Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-11-13

/ which you complain at present. No ooupt
| you think, if you follow your desperately
| reckless leaders, that you will have an easy
/ time. cannot see how it can be so ana
| earnestly advise you TO look circumspectly
| into the matter, and that you see your way
clearly and Enthusiastically before you cast
| your influence and fortune on the side OF this
| reasonable tumult.
| These suggestions are made, you will OBJ
serve, on the hypothesis that your secession
| will be what you are pleased to term ''peace-
| able" My impression is that the right OF
secession by one Stale on its own volltlon
| for any cause. whether trifiing CT weighty, Is
/ L rank here<y, pitiful and disgusting fable,
| aud the more pitifui and disgusting because
il stanCs without a ''mOral." No govern
| ment is mentioned in history or tradition
| whose constitution or form of organization
provided either expressly or by implication
i for its own destruction. Hence there Is no
| such provision in our constitution. The doc
| rrine of secession is, therefore. extra constI-
| tutiOnal Your burlesque Statesmen, how
| ever well knowing they cannot derive the
right from the constitution. seek to establish
| It by an appeal to 1.-The nature of our gov
| prnment." and seriously hold up TO the po-
DuIar mind the notion that our Federal Union
of States is analogous to business cOpart-
nership between individuals! As revolving
~ this idea is to common sense, as prepOs-
ferrous as il is in all respects. 1t Is the c1ltT
one addressed to the popular understanding
And [ venture that you will hear no seces-
sion or disuuion speech that pretends to deal
in argument. which will not make this the
turning point, the cap-stOne of its logic! Ac-
cordiug to this whimsical absurdlty The al
fairs of Dur government: a constellation Oh
Enlightened societies, under the name o.
States, compacted into a grand Union, acting
together through appropriate Instrumental
ties for the highest good of all and the inter
est of each Individual member or citizen,
are of 10 higher dignity, solidity and per-
manence than copartnershlp OF hucksterS
TO deal in butter and eggsi The obligations
.nd duties of great organized societies
counting their millions. united together ex-
.ressly Ito establish Justice, INSURE domestic
tranquility, provide for the common defence,
promote the general welfare, and secure the
blessings of liberty to themselves and their
Dosterfty.v are of no greater significance
han the paltry profits eli league OF nut
Eeudcrsl a copartnershipl Has it come to
this that government, designed by its fra
ners to be immortal on earth, is to be bro
ken like the fuctuatlng compacts of ill-as-
,orted individual couples, and wiped out on
he capricious suspicion of any party or in
iividual? Out upon such stuff. 1t is worse
han nonsense--it is infamous wickedness--
is the mischievous conjunction of the shall
ow cumming of the lunatic with the crime OF
the traitor.
The doctrine of secession is the offensive
.utgrowth of the more courageous doctrine
of notification. Your own instructors tell
5Gu that notification is treason. But while
shey tell eOu that, they also tell you that you
can sneak out of the Union at will. Brave
leaders, Most enlightened and admirable
eacheIs! Do you want to go out that way
If you do, Danish from your memory the, TO
ne, glorious recollection that six of your
great uncles pcEred out their blood and gave
away their lives for the cause OF American
independence and American Union. That
remembrance is common between us, and, for
my part, l mean to keep and cherish it. The
whole thing, disuniou, secession and nullif-
cation is base counterfeit from the same
bogus mind; and were so stamped and mark
ID thirty years ago by Gen. JACKSON and
the American people, never more to pass cur
rent in the United States No. These teach |
ers who have Instructed you in your politics |
and are now preparing to take you through |
i course of ''arillery practice" rifle drill"
aud abroad sword exercise" have mistaken
altogether the nature and character of the |
government: and l devoutly trust they have |
equally mistaken the temper and Intelligence
Of the Southern people. 1 believe they know |
better, but are too cOwardly to call the end
they aim at by its proper name, Revolution.
The right, inherent and inalienable, in all
communities, joined together under a COM
non government, to throw of that govern
ment whenever it fails of its purpose and be-
comes intolerable. through oppression or
IN any country or age. But it can never be
righifully resorted to until every other RENE
~ has been tried and failed. 1t is, and al
ways ought TO be, the ultima ratio centrum.
That is the only solution of national difficult
ties. It is the only right whereby this Union
AN be broken up, and it is the only right.
With all its limitation ard conditions, which
the South wants now, or ever will want Ii
is right amply sufficient for her protection
md safety, if ever the contingency should
arise for its assertion
The questions, then, for you and me and
he Southern people to consider, are, whether
sufficient cause exists 10 justify resort 10
his remedy-dOes the cause itself exist |?
Aud if so, have all other remedies conssten;
With honor, justice and right, been tried and
,iled? Every citizen must answer for him
.elf. For myself, while l deeply abhor the
pirit and tendencies of the party which was
triumphant on the 9th inst, and cordially de-
est the distinctive principle upon which it is
bout TO go into power. l answer the above |
Iuestions emphatically in the negative. No |
sufficient cause yet exists for a resort to that
most calamitOus of remedies, revolution; and
if it did, We have not tried the appropriate |
peaceful remedies. / do not believe that an
avowed purpose to commit theft at some |
future time will justify trial and convic-
lion of the person making the avowal, of lar
seny. But when he takes the step and com
nits the deed, / will apprehend him in tn,
,ct, and administer the law upon him. be
lieve that every evil of which the South now
complains may be remedied within the Union
nd through strict adherence to the FEEDER