Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-12-20
4 mtddIo CnnfederacT.

1t will be seen by reference TO our teiegraphc
column, that it is reported in Washington that "a
strong movement is progressing in the border States
for great Middle Confederacy, including the North
west and New Jersey and Pennsylvania on one side
and Delaware, Maryland. Virginia, North Carolina,
Tennessee Kentucky and Missouri on the other. Men
high in position and influence favor it." We
believe the idea contained in the foregoing origin
ated short time since with the Louisville Journal
For ourselves we would just about as soon consent
20 see Tennessee hitched to the six New England
States as to agree to the formation any such confed
eracv When this Union is dissolved we want 70 be
forever done with Black Republicanism. We want
to 90 into confederacy where there is not and
never can be another Abolition State. We want to
90 into a confederacy where State shall ever be
permitted to abolish slavery, and thus degrade the
poor white family to the level with the negro race.
We want to go into 4 confederaey where the fend
of discord, in the shape of Abolitionism, can
never again enter. We want to 90 into Confeder-
acy with people whose interests and views are
identical with our own. We can see nothing to be
gained by severing from Massachusetts, and uniting
with Ohio. We can see nothing to be gained by 60
ing out of Confederacy where the free State vote,
exclusive Of California and Oregon IS sixty greater
State vote would be sixty-one greater than ours.
By the formation OF such Confederacy that spO-
ken of in cur Geographic dispatches we shall cleave
LINCOLN and HANnIN in twain" but shall not thus
throw away the worscr part to live the purer
with the other half" The very States between
which and the South this proposition forms Con-
federacy did more ten times over to secure the
election Of LINCOLN than all New England. Our de-
mand is for ne such thing is thus propos-
ed We have asked for bread and they would
give Us a stone. We have asked for life and they
would give us death. Even the proposition for a
Confederacy Of exclusively the grain growing South
ern States meets with but little favor in the public
mind The general feeling is in the event of fail
ure to procure satisfactory guarantees as to the
futuI, for the South to stand together. Thus we
shall s~ert war, and prosper in the pursuits OF
peace. As indicative of the opposition to even a
borde1 slave State Confederacy we quote the fol-
lowing rom the leading editorial OF the Memphis
Appea' of Tuesday:
The only alternative TO going with the seeding
States found in the suggestion to form separate
border State neutrality-suspicious. loose from q
noble. brave. and chyalric people, with whom our
every interest Is identified for fear that the world
may say that We were dragged after them in their
exodus from the Government which they regarded
prostitutes in its spirit and perverted IN It's OBJ
jeCts. In Illuminating upon this manifest talcy, We
fail 10 appreciate Its complete desltuuUn Of
plausibility. Its Endorsement exhibits a mere in
diligence in false notions Of a spurious pride, and
disposition to sacrifice real interest to the plque
and whim Of the passing moment Congruty OF
feeling, homogeneity of social system and unity
Of purpose, are all made subservient to 4 bogus
standard of State and personal independence. We
lose sight of the fact that not only the politicians
but the people of the Cotton States honestly be-
IL. a.-a- waafl3I
that the antpathy of the North to the institution
of slavery is ineradicable and irrepressible-that
no kchange except in the hearts Of the Northern
people can furnish sufficient barrier to the South
against the tide of their fanaticsm-that the cup
Of their grievances is already over run-and that
their honor, safety and self-respect demand that
they shall declare their independence of domes-
tic enemy before that enemy shall have "bound
them hand and foot, and thus have emasculated
them Of their spirit and power of resistance.
The identity OF interest and sympathy of feeling
existing between large portion Of Tennessee and
the lower Mississippi requires that Tennessee should
be in the same Confcderacy with the mouth Of that
mighty river. The identity of interest and sympathy
Of feeling existing between another large portion Of
Tennessee, the stock raising and grain growing por
ton and Georgia and Alabama require that Ten
ncssee should be in the same conedcracy with those
more Southern States. In the language Of the re
cent Address of the Co-Operationsts of Georgia to
the people OF tie other slayeholding States:
The action Of State must affect all the South
crn States The separation OF one from all must
greatly involve only the feelings, but the inter
ests Of all. No slavcholding State live for
itself We mast live with and for each other. God
has not mingled more ndistnguishablo the drops OF
water in our rivers than lie has linked indIssOluby
the destinies OF people and their children for
ever. In climate, soil productions and systems of
labor as identical with each other as we are
separate from the balance OF the world.