Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-12-12

triVed before since the first shining Of thesun So
literally true the words of the text addressed
by Obadiah to Edom All the men of our confed-
eracy, the men that were at peace with us, have
eaten our bread at thevery time they have deceived
and laid around under u.s." Even beyon6-this the
enrichlng commerce which has built the splendid
cities and marble palaces of England as well as of
America, has been largely established upon the pro-
ducts of our soil; and the blooms upon Southern
fields, gathered by black hands, have fed the spn-
dies and looms of Manchester and Birmingham not
less than of Lawrence and Lowell. Strike now a
blow at this system of labor and the world itself tot
ters at the stroke. Shall we permit that blow to fair
Do we not owe it to civilized man to stand in the
breach and stay the uplifted arm? If the blind
Sampson lays hold of the pillars which support the
arch of the worlds industry, how many more will
be buried beneath its ruins than the lords of the
Philistines Who knoweth whether we are not
come to the kingdom for such time as this p
Last of all in the great struggle. we defend the
cause Of God and religion. The abolition spirit is
undeniably atheistic. The demon which erected its
throne upon the guillotne in the days Of Robespere
and Marat, which abolished the Sabbath and wor-
SHIPPED reason in the person of harlot yet survives
to work other horrors of which those Of the French
revolution are hut the type. Among people so
generally religious the American. disguise must
be worm but it is the old threadbare disguise
of the advocacy of hnman rights. From thou
sand JacObin clubs here, as IN France, the decree
has gone forth which strikes at God by striking at
all subordination and law. Awaiting itself of the
morbid and INSTRUCTED sympathies of men, 1t has
entrapped weak consciences in the meshes of its
treachery and now ak last has seated its high priest
upon the throne. clad in the black garments OF dis
cord and schism, so symbolic of its ends Under
this specious cry of reform it demands that every
evil shall be corrected, or society become wreck
the must be stricken from the heavens if spot
is found on his disc. The Most High, knowing His
own power, which is infinite, and His own wisdom,
which is unfathomable, can afford TO be patient.
But these self-eonstituted reformers must quicken
the activity of Jehovah or compel his atdication.
In their furious haste they tranpe upon Obligations
sacred any which can bind the conscience. 1t is
time to reproduce the obsolete idea that Providence
must govern man and not that man should control
Providence. In the imperfect state of human so
ciety, it pleases God to allow evils which check
others that are greater. As in the physical world,
objects are moved forward not by single force,
but by the composition of forces; in His moral
administration there checks and balances whose
intimate relations comprehended only by HIM
self. But what reck they of ths-these fierce zeal
OTIS who undertake to drive the chariot of the sun?
working out the single and false idea which rides
them like a nightmare, they dash athwart the
spheres utterly disregarding the delicate mechanism
| of Providence which moves on, wheels within
wheels with pivots and balances and springs. which
the great designer alone can control
TCONCICDED TOMORROW.