Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-10-17
WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCT. II, 1850.
a United South.

What does this mean IN tue NOUNS OF our
Notwithstanding opponents? 1t means q
union of the South upon the disunion ticket.
g The thin covering they have heretofore kept
upon their designs is now thrown off. They
have with one accord since the late Northern
elections sounded the tOcsin of alarm.
Their drums are beating and their trumpets
cIangfug. The bi5den fires are now thrown
open to the winds, and the Southern heart
il to be put into a blaze. The lines are to
be drawn, the hostile sections are to be put
in battle array, and the war-cry is to be vic
tory or death.
Men of TennesseeI men Of the land of
Jackson are you prepared for this. Thought
fuI mem business menl christian men! Bell
men! Douglas meat conservative men of
every party, are yOu ready, are you willing
to see your great and glorious country torn
into sAdishonored fragments" Shall that
which is now the glory and the admiration
of the world, become Kissing and by
word to the natiOns4 Shall You live to look
upon Estates discovered. discOrdant, bellig-
erent; on a land rent with civil feuds. or
drenched with fraternaI blOod!" And for
WHAT for faneied or at l. asst. for partial, dis
tant and contingent wrongs
A united SOUTH Yes. by all means unit
ed, but not a defiant South, nor one
which cuts off all hope OF union with the
North, nor one which breathes out war and
threateniBgs, and scouts the very idea OF
Cancellation and compromise
Unite fOrsoOth upon Breckenridge, the
representative of all that is aggressive OF all
that Is defiant. Of all that Is uncOmpromising,
of all that Is extreme and offensive to our
Northern brethren. Tell them in advance,
that majoities shall not avail them, that the
Constitution followed in all its forms is but
waste paper that the only price of peace is
that the vanquished shall be proclaimed vic
tors. And what Is to be the result. Oh
YOU CRY. their coward spirits will fail them;
their pale squadrons will be dissolved like the
hosts of Sennacherib; their bastard knees
will knock against each other aud their era
ven hearts will bring them to submission.
Believe you 80 men of the South, then ex-
alt Your horn and raise high your stOuts of
challenge and Of expected victory.
Bnt YOU forget that these men of the North
are your brothers in blood. That they are
the sons of the men who defe1 the the cannon
of Britain behind the Hay embankm nts at
Bunk-r's Hill, and laid down their lives up
on the bloody fields OF Monmouth and Bran
DIVINE. That they are men OF stubborn
wills and logged spirits. that they think they
know their rights and dare maintain them
Away then with these peurile threats-this
idle gasconade. We are dealing with men,
and with bearded men, and with thoughtful
men. who however wrOng-headed and fanati-
cal many of them may be, are neither to be
scolded into good behavior nor scared out Ct
their Propriety-
They may be told that upon the election
of Lincoln there is danger of disruption of
the Union, and they will be told the truth.
But this should be held cut as fact, and not
as menace. Our orators who have gone
North should apPeal'to the sense of right, to
the forbearance, to the interests political, So
cial and material of the nOn-slavehOlding
States, at the same time asserting what
they believe to be the rights of slaveholding
States, and asking for them respectful con-
sideration. They may tell their Northern
brethren of the wrongs We have suffered IN
L
and Insulting conduct of mObs and public
meetings iE the NOrth-of the passage Of
unconstitutional laws and attempts to en-
force them-of emissaries in the South,
preaching seditiOn and melting to rebellion,
and ask them are these the acts of brethren
and countrymen. So may We talk and ap-
peal to the thoughtful, the conservative, the
Iaw-abiding and law-lOying portion of the
people of the Northern States.
But while this Is done there. what shall we
do in the South! Shall We appeal to them
there to forbear, while here we are blowing
up the fires Of civil war? Shall We among
ourselves, be displaying our wounds and
opening our sores and flashing ourselves into
uneOmpromising fury and madness With
what hope, with what expectation, with what
design is all this done Is it done to drive
our people into an expression Of this temper
by the election Of Breckenridge, who is its
representative, and thus cut off all hope of
Cancellation? Is it not in many instances,
from the lower and meaner motive of keep
ing temporary local power in the several
States for keeping party and party men in
powerf
Vote for Breckenridge say you in Tennes-
see, aud thus keep united South Why do
you not speak out plainly and say. keep
Messrs johnson and Nicholson in the Senate
and the subordinate Offices under our party
control Aud is not this monstrous and al
most past belief that, while our country i.
hanging on the edge of a precipice, while
civil war is erecting its hideous front, wher
we are almost at the Beginning of the End
men should be found who can be engaged IL
this miserable scramble for offices, the very
foundations of which are just ready to b
swept away The madness OF the people Of
Jerusalem when The city was beseiged by
Titus-the madness of the crews OF sinking
ships who quarrel over the spirit casks befor'
they are engulphed, is wisdom compared t.
this.
How then should the South be unitedf
sbo,ld be united in a spirit OF Cancellation
toward the North; it should be united il
holding out the Olive Branch of peace Gen
sl.ness aud kindness should be united will
frmness. We should unite upon some mat
who is a true son OF the Union; some mar
who, while he has maintained all OF ouI
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