Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-11-16

South should have had opportunity of
meeting them in joint council, and until the
States of the South should have snitedly tested
the efficacy of pacific and strictly COnstitu-
tional expedients.
We decline any critical examination of the
specific teTms.of settlement suggested by General
Pillow, as proper, in his opinion, to be in
f-xibly insisted upon by the South. In sew
eral of the demands which he makes in behalf
of the South, as a si1e qua 10 peaceful
adjustment of existing differences between
the two sections. we cordially concur. In
others we do not, for the reason that it is
plain 10 us, as we are sure it will be to 9th
ers, that, by pertnaciously insisting upon
these demands, we shall only make DiSuIsion
inevitable. We decline, though, as we have
said for the present, any controversy with
General Pillow upon the points referred to,
hoping that he will himself see the necessity
of combining our action at this time to such
measures as good and true men of all parties
can concur in.
What say the friends of the Union, and the
Sonth. TO a preliminary meeting in this city
next Saturday, to be followed up, if deemed
advisable. by a second meeting. on the Sat
urday succeeding?
From the Nashville Union & American, Nov. Is.
From the Patriot of yesterday we introduce
to our readers an article from the pen of our
distinguished fellow citizen, Gen. Gideon J.
Pillow, communicating a plan matured by
him. as solution of the present political
crisis. The views of Gen. Pillow are entitled
TO the highest respect, from men of all par
ties, by reason of the frankness with which
they are urged, the substantive action which
they propose on the part of the South, and
the practical guarantees they suggest for the
maintenance of Southern rights In the Union.
Their author is known as lifelong advocate
of State Rights and national and true, but
not unconditional. friend of the Union of the
States-one OF those men who would preserve
the Union by enforcing the guarantees of the
Constitution and demanding justice and
equality from the Government The plan
may not in all its details meet the exact
views of all the wise men and patriots
who have determined on an effort to
preserve the Union by permanently
removing the exciting cause oil the ser-
Gus troubles in which We find ourselves in
vOlved. yet we are persuaded that it will be
regarded by men of all parties as proper
move in the right direction, and. if not
adopted in its entirety, it may prove the ba-
sis of plan upon which Tennessee may raj
ly her conservative inhuence. 1t is now Idle
to talk about the preServ ton of the Union,
without fresh and full understanding with
the Northern States, The man who would
heal the wounds that now infiame the Con
tederacy, but dallleS with the question, II ne
expects to gain his end by mere empty lauda
ton of the Union, or by equally as senseless
and yet more mischievOus denunciation OF
the Southern leaders, as disunionists and
traitors Such tactics may do for political
campaign, but will prove vain and foolish at
a time when the people en- mqsse are aroused
to the idea of redressiug their wrongs, Sc
curing their safety and vindica;ing their
rights with The spirit OF treemen. The
disease requires more active, if not more
desperate remedy. Hence we think it the
duty of men of intellect and patriotism to
cast into the common mass their share of
thought and mind, that we may see our way
through the thick clouds and gloom now
overhanging US. Let this be done in a spirit
of candor, rnpartiality and patriotism, and
with determination to leave out of view
the petty schemes of partiZansbip, and the
country can then form a clear and unbiased
judgment upon its duty in this trying emer-
gencey = 1t has seemed 10 US that the chief
difficulty in coming TO that unsnimity OF sen
tinent, so important at this time, is he pref
udices aud animOsities of party. What are
parties to US? What are politicians? What
are all the offices in the land compared 10
the overwhelming interests at stake? A dis
solution of the Government will oblteTate
all these, and it is to prevent the loss of hon
or and of right on the one hand, and the dis
traction of the Government on the other,
that we are now cOntending.