Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-11-13
sIETTER ON CURRENT POLITE
CAL EVENTS.
From a Citizen of Tennessee 10 his
Younger Brother IN s1ississippf.
NASHVILLE, Nov. II, 1856


YOU will, doubtless. have learned the result
of lhe Presidential election. That result Is
as little tasteful to me as il can possibly De
20 you used my best exertiOns to PreEen'
ii. but those exertions failed The Repnoii-
cans have triumphed, and now for the execu-
ton of the disunion programme Of which yol
have been notified and warned
South Carolina is rising in arms The
Governor of Georgia sends message TO the
Legislature containing suggestions which
will shock the moral sense Of the nineteenth
century, and recommending nOn-iutercOurse
and looking to promP' secession Resistance
meetings are being held in that State. Ala
bama is measurably decided in advance
Florida is ready for the match. Whilst your
Governor was eanTassing for his office, nc
notified you that be would scorn to be the
Chief Executive Of State that would con-
sent to live in the Union under Black Re
publican administration: Mississippi is ready
for secession Arkansas and Louisiana have
strong sympathies and prOclivities- In the
meantime, excited muliitudes in the volcanic
region are organizing military bodies, gener-
ally under the name OF minute Men," and
making every preparation to receive and use
the arms and stores which the State authOri-
ties may dispense to them.
The Ephesian temple is on fire; and Iwrite
to ask what yOn think of The spectacle. ami
to warn you not to cast yourself into the
flames.
an for the Union l am against breaking
it up without sufficient cause. 1t is WRONG
to TevOlutionize government until EVERY
peaceful expedient TO remedy alleged griev
ances has been exhausted, and the govern
ment itself becomes insuppOI table If the
South acts nor in the work of destruction
she viii perpeirate that ,rrong. and as sure az
God rules Wrong cannot permanently -four
ISL. The United States may be pulled down.
bat where is that constructive genius who i
to take up the broken fragments and mould
them again into a Republic Ike this?
You want disaniOa. and boast of your re-
sources. Grant peaceful Secession. and then
con over your resources What are they
Negroes and cotton. Yuu want more ne
gcoes. Reopen the African supply, reduce
the price 10 $500 per head. and you will get
them. The number of your slave holders
will probably be doubled, your productio.
augmented aud your "ins'iiuti0n" strength
ened. You contend for no more than that
But you know that negro Is just as much h
product. a commercial product, a source of
private revenue, in Virginia as cotton Is il
Mississippi. In getting more negroes from
africa, therefore, Mississippi reduces til.
productive resources of Virginia in The pro-
portion of the present prices of negroes, say
$1,000, to the price that would then prevail
say 5000 That mauruvre for the benefit o.
Mississippi would injure Virginia that much
The Virginia gentleman who owns $4,000
OF negro property, would suddenly find his
fortune reduced to $4,000. Still he would
have all his negroes, just as sound and healthy
as they were before, and warranted slayes
for lifei' In short, Mississippi will have
robbed Virginia of $500 in every $1,000 that
she owns in that kind OF property. Every
body knows that Other species of prOpert,
will follow the rise or the fall of the great
staple" the leading product. whatever il
may Dc. Now, il strikes me that diScreei
lad economical Yirginian would prefer the
retail business OF the underground railroad
TO sustaining this system OF Wholesale plum
union between Virginia and Mississippi OF
that basis? Is that the hook of steel with
which you propose to grapple the mother
of all thar is good to your bOsom2 What is
true of Virginia is also true, to greater OF
less extent, Of Missouri, North Carolina, Ken
lucky and Tennessee; as it is with Mississip-
pi so is it with Alabama, Florida, &C.
Where then Is your Southern Union? Do
you cOnfine it to those States which agree Oh
the necessities Of the South" and the slave
trade! Very good Admit that is done,
and that you have neat little Union in ali
respects cOnfOrmed to your chaste desires
that the trade fourishes as Iuxuriantly as it,
most ardent friends could wish. How long
do yon think it will require for this state OF
things to exhaust all your available cotton
sOil7 What would be yeur condition in
quarter of a century, Look out on the hard
scIOds' of yolr 'Bigbee and Buttahahatchi,
alluviOn to-day, for example; and on your
weak-shanked, rcd and spotted growing
crop" next Spring. Within that twenty-five.
years, when you will have scarcely turnet
the meridian, tell me If your grand littl.
Union would not be oVerrun with negroes,
and your whole borders be filed with mis-
cry Remember the rivers and the frogs OF
Egypt, aud beware of Africa.
Where is your outlet? Mexico? Central
America? The Islands of the Gulf? If thai
were ultimately feasible, it is impraeticabl,
within the time given. 1t is the work 0
many years and many millions. Thes,
mixed races there will bring to your conques.
A decorating quality, which would long prov.
iisagreeable, not to say dangerous-especial
~ under the circumstances supposed.
This Is putting the most favorable con-
struction on the horrible riddle of secession.
lisuniOn and Southern Confederucy.
But what will the North be doing all hi
while-suppOsing We in the middle here oc-
cupy EARNED neutrality .? You say you will
make commercial treaties with Great Britain
and France OF such character as will cut
The North out of your trade. Her marine
will decline, her manufactures fail. her in
Iustry turn to nought. Great Britain ant
France viii take care for the regular anG
safe iuter-irsnsportatioD of yonr raw product
and their manufactures. You will f.stary,
pat the Morrill, Such is the language
- oo1ar- x,hrca Sfafacp,a1shi, :, - -,
.emPtible as their intents are wicked. Their,
are eighteen or twenty millions of these pee
pie in the North. You will oblige me, il
you have sufficient fecundiy of fancy, by tell
ing me what eighteen or twenty millions OF
starving people viii likely be doing. What