Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-10-14
For the CONGREGATIONAL Districts.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER IL, 1850.
The DUTY of The south.

The rushing pillows Of Black Republcsnism are
dashing at our feet Their spray is even splash
ing in our faces. What is our duty to prevent be-
ing submerged by their onward career? Let the
South form solid breakwater and the maddened
waves of fanaticism will dash against it in vain.
Let party prejudices be laid aside for day let
our internal disselsions be healed, and let us look
danger in the face patriots and not partisans
Party triumphs are useless if madness rules the
hour if our rights are tramped in the dust by the
iron heel of power, if our Constitutional guaran-
tees are dlsregarded by unbridled RIGHTEOUSNESS if
our government is destroyed. Black Republicanism
is not war upon any party, it is an attack upon
the Constitution. It is an assault upon the rights
of every citizen of the South without regard to his
party associations or political prejudices. We are
all equally involved in the same fate and we should
meet the dangers that surround us as those having
a common destiny. Fanaticism never temporises
or compromises. 1t must have its course un-
til it meets with triumphant success, or ir-
retrie1 able defeat. 1t is not yet too late to
force the latter upon that ant-slavery fanati-
cIsm which hugs the slave and stabs the master,
There are thousands of men WHO have acted with
the B OK Republicans in the late elections that have
been r:isled by belief in the correctness of the
opinion expressed by Mr.. SEWARD:
at asl a net0 UOice issues from uols- otci reqion
FROM SoUTH. from the SyaUe States, and protests
dgais your further persistence IN this mad enterprise
0f e diRg SjqUeTgl and afH1OniSheS you that must
and 1sil fail The cohorts are catherine FROM
THE ScCTH tie men Of moderation and conservatism
Soho they hare HERETOFORE MODERATED IN FAVOR OF
sLAvEFY AND AGAINST FREEDOM, 1oiA be obliged in
consistency 51 their Just and J0eH established ckarac-
ter and their patriotism, TO MODERATE AGAINST YOU IN
FAVOR 1F FREEDOM. AND RISE UP UNANIMOUSLY
AGAINST SLAVERY"
There are thousands Of those men, who have been
misled by language such as that used by Mr.. BELL,
in his speech in the United States Senate in rela
tion to the annexation of Texas and the acquisition
Of California and New Mexico, as connected with the
extension Of slavery:
/ caulot forbear further 10 remind nv Northern
friends that IN the South and SOuthwes. there is
body OF men, who, for a long period have continued
faithful and just to them sustaining them in their
FANONlIE POLICY through ereTy UiciSsitlde Of pO-
Gticqi fortune; body Of men OF liberal and catholic
views Vi National policy, who look beyond the linz
tied hoG zon of sectional interests. spurn the inu-
ence o. -ectional prejudice and embrace the whole
Union 3 their common country.
They ave been mIsled By the belief that the South
crn Opg OsitiOn would willingly accept high official
position under The administration of LINCOLN. But
the other day THADDEus STEVENS said to his Black Re
publican hearers
"LiDcplns administration cannot be a sectional
one, TO- that would violate the principles of RCpub-
hcanism. He must select portion of his Cabinet
and many of his othce-holdcrs from the South
Wherr shall he go for them but among the South,
ern Opposition. No where could he find safer and
truer men. What Republican would object to such
men as Bell or EtherIdge, Bolts Bates, Rayner and
II. Winner Davis?
They have been misled by such Southern men as
IL WNIN.R DAVIS who, while supporting Mr.. BELL
has declared a preference for LINCOLN over an
Democrat. North or South. They have been misled
by those Southern speakers and Southern presses
who have refused to express q preference as be
tween nRECEGSEIDGE and LINCOLN. They have beer
msled by the bitter dcnunciations by Southern mel
Of those Southerncrs who have boldly determined
to maintain their rights at all hazards and to til,
last extremity. They have been misled by such mer
JoHN MINoR Boris who refused to speak few
days since in New York in favor of the fusion tick
ct saying Il am going South to speak against BRECE
ERIDGE and disunion, and how could do that ate
having spoken here in favor of fusion with tina
party"
They have not been misled by the tone, the tempe
the language Of the Southern Democracy who hav
IN all places on all occasions announced their utter
undying, unrelentng hatred OF, and total absence
sympathy with Black Republican men and Blacl
Republican measures. The language of the eloquen
HAYNES expressed this sentiment BRECKENRIDGE
first; DOUGLAS, second; BELL, third; LINCOLN
NEVER Letus undeceive those who are deceived
Let US assure them that the South will stand as on
man in the firm maintenance Of our rights and Their
VIII be a change even in the Black Republican rank
Of Pennsylvania and New York. A reaction wi
take place sudden and unparalleled in the history
parties. The Union is as necessary and as dear t
them as it is to US Let them but know that we ar
united and their hands would palsy before the
would cast ballot that would jeopardize rights
Let ls rally under one banner having inscribed il
luminous characters upon its ample folds the simple
majestic, eloquent language Of our distinguishes
leader THE CONSTITUTION AND The Equality OF tn
STATES THESE ARE THE SYMBOLS or EyERLAsTN,
UNION. LET THEsE BE THE RALLYING CRIES OF TIL
PEorI-a,' and all will yet be well