Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-09-19
WEDNESDAY, MORNING.. SEPT. 10. 1860.
Something for all Patriots to Read
and Ponder.


on's Line would promote the interests OF
= Wel[being of the people of either section
should rest upon these lines he had as wei
lay aside the paper. We not addressing
him just now But trust that all patriots
of every name and party and station and sec
~ -tion will read this article and ponder well
The Presidential campaign of 1860 is now
more than half over. There are four caudi
dates still in the field. Three of them stand
in opposition to the fourth. That far al
least, they united, conceding to each all
that it claims for itself That fourth one rep
resens party which stands out boldly be-
fore all mankind great sectional fact
Whatever maybe thought of its principles
tBEE whether its doctrines sound or its aims
Ff wicked or charitable its existence is unques-
ably sectional fact. The universal South
ern mind is in antagOnism TO the Republican
party and its candidate. He cannot and will
not receive support in any of the Southern
States That is settled beyond all question
controversy. The Union was not made on
any sectional basis MORGAN it be prolonged
on such basis. 1t was entered into upon
the idea of a community of interests among
all the States, each one making some sacrifice
OF a minor interest to the incompaTa-
bly, greater of Union. And that is the
way in which it will have to be continued
No one State could have its exclusive way in
the beginning, and one section can have
its exclusive way now. If such attempt is
pushed to extremity the Union must come
a.ss TO speedy and disastrous termination.
Though nothing in the past would justify
separation-would justify the giving up of
the Constitution and the Union which con-
stitute our nationality, glory and our
power-yet there is point in all public af-
"a. fairs which might such a course not
only justifable, but necessary. The errone-
rE- zLs GUS construction of the nature of our COM
.1zl8 pact of Union has given rise to a brood of
vagaries, asserting the right of peaceable Sc
cession, which than nonsense. So
long as the FEDERAL Constitution exists and
n preserves its binding effect, we are one peo-
pe-one confederation of States-unitcd and
r.a inseparable. There is way-and bat one
true and logically which the obligations of
that instrument, that ligature of Union, can
be broken and destroyed, and that is by Rev
~--- Olution. The right of revoution-the 1tltinuq
49, ratio gentiuEH-Bobody, at any time ever denied.
80 1t IS a part of The history of all peOples-it
never was denied, cannot be now and never
will be- 1t is this autocratic idea that por-
ton of a united people having set of in
terestS or one set of Opinions-whether prac-
teal or abstract-must have their own way
to tae exclusion of the other portion having
different set of interests or opinions that
breeds revOlutiOn--that jusfies revolution
that makes revolution necessary. But only
when pressed to extremity. and when every
other mode of redress has failed. Then it
becomes just in the sight of earth and Heaven.
No dligent observer has failed to see that
our Republic is now engaged in an alarming
ly swift race for this revolutionary goal
zc5s-4-Fo -Four years ago the Republican party came
.--r before the American people declaring that it
would have its Own way and defeated.
To-day it rallies to the contest with the same
determination and with Increased ardor on5
with its legions under better discipline. 1t
5zLrL may succeed. Let the true-hearted patriot
pause and ponder that subjunctive PROPOSE
tion-it may succeed. Its leaders tell us
they desire success that they may show the
81 .-.a. South-the antiRepublican States-that they
harm to Them but that all their In
tents entirely charitable. That is an ex-
hibtion, however, for which the South has
little desire. But we shall see.
-Since 1856, there has party sprung up in
TE3s the South, the counterpart of the Republicans
of the North. That the natural and al
most necessary product of this. The contact
- of 1856 was simply an act of procreation, and
the CESSATION has been regular, heathful and
prompt This Southern antagonistc party
sa would fail of its misson-would be untrue to
its paternity-if it did not also seek to have
1z-- .-- its own way We shall not inquire in this
- place, whether we have transposed the real
<--'t progentor. 1t is enough for us to know that
they occupy these relations and that they are
marching respectively their proper mis-
sion-that of ultimate revolution-and that
= q = "a unless they are checked such will be their
.856i goal. Does any intelligent citizen dispute
's-ezr- this. If he does, we only ask him to read
the speeches of the Republican champions,
f.ss and then turn to those of the new Southern
- party, for which we have such a variety of
that cannot be sure of the tight
80 81 The former tell US that if the latter
triumph and continue to triumph, all the
srY waE North will be OVerrun with slaves while the
~ @ latter tell us if the former succeed the South
will be reduced to state of vassalage, and
that horrors will be enacted in comparison
$500 with which Millions vision of hell is but a
sorry piece of moonshine. What does this
smeani What is the English Of it, if it is not
- - =. simply that the Northern and Southern
So States cannot live together in the same
- .sI1sli Union? 1t signify nothing else and
that is bat another expression for revolution;
and that, too not justifable or necessary.
The great, overriding question for all those
whom we are addressing, the patriotic
10 men Of all parties is therefore, whether this
fatal ana fearful result can beaverted and if
80 howl By the side of it all others sink in
So ateinsienfeaDce On one side of the balance
-b48 is placed the Union, and on the other all
minor questions of party and policy. With
ont the one the other would be nothing. The
Union NAV exist without parties, but without
the Union. there can be no parties. To hold
nsytv higher than the Union is, therefore, pre-