Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-04-12
TUESDAY moRNING, APRIL -. 1859.
speak Out.

speak Out.
In response to our inserrogatores the Patriot has
over half column Of matter, which it very sppro-
priately styles ssDoDoNGn Earthquakes are evad-
ed, not answered and we cannot consent to crafty
our neiehbOr's idle curiosity with regard to the
various subjects he inierrOgates about until he
learns to answer as well ss ask questions We ask
our neighbor how much money the banks will furn.
ish in this canvass TO promote the election Of the
Know Nothing candidates, and he talks about Tom
FLOEESoE and the PhiladelFhis Navy Yard, repeat
ing charge which has been authoritstively con-
tradieted BY Hon. CHARLES READY, a prominent
member of the PATRIOTS own party. We ask
does the PATRIoT still think that those who op-
posed the LecOmpton constitution, were forcing
the South to surrender at discretion, and kneel
subsequently at the feet Of her enemies!" And if
So Why the Patriot and its party sre kneeling s.sub
serviently at the feet" of Mr. Bell and putting him
forward as the Representative Of their prineipes?-
Our contemporary replies that the Lecomron consti-
tuition is dead. But neighbour the men who opposed
1t are not dead, and your denunciation of them is
Jet unrstracted We want to know how on earth, our
neighbOr and other Lecompton men can possibly sup
port Mr.. BELL, who Wssengaged in movement, as
the Patriot said o yield the material rights of the
South, who was sustaining s'the wishes of wicked
fanatics" assisting in an attempt to make ''the
South surrender st discretion and knesl subserv.
iently ct the feet Of her enemies" who committed
such an outrage against the South in excluding
Kansas from the Union that our contemporary hest
tated whether ought to submit to it or dissolve
the Union. We have asked and still desire to know
how it is the Patriot possibly act with party
Of which this OppressOr of the South, this ally of
the sbolitiOnsts, this Senator, this worse
than traitor, f the Patriot was not unjust in its
eensures) is 'he Representative man and the lead.
err We viii endeavOr to make cur question easier
for our neighbor, by asking whether be believes
any man true to the South worthy of his support
who would vote to exclude State because its con-
stitutiOn tolerated slavery? That isn't dead
question. 1t is one which constantly comes up for
congressional action, and it behooves the people of
Tennessee to know how parties stand on it.
Our neighbor further states that he regards any
issue IN regard to slavery which the DisuniOn De-
moeraey msy foment as subordinate to the over
throw Of the administration. We suppose from this
that our neighbOr would be very glad to coalesce
with the Black Republicans to effect fhatobject and
would be willing to place President and aparty in
power pledgedto exclude any State from the Union,
whose constitution tolerated slavery rather
thsn permit the Democracy to retain control
Of the government. The Patriot has cool way of
talking about disuniOn democracy, after himself ex-
pressing grave doubts whether the Union ought not
to be dissolved if Kansas was excluded. We i'm
agine our neighbOr has rspented, however, as he
is now dreadfully in love with one of the most
paOminent Of those who opposed the admission Of
Kansas.
In reply to our fifth question the Patriot decided
ly backs down from its ''wsr talk" when the Kan
sas question was pending. and 'coOs as softly as a
sucking dove" abont Union. 1t even rebukes the
Democracy for introducing sueh questions as Kansas
into the politics of the country. Let's see what our
neighbor thought when these things were all fresh
in his recollection. Listen to the Patriots eloquent
warning to the South
"The necessity is becoming every dsy more ap>
parent and imperative for the South TO guard and
protect her rights Under the operation of the higher
law doctrines Of those who organized with an
isolated view Of deprving the South of her rights
of checking her expansion and actually crushing
out the institution Of Slavery, the Constitution offers
neither safe guards justice nor barriers against
oppression. With them the law of might is the law
OF right. Against such doctrines and those who IN
blushingly and sbamelessly advocate them it /
is the first duty Of patriots Of every and sec
tion TO plant themselves.
'sThe North is gaining power with CELEBRITY and
certainty which will very soon leave the South with
out nope or security except in the kindness JUS
tice mercy Of her superior To the present Cen
gress 0regonGnd Minnesota are applying for admis !
sion auti-Slsve States into the Union, and there
is so short-sghted 10 believe their sppli-
cation will be rejected. A vigorous and powerful |
effort is also making to force Kansas into the con-
federaey free State over tie head of the PEG, /
pie who have attempted 70 manage its affairs and to |
express Its sentiments according to law. The cham
pions Of this EFFORT too, ravished from the lead
eIs Of those 1hohsve Wanted law
and order and justice TO the South; nay, we even /
see disposition manifested by Southern journals |
four neighbOr here hitting at the Ban1sr1 to |
espouse this cause, and entrenching themselves 1
within the widest distractions and the most falls.
cous Of theories They propose yield the material
rights Of the South to follow the political lead of
Judge Douglas the polyphemus of demaeoeues. |
SC. We ask Southern men, national conservative
men TO pause before they give themselves up the
terrible infatuation.
Again the Patriot says:
sWhst was the voice Of the North when the Pres
idcnt Ventured TO proclaim, through his message
that Kansas ought TO be admitted under the Le-
compton Constitution and especially after the great
intriguer and arch demagogne, Douglas, bad Joined
issue with him thereupOn? An unconditional retraxit
BY the President or war upon the spot.
awe submit ito Southern men and no less to the
national conservative men Of the North whether il
10 right or just, constitutional, patriotic to
join in such 8 crusade. We submit it whether any
man or party of men could live q day in the South
that would thus joined her most unrelenting foes
whether they ought TO live.
'But we feel thai the time for concession, in any
degree 70 the demands Of the anti-slsvery fsnaii-
cism, has passed. The South has yielded till she
can do 60 no longer with safety AID honor. Here
after firm and iDfexible maintenance Of her rghts
10 the fullest extent is necessary; and the man or
the parry that falters, not merely invites further
aggrsssions, but adds to the momentum Of the NOR
al and material power which for years past has been
moving to our destruction. We shall take care not
TO be Of them"
Wsars afraid the Patriot is faltering
In reply to our sixth question the Patriot says 1t
binks Josr BRIL Ia sound trustworthy. reliable q