Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-12-06


the sentiments have uttered, a commercial crisis
is upon US threatnng ruin to honest industry aud
q prostration to credit We are not the authors or
promoters of this disastrous state OF affairs Nay
il is brought in dispute of Onr constant appeals to
ON, NortheTn Brethern IN view of their persistent
fars ,non our Institutions and State violations of
the law of the land. Ruin to our families, rum to
tba country now stares every man IN tue face.
What shall be done? Self protectecuon Is the nfst
impulse of every human breast IN tunes OF danger
No living man can utter more honest appreciation
of good faith in contracts than myself and appeal
10 nv life as the proof. The man breathes not
who can say owe him an unpaid opllgauon. let
say and desire not to be misunderstood, lnat our
honest and Industrious business men, shout1 as one
NAV say to the NeFthi yeu must foTbear 10 PROVOKE
such political condition as you nov lofce
YOU must repeal the laws thar SCI ~ naught tle
National basis of all fidelity, ara show yourselves
willing to abide the ends of your gIoYlned mon VI
we will not be able to pay You our commercial oT
lgatious. We cannot do 1t If we wouie, II WA
come to this 1t should be known now that q re-
s,,It an Unfortunate nav prevented. YoupPovoke
and DEFY the Government You ridleule and aHec'
to despise Secession. We have acted IN COCO lA!Vn
under all your provocations insults and the socla
and commercial disasters they theateh' we are
iunOcently made to suffer and are tast teholhS 70
state in which our losses Will not allow US TO remain
undecided even If no higher motive sctHate' ooIl-
meree is mighty power. Onr secnon ieeas La
hungry laws and you fatten upon and become
insolent and exacting in the unwltunS uhcoh-
scioUsnes of the hands that feed your manu-
factories and sustain your barter; Tel mem mem
business men of the South, they shan 60 no lur VI
err If YOU renounce and dispIse an sense VI
OBLIGATION to law and order. and by 50 dong preFoAe
the condition we now but begin to feel, wait Dut I"
little while and secession from debt and trade arc
as inevitable as the ongoing tide Of agitation that seos
in among us If in the name of Justice and donor
you viii not heed the dangers around III the n5'HG
of moaey credit and success 10 trade, you shali
hear The root of the tree of CIVILIZATION OF com
nerce science is watered in this great country, by
the toilng hands Of Southern labor. Desplse ana
tample upon it longer and the tree will be left 10
fall or wither. Let but the "hewers OF wood and
! the drawers of water" neglect or be driven away
from their part in this vast whole and you will see
| a blaze upon the loftiest mounts of your attain
ments you have no power to exihguish. This is the
terrible danger OF the cPisis No language can over
estimate 1t. And |, not to agtate--to prevent agi
| tlon-tell yOu, every one, yOu must act now, and
decisIyely, every branch of Your resources will
for time be most seriously affected. could draw
| thep picture of my country in the wild revelry of
the pasSional war that threatens bnt shrink even
fromits outline business men, much depends upon
you. ~. il,..f go 80
| And1et no one suppose, from the course have
urqed that / do not love the Union. Not the
| name gentlemen. but the realty | worship. We
bava n Union to make--not one IS left to us
10 keen Talk OF MON with States nHiiying its laws
or whole section in every alienation soeIal, poti
Teal or rel iggous that passion feed or presump-
ton support. Why stood but Yesterday at the
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