Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-29
Hon. John J. crinenasn Rebukes John

18th, administered one CT the most scathng rebukes
to Mr. BELL that has been heard in the present can
vass. Mr.. C.'s speech was characteristic of the /
man. Its periods were familiar to those who read
his Louisville speech. early in the campaign His |
eulogy upon the Union was full of pathos and was
received by all parties with fervor. He followed
the beaten track of those who would select tie
Union as a theme around which ever cluster the
gems Of poetry and the graces of rhetoric.
In his phillippi on the disunionists of the South
he used the following thought: approach a
Democrat and call him E disunionist, and he will
tell you that he is not disunionist per Sc but that
he is a disunionist upon some contingency" Then
Mr.. CRrTENDEN waxed warm and poured forth
torrent Of invectiye against men who proclaim the
right of secession under aug contingency
Had Mr.. CRrrTENDEN forgotten that Mr.. BELL. be-
longed to that uDpatriotic list which had invoked
his earnest Indignation! Did he not know that
JoHN BELL had from his place in the United States
Senate proclaim that he was for disunion upon
certain coatzgeheyS Did he wish to stab Mr.. BELL
at the home of his friends? Mr.. BELL must have
felt all the while that the indseretion of friends was
often more fatal to interest than the open war
fare of enemies. Mr.. BELL must have felt like CE-
sAR did when he saw his well-beloved BRurus raise
" pAuuSS IedFl. ffOlu
the depths of his heart there must have struggled
wish to be delivered from indiscreet friends Hear
what Mr. BELL says upon disunion on a contingency:
"The question is whether mutual trust and con-
idence shall continue 70 animate and encourage
mutual efforts in promoting and multiplying
benefits of whether mutual hatred and distrust
shall step in to check all progress; to distract and
confound all joint endeavors for the common well
fare in fine, to entail upon the country all the evils
! - 1,oN AL
when you present that issue to me, say give me
disunion, give me anything, in preference to I'M
ion sustained only by power by constitutional and
legal ties, without reciprocal trust and confidence.
If our future is to be of eternal discord
Of angry elimination and denomination, give
rather separation with all its consequences. IL
am to be peace, let it be peace in reality; if
| to be at war let know at once, that l may put
my house 10 order ard be ready to meet the conse-
| quences. Termin-
ate this suspense which is more ntolerabIe than
| open rupture"
! Cruel cruel Mr.. CRTrTENDES, thus to thrust your
sharpened poignard into the heart of your great
leader Did thesght of his declining fortunes excite
no pity Did not charity raise her voice to warn
you to desst? Though pity could not melt you,
though charity could not reach you. though all the
blendd energies of o7e and duty could not deter you
yet, the presence of Mr. BELL should have made "hs
paSJ nlSIOTy COuUeCleu puUIlC seFNlC6 81
cred in your eyes. But Mr.. WEBSTER the great ex-
FOUNDER of the Constitution not left unscathed
by the flaming sword of Mr.. CRIrrENDEN. Mr. WEB
srER was one of those contingeacy" men whose pa
triotism Mr.. CRrTENDEN would assa. There is one
of Mr.. WEBsrER'S contingencies in his speech deliv-
cred at Capon Springs June %, 1851, he SAID:
II do not hesitate to say and repeat, that if the
/ Northern States refuse wifuly and deliberately to
/ pffapt that Pt which
respects the restoration of fugitive slaves, the South
| should no longer be bound to Observe the compact. A
bargain broken on one side is broken on all sides"
Now listen to Mr. FILLMORE on dissolving the Union
on a contingency:
| "We see political party presenting candidates
for the Presidency and Vice Presidency selected for
the first time from the free States alone, with the
avowed purpose of eecting these candidates by the
sutrages of part of the Union only, rule over
the whole United States. Can it be possible that
! those who engaged in such measure can have
seriously reflected upon the consequences loci must
ineUitdblyf 0HO,o in of SUGGEST Can they have
the madness or folly to suppose that Southern
brethI en- ooud submit TO be governed by such Chief
NagistrGte?"
Suppose that the South, having a
majority of the electoral votes should declare that
they would only have Shareholders for President and
Vice President, and should select such by their ex
elusive suffrages TO rule us at the North Do
you think would submit to it? No, not for a
nasnt And do You believe that your Southern breth-
rem are less sensitive this subject than you
or less jealous of their rights If you do let me tell
you that you are mistaken! And therefore you must
that if this sectional party succeeds, leads in
evitaby to the destruction Of this beautiful fabric
reared by our forefathers cemeuted by their blood
and bequeathed TO us as precious Inheritance.
Il tell you my friends that feel deeply and there
| fore | speak earnestly on this subject ferries of
you're right? for feel that You are in danger.
am determined to make a clean breast of it. will
may be; and | tell you that tredding on the
brink of UOicano that IS liable at Olly moment to burst
| forth and oUerUhelrn the nation
Now let us go into the ranks of Mr.. DOUGLAS and
if there any contingent men under his banner
Here is one his banner. and that too on a con-
tingency which may happen very
Hear him in letter to the Philadelphia North
| American:
Isuppose Mr.. Fremont if elected, will prove
true to his declarations, the platform of his
party supporters. If so, his election will inaugurate
a line of policy and congressional action that MUST
DRIVE THE SOUTHERN STATES TO DISSOLU-
TION He may deceive his party, &C., but this you
will allow is rather broken reed for the South TO
lean upon; and therefore, his election will be the
signal for her to prepare for the worst If he re-
deem the pledges to the country it will not be in the
power of human wisdom to the Union
And seeing this is 1t to be supposed that the South
ern States will quietly await their ruin? VIII
hands, in advance of the catastrophe?
Is it supposed that the South is blind as not to
| foresee the consequences, and can it be expected
that she will stand still and await their arrival be-
fore she will resort to defensive action!
Vain and idle is such expectation
The Southern States not to be de-
ceived True to the instinct of sefpreservation if
not impelled by higher impulses, they will not wait
until they fettered before they resort to
of defense, if they can, resistance, if they must
But looking further among the DOUGLAS worthless,
find of these contingent men Ohio in the
person of Mr.. PUGH:
'Iagree that no Court, Supreme or Inferior has
any right to bind any State in the last resort be-
lIeve the Federal Government to be founded upon |
mutual compact between the States, and the |
States entered into that compact of their SOW
eregn will, so it belongs to each of them. the
bitter OF its own destiny to decide when the compact
has been broken and the mode and measure of re.
dress"
Again in Virginia, the reSOubtable knight in the |
DOUGLAS camp, Gov. LETCHER, who talks loudly of |
contingency" listen to his works
THE irrepressible conflict doctrine, announced !
and advocated by the ablest and most distinguished
leader of the Republican party, in open declara-
ton of war against the institution of African sa
very, wherever it exists; and would be disloya to
Virginia and the South if did not declare that the
election of such man. entertaining such doctrines,
ought to be resisted by the slavehodng States The
idea of permitting such man to have control and
direction of the army and navy of the United States
and the appointment of high Judicial and Executive
officers pOstmasters included cannot be entertained
by the South for a moment"
We think Mr. BELL should beg Of Mr.. CRITTENDEN
to hereafter strike out that part of his speech on
contingent secessionsts and to concentrate all his
sarcasm and invectve on those who claim to be dis
unionists per SHIRLEY.
The 'sEamine,, i'm Kansas.
The GrasshOpper Falls (Kansas) Gazette says that
the reports of the prospective famine in that Terri
tory greatly exaggerated 1t thus states the real
condition of affairs:
We have no doubt that the crops in vicinity
and throughout Northern Kansas will be very short
Neither do we doubt that there will be many cases