Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-12-13
THURSDAY, DECEMBER Is. 1860.
what sort of Government.

Appearances indicate that the Union is
approaching its end. We hear men, every
day, who have been and are still ardent sup
porters of the Union, express the opinion
that nothing can now save it. They do not
desire this result; :hev earnestly hope that
it may be averted; but they have lost faith
in the will and power of the people to pre-
vent it. They feel that our government,
with whatever evils may have resulted from
its operations, is the best that has ever been
devised by man-tbat its blessings have been
and are thousand fold greater than even
its imaginary evils-and they fear that when
it is destroyed we may never again behold
its equal. What, they ask, shall we have in
its place. Shall we have Southern Repub-
lie, composed of the entire slave States, upon
the same model: But, can we have such
Republic, which would afford US any better
guarantees of life, liberty, property, and the
pursuit of happiness, than we already pos
sess.-that would promise greater perma-
neney? Are not the interests of the slave
States SO diversified, as to render 1t extreme
" probable that, in the course OF few years,
some of them would feel that they occupy
an inferior position, that they have less
weight and influence, and realize less mate
rial prosperity than more fortunate neigh
bors, and becoming Disseminated, as South
Carolina long has been, desire to change the
form of government; and, seeding, thus
spread confusion again 1t is possible that
q Southern Republic, composed OF the entire
slave States, might succeed But the pros
pect is uninviting What sort of govern
ment, then, ask thinking men, are we to have
when this Union is broken up The reign
of terror, inaugurated further South. would
seem to indicate that a despOtism would be
most congenial TO some of the States-that
the people are ready to fly from the extreme
of too much freedom TO that of semi-slavery
to submit blindly TO any government their
leaders may propose. But this unquestiOn-
ing faith cannot endure. Men who have never
felt what it is not to be free cannot long be
restrained of their liberty. But, what then
Will they ask to be permitted to return to
the Union from which they fed: Or, viii
they listen to the ambitious minds which re-
gard limited Monarchy as the perfection of
human government We already see it said
that 'Esome of the wisest and best citiz ms" of
the South propose such government Well.
shall that be the refuge from our ills? Ifso,
what family shall furnish the Monarch or
King and institute a race OF hereditary ru-
lers Shall the first King be a RHETT-a
TOoNB-a YANCET-a DAvIs-a SLIDELL--a
WIGFALL-a YULEE-a MAsOS-or the head |
of any one of the other prominent disuniOn |
families Who are to constitute the nobility? |
In the absence of pure blood, what shall give
claim to rank3 Shall the STAKEHOLDER take |
precedence of the land holder, or Tjce rsTsa2
Shall the Merchant belong to the aristOcraey.
Or shall he herd with the mechanic and the
aborerf These are all questions which must
be determined IN The organization Of Mon
archy. But, if Monarchy Is eschewed. what
then3 Shall we have a number Of petty re-
pubIics, weak and almost powerless? Let
these questions all be answered, before it is
100 late.