Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-11-16

North. In sixty days alter such action on
your part. if effectually carried out, New
England would afford the most miserable
spectacle OF ruin and desolation the world
has ever seen, and even the great States of
New York and Pennsylvania, now unfortu-
nately and strangely the mainstay of anti
slavery faDaticism, would receive the death
blow 20 their prosperity. I will not, in this
letter, enter into the details of this non-in-
terco purse with the North and its effects upon
it: l leave thai to the intelligent commercial
and manufacturing men among you. i'm
plore you, however, aud especially you men
of South Carolina and Georgia. in memory
of that fraternal affection which existed in
the hearts of your ancestry towards the peo5
pie of Massachusetts,, when they sent their
supplies of rice and -four, without solicita-
ton or reward, 10 the starving citizens of the
now erring Boston, and in view of the love
and reverence we all bear you as two of the
immortal thirteen, and ia view of the power
and prosperity OF the United States of North
America, which is the fruit of yonr revolu-
tionary valOr, patriotism and wisdom, to
pause. reflect, and weigh every other remedy
before you choose the terrible and fatal one
of revolution and dismemberment.
l have promised to show you that the an
t.-:lavery sentiment of the North was at
terly powerless to do you wrong or injury
through the generai Government. It has
elected the President and Vice-President,
A,,T hot T1 Ill To-. :
majority in both Houses of Congress opposed
to him, his party, and his politics. If he
was fOOl-hardy enough to carry out, even the
least of his party's anti-slavery sentiments.
he would be met by an opposition Congress
and overwhelmed and crushed. He cannot
command a cent of the public revenue; the
army and navy are virtually under the com
mand of Congress, and even the appointment
OF his civil officers of our fifteen States is in
our own hands. Mt an officer in all these
fifteen States, whom it is his duty to appoint
but must come from Us and he one of us.
Besides his own private opinions, as often
expressed before the whole country, fortified
and strengthened and enlightened as they
will be by that solemn oath. taken before
just discriminating people, 10 support the
Constitution of the United States, are at
open end irreconciiiable war with a large
majority of those who elected him. How
miserable and even imbecile will be
his official position. That splendid fruit of
the Presidency which he has SO ambitiously
sought by means Of the hypocritical and
20 t:aic If Il
dust and ashes in his mouth. But this con-
sequence to Mr.. Lincoln personally is not
all. The failure of his administration is the
ruin of his party and the irretrievable
destruction of its leaders. The history of
the world is eloquent with the truth that the
leaders OF fanatical parties are doomed to
destruction at the first failure to realize their
promises to their followers. Seward and
Sumner, Bates, Ewing and Corwin. are des-
tined to a speedy and HOPELESS privacy. Let
us be careful not to do anything which might
interpose 10 save them from this their de-
sered fate.
l have now presented to you some consid-
erations, which, in my opinion, deserve your
attention and Investigation. l entreat you
10 examine and weigh them. If they be good,
elaborate and perfect them. If they be not,
pursue some others looking to the same end
Do not, except as the last plank, take that
woeful remedy of Acknowledgement. Look AT
our constellation OF thirty-three stars span
ming continent from ocean to ocean. and
stretching from zone to zone. True. Massa-
chusetts which fed-upon your bounty and
and prOited by the glory of Fort Moultrie
in her saddest and darkest hour, and which
should blaze with light of the first magai-
tude. is now only family visible among her
sisters, while many others are giving out on
ly Pickering and uncertain rays. But never
mind. The days of the eclipse are passing,
and soon they will burn again with the light
of &c. Besides we are with you. Oar hearts
beat in unison with yours. Our thoughts,
feelings and sentiments march with yours.
keeping regular step like trained band<. But
we ask you to pause-pause, not so much for
the Constitution, for the union of the States
which is the fruit of the patriotism and wis
dom of our ancestry. and which is, as firm
ly believe, the political glory of the world.
Believe me, and the people of all the farming
slave States, to be your friend and fellow
patriot. B.
Nov. Is, 1860.
From the Nashville Evening Democrat, Nov. Il.
Dangers of DisuniOn-R emedy Pro-
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