Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-01-08

the ornament Of God let it echo through az tls
arches Of heaven ana reyerberate ana below along
an the deep gorgss Of he'll that he aids every fuei-
tive that couas 10 his door and asks Il ? and they
reply to Us that the Democracy are responsible for
the slavery agitation and portray in buraing words
the horrors Of servile insurrcctou. Would dmt
Blr. CaTnNnEv. could persuade his party Chat the
grievance of shesouth 3 not unreal Woold
that he coula persuade them that it is not the De-
moeracy but in his language, the delusioa Of Ger
tain citizens Of the North that bring these troubles
upon rs. Then we might all 60 up to the North
together and make battle against the common enc
my not with hosannas to the Union, because they
there claim all the devotion to the Union They
claim to be the legitimate descendants Of the found
ers Of the Republic. The Union song is their battle
cry. But we must go there to teach them that
the only way to preserve the Union is to rigidly
observe the guarantees Of the Constitution. We
mus go there prepared to teach those who have
sufficient honesty to pursue the right, that slavery
is just Let US endeavor to persuade them that
Southern slavery is best for the Southern slave and
for the Southern freeman relgiously and politically
+" Gentlemen, may cry Peace, Peace, but there
can be no peace until there is a radical change in
Northern feeling to Southern slavery. Preachers
and politicians have raised Esprit that win midtown
atheir bidding even if they should desire it bat the
politicians and fanatical preachers do not wish it
quieted The n Y Tribune has said g it is plain
that substantial practical union Of the electors
who supported Fremont and FILLMORE respectively,
insures triumph in 1860. Is there
then any insuperabe obstacle to substantial union
of the Opposition in 1909 In other words, what
do tho Republicans insist On as essential that the
other branch of the Opposition cannot concede to
them2' The Richmond Wing has said it was" vii
ling to let by-gones be bygones. and to take the
chances in the same beat with all the elements Of
Opposition in the North and in the South in the
East and West" Mr. BORIS has beseeehingly asked
the Republicans to unite with the Southern Opposi-
ton in forming patriotic Holy Alliance, on fair
and honorable terms HUogiag no sacrifice Of priEci-
pie 70 d,y party, that we BLACK Republicans and
southern Opposition may meet (the Democracy at
Watarlo in 1860, and extirpate them forever" And
only about two weeks ago the Washington cores
pondent Of the n Y. Herald telegraphcd that paper
that meeting Of forty Americans was held there,
70 deUise plan for tie concentration Of the entire OPP
position to tie Administration for the Presidential
contest" Bnt the Union meetings Of the politi-
clans viii do no good toward saving the Union. The
people are beginning to regard them as mere polit-
cal springes to catch woodcock as shallow devices
to hood-wink unsuspeclng Democrats with the hope
of leading then into the ranks Of the Opposition.
No combination Of the Black Republicans with
the Southern Opposition upon platform professed-
ly ignoring the slavery question will not save the
/ Union. Our southern brethren ought to know that
d, IL
rights Of the South until they compelled to do
50 by the force Of public sentiment in the free States
Have not the Southern Opposition seen the call Of
the Republicans for their Chicago Convention The
/ demon Of Abolition must be bound hand and foot
and castinto outer darkness then and not till then
viii the perturbed spirit of the Constitution rest