Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-11-13
1915
From the St. Louis BuIlstlp-BrectIprias..

Whatever may come-and trouble in one shape or
another, is sure to come-the trade and material
interests of both portions of the Union will be eff
fected with an ineffable disaster. But the North
will suffer by far the most. 1t must have the sugar.
the rice, and above all the COTTON of the South In
consequence of the result of the election the great
part Of the cotton crop this year will be held
back and shipped directly from Southern ports to
England. Bankruptcy and starvation will be the
issue among the manufacturing marts of New Eng
land The loom and the anvil will be silent and mo-
uonless The deveopmentOt our national resources,
winch have within the memory of living men been
advanced from an almost imperceptible point to a
condition not to be surpassed by those of the first
powers of the world, will be in great measure
arrested The nation will pass through the Red Sea
Of 4 thousand evils and perils.
1t is useless to tell that Mr.. Lincoln is by ma
ture, and the force of circumstances moderate and
conservative. Granting this extravagrant postuatc
how long, we pray would a tremendous Northern
Abolition pressure allow him to remain so? How
long would ten states, that have nulliied the Fugi-
tive Slave Law and that have been most influential
in procuring the election of Mr. Lincoln. allow the
compromise of 1850 to stand? How long before the
enthusiasts of New England would organize grand
scheme for promoting a wide spread servile insur-
rectiOn throughout the South?
4 Black Republican triumph of mere numbers,
against rigAt, constitutional guarantees, and the
vital interests of the largest producing portion of
the Union, is conceded. IL is the triumph of
mission is to exterminae slavery desoate the fair
est and most fertile regions of the cOneder2cy and
substitute the "higher law" of CERTAIN frantic Wis
iOnaries, for that supreme law of the land" upon
which our present government constructed.
The time has come so much dreaded by the Father
of our country, when successful attempts should be
made to enfeeble and sever the sacred ties which
link together the various parts" and we have but
to trust in Heaven to provide favorable issue
from complications which at present promise little
better than civil war. The States of the South are
called upon and obliged to protect themselves against
an invasion of their territory by hordes of anti
slavery propagandists, who will be more than ever
emboldened to pursue their cherished projects of
melting insurrection and servile war; by the decisive
vote of last Tuesday. The South must necessarily
provide for their safety; if in doing it should
present hostile front to the aggressive States of the
North There are interests which dearer than
any nationality, however glorious it may be- There
homes and hearhs; there domestic relations;
there is the mansion where you were born, and the
teeming soil which fed, and the bright and genial
sky which beamed upon you in your infancy and
boyhOod, from which no ukase of a tyrant frenzy
can exile you without your energetic and practical
remonstrance.
To tell the truth the South will not and cannot
submit 1t is all very well to call upon her to await
an covert act" before she asserts her rights and
prepares herself to defend them; but all must con-
fess that her patience is at last out and that
she has in future no other remedy for her wrongs,
than stout and bold resistance What would she gain
by a trimming and time-serving policy What would
either she the country gain, should she consent
to click the hand just raised to shed her bloodT
What should she gain by standing with folded arms
to witness the kindng Of the lurd fires of insurrec
ton and servile war! She has a duty to herself to
do paramount to all other duties and without doubt
she viii perform it.