Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-04-02
ESEPSY
Of Southern Attorney 10 his reverend father IN
Ne,0 Hampshire, on being rebuked for challeng-

Of Southern Attorney 10 his reverend father IN
Ne,O Hampshire. on being rebuked for challeng-
ing an Ohio Editor, for giving him the lie.
DEAR FATHER: have just read yours of
the lIth inst with intense interest. speaking
of my recklessness of God, and thoughtless-
ness of the agonies of parents heart, &c.,
in sustaining my honor by the course / did.
In reply, would say to yon, that while L am
conscious OF no unloyally to rectitude in the
procedure, l am not unconscious of having
cut an artery in a parents heart which !
ought to heal. / say Ought because that
in childhood over my mothers grave, to my
heavenly father, you gave in baptism your
tender child-because yonr eye has always
beamed benignity and pardon on the rashness
and misgivings of my advancing years, and
because it is next To my hottest aim in this
life so to act that the hillside of your exist
enee may be so stcee that the waters of the
cloudy river may ulI you with no other gale
save one that can mellow with satisfaction
my cheek as the Id goes down. And | tan
express to yOu the delicacy of my course, die
tated 10y the deepness OF my consideration, in
no better manner, than by assuring you, that
my eyes wonid become almost islands. and
my cheeks peninsulars, fouBtained in a gulf
of inward woe, were to glimmer one ray of
thy happiness. And while | would heal the
gashes il has occasioned. | must ask You to
paddock the prejadices OF New England life,
and from that book which you selected as my
solace in the dying hour, ] will plead justif-
cation. consider that the teachings of this
book, wherever known. or wherever felt,
mould and sway the human family with GER
tain great elements which constitute a stand
ard. above or below which there is no harmo
ny OF conscience or purity of life. The ia-
gradients of this standard conceive to be
policy. virtue, selfrespect and common sense,
alleged in the human heart in such proper
tons that the individual will be as delicate II
individual honor as the nation is of national,
thereby avoiding the unteeling method OF
subecling the lives OF subjects to rulers aud
policy to whims. which showed itself in the
recent European contest. result so disastrous
ly. aud which the diplomacy of modern times
dotes upon with such delight. AID further.
tSis same principle violated which comedies
the right IN nation u affairs 10 go To war for
protection or safety, Is as liable TO be Viola
It'd in Individual as in national, and the same
right which justiies protection TO national,
extends TO Individual, because the latter
makes mp the former, aud even greater, Ii
you acknowledge asy. in proportion as the
aggravatiOn or NUMBERS may be greater
or less. This theory is short, but | con-
ceive is TO be safe aud COM rehensive, and
shielding more securely from assault,
heiyhtening the goal that gives degree 10
impeifec don, and at the same tins, render
ing pres. palpit and politician more careful
IL seaside OF their position aud Influence.
To illustrate this, l will make use OF few
similss. The hypocrisy OF Ananias and bis
wife. tue fate Of Elijah aud AhazlAh, The act
OF Moses aud The Egyptian. David, you re-
member, when selected by the Lord 10 drive
sheep. wrote The price OF an insult on Coli
ath's ios ehead Tire Philisiines foand out
shat IL Gosh 10 insasliSampsoa. when The fox
e~weEe tramping their ceFn fields with barai
tails 90 lees than whcn sacrificing to hes oscs
honor Ais orH lite at Gazss gate post. Jacobs
ten ions paid for iasalsiDg their brother Jos
by LAYING in Jail. aud had Atlssiosa been run
through by Joab before The battle. 10000
wuuid not have ialIen. ] have thus yindl-
Gated my course By showing that II every
Que would settle his own difficulties by th-
above standard thai tae saang would not
suffer for she fac. that war Hvald erasr, and
that the two - esionS Of Our dear csautTy
xAieh are now / oking Al each other, 50
eros and sad. wOaId be waving tie olive
branch of national love Thea the Sefthsrn
puipsts, which yoeF god heart tells you.
have bred ell The unpleasant feeling be-
tween the North ana soaIh. by preaciaiag
slavery aud Beglecslag God. will watch their
OWE Interests. sl.d Abol siea 6oseruors s'iii
atop appointing week days uas.er plea OF
.-fastine. humiliation and prayer 10 asx our
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sabbaih loag eaoagh for the AboEiioeist
prsaesssrs OF Ns@ Hanpzhirs 70 sasser The
Iabzie Of osE great gessEna'sai- aud 10 plot
oar destruction. % otesdin ANARCHY anloas
our SLAVES. riIsoat essazlng ihs inliiIe ot
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when took Code advice 70 Abraham 81