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


lowing Immediately the paragraph commenc-
| ing. Rise up you Bell and Douglas men,
Il will be noted that the Inevitable tendency,
| if not the direct intention. of these passages
| is to bring the minds of his hearers up to the
standard of resistance and revolution They
can mean nothing else. Here they are:
There is not word, a line, or sentiment
| in that Constitution that every true patriot
| at the South, and at the North, too, don't in
| dorse. The theory of that league prevails
| to-night-to day, and will prevail. hope to
| God. in November next, and will rescue the
country from the harpies who will feed on its
| very bowels. Such is ''the military Lacquer"
and this League that makes me a disunionst,
Catiline, and conspirator against our
| rights.
| As far as disunion is concerned, Gov Win
| stOn, in a letter TO the Legislature of my
| State, recommended that the Union should
| be dissolved; and, in a letter to Mr.. Figures,
| he did the same thing. Mr.. Figures has done
| the same thing. John Forsyth was also for
disunion. MIR. Seibel, now a submissionst
| was openly and avowedly member of dis
| unioDist club. Herschel V. Johnson, the
| Douglas candidate for the Vice Presidency,
was disunionist member of Convention,
made disunion speeches, and yet, with these
great and prominent members of the Doug
las party, yet supporting Douglas, they
charge that 1t has no effect on the Douglas
party. But as to myself, who support Breck-
inridge, my support makes him a disunionst,
because l have said that we being refused
our Constitutional rights, in the event of that
| am for separating from the government of
the higher law that is to be built on the Cen
stitution.
l have not forgotten that there are lessons
other than that of Washing ol's farewell adj
dress. l have not forgotten Washiugton's
| life, nor have | forgotten the lives of Han
| cock, Jefferson, Patrick Henry, John Adams
and that glorious band of patriots who Joined
| in the Revolution of '76. and carried it to
| successful result. L have not forgotten that
Declaration OF independence that is now on
record and is thought to be the most precious
of all political documents. anding side by
side with the Constitution, Ia the regard of
| the enlightened patriot. [ I'VE not forgotten
the traditions of that Declaration. L have
been educated in the school of tn Revolu-
ton. was not taught to revere the toryisms
of 1776 or of 1860, or TO revere that coward
ly submission to wrong v hich the tories en-
deavOred to teach their countrymen of l776.
l know IT IS said to you, you are prosperous
people; you have thousands and hundreds of
thouands,and you may afford to have some of
these constitutional rights of the Territories
trampled upon, but you had better preserve
halt the loaf. "Half loaf is better than
no bread, was the doctrine of Washington.
or of Hancock. These men were worth
thousands. Hancock had his ships at
| sea and his stores on land all pro-
tected by the British army and navy. WASH
INGroN had his hundred negroes and his
broad acres, and to him the British Govern
ment was not actually Government of OPP
preston. But the British Government which
was his bone Government, that Government
| did trespass, as they believed, upon their
| constitutional privileges. and undertook to
tax them three cents upon each pound of tea.
L am told pound OF tea a week would be a
large allowance for almost any family to use,
81 DO year. WASHINGTON, with $4,000 or
$4,000 yearly income, and HANCOCK, with
his $4,000, and many other rich men could
have lost that amount out of some little hole
in their pockets as they walked the streets.
and not have known they had lost it. Men
in all ages are precisely the same. There are
Washingtons now in this country, and God
can raise Them up in the hour of our coun-
try's need, when it is necessary to do so.
There are Hancocks and Adams now, and
when the necessity comes the hour will show
that the nerve of that day will be found now.
Men are the same in all ages. They only
differ as education makes them 10 differ.
When there were men to creep up to WASH
| INGToN, and say, ''You are the pet of the
British Government - don't dissolve the
Unlon;" or to HANCOCK, saying "You have
! your thousands; don't for 81 sc year launch
| forth into the sea OF anarchy; if you do you
| will lose millions, and with halter round
| your neck die the death of a traitor; you
have not cannon nor foundries; you have not
| even Governor" What was the answer of
| those men? We need not suppose what the
answer was. Precisely such things were
said, and those glorious men gave an answer,
| and that answer is upon the Illuminated pa
| ges of history that have come down through
| the vista OF a century-and that answer
| fingers on the ear of every man, and it is
music to every man, and inspires him with
| courage to do as his ancestors did. They an
| swered, we have got millions for defence,
| but not one cent for tribute" [Applause.l
Have you degenerated from that day ,
! When the Douglas and Bell men come to
! whisper in your ear and tell you. you have
| thousands aud thousands, that this we con-
| tend for is small matter and don't you risk
| it, what is Washington, Hancock and Adams
| to you, are their lessons worth anything, or
is the teaching of some Douglas man to be
| taken on this head in preference to those of
| Washington? What did old John Adams
| say? The school boy knows what he said, 1t
| is not matter of con- lecture, it is matter
| of history; it is one of the glorious sayings
| that embalm the memory of our sires and
which will keep them embalmed. They are
| lessons taught us 10y these men by seven long
| years of suffering; thousands of the lives of
| the gallant and good and true were sacrl-
| feed, in order that these lessons should be
| bought. That old and noble patriot, catch
ing inspiration from the God of battles, him.
| self, said: "Sink or swim, survive or perish.
) give me the Declaration of Independence"
But the Douglas men, the Bell men, who
| know so much more than old Adams or
| Washington-who are so much more patriot
| ic, so much more gifted in true statesman
ship and in patriotic wisdom-tell you that
| it is treason Yancey is speaking; he Is a con-
spirator. Precisely such charge, too, was
| made during the Revolution. Washington
! was called a rebel. Old Carroll, of Carroll
| ton, when lie went forward TO sign the Dec
| laration, was told that he would escape, be-
cause there were SO many Charles CAROLS in
the State; and then, when every drop OF ink
was proclaimiDg that he was rebel, be WI ote
out in large and bold characters his name,
| "Charles Carroll, of Carrollton." Old Pat
rick Henry, to whom we are more indebted
for the Revolution than almost any man,
when freedom was young, when she had TO
hide in the holes of the mountains, when che
did not dare to show her banner before the
British troops, there was Que bold patriot
who dared to meet the power of the House
| of Burgesses of Great Britain.
When he was letting them know what were
these truths, and putting Them to the King,
upon the throne, that he had better beware
az Caesar once had Brutus, many of these
submissionists, these shriekers for govern
mental union and power, those men of that
day whose children are not all yet dead dared
call out "Treson, treason" Il tell you,"
PATRICK HENRY said, 81 trust L yet have
some of the spirit in my veins to say in this
hall, if this be treason make the most of it"
All that the South asks, and all that l ask,
and all that have ever asked, has been that
the compact which my fathers made with
your fathers and their fathers, as the rule
that they pledged themselves to see should
pnide ;hen and their posteritY in all times in