Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-08-04
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MIrcHlLvILlE STATIoS. Tenn.
Aug. i. 1853.

| ,ieEi time efforts were being made, for IN our
lumble judgement dissolution q these
States is not only possible. but probable, ana
| hat too in in the course Of n year or two
We do not profess to have a better kno"i-
edge Of the passions and l'Iedjndisss OF man
| kind than other men, for all thinking minds
| must see the danger we are in when they sur
| rev the present attitude of the political par
! ties of our country as they are now arrayed
against each other, with all the precursofy
| symptoms of a revolution. The main anu
| only issue being a question which above All
Others is now calculated 10 excite and Innaine
the public mind to pitch that knows no
IeuthIy control. And what is more nortn =
lag 10 the true lover OF his country, than 10
If,I assured that this question has been
| ~prune npedIessly, and by set o! political
| .ambIers or demagogu :. whose only motives
were personal agsrandizement.
| "Cursed be he who owes his greatness to
| his country's ruin" There is no more ne
cessity for dissolving the Union on the sla-
| very question now. than there was fifty or
seventy five years ago. Why agi!ale 1t
| A spirit of piedjudce and hatred has been
aroused. Party shaekles and prejudlces
carry The masses Of both sections into eX-
tremes, and if Union loving and conservative
MN of all parties DO not cut themselves
loose and declare for the Union and Constr
t1,iou as they exist, orr model government
is gone.
The party supporting Mr. Breekinfidge are
fast assuming L position they cannot honor
ablv retire f ON in the event OF the election
of Mr. Lincoln Their position is an extreme
one. To seeede from the National Conven-
tfor was matter easily accomplished. Now,
if defeated again. will they see,de from the
vernment? We have reason 20 belie' e
that if Breckenridge gets an overwhelming
vote in the extreme Southern States, that
three or four Of them will attempt it. Are
the Democracy of TennCssc willing to en-
courage such thing by their votes Hon
est Democrats, think before you vote Dir
Breckenridge can get but very few electo-
Il votes. aud they will be confined TO the
extreme South. The States that 60 for him
will probably secede from the Union IN the
event of the election Of Mr.. Lincoln. Will |
YOU of Tennessee be ready to secede then, or
sill you wait the commission of some overt !
act - These are no times TO vote thought |
Iessly. The questions now at Issue are the |
merest abstraction.
Negro slavery will go where it is demand |
eI in obedience TO the same laws that govern |
commerce and trade. II d bu-hel of corn is |
wo tn two d,llars in New Orleans, and only |
a doll,r in Saint Louis, will the merchants |
carry it from the former city to the latter:
If 4 negro is worth two thousand dollars |
II Texas and only one thousand in Kansas |
will the STAKEHOLDER go to Texas or Kansas? |
This Is the great law that will eventually |
govern t9sfs question, and that too independ |
entity OF the sore agitaliUus end bitter ami |
mositie< Of eonteuding Partisans WHOSE Chief |
aims are the .'spoils'' and personal notUriety- |
Fill up Cur cotton growing territory of the
South with TtpubIicaus fiom tie Northern /
States, and they will soon become strong
slavery propagandists. This principle clear
II excmplifies the old aphorisn that '.eircam-
stances make men" |
Take men Of similar tcmperaIcnts, who
occupy extreme positions in opposition to
each other as, for instance. Mr.. Sumner and
Mr. Yaucey. and reverse their positions and
according to this principle, their sentiments
would soon be reversed also. Then why
should the misses Dc led into IN excitement,
which threatens so terrible catastrophe a.
tie disruption Of this government, on ac-
count of a gu sli0n over which they
can exercise so little control? These wild
exc.IemeHts are dangerous. People should
open their eyes TO the danger Of voting with
a party whose very essence is this slavery
excitement, before it is too late. Once the
trumpet of disuniOn and civil war has been
sounded such anarchy and confusion and
suffering as never reigned since the days OF
the French revolution would eEsue. Demo
Gratis of the South what did you expect to
gain by DISTINGUISHING your allies of the
North in your late national convention for
the reason as you say, the States they repre-
scented had not democratic majorities?
Why do you cut your selves loose from the
great body of the Northern democracy, who
have won you so many victories. and cling
to but few outside the federal patronage. oi
which fit representative is the faithful
,lignitary who before the frost is hardly |
thawrd on his beard or the faint of abolition |
ism disappeared, comes and pFesides oven
three National Democratic Conventions il |
the South, the same year, Notwithstanding ht |
had voted against the admission of South |
ern s ate into the Union because she toler |
ated slavery II few SUCH with the Federal /
Office holders compose Mr.. Breckinridge's |
strength North, while the bone and sinew of |
the great democratic party North have been |
cut or Thus we see Mr. Brcckinrdge's |
Do Union loving democrats desire to see 6 |
man placed in the presidential chair, by the |
vote of sectional party-One even from
their own section? For should even NJ |
Breckenridge be elected il would be but a |
triumph Ct the Soul hern wing of the demo |
craey; while the great body glard Of North |
err democracy would be driven into the arms |
of the ack Republicans, consequently as |
soon as the nature of the case would admit, |
every Northern State would send to Congress |
an unbroken phalanx of Black Republican |
Senators and Representatives. Then Greek |
would meet Greek. And that a hostile col |
Iision or u peaceful separation would be the |
result every one of US might apprehend |
May God in his wisdom and mercy aver such |
a calamity. CRISIS.
49, PIkEvILLE, July 30tb. 1860.