Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-04-28
THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL rs, 1859.
a Warning 70 tne sonth.

The growing power of the Opposition at the North
is OmnOus of evil to the equality of the States and
the integrity Of the Union. The victories they have
already claimed by their leaders the first
steps towards the conquest and subjugaiion of the
South. The final extinction Of slavery is the object
which they have syOwed, and they are marching
forward to its accomplishment. The only safety for
the South is in the conservative spirit and national
feeling of portion of the northern people With
out true, Union loving men in the free States to re-
sist this formidable movement, the slave States will
inevitably be OverpOWered by superior numbers If
We had no friends in the North, the abolllionists
would soon obtain entire and absolute control of the
government. But fortunately We have such friends.
The Northern Democrats have been always true to
the constitution and resoue in their support of the
equality of the States. They have firmly adhered
to their national and conservative principles even
when eertsin of defeat. They have never turned
aside from the path of duty though surrounded by
darkness, difficulty ana danger. They have heroic
ely resisted the encroachments Of our enemiese
when resistance involved their own destruction
Neither the alurements Of Office nor the seductions
of power, have ever been able to win them away
from their allegiance the laws and institutions of
the country. Though assaulted by snesrs and threats,
by derison and denunciation, by he terrors of so,
cial and political accommodation, they were still
loyal TO the constitution and the Union. When pur
sued by bitter and uHreleItiDg persecution, when
the fires Of fanatcism burned fiercely and furious
ly around Them, they did not ronOunco their faith,
nor cease to proclaim their principles. They pre-
sent an example Of moral heroiam which the world
may wonder at and admire They have struggled
I'D nd
in the cause of justice and equality. They might
have given way to the tide Of prevailing opinions
and HOated smoothly into the harbor of popular IA
vor. But they discarded selfish considerations and
adhered 10 the right RithouG regard to oonseq
In the admission of Missouri and Arkansas, in the
annexation Of Texas in the passage Of the fugitive
slave law and the Kansas Nebraska bill, and in the
last struggle involving the admission Of a slave
satS into the Union they stood boldly by our side
resisting sectional distinctions and sectional preiu-
dices.
These gallant and patriotic men did not abandon
us in this fearful crisis When all the powers Of
anti-slayery fanaticism were banded against the
South, when her own sons fatered, they we're still
faithful to the equality of the States the COnstitu-
tion and the Union.
They returned to their homes and found all the
factions combined gainst them. The Black Re-
publicans and Know NOthings had united under the
name of the Opposition" ~ and had resolved upon
their destruction All the enemies Of the South had
gathered under the banner, to crush at one de-
cisive blow the friends of the Constitution.
The Northern Democrats went into the conflict
against unequal and empowering numbers They
were fighting in a just cause--they were defending
g;s nh
dangered and they did not shrink from the contest.
In such a struggle they had hight to expect the
undivided sympathy Of the Southern people.
1t would seem in times like these that party names
might be forgotten,-that the paltry schemes of poN
Htical spoilsmen would give way 10 the impulse of
patriotism, and that every Southern heart would
glow with gratitude towards those gallant men who
we're struggling so nObly in defence OF our COM
mon rights and our common country. We know the
generous character of the Southern people. We
know they never refuse to worth and valOr the tr-
butte Of their praise. We know that they as in
capable Of i1gratiude to their friends they are
incapable of submission to their enemies. Yet
some among them have eOuneeled such ingratitude
and such submission.
Tho leaders of the Opposition, even here, have
slandered and DETAINED the defenders Of the South,
and are conspiring with the anti-slaveTy OPPOSE
ton at the North to crush them. They exuted over
the defeat of the Northern Democracy, they re-
ioiced in the triumph of SEWARD and his followers
They know that every victory they win is a tri-
umph Of Abolitionism, but the Opposition must
conquer that these spOilsmen at the South
NAV obtain o Iittance of the public plumber
The Democracy must be stricken down even
while they sustain the pillars CT the Constitution,
that these political Ca.alnes may erect the throne
of their power upon its ruins. These hungry Office
seekers must be led, even though they drain the
life blood of the South.
Consequently we find the leading opposition or
cans exulting over Black Republican victories in
the North. The Louisville Journal says. ''that no
one will rejoice more in the defeat Of LaoOmpton
men in the North than the Southern opposition"
The Nashville Banner of October 18th, copying |
the congratulations of the Pennsylvania Enquirer,
Phadelphia american ana Gazette, New..York Courier
and ENQUIRER, and New York Times over the Black /
Republican victory in Pennsylvania, adds:
I'VE hope these statements taken from SO many |
iorruals each strength sniDg and corroboratDg the
others, will be Rttenuyely read Ihey aHora lal'h-
full portrait of Democracy IN ali It's hldeousness ana
show TO what q condition our country will soon be
reduced unless the people rise IN their majesty
throughout the whole Union as they have done IN
Pennsylvania against the Democratic administration
and the Democratic party"
Again the Banner of November the 10th says:
aWithin the last two months elections have been
held in 8 majority Of the Northern States, and the
result is now before great battle has been
fought and signal victory won. Mr.. Buchanan
mad with all tie wealth OF the nation, ami sur
rounded BY q host OF mercsnaries, dared the PeO-
ME of the United States to combat. They accepted
he challenge, and he has fallen in the Struggle.
The question now arises, how is the great veto
to be used? Unless it be used wisely 1t would be