Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-10-09

clared deliberately by Mr. EVERETT in the maturity
of his powers and after long and brilliant Congress
sionsl career. Mr.. EVERETT is man of the very
incest discrimination and knew what he was talking
about He is one of the most accomplished scholars
in the nation. The statute of limitations can not be
pleaded by his friends because he does not plead it
himself And besides this, he has declared in the
Senate at a much more recent period, that he is a
Massachusetts, man and feels like Massachusetts.
We all know how Massachusetts, feels on this subject
when the spectacle has been presented of 1900
bayOnets bristng in State street Boston. to execute
the Fugitive Slave Law. With such a record as
this would not the Black Republican States stand in
the House of Representatives until the 4th of March
next and vote for their own candidate, with the
view of electng Mr.. EVERETT Vice President by the
Senate, and thus getting man who holds precisely
the same doctrines that they hold? Mr. MARSHALL
said he hesitsted not in asserting that Mr. BELL
under these circumstances, could not carry Black
Republican State, even if he desired it.
But we are told that we are risking the Union, by
standing for our rights, as compromised to us by
the legislation of Congress, as ratified by popular
acclaim and as adjudicated by the Supreme Court
That cry was first raised by STEPHEN A DOUGLAS in
the Senate, and is now taken up and echoed by the
friends of Mr.. BELL He asked to know where these
gentlemen intend to bring and demand their rights
through the elective franchise, if they abandon
principles secured to them by years hard strug-
gle? Do they wish to abandon the intrenchments
which have been thrown around them by the legis-
aton and adjudicatons of the last decade and again
meet the enemy in the open field without intrench-
/ ments? viii they make a stand when the Black
Republicans get into power and abolish slavery in
/ the District of Columbia? Mr. BELL himself con-
ceded their power to do this, and is thus barred
from making any objection. Viii they resist, by
exercising their elective frachise, when the slave
trade between the States is prohibited? How can
they interpose the authority of the Supreme Court
against this when they abandoned its authority in
the bred Scott decision viii they even resist when
Mr.. SUMNER, who has reprOached the South with
barbarism, attempts to eradicate its Eostyed in
feriOr civilization" The cry Of Union will be as
| potent to persuade us to the abandonment of our
| rights then as now Now is the time to drive back
! encroachment if we would maintain our manhood
/ and independence-now the time to unite upon the
| only men in the field, who boldly proclaim our
rights, guaranteed to us by the Constitution and
confirmed to US by the highest Judicial tribunal. II
we commence concessions to them there will be nc
end to them until we find ourselves subjugated and
\ degraded by the mere power of numbers, without
/ reference to right, justice or the Constitution.
But we are told that JNo BRECKENRIDGE and JOSEPH
LANE are disuniOnIsts. Where that charge is made
it is only necessary to mention that they are the only
/ two men in the whole crowd of candidates, who
ever left family, home and friends and followed tht
eagles of their country into the tented field facing
the foemen of their native land the inhospitality
tropical climate, and all the discomforts and peril
of the battlefield to uphold the banner of our Gov
| eminent. Let this suffice for that charge