Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-04-15

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Day AFTER day the most aggravated assaults are
made uron the dearest constitutional rights of the
South. Throughout nearly all the Northern States
fanatieism runs riot. The pulpit, the press, the
stump State laws State officers, State prisons. are
all constantly brought into use to violate the rights
Of person and Of property which are most sacredly
guaranteed to us Abolitionism assumes the puise
of Black Republicanism only where policy teaches
its propriety. The fate OF JOIN BRowN caused the
plotters Of Southern ruin for a moment to abate
their work But they have now become more bold
and defiant than ever. JoHN SHERMAN, in the early
portion Of the present session of Congress- declared
that his party would not agitate the slavery ques
ton. For weeks they kept silent The excitement
occasiOned by the Harper's Ferry difficulties sub
sided, and they renewed their attacks As the mid
night assassin trembles at every sound Of his foot
fall and stops until there is again entire quiet,
these Black Republican traitors were as meek as
lambs until the BRowN storm passed away. Then
with the industry Of beavers they proceeded with
their work. Their State officers refused to deliver
up to the officers of Virginia eoconspirators Of Os-
AAMNLADa ,LAlt nave thtl INC
governmental officials witness subppnaed to testify
before the Senate Committee in relation to the
Brown raid. Not satisfied with all this, Abolition
ism stalks into the halls Of Congress and declares
That the chatteling of mankind and the holding
of persons as property Is contrary TO natural JUS
tCe and the fundrme PRINCIPLES Of our political
system and is VIGOROUSLY reproach to our country
throughout the civilized world. and a serious hin
drdnce 70 the progress Of liberty throughout the
nations Of the earth
And demands
THAT the Committee on Judiciary be instructed
to inquire into the expediency Of reporting a bill
giving freedom TO every human being, and inter
dieting slavery wherever Congress has the power
To legislate on the subject
To sustain this demand two thirds of the Black
Republicans present vote, aye JOHN SHERMAN
being one of the number. But very few days
after a leading member Of that party declares in
his place in the House that slavery is the sum of
all villanies Still latter. on the 5th fthis month,
another distinguished member Of that party AIr.
LovEJoY) thus commences his speech to the House
Mr.. CHAIRMAN: The House has been occupied for
several days in the discussion of the subject Of
polygamy. The Republican party of which am a
member, stands pledged since 1856 to the extermi-
nation so far the Federal Government las the
power, Of the twin relics Of barbarsm slavery and
polygamy. They have this power in the Territories
of the United States.
Now. sir, as we anticipate a death blow has been
given TO one of these twins, propose TO pay my
respects TO the other. / want to see them both
strangled and 60 down together as they richly de-
serve.
In the following language he denounces an insti-
tuition in which every man in the South has an in
terest; for the morality Of which every Southern
stands advocate at the bar of conscience; an
institution which we believe to be morally socially
and politically right:
Sir, than robbery, than piracy, than polygamy
slaveh0lding IS worse-mOre criminal, more Injuri-
Gus to man, and consequently more offensive to God
SlavehOldlng has been justly designated the
sum Of al villainy Put every crime perpetrated
among men into moral crucible, and dissolve and
combine them all. and the resultant amagam is
saveholding. Il has the violence Of robbery.
A MEMBER. You are joking
Mr.. LOvEJoY. No, sir; I am speaking in dead
earnest before God, Gods own truth 1t has the
violence of robbery the blood and cruelty of piracy
it has the offensive and brutal lusts Of poygauy all
combined and concentrated in itself with aggrava-
tons that neither Of these crimes ever knew or
dreamed Of
Not content with these denunciations, he sneers
at the idea Of our chrstiauiziag slaves. No SANDER
against the South gross to be uttered by him.
He thus attacks the good name Of Tennessee:
Christianiziug them sir! Outstanding them by
a new process The slave States have a right to an
exclusive patent fer it. Taking them out in the
sight Of the church. was taken out not long
ago in the State of Tennessee, by Presbyterian el
der and laid down on his face on the ground, his
hands and feet extended 10 their utmost tension and
tied to Pckets and the gospel whipped into him with
the broad side of a hand-saw discolOred whelks Of
sancufcaton being raised between the teeth every
time this gospel agency fell upon the naked and
quivering flesh Of the tortured convert
He scorns the fugitive slave law, and thus refers
TO the State laws touching slavery:
Ny honest conviction is thatall these slayeholdng
laws have the same moral power and force that
rules among pirates have for the distribution of
their booty; that regulations among robbers have
for the division Of their spells.
He denouuces the Chief Justice Of the Supreme
Court of the United States as a superannuated old
mummy Of a Judge, and Jesuit at that"
These are samples Of an attack recently made
upon the South in the National House Of Repre-
sentatives, not by an avowed Abolitionist, but
by one who claims to be a member of the
Republican party and who Acknowledges in his
speech that the only question in relation to
slavery over which the House has exclusive juris-
diction is whether slavery shall extend beyond its
present limits" We regret that such sentiments as
these should have to be read by Southern men, but
they have been uttered by prominent member of
the controlling party at the North and arc being eX
ensivey circulated there for the purpose still fur
Jher exciting the flame of anti-slayery fanatcism.
We should therefore be faIthless TO duty pub
lie journalists if we were not fully to apprise our
readers of the views, purposes and sentiments Of
those northern men who so recklessly abuse US and
persistently wage a war Of political determination
upon those rights which regard dear to us
as those for which toretathers endured the suf
feriugs and fought the battles Of the revolution.
This becomes the more necessary from the fact that
there is large party in the South who are srenu-
ousy eudeavoring to bring the Democratic party
into reproach sectional party because it meets
and contends with the Eorlgs of Black RepubE- |
canism on every field of fight in every State in
the Union. Is it not high time that the men of the
South should stand together as one man.