Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-07-31

dices, intended to kindle dissensions between
the sections, and weaken the bonds which
bind them together. While the abolitionists
denouDce the Consultation and the Union.
''as an unholy compact" the authors and adj
vocates OF the Southern League are striving
Ito precipitate the South into a revolution"
Both extremes agree in thinking dissolution
desirable, aud they rival each other in their
hostility to that calm conservative policy
which would counsel mutual forbearance be-
tween the different portions of our Confede
racy. We can see nothing in the political
condition of the country to authorize the
belief that-these- efforts on the part of the
extremists of either section will be success
full. We have sound, national administra-
ton, which will preserve the rights of the
North and the South from violation or in-
fraction. We have majority in both Houses
| of Congress. who are determined to protect
the constitutional privile ges of both sections,
and yield equal justice 20 all. While this is the
case. it is useless to attempt to win the South
| from her allegiance to the Union, and pre-
cipitate her into revolution. We believe that
| majority of the Northern people disapprove
| the treacherous designs of the abolition lead
ers, and that they will cling to the Constitu-
ton with fidelity, in spite of the efforts OF
demagOgues and fanatics. - ,
| The object contemplated in the organize
| ton of the Southern League, is one which
no patriot can approve. 1t is combination
for the purpose of Strengthening sectional
Jealousy and hatred, and weakening the ties
which bind the South to the Union. 1t as
sumes an attitude of resistance to the gener-
al government and is AN avowed preparation
| for open rebellion. 1t is not a combination
| of men uniting together for the redress of
their common wrongs, or for the establish
| ment OF a great principle. No such sacred
| object sanctifes the movement, or extenuates
| the recklessness OF those who participate in
| it. 1t is based upon considerations of pecun-
| larry advantage alone. Cotton is the bond
which unites them together. Cotton is the
King that yields its golden sceptre over their
heads. and they bend submissively to its do
minion. 1t is humiliating to confess that the
noble spirited freemen of the South have for
gotten their obligations to their country, not
because its government was unjust, or its
laws oppressive, but because they think their
pecuniary interests would be promoted by a
dissolution of the Union. They seem to re-
gard cotton as the only test of fidelity to the
South, the only tie that binds the Southern
| sisterhood together. They regard the States
which do not produce it with distrust and
suspicion. They Danish them from their
councils, and refuse them their confidence.
We would inform these exclusive friends of
the South that if their object is hostile to
the existence of the Federal Union. that nei-
Their Tennessee and Virginia, nor Mississippi,
Alabama, and South Carolina,-none of the
Southern States will participate in their plots.
But when the rights and institutions of the
country, or any portion of the country, are
assailed, we need no sordid motives of inter-
est to stimulate us to resistance We do not
acknowledge the sovereignty of cotton where
principle is involved, and neither our pat
riotism nor our opinions will yield to mere
selfish views and SOrdid considerations To
show that we do no injustice to Mr. YANcEY
and his associates in the organization of the
Southern League, We copy his letter to one
of his political friends (Mr. SLAUGHTER and
published we believe in the Montgomery I'D
vertiser.