Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-12-28

All conservative men in the South have been
hopefully looking to the action of the Senate and
House Committees for plan by which the existing
difficulties might be settled, and our Republic start
afresh upon its career. 1t was by many anticipated
that the long-tried, well-knOwn devotion to the
Union of the venerable Senator from Kentucky, Mr..
CRITTENDEN, would commend his proposal TO the
favorable consideration of the Black Republicans.
By that proposition the South forever yields to
Black RepubIcanism, the far greater proportion of
the common Territory. She only asks that her citi
zens may be permitted to go into the lesser portion
with the same political institutions and rights which
they enjoyed in their native States under the laws
framed by our Revolutionary sres. We believe there
is no party in the South there is no respectable pro-
portion of any party that would yield anything furth-
er than was proposed by Mr.. CRTTENDEN. The recent
action of the Committees of the Senate and House
is calculated almost satisfy the most hopeful that
there is no longer any probability Of settlement in
the Union of the points at issue between the North
and South Not only have the Black Republicans
opposed the plan of Mr.. CETrTENDEN, not only have
they refused to offer any plan of their but they
have distinctly and emphstically declared that they
have no guarantees to offer. This is alike the Ian
guage of their leading men and the voice Of their
press. If this, then, be their determination, if in
the stunning language of Mr.. LINCOLN in day, 1859,
they oppose the lowering of the Republican stand
ard even by hairs breadth there is nothing left for
the South but a dissolution of the Union
Union formed with HANCOCK and his compatriots
of the North, whose elevated positions in public
esteem are now held by our present partners, HAM
LIN, HALE, SUMNER, WILSON, SEWARD, and men of that
kind. A dissolution of the Union does not neces-
sarily imply deserton of the Constitution, or Of
our form of government 1t means simply that our
brothers in the Northern States having calmly and
deliberately determined, is evidenced by a long
series of acts and by frequent and authoritative
pressions Of opinion, that the white men, women
and children Of the South are in the eyes of God
and should be by the laws of man, u9on a level with
their negroes; it means that our Northern brothers.
believing in the language Of their President elect
that those why deny freedom to others deserve it
not for themselves, and, under just God, cannot
long retain it, it means simply that our Northern
brothers having declared our most pious men I'M
worthy to with them at the communion table hav-
ing declared our preachers of the gospel unworthy to
occupy their pupts, having branded us as infamous
on account of our social and political institutions,
we will dissolve our connection with them; we will
"acquiesce in the necessity which demands our
separation and henceforth hold them we hold the
rest of mankind enemies in war, in peace friends"
We viii not secede from the principles the spirit of
the Union; we viii carry with US the form of gov
eminent, the Constitution, the laws, the Judiciary
that we now have. In a word we viii take the
Union and the Constitution of our fathers and leave
the enemies Of both to enjoy alone their mad revel
of Black Republican fanaticism.