Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-01-10

our fathers reared al So great cost Of blood and 1
Of TREASURE! Wait a little Wait little Let
rs Try again the peacaiui, the ordinary, the con-
tutional means for the redress OF grlevenees- Let
is resort once more to the ballot-box Let as try
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Air Clerk not, perhaps 50 hopeful OF the
hIal resutas sosae other men but was taught in
my boyhood that nobIest Of all Roman maxims
never to despair Of the Republic. was taught too
lv pi6us lips vet higher and hoher doctrine still
- firm belief in a experimenting Providence, which
governs IN the affairs Of men. ] 90 believe that
God in his infinite goodness. has foTeOrdained for
this land higher, mightier, nobef destiny than for
any other country since the world began; Tunes
ao(est empire tie last From the Arctic Ocean to
the Isthmus Of Darieu from the Atlantic to the Al
leghanics stretching far and wide over the vast ba
sin of the Mississippi scaling the Rocky Noun
tlins and lost at last in the blue waters Of the
Pacific behold, in holy and patriotic vision, oSE
USEON, ONE CONSTITUTION. oNE DESTINY (Applause)
But ibis grand and magnificent destiny cannot be
fulfilled by us. except as united people. Clouds
and darkness, indeed, rest now over as we are
in the midst Of perils rocks and quicksands are
before as strife ard discOrd are all around US.
How then, sr--mighty and momentous question,
pregnant with the fate Of empire-sball we bring
peace 10 this divided and distracted country Sir,
in my deliberate and most solemn judgment there
/ is but one way Of escape and that the immediate.
absolute Unconditional DISARMAMENT Of this sec
nOnal. anti-slavery, Republican party of yours
applause in the gaileries) If not then upon your
heads, and upon the heads Of your children be
the blood of this Republic. Your have organized
political party based upon geographical discrim-
nations, and for the purpose Of administering this
1 Government for the benefit of a part. You have
neither strength, nor organization, or existence
/ even, in oRe-half nearly, OF the States Of tins
/ Union. Look around you. Behold upon this side
! of the House every section represented. Here
are THE UNITED STATES. What do We see upon
l the left side OF this Chamber Not one solitary
Representative Of your faith or party from fifteen
I States of this Union What does all this mean
It never was SO before in the history Of this Re
public. What does it allkend to. SIR, there died
not many years ago, in New England, man
whom yon all once idolized as approaching little
nearer in intellect TO our notions Of divinity than
most men in any age Died, did l say? No, he
still lives;" lives in history, lives in the public re-
cords lives in his published works lives in his pub
lie services lives upon canvas and in marble and IN
/ bronze. Seven years ago he wrote to citizen OF
/ his native State:
Is There are N NelC Hampshire many parsons l0b0
cal usmFslS5S Wigs, 5O no Wigs ct all; and no
better than distuiioniStS. Any l0h0 hCSjtatss ~
granting and securing to eUey part Of the country its
Just and Constitutional rights Is AN ENEMY TO THE WHOLE
/ COUNTRY
know, gentlemen Of the Republican party, that
you profess, many Of you, that ycu would not deny
any constitutional right to the States of the South
Admit t. But let me ask you by what rule Of IN
| depreciation do you propose to ascertain these
rights: / appeal to your platforms, to your bOndj
! the Venetian law cannot impugn it; but you would
give the exact pound of flesh shedding no blood,
cutting nor more nor less, under penalty of death
and cOnfseatiOn than the Just pound, not TO be made
light heavy in the balance the division Of the
twentieth part of poor scrupe, in the esti-
nation of a hair. You wen know that rights thus
yielded are rights withheld; and Withheld, too with
/ every aggrayation Of insult and wrong is that
the spirit of the constitutional compact Is that the
( spirit which animated the great man and patriot
whose ashes repOse upon the banks OF the Potomac
or Of that other hero and patriot who finds rest
ing place in his long sleep amid the shades of the
Hermitage? How long, think you, cansuch Union
ast1 and what, above ALL is it worth while it does
last?
l know WE'LL indeed, that much that have said
to-day, will here, as elsewhere, be denounced as
pro-SIaUerV Be j. so. l have heard that too often
already to feel the slightest apprehension or alarm
but tell you, gentlemen, a Thousand times l have
told these who sent me here, that If to love my
country to revere the constitution, to cherish thu
Union; if to abbor the madness and hate the treas
on which would lift up the sacrlgi0us hand agains
either that if read in the past to behold it in the
present to fOresee it in the future Of this land
which is of more value to US and to the world fOl
ages to come than all the multiplied millions who
have inhabited Africa from the creation this day
if this is to be prO-sayery, then in every nerve
fibre vein. bone, tendon, joint and hgament, from
the t0pmost hair Of the head to the last extremity
of the foot l am all over aud altogether PRO
SLAVERY MAN. applause from the Democratic
benches and galeries)