Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-07-15
From the Louisville Journal.
To the Conservative Unfou-ioving
Wen of X entucky and Tennessee.

for the poll lcal movement inaugnrated by th
Opposition Conventions of Kentucky. Tennes
see, and Mary land. The task OF making tina
expose has been assigned to the w tier as on
intimat ly familiar with the views of thos
who were actively participant in starting TN
movement in K ntLCky. II will be- performed
as fully as the brevity necessary to newspa
per publications will p rmit.
Tue leading idea was present and future peri
10 the Union from the collisions of the TWO src
tional parties. and the n cessity Of their being
broken up or feat, d by large national or
ganiZ ttion. having the preservation OF the
Union for its principal olJ CT
Subsidiary to This. but second i'm impOr.
tance To- this alone. was the desire 10 rescue
The nation from the misrule OF those leaders
OF the modern Democracy, who according 10
tie indignant avowal Of one of the must tai
ented and honest among them, have made
ours The most corrupt government an The tc0,d.
The la-l -peech Of Mr.. Clay war deliy, red
before the X ntucky Legislature. in compli-
ance with joint. perhaps una ,imuus, qlrst
Of lis $40 Ii uses. The request was probably
made in consequence Of reliable in imaton
that it would be acceptable 10 hIm. He seem
ed to desire an occasion for arrusing The Re-
presentatives Of Kentucky. and through them
that Of the nation to the grave sui j.ct OF dis
union. flow well he succeeded win his inn
mediate audience. ma, be Inferred from the
fact stated by member. that, VII 1T he
spoke of the valne aud danger of the Union
tears of warm sympathy started to The eyes
OF many. and among them some of the most
inyeterate old Democrats in the assembly.
He spoke at di-uni"n as "A danger then rppid-
ly approaching. He said 4 would not be
long before il would become necessary to or
ganize great distinctive " Union party"
Whenever that was done. if it should happen
during his life, he declared biz purpose To Join
that par y, regardies~ of all Other party ties.
After his speech. old Democrats, who had
warred with him politically Tor twenty years,
cordially shOnk his hand. And assured him
that whenever Union party TO which he re-
ferrrd was formed they would go with him.
Siuce his death the rapid drvclopm mt of
the disunion tend, ncy has proved the sag c.
ty with whi b he judged the then aspect OF
affairs. The South has been flooded with
speeches, essays. and newspaper discussions,
to prove the great benefit il would derive
from separation on the slave line. Ihspir. d
with undue confidence by apparent success in
alluring nearly the whole South into the
ID mocrt'c party, and thus consolidating it
in the H. re- sec ional cnnt'st which cnsued
the peal of III Missouri compromise, it,
lead r. threw off all disguise. In the last
Presidential campaign some of them went so
far as tn avow to apphuding audiences a
long-cheriShrd hatred of thr Union. Pending
that contest, and in anticipation Cf then
probable defeat. Governors. Senators. Repre- |
ntItivcs. &C. organic d conspiracy, the
avuw,d o. uf which was in that event TO |
march upon Wa hlngton with an ad qnate |
military t,rc', seize the government before
the inauguration of the new President, and |
dictate the the terms of paration. The ac- |
eide it'll circumstancr OF Mr.. Fillmore's beine |
n candidate, with Ihr consequent d feat o
Fremont. alone saved the union from the at |
tempt TO carry out that widespread con
spira cy.
On of their chi is. Gov Wise. in publicly
i 'velnping the scheme aud tie means of car
rying ii ont. spoke of national civil war as
what they would inevitably have 10 cncount-
er, hut that was not what be most deprecated.
II was :. the nrighborhOud civil war" as he
termed IT, which they would have 10 carry on
with the fifty thousand Ununsts OF Virginia
that h d plord That it was which gave
HIM pain to contemplate. To meet The ex
igeHcy of double warfare to provide an
adequate force, against their external and in
terna' foes. he said they would "Um hei-
sLques"
Another of their leaders, Senator Clngman.
in pubii~h,d d letter, said they meant to pnt
down the opposition of Union men in North
CIR n by the s,rit attention Of U,giLdhoe CON,
'siftoes :" that is, 10y organic d assassination.
These avowals were no where reb, ,ked by
any por inn OF the South rn Democracy. |
seemed a though nearly the whole Southern
wing If the party was deeply tainted with
II such had not been the fact |
those m would never huv. dared iO make |
tn ST az owals. The Democratic Admins ra-
ton organ, published at Washington und |
the control of the President, admitted within
the last few months. as an undi>puted fact,
that there is still wide-spr. nd and desper
ate conspiracy at the South for dissoving |
the Uhinn." This charge met with neither
rebuke nor denial from any Dcmoc atc quar- {
Ter. Such acqIesccncr under the charge il
equal to admission or full proof.
Aaron Burr, for a suspected intention of at {
tempting severance of the Union, had TO ;
endure, during long remnant OF his life, the |
gIominy Of an unrelaxed national odium.
The members of the Hartford Con,ent,on {
brought upon themselves a similar udum Tor |
suspt cled intention of bringing about a I
lenc cable secession of the New England I
) atrs, with the regularly obtained assent ol |
b -ir people. This suspicion threw all the /
members OF that Convention under proscrip- ?
ion of national hate, " hich thereafter ex- Z
ludcd th..n from all pubic trust aud conf {
ence. Nor Was this all such was the Il
popular Odium which they Incurred that il y
ffectually broke down the once Fed ,ral D r N
V to which they belonged. Hrltcrd conuea- p
onia became a stigma OF reproach, and re- p
nancd until recently without compeer for d
imputed severity.
General Jackson, in his lannon's nullification %
said, - dS,Dion by GrHsi force 1, II
-edSoH." This dcnunciaiion received the al
lo>t unanimous approval of the whole nation u
utside of South Carolina. Ii is altogether e
roper to characterize this conspiracy a tre1- P
,Rabie, and the conspiratOrs as would-hr -
'aitors. That they were not actual traitors u
Tithin even the strict letter OF the law, and n
arning the felon's doom which il awards To -
le crime of treason, was only because the oc II
lsion did not occur which was To call fIr "
Ie rpetration OF any OF the intended overt II
cts of their trrasonabe plot al
What degree OF r,prehrnsion is due TO men c.
no by fair. peaceful m ans seek In break up u
ar glorious Union, need not stop to in- Il
nire. There may Got be much moral delin- III
1ency IN an rndeavor tO convince tn people | CT
cerguin States that their interests would be-
-omoted by secession, nor even in playing fo
pom their sectional passions aud prejudicrs al
accomplish that obj CT. But without con- th
lting the people of those States, without any til
rect sanction from them, for few men TO III
sumo the right TO determine the question, o
I'd attempt TO force them into secession, il II sii
ny grave crime. II can tind no Justification al
apology with any intelligent. honest man. of
hen snch attempt necessarily involves ma In
snal civil war, il becomes crime of the th
avest magnitude, 10 be expiated only hy as
on's death. when the proposed attempt tn
- TO be carried through. by such coolly an
emedfated appliances were to sigualize
= treasoa. IL merits degree of popular alb wa
rrence, which, es il cannot be adequately ne
pressed, each man must weigh for himself A.,
the prompings of his own bosom That -,
bas not met with such abhorrenee may be 6n
ianse public opinion, guided 10y an over mi
aIpdlous. merciful justice, will not SO pam b.l
the known fw because IL cannot reach IN,
equally guilty but unknown maGy. cal
Consider these appliances. A neighbor- an
Dd civil war TO b. carried on with the aid ha'
armed slaves! The large shareholders of ba
rs:nia 10 arm their negroes against their rel
,rer ftilow-citizens. To arm negro slaves. ihe
incite them TO a taste OF white men aud thT