Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-08-28

Our readers win remember that the above
words were quoted by US in one of our arti-
cles on the conspiracy to break up the Union,
uttered in speech made by him at Rich
mond, Va, soon after the Baltimore Conyen-
tions. We did not say that Mr.. ScoTT used
those words, but we said that he was ..re-
ported" to have unfurled the Breckenridge
banner with the war-cry of protection or
Y. Express Our quotation of it has drawn a
letter from Mr.. Scorr. dated .'Piney Place,
near Claiborne, Ala, Aug. Is, 1860" which
we find in the Richmond Enquirer of the 24th
inst. He says: Il certainly never have in
any address made by me at Richmond or
elsewhere uttered the sentiment attributed
to me in the Nashville PATRIOT" We thus
give him the full benefit of his denial. And
inasmuch as our exposure has created an I'M
usual futtering in the disunion camp, we beg
to say here that it gave US much pain to see,
ia the course of our investigations in pre-
pairing that exposure, so many gentlemen of
good character involved. Nothing would
afford us greater qualification than to be con-
WINGED that every one OF the "conspirators"
had abandoned the reasonable sentiments
therein attributed to them severally, and to
hail them one and all as true friends of the
Union as it is. We were impelled to that in
vestigation and exposure by what we con-
ceived to be a solemn duty to our country;
and while our own selfrespect, no less than
our sense of Justice, prompts us to note every
denial or explanation which the persons in
any way implicated may have to offer, that
same conviction of duty admonishes US to
hold them to the strictest account. and to
guard against every effort to dodge or equivo-
cate. 1t is, therefore, that while giving the
denial of Mr.. SCorT, we beg to submit to our
readers the following other passage from that
letter, giving an outline OF his views on the
rights of the people in the territories:
ITO these views l have added that so soon
as this Or any other Government shall fail
or refuse, in any case whatsoever, etfectually
to afford the ample legal protection, which
is due to all of its citizens, in the particulars
referred to, the Only remaining remedy for
the wronged citizen, is to seek and Sc
cure the withheld protection, by his own
strong arm. And this would be only accom-
pIished too often. and that lamentably, by
violence and blood. That in the absence OF
all governmental protection, men would
seek, as best they could, the vlndicatlon OF
their rights of property, By brute force, and
it became the wise and patriotic OF all par
ties, well to consider and calmly decide, shall
this great and fundamental principle of pro
lection be maintained and vindicated in all
cases whatsoever aud in all places; or the dread
calamity overtake us, of people maintain
ing their constitutional rights by the use OF
the bowie-knife or rifle.
1t thus plainly appears, that, though Mr..
SCoTT did not utter the sentiment in the
words attributed to him, he plainly stated
that unless the protection he insisted upon
was granted, it would be secured ''BY vIo-
LENCE and BLOOD and that the right would
be maintained "by the use of the Bowie
KNIFE OR RIFLE" He states the case quite
as strongly as the reporter for the N. I. En-
press, and utters a sentiment substantially the
same as that of protection or blood" He
places the alternative between protection
and evidence and blood,r and between pro-
lection and 1.-The bowie-knife or rifle" We,
therefore, take Mr.. SCoTT's letter as not only
q vindication of the reporter" of the Rich
mond speech, but also as substantial vindi-
cation of our use of it, as an impressive and
appropriate finale TO our exposure.