Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-12-31

keep Il till 1t dies Of old age. IL L must siie,
+ let il first become fuIroEed by time and hoa-
/ ry-hesded. IGreat cheers Let centuries re-
/ roIre and rest upos. its lofty 5FoE. AMI N
the future leok dpoB the most magnlhcens
spectacle Of prosperity and glory that inIs
Hfrld ever saw. lGbeers.J Let II not d.s
Fin It's yoffth IS no can contemplate the death
Il Of youth ssifteat emotion. We eau follow
| zee 10 tsie tbnb: we can follow even oar IA
7tefs to The grave, recognizing the law OF
/754$i,rs. and necessity: but the youth, Ia tine
zs,rffe-tiule of life Who can follow his
z7sarss, without emotion Youth with the
i dews of morning upon ITS cheek and tbe
i preat margin of life cut of This Union OF
I oars is in its youth; as yet il has lived oHf
! tbree-oaarters OF a century; and what =
that for a nation? Rome lived seven centa-
RES, spreading her eagles over the civilized
| world. aud away far out beyond the borders
of civilization. Why may no. sgch a Govern
| ufent a. ours endure as long, spreading the
beppiness, prosperity, and glory Of man!
/ Why may it not be, ask! Why should this
Government be destroyed In its YOUTH Is
there any inevitable cause for II? 1t was
constructed by our fathers in a spirit of con-
! ciliation and compromise. with much pains.
trouble and toll They had diversity OF sem
timents which were compromised in the or
ganic law of the land. called your Constitu-
! :ioH and mine. There were diVersltles OF
feelings in the councils that resulted IN the
adoption of that instrument. 1t was the
] work of a generation, commencing in 1865
i and completed in 1888. just think now OF an
infant people, toiling for whole generation,
spending their fortunes, energies and blood
| for the construction OF great edliice that
you and might be happy in
GThe speaker was now interrupted by
statement. that more room was wanted, and
/ a rush was N de TO pack the galleries; Ia
which were many ladies. We were then ln-
/ formed that the crowd outside the hall was
| fully as large as that within il. Gov. Brown
resumed again.
FeIlow-citizens, viii show you before l
am doue, that this Government Is safe nowi
| but that glorious as it is, and has been, # it
| is made the machine of oppression to free
people, it must fall. even if the fall wrings
| our hearts, The Union, my friends, is the
| most important of your Considerations, second
onlu to the saIudlio51 Of go,lr Soats. Tbs GOV
| eminent required a whole generation to con-
struct ii; the wilderness was believed with
the blood of your fathers; they marked the
earth with their bleeding ieeG
| and II the ungritten history of this country
wera told II would be the most eloquent
| Union speech that ever reached the ear OF
man. Some say there is no way to save
| II Rut I say we can save II! For GOD AL
,IIGury u on Our sIDEi lGreat aud pro-
| Ionped cbeeYing.1 Our fathers held their
| secret councils. and offered their last dimes
| for some furnishing soldier. Is there no ar
gunent in that. that appeals 10 your neaf'
| and mine. Where is the man who Is willing.
| as a matter of choice, to destroy work with
ont attempiing 10 save it, Here are the foot
| prints Of our fathers along the pnrueoes and
| aisIes. and YOU and / are asked To tear il
down in day This work that II cost the
| toll cfa generation to complete and that when
/ compIeted is the wonder at the WoriH, LAM
about the monuments of Greece ana home,
| the pyramids of Egypt, from the summit OF
| which NapOleon said 10 his soldiers, forty
centuries look down upon your deeds. W hat
are all the monuments of the past compared
TO this glorious edifice. this temple oflIeertyE
/ I'm IN 1860. ND to six months ago, you AID
fondIy hOped that this PdIfee would last on
and on. and would rival the stars OF heaven
! in duration The question Is. shall we part
| with liz 1t took twenty-elsht years 10 pulic
If: ne are asked to put 1t down without cere-
monv. want to do it sOlemnly and cere-
moniously. | don't think such deed as
hat shoald De done without deliberation.
You transact no act of private life without
consideration. You don't buy or sell a slave
or stock of goods. You don't commence large
important law suit or resist one "lihou'
great deliberatiOn and care; that Is common
sense common sagacity; all that ask Is that
we act with the same care IN this am OPP
posed to pulling il down at once. to pulling 1t
down at an if we can help it. If the ship has
cracks OF leaks. let~us stop them. IL the pill
Lar. of The ediice are beginning to give way,
Ia rs call in the best wOrkmen in the Union
and let US have it rectltied- Let us nave q
little returning done. as you would y mere
in Memphis. This we rather have than pull
it down. and see it come to be laughing
stock to the friends OF desp0tIsm throughout
fbe world. Can we save it. If three mil
lions made it. thirty ought to be able 10 S ave
II rCheers1 II three millions in the wider
mes. measuring arms against the mistress OF
the ocean made it, can not thirty millions
save it?
/ expect to be called Union-howler,
Union-shrieker. l aHa a Union man just
about as strong as they turn them out; but
I am not Union man right or wrong; l am
not anything right or wrong; am a Union
man as long a. it can be maintained with
honor: Il it cannot ne preserved except at
sacrifice of the interests of the people where
1 live down with il; but / am moi prepared
to give it up without struggle. Some want
to do it right away. LCheers and hlsses.E
Here voice shouted '.Three cheers for South
Carolina Kisses and an attenuated cheer
ar two.I Yes, three cheers for South Caro-
Iina-a glorious State-she had her Summers
and her Marions, that have given her great
glory: and | hope she Will come back into
the sisterhood again. South Carolina has
GONE out of the Union-acted ationce--has
gone out as far as State can go on paper
gone out claiming the right to 60
IT Is too late to discuss that question of
right. The lights shed upon it heretofore by
jackson. Webster and Clay. if they have not
settled that question. would leave 1t pre-
SUMPTION In me TO decide. deny that there
Is any such power in the Constitution that
State can peaceably seeede, though | admit
that any State or section of State has
revolutionary right which no government
and no power can take from 1t. bat was
the original idea? a southern conference.
The tirst idea was that delegates should meet
from every State, and there compare their
mutual grievances, and demand redress from
the North. Now South Carolina has declined
that and gone out OF the UnIon- Mlsslsslp-
nj and Alabama have voted for separate Sc
cessiOn. The prospect is that the gulf States
will 60 out on separate secession Well, do
Won 1--WE 1t ND? No. No effort has been made
10 s.ve this Union; these States have seeded;
is that the way to save the Union! That is
the way to destroy it. Has any effort been
made to get redress from the North? You
cannot get redress from Congress you can
not expect such men as Seward and Wilson
TO come up and destroy the work of their
own hands. l don't expect Mr.. Seward or
Mr. Sumner to save this country. They were
not made for any SUCH purpose Ii Is beyond
| their depth. 1t can be done only by appeal
ing to the people of the Uni'ed States in
national convention. The people have no
such interest in keeping up this agitation as
Seward, Sumner aud Greeley have They
have interest in peace and fair play and II
YOU give them fair chance, North or Soath,
they will do the thing that's right. GCheers.]
| Here are these border States that have not
vet spoken, looking on Maryland. Virginia,
North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky. Mis-
souri, and Arkansas. They have not yet
spoken out. Let these border slave States
meet with their powerful populations; and no