Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-04
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The Terrltories-No. Ix

The TerritOrfes-NO. TX
The ehangesi in the organic laws of the government
proposed by the platform of the Republican party
look to entire alteration of the constitution in
gard to the position That each State shall occupy
der its provisions and includes as Consequence the
utter abrogaton Gifts principal feature The Union
is no longer UniOn the confederation ceases 10 exist
SO soon as their platform is initiated as the.
policy of the government; and the result is,
Capitalization Ct all the powers of the gov
ernment ia -Populous the manufacturing
States, and loss of all influence to the less pop
ulous producing States. The claim set up is to give
to the government an impulse, direction that will
forever render the balance now established by the
Constitution of no possible weight and utterly IN
efficient to prevent check the most fatal tenden-
cy of all governments, that of Capitalization, slngu
larly dangerous and almost necessarily fatal. A
great chasm appeared suddenly in ancient Rome,
that could not be filed up, though the inhabitants
labored with all the natural materials at hand to
stop its yawning mouth A sacrifice was required.
and sacrifice was made; a Roman Knight, favor
lite of the people, mounted his horse and fully armed
as if for battle with the iDimical geds eaped him
into the awful and fathomless gulf. The sacrifice
-ANNN
valuable to her-arns and valor. The gulf that
separates by geographical lines and political neces-
Sites is not to be bridged or filed up by sacrifice
made by either section-but by a mutual sacrifice.
The South has thrown into its deepening and
widening jaws all the natural material at her
command, and will continue to labor at the task
will cast in all but honor and principle which lie at
the foundation of the Constitution This sacrifice
she is now called on to make in assuming Mr.. DoUG-
LASS panacea a certain cure for the Ills OF the
Republic as certain relief from the internal gods CT
the Republican party,-and she is plainly told by
this party that nothing less than her penates, her
institutions, her honor, and her interests, will
suffice to fill the gulf of its creation.
The sun of Constitutional liberty had but risen
on this continent, with promise os rational freedom
under benign influence, when the horrid planet OF
unrestrained and unlicensed liberty shed its unhal-
lowed glare over France and Europe. is baleful
influences, rocking reason to its base, and uniting
mems minds to discriminate between actual and IAN
cied good were felt by reflection in our young Re
public England sent her fanatic Wilberforces to
preach a crusade on the earth against African
slavery. 1t was breakwater to the popular tide Of
resistance rising against the government The
Quakers in Pennsylvania and the descendants OF
the Puritans in some of the Northern States
adopted the crusade a part of their religious
tenets. The French trinity, liberty, equality, ira
ternity, in its worship refused to know any differ
ence in color.
The fanatacism of England pervaded the North
the fanatacism of France took possession Of many
great minds in the South. Two years before the
| o Al N,-fI and
yielding to what was deemed political necessity
agreed that Virginia should be the MARCUS CURTIU;
of modern Rome, and throw an empire greater thai
herself into the gulf that threatened to divide the
States 1t was sacrifice worthy of the mother O.
States But the Unsuitable spirit not appeased
The spirit of greed, and gain, and selfshness, th
spirit that prompted three Northern States to sci
their doubtful claims territory, was not satisfied
with the whole North. And it was not until Nortl
| Carolina old North State-made it condition
that her lands went with her Children it was no
| until Georgia animated with her love for the Con
stitution, threw her protecting arms around he
Western territory, that the gulf was for the momen
bridged, and the insaiiate spirit for the momen
quelled only to rise with fresh greed and to Oper
the gaping channel wider. The laws of nations
the comfy that has blessed peace and assuaged thu
horrors of in protecting the rights Of property I'm
der ali changes of governments; laws which mont
but barbarians deny; comfy to which none but saw
ages deny respect laws which bind ChrlstendOm
and are the foundations of all governments-these
are next required and the South yields another EN-
pire; but like the chasm in the Roman forum thu;
great gulf grows wider, deeper, more Unsuitable
with every fresh sacrifice.