Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-11-18

defence of his rights The capitalist is always aeon
sentative. In these States laugh at insurrection
because the futility Of such attempt is equally well
known to the black race and to the white But could
the strictly planting States despse domestic insur
rection with free States for their Northern bound
arys Their haste to secede from the Union and
thus to leave us in sinking SHIP had best be mod
Grated until these grave questions are more grave
ly, considered. 1t is due to US and to themselves
alike that their final resolutions shall be determined
upon in a general Convention of the slave States,
which alone can be commensurate in dignity with
the Importance of the questions to come before it
In this communication the writer has endeayored
to present briefly and succiny what he believes to
be the trua interests of our State in the great ques
tons by which the country is presently distracted
We set out with the assertion that our State has
greater interest in the unity of the South than the
States lying to the South of have We have trusted
to the logic Of facts to make the position good We're
we inclined to consider our base material interests
alone this communication could easily be extended
to show demonstratyely how great would be our
\ prosperity in the Southern republic. Where in adj
dton to her hundred thousand bales of cotton, Ten
nessee together with the other middle slave States
would be to the strictly planting States what
now the great North West is to both sections.
It would be equally easy TO show how sad
would be our fall should we descend to
the humiliating position of third or fourth rate
free State in a Northern Confederacy ; raising
grain and cattle in competition with the North west
| IN which comparison we would stand as deuce to
the ace. The paper might be further extended to
the length of pointing out by the logic of facts
how certainly Northern Confederacy would sun
der into as many parts it had interests Not hav-
ing like the Southern republic, institution pecu-
liar to itself inwoyen into its civilization forming
great bond of sympathy and interest between the
States while it keeps them aparfr the rest of the
world; the rest of the civilized world being never
the ess dependent upon it.
If base material interests were alone to be con.
suited these results admit of demonstration with as
much certainty as ever the future was demonstrate
ed from the past. But we, for one, have ever held
that if there is any good in one kind of civilization
over another it its advantages to the people as
class. The rich is equally well off in all coun
tries, and certainly he can buy little for his
wealth in these States in any other part of the
world. 1t cannot raise him above his neighbor be
cause Southern civilization is founded on distiuc
ton of castles, the one entirely inferior and the
other entirely superior more separated than are
the castles of India since with us the two castles are
separated by the hand of nature. Between the
meanest white man that crawls and mental ser
wants there is impossible gulf. Civilization has
wrought such triumph elsewhere. And for such
civilization it will be seen when the worst comes t.
the worst that the people of Tennessee are ready
die in the field.
n What constitutes State
Not high raised battlernent Lor labored moupd
Thick wall d gate,
I Nor cities proud with spire ana turret crowned:
Not bays broad armed por
Where, laughing At the storm, rich nayes ride;
Not starred and spangled courts
Where low hrowe baseness watts perfume TO pride
, No men, high minded men.
Men who their du rs know,
But know their rights aud knowing dare maintain,
Prevent the long aimed blow,
And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain,
f These constitute State.