Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-12-13

Jackson should nCt coaecez with the enemies Of the
South, with those vampires Of the North who have
been preyiDg upon the rights Of the Southern half
of this cOnfederacy for the last fifty years. yea, SIR
that they should not unite with those fanatics in the
distribution of the honors and emolumenis7of your
next Federal Congress. Opposition members 1Pen
this fOor charge that these resolutions were ihtr0-
dqeed forGpsrty purposes aud tosnsHnfscture poll
teal capital 4 DO net know sir, and neither do5I
care, what motive the author migAt have had IN their
| inIroducIionss s'vcss s'gbEs s'g7Aa.J ia
.. 1 seize on trutE vher ' Ger It. found, s.. 'z
On christian Lesthen ground" - -
= I. had thou the General AssemByoF the great
State of Tennessee, would thIoS aside local party
pr judices and cone up and present unbroken
front upon the resolutions under discussion.
For SIR unless this is done they loose IN cir moral
force ana effect and had better never had been il
trcduced at all, :. i<hL a'.t =,
But Low, sir,iif the OPPOSITION on this floor wish
TO say to their brothers Of Virginia: In yeur hour
Of trouble we have turnei from you; in the day of
your calamity We have set eur faces north ward. II
they WIsh to say TO those nOitberh !adaics: Go en-
with your treaeon, With your murder and arson, l
say let them refuse 10 endorse the sentiuCnts con
tanned in the resOIut eDs; for, sir tell N here
to-day that their curse upon the resolutions will
be hailed with joy bS John Brown; 9 miserable tool
In this Wild forAy, and by his sidsra and sbeters
Seward, Greeley, GiddiLgs, Smith, and company: I
care nothing for Brown and his eOEp0Fal,s gard Of
Commonwealth Of Virginia; care nothing for this
treason; I deem those matters of trivial imPoTt
esteem SOhn Brown al 1Feedom -shrlt ker, ana
q cut-lhtOat hireIing aud murderer, with whom the
laws Of Virginia are able TO cope, aad to whom Will
be swiftly dealt the Pensltyof his act. r.ssr--I
But sir, do care for the higher law doctrines for
the tressonous principles to which the act of this
idiOtic tool sleesssarg cerrosry and inevitable
result John Browns murderous hand is the ne
SEQUENCE of the cause chat called into play
fbo diShr of Tohr RrOu
am sorry, sir, my honorable friend, the mem
ber from Henry, (Mr. Porter) in his Jealous oppo-
siion to these resolutions tells that the member Of
Congress from. the 9Th district will ''soorn" any
opinion from this assembly upon this subject under
discussion; that he will ffscorn" any expression
from the assembled representatives of q million
freemen of Tennessee. Yes sir In his eagerness,
he tells that this public servant, that this repre-
senttiyes of the palrcts of the oh district, will
''seorn" any manifestation Of opinion from any
quarter. hope, for the pride Of his constituents
hope for the honor Of his DISTRICT hope for The
patrioiism of Tennessee, that he is msrepresenied
If the hpntrab member from Henry, (Air P1r-
ter,l for whom heyethe highest esteem IS correct,
we have indeed, sir, fallen upon evil times. "fe
Godsl upon what meats has this, Etheridge fed
that he has grown great?" Is he prince, pc
tentate or king, that he '.seorHs the Opihions Of
those whose public servant he is? .Ef .s '
Sir, l do not wish to eVade the issue rendered in
the amendment offered by the gentleman from Bed
ford, (Mr. Wsenera) L, sir, for one, willing to
tell him that stand opposed to his snendmGnt, be-
cause have not that confidence in some Of the Op-
position delegation to Congress that WarnA hearted
southern man begets, and refer more particularly
to the gentleman from the 9th district, Mr. Ether
idge) i--7as 'o -'' .ii t.-7-@ Sc s'.-1 - a 'ar :.
NV Young and talented friend from Jefferson, Mr..
Brazelton, has thought thiss. fC occasion to pre-
| nounce lengthy eulogy upon the Hon.. John Bel.
l,i II seems passing strange that the -OPposi-
Of 70
ite champiehs when those fesolatiOhsi were intro
duced 1t seems sir, if they imagined that their
Solon and Lycurgus had not kept their skirts clear
Of this abolition leprosy. | mean nothing dlsTe-
spsctful towards those honorable gentlemeTs and,
sir, am not here to-day to perform the elise Of
the resurrectionst, for the purpose Of dsinteripg
John Bell from his political grave L am willing,
sir 10 leave him where The thunders Of the bsllot-
box have lett him-Where the i1digu ant heemen OF
Tennessee, by their suffrage, have placed him The
issue cf his fairly made and fairly met,
and We have the result in thuqder-toues that the
! people Of Tennessee will have none Of him. ID. %
- i am sorry sir that the honorable member from
| wilson (Mr. Davis arraigns the Hon. Jefferson
| Davis, and places him In the same category with
H " ade and Wilson,, Fred Douglass and Wendell Phil
lips and their Northern confederates. II seems to
me- sir, that true charity, even il those men re
disunionists, (which deny,) would take by the
hand those who had erred in friendship for the
South and hurled back thoseWho had been our life
| long enemies. had imagined, sir, that the day
was long distant when the red field Of Buena Vista
could be forgotten 1-hed-imsgned that the name
of Davis was engraved on every Io3le heart that
pulssied with the blood Of freeman, Sir, when
the Stars and Stripes upon that Ssnguine field were
rent ard torn, the bsyenets of a foreign foe had
borne back our gallant boys, twas this chivalrous
son of the 5S0uta, this brave MissisSpPian, who
bore aloft his country's banner, and with his gal
lantrsgiment beat back the bsse invaders ot our
| Arvtfh hio iOht
ed the fortunes Of the day. Sir, if there is name
| in the South i reverence more than another, It's
that of this noble Mississppisn; and cir, il must
be a morbid feeling in the breast Of any one WhO
can place that warm-hearted Sou hern statesman in
| tbe same category with those Northern traitors
| But. sir Jfff Davis needs no eulogy from me. Mis-
sissippi has him in her care, and will shield him
from all base attacks and he will be sustained and
remembered with thrill Of patriotism, when the
| names of those Nhotraduce him will have been bu
ried in obliyion.a-- .el .-..al =i
Pickett y for whom entertain feelings Of tbe high
| est respect and ahe learned gentleman from VIII
Hanson (Mr. EWing,) whom admire, I regret tC
say it, have thought this a suitable occasion Il
bring the name of the great metsphysieianof South
/ Carolina into this debate, terming him the "Fsthel
AZ disupion advocates" Sir, history has done thG
illustrious Calhoun ample justice, and his charac
ter today sbiues that OF The patriot, the Statesman
aud the warm hearted Southrpn, who warned th'
Sjth Of the danger that is nov upon US; who stooC
ssthe warderso1 the hiH and sounded the alarm Il
4 the southern half of this Union; who stood 18th
I helm of Southern rights and Southern privileges
as long as lie lasted; and who now sleeps in th'
bosom of the State he loved so Well--in the b7sOn
of the ate that EOrshipped him 90 South Caroiin'
has his name in her Keeping, snd little che fecks
the opinions entertained Of her fsyoiite SON tSh
endorsed him while living. and 7Tsyeres. his memo
~; and the name, Of Calhoun is now the Wstcn
word of Southern rights. of southern equality ans
Southern privileges, under The common compact
But, sir, / have wsudered in myimaginatIon an
in my remarks Tout Of sdmirsii n foI fhose exAe'
men) from tkssnt ject under discussions and | nov
come to what deem TO be the Ptth sf the ghel
dnatter-this SeeGohai, treasonOus NUrth thefn Blscl
BeprhIieaR equalization, The members Of Ehicl
are lesgued together to destroy the constitution
our fathers to overthrow the rights of the South
TO destroy the equilibrium in the political p0uer