Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-10-23

We continue to give intelligence from the scene Of
the attempted insurrecton in our paper to-day.
Some Of our Southern contemporaries seem disposed
to Iepreciate the Importance of the outbreak. and
to exhonorate from responsibility all but the actors
in it. Let such remember that Brorn their leader,
was the trusted agent of the Black Republican par
ty of the north in the troubles in Kansas. That par
ty sustained him. furnished him with sharpes rifles,
and with money to carry out their purposes in that
Territory That he is half fanatic and half fool Is
certainly no excuse for the willy leaders OF Black
Republicanism, who, safely enseonced Rther homes
in New Haven Boston, and New York, furnished
him the means Of revolution and employed nm as
an agent of murder 1t is of grave consequence to
the South that the Republican p@ry OF the north is
controlled by men who palate and excuse the crime
of BRov-y Certainly no newspaper in the north
ields as preatan influence with the Republican par
~ a. the New York Tribune Letthose who think
that the Republican party should not be held res
ronsibIe for ByolcR'S murders, read the following
from that paper. and see how admirably GREELEY.
while he calls the traitors mistaken men, exeites
northern sympathy for them and makes them mar
tyrs:
@There will be enough to heap execration on the
memory ofthese mistaken men. We leave this work
to the fit hands and tongues Of those who regard the
fundamental axiOms of the Declaration Of Indepen-
deTce as glitering generalties Believing that the
way to Universal Emancipation lies not through in
surrection, civil war and bloodshed but through
peace, discussion, and the quiet diffusion OF sent-
ments OF humanity and justice, we deeply regret
this outbreak; but, remembering that if their fault
was grioyous, grieyously have they answered it, we
will not, by one reproachful word, disturb the
bloody shFOuds wherein John Brown and his com
patriots sleeping. They dared and died for
what they elt 10 be the right, though in a manner
which seems TO fatally wrong Let their epitaphs
remain unwrtten until the not distant day when no
slave shall cank his chains in the shades OF Monte
cello or by the graves Of Mount Vernon.
The Journal Of Commerce (Dem) takes the follow
ing view of the Instruction:
We do not desire to charge prominent men in the
Republican party with any immediate connection
with this instruction, and await the investigation
which must follow, before attempting to fasten the
legal responsibility where it belongs. But morally
there can be no question that the movement mas
been FASTENED, if il was not primarily caused by the
alarming doctrines preached by politicians OF the
Seward, Giddings and Sumner and Burlingame
school. They have not only declared that there
| must be an irrepressible conflict between freedom
and slavery, until the country is all free all slave
but some of them have predicted the very movement
which has now been initiated, and which has only
failed to accomplish its purpose, by the imperfect
plot and the want Of sense brought into requlstion
| by its leaders.
The leader of this diabolcal attempt 70 array the
slaves against their masters and to cause them TO
imbrue their hands in the blood of the whole white
population is the pet and paid employee Of the Re
publicans of Massachusetts,; if not now actually
supported by them. at least a former recipient Of
their pecuniary aid. After his boasts that pro
slavery men had met with thoiF death at his own
hands, he visited New England, was PeceiygA with
| open arms by leading Republican politicians,
donations were collected for his support and
future operations, and his action, brutal and mus
derOus as it confessedly was generally approved by
the leaders in tine Republican party. How well he
has improved upon his teachings, and how he has
turned the sympathy of that class of men to ac-
CONT may be gathered from this last and basest Of
all his