Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-10-04
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BEgRsArRA spRINcs. Grumpy COUyr1

BEERsAEBA SPRINGS, GRUMPY COUNTY.
MeSsrs. Editors Union and american send you
an editorial from that sterling Old Line Wing pa
per- the New York Journal of Commerce, now bat
ting vigorously for BRECKENRIDGE and LANE, which
fairly exposes the senseess charge of disunIon
brought against the South and through her against
the Democratic party. Mr. WEBSTER stated in his
speech at Capon Springs, that disunion would be
proper on much less ground than LINCOLN procaims
and yet he was never considered disuniOnist but
when the question comes, give up your property"
especially under Mr.. DOUGLAS coercion principles
l think, there win appear wonderful increase OF
disunionsts-in all of which, the North has far more
at stake than the South for the latter is fully able
to protect herself while the former may realize the
truth of the fable of ACrEoS and his hounds.
Yours, SOUTHERN PLANTER.
SOUTHERN DlsuN1oN-In our opinion there is ne
disunon at the South what is Occasioned by sense
of violated rights, and conviction that there Is lit
tie or no hope of redress There are no better
friends of the Union established by the Constitution,
than these very fireeaters they are called, who
are unwilling to be left with all the obligations of
that instrument resting upon them, while the immu-
mites and benefits of 1t are denied them Just re-
store the Union to its original basis-the basis of
the Constitution-and it will have no warmer
Garrison and his crew are consistent in denouncing
the Constitution as an agreement with Hell, 'Tand
the Union because based on such Constitution ::
but those men are very Inconsistent who pretend to
uphold the Union, and yet violate the Constitution
upon which it rests. What but such violation are
the personal liberty bills which have been enact
ed in several of the Northern States the refusal of
the North, with some honorable exceptions, to sur
redder fugitive slaves, stipulated by the Consttu-
ton; the practical denial TO the South of equal
IL
on the part of Northern people, or a large portion
of them, when they do not distinctly violate the
Constitution Tin those features which inure to the
benefits of the South) to as it possible
Now, we say that they cannot properly be termed
disunionists, who are only so in case the terms of
the Union are persistently violated. And we say
that those men at the North and West, who talk of
cOercing f" the South to continue in a Union which
she never assented to-a Union not such as the
Constitution calls for, but such abolition tyrants
see fit to inaugurate-are themselves the disunion-
lists since they virtually sanction violation of the
terms of Union which they might have prevented
if they would, and then commit the double wrong
of compelling the injured party to abide under its
injuries. If A makes a contract with b containing
mutual stipulations and if distinctly violates and
continue to violate those of them that nure to the
benefit of B. there is not court in the land but
would say that A is estopped from demanding of B
the continued fultllmen of his part of the contract
And this covenant breaking" the part of the
North, is far enough from being innocent. 1t is
classed in Scripture with the most fragrant kinds Of
wickedness (ROm. l, 81. The true business of the
North is to repent and do her first works fulfill
her obligations to the South all of them she
did, and the Constitution requires and our word
for it, we shalbhear no more about dsunion and Sc
cessOn at the South but shall find existing wounds
healing up, and the halcyOn days of the Republic
stored. This is the way to 'coerce" the South
with the hands of love !; doing our whole duty I'M
der the Constitution and letting the South and
feel that it is Union for her and not against her
The whole theory of tie Union is CHOICE. The mo-
ment FORCE is applied, against a State or section.
that moment the golden chain is broken, and so
broken that in all probability it never be re-
paired.