Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-07-12

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mode and measure of upholding the consti-
| tu;ionai government as it at present exists,
By preuenting the Installation into Office If Te5ub-
iic9n President and The Inauguration, of the repuJl
portyia po,rer; or. failing tn that. 10 rtsotre
the slauehclding STATES into separate Independent
organizafioa, with such constitutional form Of
! government as will best secure their safety.
their homer, their rights and institutions, and
| make them Power of the earth.'
| On another occasion be said: III the Doug
! las Construction of the Cincinnati platform
| prevailed at Charleston, l, for one would not
submit. / am for independence out ef the Union
in preference TO dtshonOr an it,
Again, On the eve of his departure for
Washington. on the 18th Of November, he
spoke at jackson, Miss.-which the Mississippi
| an reported thus:
with his accustomed caudor, Ex-Gov. Nc
| Rae avOwtd himself in favor of tie repeal of
ihe FEDERAL and State laws branding as an
| ignom!uious crime the purchase of slaves III
| Africa, thereby constituting SYSTEM of o.
isiation unfricndly to Southern institutions
| and detrimental to Southern Interests. Ia
| the event OF the election of a Bi TEX Repubii-
eau TO the Presidency, the speaker argued
that Mississippi separately, Or IA concert sy1th
other Southern States, she might elect, ought az
once TO discontinue heF connection nth the abolition.
| states."
Hon. II. BAENwELL RHETT. of S c.. also
lent his helping hand, the same who said,
| shortly after the election of Mr. BUCHANAx /:
''All true craftsmanship in the Sonth con-
sists in forming combinations aud shaping
events SO as to bring about dissolution OF
the present Union and the establishment of
| Southern Confederacy.'' He made speech
on the 4th July 1859, at Grahamville, s c.,
which was mastery appeal to the passions
of the South. on the questions of CJngle sion
al protection, and disunion. He had found,
at last that those combinations were forming
aud tina events were being so shaped as to
justify his estimate of true craftsmanship in
the South, and such as to bring about the
| desired Southern Confederacy. He was I'M
| usually hopeful and the success which he
contemplated inspired him with unusual
strength and vigor. The speech was in all
| respects contormable to the conclusion, which
alone we quote, at this time. Said Mr.,
| RHETT:
| Should the public regard, after I am
| gone, ever reach my hu -nbIe services let it
| be remembered that, after twenty years Of
earnest effort to preserve the Union, by keeping
| it within the limitations of the Constitution
and arresiing its fatal tendency to despotism,
turned al last 10 the salvation of my native
land (the Sonth), and in my latter years did
all | could to dissolve her connection with
the North and to establish for her Southern
Confed .racy.H
During the year 1859, Mr.. YANcEY was
not an idle spectator of the work he set on
f,Ot. bo
various occasions. JEFF. DAvIs his greatest
and most powerful coadjutor, was also active
and Zealous. We give an extract from a
speech of the latter at Jackson, Miss, on
the 9th July. He said:
"Tke success of such party would indeed
produce an ''irrepressible conflict To you
would be presented the question, will you
allow the constitutional Union to be changed
into the despotism of a majority, will you be-
come the subjects of hostile Government,
or will you, outside of the Union, assert the
equality, the liberty and sovereignty to
which you were born? For myself, | say, as
l said on former occasion, in the contingent
cy of the election of a President on the plat
form of Mr.. Stewards Rochester speech, let
the Union be dissolved. Let the great, but
not the greatest of evils' come. For as did
the great and good Calhoun, from whom is
drawn that expression OF value, love and
venerate the union of these States-but love
liberty and Mississippi more"
From The newspapers and the hastings the
cry of disunion and revolution rose to State
Legislatures and 10 Congress. Here the ev-
licences OF purpose to dissolve the Union
and revoIulioninze the Government are SO
abundant that we have space tor ocmpara-
lively few. Gov. GIsr, of South Carolina,
in his message to the Legislature of that
State, Nov. %, 1853, uses the following
language
with an united South our course would
be clear, and our future glorious; we could
enforce equality in the Union, or maintain
our independence out of it. If, as I Soie1RRiy
beLieCe, longer lice in peace aud harmony
in the UtioH-uutMiJhstandin the a>socia-
lions of the past, and the remembrance of
our common triumph (teing treated as enc
mics and aliens, rather than brethren of the
same family, and heirs of the same iuher-
tance by the NOrth,) we Can form Coined
eracy with ability to protect itself again-t
any enemy, and command the respect and
admiration of the world. TIE eiec
,ion Of Black Republican President will
settle the question Of our safety in the Union;
and although the forms OF the Constitution
may BE- implied with, its vital prin cple
will be eXtinguished, and the South must
consent 10 occupy an inferior and degrading
position, or seek new safeguards for her sn-
ture security. Let South CaroliEa exhaust
every means TO get the cooperation of the |
Southern States in this vital and important |
movement, yielding everything but principle |
for that purpose, prepared 10 follow any lead |
in resistance, but she should never forget |
that she is sovereign and an equal-that by |
her sovereign act she created the relation |
ship of that State that now exists in the Fed |
eral Union, and that she has a Clear and IN |
questionable right to resume her position as |
sovereign in the family of nations.'
Gov. PERRY, of Florida, about the same |
time, in a like state paper said:
True, Florida. a, the youngest and least |
p pulUus OF the Southern sovcreignites, ca
only follow in action the lead of her sisters,
Yet this Constitutes 10 reason whv, at a time
demanding the freest conference and f'ankest
expression among those joined by a common
destiny, she should remain silent. l believe
that her voice should be heard in tones not
loud but deep in favor OF an eternal sepa-
ration from those whose wickedness and ia
naticism forbid us longer to live with peace /
and safety There are good grounds for the
hope that most of the Southern States will |
not consent to see the General Government
pass inc hands avowedly hostile to the |
South. If such is their purpose, it is not |
unlikely that they will prepare for the emer-
gency of the approaching Presidential cleo
lion"
Gov. MELVILLE, of Mississippi, responded |
in pretty much the same spirit for that |
State. And in due time, the Senate of South |
Carolina, on the 18th December passed the |
following preamble and resolution, which |
were concurred in in the Honse, with very |
slight, if any, alteration