The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1860-12-20
TIE UNION Party BELIED.

ma county, Ohio. lie wrote n letter
in response to said invitation which, il
we had room we would publish, MS it
would serve to show that the Rcpubli.
4 party, according to their Presi-
dent elect, Mr.. Lincoln, are determined
not to lower their standard even by q
hairs breadth II would also show
how ~fallacious it is for Southern men to
talk about Lincoln or his party, yield.
ing anything to appcase an i~nsulted
and indignant South,
But we desire to notice one remark
of c. NJ. Clay, especially as he is spo.
kon of in connection with the Secretary
of State under Lincoln. In his letter
he says:
"But We must not futtcr ourselves
that our work il done. Only one
great battle has been won. The threats
Of rebellion and necessary civil war
which must attend its actually, warn
us to be on our guard, and call for no
holiday patriotism.
While VIC would bear with q broth
srly forbcarancc, with tho sore disap.
pointment Of Our late rulers, and give
them, patiently, time to Accommodate
themselves to the new order of things,
frankness and a..wisc philanthrophy
compel us to say to them at once, that
'peaceaJe sercS$ion' is but petccabh re-
6elion On utter 0bsuiiy. Neither
enc slave State, four slave States, nor all
the slave States, will be allowed peacca.
bly, to sccedc. Every man Of sense
sees that civil war would be better
than that eternal war which would be
the result Of n divided nation The
forces engaged would be less, and the
result snal. The Ihion party Of the
South tccutd b" oar aiIrv, and with vie
tory, which would be sure for the Uni.
''cn and right, would como peace and Il
homogeneous empire. But allow Sc
c%cssion, and then, with Southern scce-
dingStatcs united, would come war in.
evitably the first time We met upon the
rivers or the seas, which would BIO set
tied and renewed from century to CEN
tury. The South must know tnut the
Republicans intend to allow Nor all her
constitutional rights; and then main
tain her own to the last extremity -
This is IL G]operameat Of tie prople, aDl
not a compact ofhc H1trS;' there 10 no
way to dissolve the Union but by re,
bollion and civil war 1t romnins for
the shareholders to choose thc%1nio as
it is and was, and is to remain, or rush
into war with it, and take all the chan
ces of veal or Woo"
1t will not take much pcrccl ton of
mind to discover tho 'clovcn foot in
this extract--to discover what we
Of the South may expect, dc, &c
But We leave our readers to c nsider
those things. We wish to call tho at
tention oftho Union party in the South
to tho libel this Clay has east upon
them. 1t is Il Glshood, and tilao will
prove Its falsity. The Union men cfthe
South to-day are as much opposed to
abolitionism as any one, bat as We
state elsowho c in our paper, they are
willing to trust farther than those men
who arc called dis]unionists. They
know the Constitution has been in.
j~ured-the compact brokcn by the
Black Republican party OF the North.
and they know that had it not boon
for this 'ovort' action OF the Northern
States, that thore would lever have
arisen in the South n party who say
Equality in tho Union or indepcnd-
snoe out of it, They know that the
South has never demanded moro than
her constitutional rights, and they
know too that tho South has failed t.
gst them. Tho Union men know al
this, yet, patriotic rs they AFRO, are
willing to trust yet awhile, and hop,
like . deadly opiato has Influenced
their minds. Bnt let tho Rubicon be
crossed-lot tho dreaded time come,
and the Union men and iancy men,
and Douglas mon and breckenridge
mon aud Bell mon-wi'l be side by side,
battling tor their homes and families
their Constitution and its guarantees.
We may have some traitors among us.
They had traitors in tho Revolution,
but with justice on Il side we shall at
last conquer. God, who is the W.
thor of every noble principle, will on
kindle the fame of patriotism in our
hearts which shall burn so necessarily
and to such n degree, tina, brother
shall turn Indignantly from brother, and
son from father who will not Join in
the common cause. Twas so in the
Revolution-'twould be 30 in this
There are men in the South to day
who have brothers and fathers - sis.
tiers and mothers in tho North who
would, IN the apparent crisis, fight for
the common cause. Republican hnat-
'cism will drive them to this. Let not,
then, the Black Republican party in
dulgc in o belief that tho Union men Of
the South will be any moro on their
side in & dissolution Of the Union than
tho followers Of W. L.. Yanty would be.
They cay now let US preserve tho Uni
on, II possible. Let us ever cherish
the prophetic words of Washington's
Farewell Address-lct MS trust a little
farther and see ifihe Republican party