Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-08-30
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cOuilheht on tne montgomery League, following i'm
medistely the paragraph commencing, Rise up you
BELL and DoUcLAs men," 1t is as follows:
There is not word, line, or a sentiment in that
Constitution that every true patriot at the South
and at the North, too, don't indorse The theory of
that league prevails tO-night-today, and will pre-
vail, hope to God, in November next ard will res.
cue tie country from the harpies who feed on its
very bowels. Such is the military leaguern and
TINS League that makes me disumonist, Catiline
and conspirator against our rights
As far as disunion is concerned Gov Winston. in
letter to the Legislature of my State recommend
ed that the Union should be dissolved: and in a let
ter to MIR. Figures, he did the same thing Mr.. Fig
ures has done the same thing. John Forsyth was
also for disuniOn. Mr.. Seibel now a submissionist
was openly and ayowedly member of a disunionist
club. Herschel V. johnson, the Douglas candidate
for the Vice Presidency, was a disunionist member
Of convention, made disuniOn speeches and vet
with these great and prominent members of the
Douglas party, yet supporting Douglas they charge
that it has effect the Douglas party But as to
myself, who support Breckenridge my support
makes him disunlonist, because | have said that
we being refused our Constitutional rights, in the
event of that am for separating from the govern
ment of the higher law that is TO be built the Con-
stitution.
have not forgotten that there are lessons other
than that of Washington's farewell address. have
not forgotten WasIingtOns life, nor have forgotten
the lives of Hancock Jefferson, Patrick Henry, John
Adams, and that glorious band of patriots who
Joined in the Revolution of 76, and carried 1t to
successful result have not forgotten that Declare
ton of independence, that is now upon record and
is thought to be the most precious of all political
documents, standing side by side with the constitu-
ton in the regard of every enlightened patriot L
have not forgotten the traditions of that Declaration
have been educated in the school of the RevOlu-
ton. 1 was not taught to revere the toryisms of
l776 and 1860, or TO revere that cowArdly subms-
sion to wrong which the tories endeavored teach
their countrymen in l7T6. know it is said to you,
You are prosperous people you have thousands,
and hundreds of thousands, and you may afford to
have some of these constitutional rights in the Ter
rtorles trampied upon but you had better preserve
half the loaf "Half loaf is better than no bread
was not the doctrine of Washington, or of Hancock.
These men were worth thousands. Hancock had
his ships sea and his stores land all protected
by the British army and navy. Washington had his
hundred negroes and his broad acres and to him the
British Government was not actually Government
! of oppression. But the British Government, which
was his home Government, that Government did
trespass they believed, upon their constitutional
privileges, and undertook to tax them three cents
upon each pound of tea q am told pound of tea
week would be large allowance for almostany fami-
ly to use0 Sl.56 year. Washington, with 100000
| or $4,000 yearly income, and Hancock with his
| $4,000, and many other rich men, could have lost
that amount of little hole in their pockets
they walked the streets and not have known they
| lost it. Men in all ages are precisely the same.
There WashiDgtons now in tins country, and God
raise them up in the hour OF our country need,
when it is necessary to do so. There are Hancocks
| and Adamses now, and when the necessity comes
tie hour will show that the nerve of that day will
be found now. Men are the same in all ages. They
only differ education makes them to differ When
there were to creep up to Washington, and say,
" You the pet of the British Government-don't
dissolve the Union :" to Hancock, saying, You
have your thousands don't for Sl56 year launch
forth into the sea of anarchy; If you do, you will
lose millions and with halter round your neck die
4 81, 3 EnNf
foundries you have not even Governor" What
was the answer of those men? We need not sup
pose what the answer was. Precisely such things
were said and those glorious men gave an answer,
and that answer is upon the illuminated pages of
history that have come down through the vista OF
century-and that answer fingers on the ear of
every man. and it is music to every man, and in
spires him with courage to do his ancestors did
They answered, we have got millions for defence,
but not one cent for tribute" [Applausel
Have you degenerated from that day! When the
Douglas and Bell men come to whisper in your ear
and tell you, you have thousands and thousands that
this we contend for is small matter and don't you
risk it, what is Washington, Hancock and Adams to
you? Are their lessons worth anything, or is the
teaching Of some Douglas to be taken on this head
in preference to those of Washington? What did old
John Adams say The school boy knows what he
sad it is not matter of conjecture, it is matter
of history it is of the glorious sayings that en-
balm the memory of our sires and which will keep
them embamed They are lessons taught us by
these by seven long years of suffering thous-
ends of the lives of the gallant and good and true
were sacrificed, in order that these lessons should
be bought That cid and noble patriot, catching in
spiraton from the God of battles himself, said
''Sink swim, survive perish, give me the Dec
iaration of independence" But the Douglas men,
the Bell men, who know so much more than old
Adams WashlngtOn-whO are so much more pa
triotic so much more gifted in true craftsmanship
and in patriotic wisdOm-ell you that 1t is treason
Yancey is speaking he is conspiratOr. Precisely
such a charge too, was made during the Revolution.
Washington was called rebel Old Carroll, of Car |
Ollton when he went forward to sign the Declare
tiOn was told that he would escape, because there
were so many Charles CAROLS in the State and |
then, when every drop of ink was proclaimng that
he Yves rebel he wrote out in large and bold char
acters his name, Charles Carroll, Of CarroIlton."
Old Patrick Henry, to whom more indebted |
for the Revolution than almost any man, when free
dom was young, when she had to hide in the holes |
Of the mountains, when she did not dare to show |
her banner before the British troops, there one
bold patriot who dared to meet the power of the |
House of Burgesses of Great Britain.
When he was letting them know what were these
truths and putting them to the King upon the throne
that he had better beware. as Caesar once had Bru
tus, many of these submssionlsts those sEriekers
for governmental union and power, those men of
that day whose children are not yet all dead, dared
call out Treason, treason" 81 tell YOU Patrick
Henry said, b" trust yet have some of the spirit
in my veins to say in this hail. if this be treason
make 0lOSL OF All IldL lllC COuIU ASKS, anu
all that ask, and all that | have asked, has
been that the compact which my fathers made with
your fathers and their fathers the rule that they
pledged themselves to see should guide them and
their pOsterity in all times in Government. in Ella
ton to the two sections shall still be the rule of leg
islatiOn Ietween the two sections. But when there
is a higher law abroad that will disregard this COM
pact will find it in the way of their selfish purposes,
and tramp it under fOota party getting possession
of the mere,consttutonal form of Government but in
destruction the checks and balances of the
constitution, shall Overturn the Government of Wash
ngton, and place in power Government utterly at
war with it. tell you. fer one, am absOlved from
all allegiance to that Government. My allegiance
is due to the subverted Government and although it
nay be in minority, here is one man that will
stand by it, live or die. Enthusiastic cheering.l
In another portion of the speech where Mr..
fANcEY explaining lis SLAUGHTER letter the Patriot
letccts discrepancy in the reports to one word.
Any ether and any Northern" may have been
yery easily mistaken for each other by reporter in
he hurry of pronunciation and reporting From
he surrounding circumstances it is presumable
hat the Avalanche reporter is to the word
lsed. 1t is scarcely probable he would have ac-
epted an invitation from his friends to address &
hem and then denOunce them: i,
From the Avalanche. From the Times.
If you won't join the If you won't join the
Democratic party instead Democratic Party instead
f making it your bushes Of making it your bust
0 pull down the party ness to pull down the c
o to work and try to ele party-which is a poor I
ate the public mind ofbusiness-go to WORK and 2
he people in favor oftry to elevate the public +
Outhern rights. Thenmind of the people in IA Y
on precipitate theIvOr of Southern rights. s
OttOn States into a revO Then you prec pitate Il
ltion at the proper mo- the cotton States into Il
lent, for have no faith revolution at the proper "
nat any Northern States moment; for l have no n
ill stand up to the rights faith that any other State
f the South. will stand up to the rights in
of the South m
AMERICAN CITIZENS IN FRANCE.-A case of great nj
Importance to American citizens of foreign birth VI
ON the continent of Europe, ard particularly
rance has just been decided by the French tribu- of
lis. A native of the department of the Lower nc