Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-12-09
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Prospects OF Dfsuufons
From he New York Anti-slavery Standard, Dec. I.
We,appear 60 be on the eve Of the oldest reTolu-
ton that history has yet revolution for the
greater security of INJUSTICE and the hrner establish
ment of tyranny. And this carried under the
shows and pretences Of an injured nation rising in
its might vindcate its rights OF manhood Not re-
dictionary movement snch as has more than once set
up agiii a throne that had topped downand brought
back discarded monarch but progressive one IN
the wrong way, set on foot for the extension and
perpetuation Of human bondage. 1t IS odd IN IT'S
manifestations but as old cruelty and fraud IN Its
vital principle. The oppressor has always been
swift enough TO tighten the chains and enlarge the
numbers Of his victims. Only it has not often hap
pened If ever that he has done II IN the name and on
the behalf of popular liberty. We trust that this
TeUolution soH be permitted to go fo1pQrd TO the end
aims at ,cithold naOestation. Asd zoe rather think
lUM
We believe even the Republicans are giving South
Carolina the credit Of being in earnest. That her
violent and nosiest spirits so, there can be
doubt. And it is these that control the slower
moving masses of intelligence and wealth. Even
then, we doubt whether majority could be found
TO vote for dissolution Of the Union, if the vote
could be taken with absolute secrecy, that there
should be possibility of its being known how any
particular gave his suffrage But as this is
possible the violent and the noisy to have
their way. The rich are timid everywhere; and
more in slave countries than elsewhere and they
will either be inundated into acquiesence made
raj and necessary of things. Calculation and
prudence 90 for nothing IN TeUolfi0ns II is passion
and impulse, long preparing ard slcfdy managed that
does the tr0rc. This D0Ueme7t Is no eo idea. HhdS
been IDOrcg IN the Southern mind for Esres and gears
and DO not beeUs do notdeSire that any StopOr
stay can be put TO It.
Force is ont Of the question If the South Carolina
leaders will take our opinion-and 1t ought TO be
worth something, since we are by general consent
the great orignators of the state of things they
| Of will
preparations. and not make themselves ridiculous
by their Liliputian ornaments II they are bent on
going Old of the Union, ICE trust and be1eUe they are,
then lCM meet with nlOeStdtOn IN the process nom
the general government or The NORTH Notwithstanding
the 6alyinqs Of some republican presses and orators,
there 1cH mol be cannon, DllSba, plsto Squao,
fired off TO hinder their erodus The thing IS an i'm
possibility. The idea Of State being kept IN the Union
by main force IS political dbSoTdig Of the Uey rst
Dder Such an ATTEMPT 1Coud array against Il the ma
jorify Of men in the Northern States themselves All
| the Democrats and all the Bell-Everett men would,
of course be on the side of the South IN any such
attempt at coercion. They would manage that crisis,
as they have the panic they have excited because of
the election of Lincoln, for the purpose Of intmi
dating the North into submission to the slave power
as our master and themselves as its Satraps; while
all the better part of the republicans would take the
| ground the Tribune has assumed, OF the policy, II
not the abstract right, of permitting peaceable Sc
| cessOn to all Disconnected States.
But ICE trust and bslieUe, also that South Caroline
loM not stand alone in the revolutionary Increment II
she go she loM carry her aeigtbors l1h her, And this
though it is perfectly demonstrable that 1t would
not promote their material interests, even the
curitv Of their beloved institution, but quite the
| contrary Revolutions are never good for trade,
and are always expensive and damaging TO property.
Hence the mercantile classes and the rich are always
opposed to them. They were opposed to the Ameri-
can Revolution, as a rule. The old families, as
general thing. were on the side Of the tories. The
| movement then, as now, came largely from men
having comparatively but little stake IN the commu-
| nifty many of them, no doubt moved by high pTin-
ciples of duty and strong love of civil liberty, but
| not few. we must fear, in the hope Of the good
| things that might come to them out of strife and
| change So it may be with North Carolina and
Georgia, both of which hate South Carolina with a
neighbOrly hatred Of which we have no idea and no
example at the North and chafe at the idea of being
| led bv her Yet the chances are that they will be,
! and Louisiana, too. Texas, and Arkansas, and Ala
| bama are all ready as as the way IS cleared;
and though II is OF no consequence on which side
! Tennessee stauds. il is not likely that she will
! stand on any side but that of slavery.
| 1t is curious to note how exactly the same is the
/ machinery used to get up and carry on this revolu
ton with that fathers employed IN that OF 10.
There has been the same prelude Of long years OF
discomfort the agitation of the popular passions
by the press and by public speech; the same exagera-
ton of grievances and the prophecies OF dis
/ grace ard ruin in of submission. And, we are
sorry TO the parallel runs even as 10 the methods
! of Intimidation used to Overawe the dlsahected.
| The mobbing of Governor HufchinsOns house the
tarring and feathering of offensive oficehclders,
the dOmiciiaFy visits TO suspected tories, the eX-
/ lie and IOnfscaton which we're threatened and en-
! forced, of the same genus as the correspond
ing measures of the slave States, though with milder
specific differences arising from the higher clvIza-
ton of the actors in the earlier drama But the re
] suit will be the same All the uneasy spirits the
| landless and the negroess-they who are always
ready for change as one more chance for themselves
all such viii be sure TO be found on the reVolu-
tiOnary side. The timid and time serving, who may
| dread the consequences immediate and remote, Of
the movement viii Weld to the Impulse of the more
| daring and impuriuus, they have IN all times.
| Some Of the Weather and more intelligent Of the
Shareholders may try TO stem the torrent and to
/ keep the ship of State at her old and safer
moOrings But an example Dr two Of lynch law,
| judiciOusy applied, or OF a timely conhscauon OF
| the estates Of maignants and recusants, would
! soon bring about marvellous unammIty OF acton.
Nor do we consider the chances Of Southern
Confederation holding together desperate as do
! some of our contemporaries. The two CaToIlnas
| Georgia Florida, Alabama Mississippi, Louisiana
and Texas had together. in 1850 abOuttwo millions
| and half of white population. We apprehend they
cannot fall much short of three millions now, and
that Is as many the thirteen States had IN 1916
1t will be frightfully expensive to carry on their
government it is true and It will be one OF the most
horrible despotisms that blackened the earth
| for the white man as well as the black But then
the slave governments all that and the worse
the new confederacy makes the matter the better
the chance OF another revolution, which shall eman-
cipate both white and black. a war would be ru-
nous to them: but then they will take care to keep
| out of any war with power stronger than them
selves. As to the effect Of the secession of the
| Southern States upon the Northern, il would be
| good-good only-and that continually. Virginia,
| Kentucky and Missouri would be all made free
States by it, and the Republic Of the North may in
| deed become the model Republic of the world. The
reptile Democracy, with its parasitic BellEverett
| vermin. would be trOdden down into the mlre TO
which they belong, and there would be chance Of
/ honest men having their own again.