Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-12-17

OPPOSITION speakers and papers, when pressed for
N argument, hrve very happy faculty for laying
down their premises not according to facts, but to
their own immediate necessities. For instance, Mr.
NELSON. in his recent speech in the House, says;
There is one remarkable thing Of these disuniOn-
,sts North and South. What is it, state il for the
burmese of respectfully submitting that there is
something wrong both sides. What ls IT! why
that whilst they disagree the subject OF slavery
and various other subjects, they unite IN agreeing
upon a dissolution of the Union as common feui-
DIV for antagOnstic evils.
Now this will be news to the public, that there Is
a party at the North who favor disunion as their
remedy for the supposed evils of slavery Is there
suv truth in it? Has not the gentleman fixed up |
faota to suit his argument, rather than an argu |
ment 10 suit his factsg There is aparty-a
very large party-whose special Representatives
the gentleman was then addressing, who are at war
with the Constitution and advocates of 4" a law
higher than the Constitution who have boldly de-
clared their purpose to revOlutionize the Supreme
Court and put the Government on the side of
freedom party of aggressors, who disregard the
independent sovereignty and the separate right. OF
the States, adher1ng to the principle that might
makes right" and who declare their purpose 10 con
time their aggressions until the shall not rise
upon a master nor Sc pun i" SsfN 49,
Their declare as in the HELPER pamphlet that 4" If
the oligarch (the Southern people, do not quietly
submit the first battle between Freedom and Slave
~ will be fought at home. But this is not Disun-
ION party in the sense in which that term is applied
to extreme men at the South. Nothing but their de-
pendenoe upon the benefits of the Union, and their
fear Of its dissolution, has prevented them from
carrying their reasonable purposes to the fartaest
extent
The ingenuity Of Mr.. NELSON conjure up no
epithets with which to defamo his betters in the
South denominated DISTINGUISHES that viii equal the
terms of opprobrium that have already been employ
ed, for the same purpose by the Black Republican
scavengers at the North They have as little taste
for Disunionist as Mr. NELSON has. They viii join
hands with him any time in clarifying the Union de
cannot insist more strenuously upon keeping the
States together than they will They viii out-herod
Herod. The vilest of their leaders have made it
boast that the Union could not and should not be
dssolved-that if the Secessionists want to get out
of the Union they must quit the country and that II
they attempt to take the State with them they will
bring her back by force. Who does not know that
this has been the tone and temper of the Black Re-
publican party.
It's evident therefore, that Mr.. NELSON had re-
sorted 10 JliG unworthy SUM VI 1870
premises in order to place the extreme men of the
South who seeking to rePel an injury, upon
common level with their fanaticsl aggressors at the
North who do not desire dissolution of the Union.
but want it without tho Constitution The services
of one such Southern representative as Mr.. NELSON
is worth to them a dozen from the North Let the
people of Tennessee look to it.
When Mn1ARD FILLMORE was candidate for the
Presidency, ne found himself very sadly wanting in
supporters at the North. by reason of the nomina-
ton Of FREMONT. as a strictly sectional candidate
He sought to relieve himself by justly Characters
ing the Black Republican ticket an effort 10 com
init an outrage uron the Southern portion of the
confederacy hoping bring thereby to his own sup
port all who did not desire 10 be regarded as wag
ing a sectional warfare. In his famous Rochester
speech which elected so much applause from his
supporters the South he reversed the picture and
presented the question TO his Northern listeners IN
, this way:
Suppose that the South was the most populOus
the most wealthy and possessed of the greatest
number OF electoral votes. and it shond declare
that for some fancled real injury done at the
North il would elect none but President and Vice
President of shareholders from the South 10 rule
over the North. do you think, tellow-clhzens, you
would submit TO this injustice. No, truly you nOHd
skies
IT, in the opinion Of Mr.. FILLMORE, the North would
notsubmit to the mere election of a Southern man
upon simply sectional prejudice, arising from som'
E. fancied or real injury +" what should the Souti
do, If the Black Republican party should nominate
and elect As President Wan. II. SEWARD; who in op
postion to slavery has avowed himself the adVocat
of law higher than the Constitution who ha
declared that between the slave States and the FREE
States there is an irrepressible conflict " whicl
must 90 on until become either entirely slave
holding nation, entirely iree-labor nation -
that To this end the Supreme Court must be revolt
tionized " and the government itself put upon tn
side of freedom" In view of the very emphati
declaration OF Mr.. FILLMORE, this question was sui
mitted to Mr. NELSON, during his recent TRAD
against Southern nullifers, - and he declared tina
this of itself would be cause TOR dissolution
the Union. A grave error has been commltte
either by Mr. FILLMORE or NJ. NELsoN-which is tn
tr1,ilfv