Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-08-08

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| Ia our opinion Just so sure as night follow;
day, troubles viii follow The election of LIN
coin. 1t may be Iva The power of the con
sentative men OF South Carolina, Geor
gia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and
Texas to prevent the act OF secession
but the conflict will be sharp, and may bt
bloody. The sentiment of resistance, of dis
union. in the cotton States, is more general
especially amongst the planters, aud classes
under their influence, than will be admitted
by those who have not taken the trouble 10
familiarize themselves with the facts. 1t has
been but short time since that party Of
0utheru planters, who bad casually met in
this city, conversiug upon the SUBJECT, de
clared that the planting interests were ready
now to be .'preeipitated into revolution >
that there was but one interest that stood in
the way. and that was tue mercantile inter
est, which, indebted to the North, was too
sordid aud TOO cowardly To make a sacrifice
for the South. And il may be that the n.
Y. Herqld, the organ Of the BREcKINRIDGE-
YANCEY disuniuuists. understood this, when,
a short time since. it advised Northern Iner-
chants who have dealings with Southern
traders, to close up such affairs as soon as
possible, and urged holders of Southern State
railway OF city stocks. TO realize upon them
at once. What effect could such war as
this upon the mercantile interests have but
to drive them into the embraces of the dis.
uni,u
Looking III the aspect OF affairs, a. NC do.
there is manifest danger. Our convictions
grow stronger day by day, as events in the
South unfold themselves. We have recently
laid before our readers the manifesto Of Mr..
KEITT. of S. c., said to have been written
after consultation with leading men from sew
eral other States. To-day, we direct attcn-
ton to a letter from Hon. JAMES j.. ORR, tx
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
The most conservative amongst The South
Carolina leaders, he too knocks under to
the prevailing sentiment, and advocates the
secession of the holding States, aud the
establishment of new government, III the
event of the election of the Republican tick
et. The Columbia South GIrolisiiaA, also, in
its issue of tn 81 inst, expresses lis prefer
enee ior disuuiun to republican rule; and SO
also does tbc Atlanta Looomolire, both jour-
nails being supporters of the BRECKINRIDGE-
YANCEY ticket We insert here the letter of
Mr. ORR, aud extracts from these Journals:
~. from the Anderson Gazcttc-I
Letter from Ex.Speaker Orr.
ANDERSON, G. H., July IS, 1850.
1I,,stIeuen:-I have. read and carefully con-
sidered your appeal TO me to become can
didate for the Legislature in this District.
The steadfast and cordial support you gave
me throughout my public career of sixteen
years. renders it painful for me to decline
any position which you desire ME TO occupy,
and vet private considerations of too great
weight to be- diSregarded. impel me relue-
family to decline your call.
L am, like yourselves, deeply impressed
with the critical aspect of our federal affairs,
and believe we are drifting rapidly upon rev.
oIution. Ny hope, as you know. for years
past, for the preservation Of the rights OF the
South in the Union, has been upon the Dem
party. So loUg as it was united, har-
monious and triumphant, our rights and ill.,
stitutions were safe. That great party that
has, in times gone by. won so many brilliant
victories over federalism, abolltiOnism and
and established SO many sound
and conservative principles. is now disunited.
divided and broken up Its disruption cN-
tinguished my ardently cherished hope of
preserving not only our rights, but the
Union ITSELF 1t is idle to debate or review
tue causes that led to its disruption. Let it
suffice here for me to say, that i'll my opinion
the secession of the Southern Delegates from
the Charleston Convention was unwise and
L. tlsaFa tn tho unn
casual observer that Judge Douglas, who
was so Justly obnoxious to the South, could
not receive the nomination in n full COnvcn-
ton, and il was equally certain that Mr..
would have been the nominee,
if the Southern Delegations had not aban
doned their posts. If Mr.. Breckenridge bad
BEEN the nominee at Charleston. his election
would have been certainty. He is now the
nominee of only one wing oi the party, the
other wing having nominated Douglas-and
whilst 1 shall give to Breckenridge and Lane,
the nominees of the Baltimore Convention
gentlemen of tried patriotism and sound prin-
liples-a hearty and cordial support, l see
no prospect of their election, either by the
people or otherwise.
Lincoln and Hamlin, the Black Republican
nominees, will be elected in November next,
and the South must then decide the great
question whether they will submit TO the
domination of Black Republican rule-the
principle of their organization
being an open, undisguised and declared war
upon our social Institutions. | believe that
the honor and safety of the South, in that
contingency. viii require the prompt seces-
sion of the slavehOldiDg States from the
Union, and falling then to obtain from The
Tree States additional and higher guaran-
tees for the protection of our rights and pro-
perry, that the seeding States should pro-
coed to establish new government But
whilst | think such would be the imperative
duty of the South, | should emphatically re-
probate and repudiaie any scheme having
foE its object the separate secession of South
Carolina; if Georgia, Alabama aud Mis-is-
sippi alone, giving us portion of the At
antic and Gulf coasts, would unite with
his State in a common secession upon the
election of Black Republican. would give
assent to the policy.
[ would indulge III no language of crimi-
nation or denunciation of our brethren in the
South, who are impelled by u sense of pa
riolic duty to support Douglas and Johnson.
believe they are miEjudging the most eff
lent means of preserving the rights aud ia
erests OF the South in sustaining these gea-
Iemeu. but concede To them patriotism as
,atboIic as claim for myself, and feel well
.szured that when the great sectional issue
,etween the North and the South is to be
lecided-an issue which words alone will
lot settle-that the South will have need for
he services of all her sons, and that Brock
nridge men and Douglas men will only
muIate each other in their gallant devotion
o her honor and interests
Thanking you, gentleme3, fer your kind
ana reiterating my regret
hat i cannot respond sffirmatively to your
all. L subscribe myself, most truly your
riend and feilow-citizen,
JAMES l.. ORR.
To JOIN MARTIN and others.
From the Columbia South Csrolinian, Aug. )
The result of the Presidential struggle is
10 longer one of much doubt or uncertainty.
Take State by State, and make whatever cal
.ulations we may, based upon the relative
strength of parties, as indicated by recent
elections, and as .hey will probably vote,
,wing to existing divisions, aud We can arrive