the laws of climate lea
The gentleman had vivid recollection of all the
temperate steps to which the Southern people had
zen driver hut act of injustice, outrage, COZ
tolerance upon the part Of the great controlling the
Irty of the North, seems for once to have oc- emf
rred to his excited inauguration Southern hoI
lllifers" Southern Secessioists." Southern tho
and southern Disuni1nists" were col
identity with him the chief instruments of Gll be
, wrongs all the evils, and all the dangers gre
lich atlic the country. He seems TO be ignorant Del
n Federal laws have been nulifed- State fri,
sous by official authority. have bee refused for in
retention or fugitive ssves-that Southern cti- ,
l. have been murdered in the lawful pursuit of
,r pronertv-tllat our borders have been infested We
tn abolition thieves running away our slaves 49,
It an attempt 90 inctc insurrectlon has been N ode
Southern State and that all of these things, nov
more have been advised and encouraged by the II
IPER tract which have been cordially endorsed"
thousand copies circulated in part by the very low
Ck Republican members into whose reasonable Wis
es he was then looking, and from whom he was Mic
eivng round after round Of rapturous applause. oii
Re giving too much dignity and too much i'm II
ming forge, that il had acquired its Importance IL
the "corda' e11oIs ment" of eighty-odd Black was
publican members one Of whom was then a can II
ate for Speaker. But while he unwilling to ern
Nifty this REASONABLE publication just the 1855
Is Of the Virginia usur-ectiqn with much I'M %, Oh
tance, he deemed 1t highly proper to dignity with
We importance every thing that could be regarded tn
ntempearte action at the South looking to a re- Sena
ance of the wrongs which dominant North have the
Favored 10 impose upon US Mr.
here are several other points in this remarkable who's
ah worthy OF notice at our hands, which must majo
ostponed TO another time. Few speeches have JOEL
made in the national Congress that, in judg Demo
[ is so UNJUST the people Of the holding elect
rs and unworthy of Tennessee representative show
nnot De that anything which, at this particular maJo
ture Of affairs would call forth the applause 1t vii
he Black Republicans can receive the applause coh'e
Ie more sober and patriotic citizens of this 9ena'