Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-10-30
The Harper's Ferry outbreak
mR. BAYLEss, RESOLUTIONS.

called heroic. They were unileu 10 '"0 Di"eN w
publican party even in its infancy in the holy bonds
of Know Nothingism, and the vow they then took to
love. honor and obey, is the only vow they have
never falsifed. Throughout the S4th Congress the
great leaders of the two factions worked harmon-
ousy together. The bitterness Of sectional strife
the fury Of Abolition fanaticism produced no dis
cord between them. When the Black Republican
leaders were ercest in their denuneatons OF slave
~ and slave holders their Southern friends were
most object in their subserviency. Just IN proper
ton as the ant-slavery feeling at the North grew
more aggressive, the Southern Opposition became
more compromising and conciliatory. Did the IN
eendiary eioouence of Abolition Senators kndle tie
fires of civil war in Kansas! Mr1SgIL and ms Or
,,ans were ready to shield them from censure and
throw the responsibility upon their own felow-clu-
zens of the South. Did armed Abolition emissar1es
invade the territory and stain its soil with the blood
of Southern men who had sought there an asylum
and a homcs The same Southern Senator IS
ready to excuse their violence as the result Of an
a. armed intrusion of rufiians from Missouri and
proclams on the floor of the Senate that If resist
ance to such oppression the free State men were
alleged to have suffered in Kansas, be treason, he
would have been traitor.
Nor was he alone in this expression of sympathy
for the enemies of the South The leading journals
of his party have constantly manifested their par
4iaity for the Black Republicans in all their contests
with the Democratic party. NOdenunciations which
these abolition fanatics could utter against the South
and its institutions could ALLEVIATE the affections OF
their Southern sympathizers No insult to Southern
honor. no invasion Of Southern rights could provoke
them to resentment They sustained these Northern
disorganize1s even in their warfare upontheir own
section and sharpened the weapons which were to be
directed against the bosoms of their own brethren
Even while the Black Republican leaders were eXclt-
ing their followers to acts of violence and blood shed
aganstthe South the Southern Opposition press were
endeayoring to paliate their OdiOus sentiments,
excuse their most fragrant crimes, and prepare the
minds of their friends for fusion with the very
marty which had engendered this sectional strife
Our readers will remember how Southern Oppo
stion Journals reioiced at the of the Black
Republicans in New York and Pennsylvania last
fall: they will remember how humbly and how
perseyeringlv the Opposition leaders have sought
an alliance with that party and how siavishly they
have striven to concate their favor they will re-
member how Mr. BELL rejoced at the union Of such
men as GREELEY. SMITH and Brooks, when replying
10 their invitation to a banquet prepared in honor
into the Union: they viii remember how meekly
Mr. Boris bowed at the feet of the powerful faction
whose corporation he solicits for the purpose Of
oyerthrowing the Democracy and remembering
these things they will not be astonished that IA
natics kindlcd into frenzy by the appeals OF their
leaders should credit the declaration of WILSON and
SEWARD when they tell them that they have alhes
in the South who will sympathze with their move
Tnents against slavery, and will give them aid ana
encouragement in their efforts to exterminate 1t.
Nor should we be surprised that men like BROWN
and Cook, who have seen the enormities which they
perperuted in Kansas, palliated by Southern Sena-
tors aud organs and their conduct partly justified
on the ground that they were resisting great
wrong which had been inflicted upon them by the
Democratic party. in the repeal of the Missouri
COMPROMISE. should be encouraged thereby to the
commission Of fresh outrages like those Al Harper
Ferry.
Even now these Abolition cut-throats and their
accompliccs are justifying themselves on the plea
that were provoked 10 violence by the passage Of Tho
Kansas Nebraska Bill REnPATH, the friend associate
and counsellor of Brown, writes to the Bostol
Atlas. as follows in alusicn to bis bloody work II
Kansas. and in connection with the Harper
Ferry affair:
From the grave % Barber and the Browns
and from the bloody valley OF the hallas des Olgn
a terrible spirit arose. which the Sonth conured VI
in ifs insane attempts, but which 1t can never
AGAIN alIoy excepting by the liberation of ever,
slave trom the Panhandle of Virginia TO The mos
southern limit of the Texan frontier
The New York Post and Tribune, and other Biaei
Republican sheets are also eagerly seeking to throw
the responsibility Of these ouuases upon the South
syn people, who demanded end obtained the ropea
OF the Missouri Compromise.
Less openly tho Opposition organs AZ the South ar
.Soptinr tl,e same argument The Nashville BQRae
indeed. contends that the Democratic party pns
share with the Blsck Republicans, the responsibility
of this violence it traces tie origin Of the evil a
the Abolition organs do, to the passage Of the Kan
sss Nebraska Bill. and argues that the blame shou'
rest in part, on the authors Of that measure.
II would be a sufficient reply to this argupen
10 show thAt the Kansas Nebraska Bill in rePealln
the Missouri prohibition was merely ANTICIPATING
the Judgment of the Supreme Court which declaI
sd the Missouri prohibition unconstitutional an
void. The Banner and the Ifleae are guilty OF tn
fallary Of conforming the authors Of just law 10
the acts of bad men who resist its operation Inc.
would have the people Of the South abandon Il2l
constitutional rights and give Up their equality IN IN
Union for fear that if they assert their rights an
their equality SEWARD and his colleagues viii be Pre-
yoked to the uttevance of incendiary sentiments an
OssKwATANIE Brown viii be melted to murder oG
citizens and steal their property.
Let the Banner be assured that it is not by Il.
assertion and maintenance Of southern rights tina
,ur enemies are strengthened. II is not uy resist
;nc agqyessjOn that the invader is encouraged t
npprsach. If thu Banner is determined to reLey
lRe Black Republican party of some portion Of IN
rensv,e Of this infamous transaction, let II place "a
burden upon the shoulders Of those who have syn
7athised and co-operatcl with it. instead OF thos
who have steadily and constantly opposed IT.
was from the Banners own party AAt ne biSc
Republicans obtained aid and comfort IN iRel
Oppostion 10 the repeal Of the cdous Missouri lies
frnction ami to the admission Of Kansas as slaY
State mo the Union. IL was a member Of the Ban
,,ers own party that rc-opcnc6bsvcrv agitation an
furnished faal for abolition faraticiSn by intsodu
cling a resolution into Congress which an sbelitio
organ said condemns He american STARE trade an
fbe uracifcs OF srrslolfsq nth 1r5ick is iad9ifai
These arc the acts of the Opposition, not of tn
Democracy, and these acts, justified by the BUmC
aud ether Opposition organs, have done more 10 il
vi,e insult and encourage aggression from the Mort
than the direct appeals of ant-slaVery orators an
ORGANS It has been only few months since W
s.tv the Black Republican organs-the New Aor
yjby,,e and others-approvin the sentiments OF ii
or5ssition in Tennessee, and Boosting that hel
turlv Tennessee. Missouri and Maryland woul
vote freesoiI ticket in 1869. Ii has not been Ion
since we found the National Era, an Abolition pape
copying FROM she Nashville Banner the fohown
significant saRteuee, which the Era puts in italics
"A worthy tie special attention of its Abolito
TeaoeFs
" Our fanatics are even sToTse than the fanatics
6he North. Tor they add the crime Of perjury
their want of respect for the lave"
Only few days have elapsed since the Richmon
4ylis. leading Opposition organ, declared:
We affirm now as we hSve affirmed before thu
IN ratyiet and as an honest aEn who cannot nu
viii not conujYe at the corruption which has hes
,-actirsd under the present proAigato ard detest
io instrumentation. we should vote with al boil
,sse and With al eorfiality for The Gerry blackeE
~ Baes ReDylcgasfor Speaker, IN prgereace 70 a
Lleslocrdt tohneCsr.
7, seeking an apology for Black Republics