Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-12-14

them smidst the viii Wayes, and shout back to them
q long farewell.
1t is not for me, Mr. Speaker, to inform this in
telligent assembly, that live at time When duty
demands Of as 70 lock well 70 condition and see
whether We in Che unsuiiied epjOyments OF these
rights and privileges handed down TO US by Que
ancestors well for ourselves as 10 be transmitted
to our children, who will have right TO expect OF
us that they shall be entirely untarnished aud un-
restricted; because be who Tups may read 10 the
signs Of the times that war. heartess, insulting
brutal and fanatoa has in fact been Wagieg against
us for the last forty years, and that too at The
hands of those who should feel bound t. sustain u.s.
yea sir until indeed it has BECOME war OF Athens
against Sparta Of brother against brother.
When this Government vas formed IL was formed
on terms of perfect equality for all the States-had
il been proposed upon any Other terms every one
knows it never would have been formed a. all
nv the common written compact OF all the thea ex-
isting States and guaranteed TO- all that were TO
come in Afterwards. No speciss Of property was 20
digni6ed was SO provided for slave property; in
fact then existed in every State that signed the
compact and one supposed that any section OF
this Confsdersey in the future woad exhibit the ar
rogance of attempting 10 decide for any other the
right 10 hold any species Of property in any State o.
Territory known to the Union.
Aud it is remarkable fact, thai not on every
Northern State, not only sold the greater bumbsl
of their slaves Whom they had dragged from iheir
homes through the horrors Of the middle psssage)
tc the South, but not one, of them has given one
foot of new territory TO add 10 the grandeur or
glory of this great Republic, although they are now
banded not only to exclude aud our property
from all future Sates, but t, wipe out the instiu-
tiop from am ynk ourselves aud to leave our pos
teri,y in worse than bowling wilderness, TO be
compared in d, greda'ion only to the horrors Of san
Domingo.
TWeSty years ago it was held 10 be an sbsurdty
to say that AbOliionism in this Government was a
thing # any moment, of any practicsl csPabtlity
u a. harm and Southern far-seeing statesmen who
then stood Wstehmen on the wall, and told OF the
coming danger, and who pointed cut the breakers
upon which the South was drifting, were set down
as unwise, and proclaimed agitaters.
Yes, cir, We we're warned then Of the danger that
| is now upon US, even now, when escape seems al
N a. ImPOs-iblility. That party then could only
present upon the floor OF your Nstiosal Assembly
four Senso's, and small number Of Representa-
tves. Now they hove twenty-siX Senators, and a
majority of the lower House, ali bold, resOlute ia
ma les sdvocstiug principle that must necessarily
end in a total overthrow OF the rights Of one poi
ton of this Unisn in a CONF lete am hiaton of our
rights under that instrument framed By our fathers
and springng out of and nurtured by the blood OF
slave hoders.
From 1920 this party has been growing in power,
and swelling in arrogance, and reekirg With fanati
cisn It tells you to-day that you must surrender
up the last tribunal We have for our protection
Yes SIR it tells you to-day that they will reorgan-
they will cast the judicial ermue around men OF
their own fsaatosl calibre: WHO hold that sla-
very is wrong; men who proclaim that slavery is a
sin; men who make il the test of sin or no siL.
And stand here to-day, sir, and ask you how we
are going to prevent it ''under the Constitution ??
Away with the doctrine. Soma Of them believe 10
a higher law, and others of them place cOnslrue-
ton on that instrument suitable TO their wild fanst-
ica views upon the jecJ OF slavery; others would
change It entirely.
They attempted to pass the Wimot ProvisO over
your Territories One branch Of your Congress did
do it, notwithstanding had furnished Two gallant
soldiers to their in the war acquiring the most
of that vast domain.
They said you, the footprints of your property
shall never press that soil Notwithstanding the
blood of our soEs was poured out holocaust upon
the sands of Mexico, and they dted breathing q
prayer for their country's liberty their country e
glory their couutrys prosperity and their countrys
equality; notwithstanding all this, they tell you
your brothers blood spilled in vain, and you are
to receive reward f r his Offering.
We heard then that need not be slsrmed-that
this Abolition party was party Of no practical
principles one idea party led on by Abolition IA
natcs But, sir, in few years ia its onward
march, it had become cspaciOus as to eDgulph
the whole Northern wing of the Wing party, leaving
not to tell the tails of their final absorption.
We have also been told that the great national
Democratic party whose platform bound them TO a
the enjoyment of our institutions in our own way
consistent with the Constitution, was q strong and
faithful arm, and would shield US against all dan
gerOus aggression. But sir, when the hour of trial
comes, and the clouds blscken upon the political
horizon, find members even of that party falter,
and turn back and sacrifice the rights of the South
to fsnaticsl public opinion at home.
Had it not been for the slavery clause in the X
sss constitution, L Mr.. Speaker, fully satisfied
that State would have been admitted into this Union
without murmer from any quarter.
TIE North demanded its rejection aud it was
DONE true to the principles first laid down and
now being carried out viz: eternal war against the
South aud her institutions And now, sir, in my
humble judgment, the South may fold her hands in
despair and take it for granted she again to
enjoy another foot of the common Territory, pur-
chased by the common blood aud common treasure
Would heaven that just tits juncure there had
been such q manifestation from the South as all
could have had confidence N that she would resist
in the future any other enactment, any other ag
gressiOn upon her and her rightI But such was
not the case and these sggressons and the fruits of
them still continue.
The Abolrtionists in l848 declared that there
should be no more slave States admitted into this
Union, and they have carried out their fist even
with fire and swo Shsrp's rifles and revolvers. in
the hands of thei- misguided, miserable TOOLS aided
and sbet ed b. her politicians, presses and pu pits
and shat Q, in the very presence of Government,
aud not a hair Of their beads has fallen for III If
reason, for their srs n, for their murder and ra-
PIN. up 10 the beginning of so.
But this relentless war has not alone been wsg ed
upon the soil of the Territories; the fanatical minds
Of the northern people were to be prepared for
more, far more than all this.
1t was necessary to convinoe them that slavery
was sin, foul sfain, q leprosy upon the body
poliio, condemned by heaven and execrated by
m snkind that must at some day be wiped out for
ever, aud for this purpose every disbolical feeling
Of the human heart and fendsh purpose of de-
PRAYED mind have been brought into action. They
nave like the Red Republicans Of France, stricken
down the precepts Of Gods holy word and preached
new hereses from the sacred desk; hey have desc
Grated The laws Of the Most High hat their 1aser-
able tools might 20 forth better prepared and sing
Hos4nahs from their patriotic lips, while they
patched treason to the South in their fes: ering
aud imbued their hands in the blood of their
Southern brothers. .
Yes sir, they started out with the Bible IN their
hands, but we're met and eoufuted by its every pas
sage upon the subject of slavery, proving to every
mind that it existed from the ear lest history
We have Of nations; maintained by Gods chosen
people. and was found by Saviur and his Apos-
ties who did not censure it but endorsed the status
by telling the slave TO obey his master, and recog
med it all their precepts, in all their teschngs
upon this subject.
But these fanatics. true to the behests of their
doctrines, and like their Red Republican proto-
types, discard the Bible from their morsl CODE deLy
Ato uiNIAAt It's anu spit
upon its moral teachings, and have transformed
their sacred desks into stands for rauting dema-
gogues, wild fanatics and hair-brsined FOOLS at one
moment protesting TO preach Gods holy doctrine
and at the next dealing ShaTp's. rifles, powder
and ball to their deluded emigrants with which to
spill the hearts blood of their brothers Of the
South with which to imbrue their hands in the
blood of those who live with them under the bonds
Of 9 common brotherhood, under the form Of com
mon government sealed by the blood of our COM
mon ancestors.
All their speeches, all their sermons, all their
pamphlets, all their periodicals, their newspa-
pers, their tracts, their sbriekings and hoWlings
for what they call freedom, have been employed
without intermissOn for forty years to accomplish
their single object, until they have educated gen
GRAFTON of people and built up powerful or
ganizstiOn in the North who believe that slavery
is grieyous sin, foul stain, q moral leprosy on
our body polite, and even now they declare their
disbolicsl purpose Of eradicsdicAting it from our
system, even with FIRE and sword.
Mr.. Seward, their real and ack nowledged leader
intact the great hydrs-hesd of this sectional organ
.zadon, in lS4S advised his cohorts TO be 'patieut
hrm, Wstohful and ever ready and cantent them
selves with every advantage they might steady gan
until their object vas accomplished. Aud again in
1905, IN less than ten short years, in his p ace
upon the hOor OF the American Senate he in his |
arrogance and blOsied treasonous pride proclaims
''The battle has been fought sud wou if his friends
would believe IT, and now their march would be
onward and upward until the soil Of the American /
continent should not be desecrated by the foot