Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-12-21

The Brooklyn a. " Eagle speaking Of the talk
Of the New York Times and certain of the Black
Republican leaders in favor of coercion says:
The ssnguinary eallousness that can recommend
and urge the commencement Of a fratricidal war
whose horrors no imagination can conceive. is a
proof that we have the elements of French Jacobin-
ism which only require an opportunity to emulate
its Gallican prototype. Any appeal to patriotic
feeling or the ties Of blood and kindred world be
thrown away on these gentry; but there are few
considerations that If they weigh them well VIII
egive them pause"
And now suppose an anti-slaVery President should
make war on the South and send down troops is
slaughter its citizens and let loose upon them
swarm of African insurgents, what would be the
consequence? Would "the North las sectionalists
DESIGNATE thenselves-stand by and their breth
rem thus assaied; many Of them indeed bound to
the people Of the North by the ties of immediate
consanguinty? Let Abolitionsm only once unsheath
the sword of civil and it will be the first to
perish by the sword. The masses of the Northern
people are already beginning to the gulf toward
which partisan leaders have led them. There is
every appearance of a hard winter before us
which will reduce tens of thousands Of working
men and women in cities and towns to the
verge of starvation, if they are not actually en-
gulphed in it. At the close Of a season of unusual
plenty, after the gathering of the most bOunt-
full harvest that ever a beneficent Deity caused
10 spring from Inc prOlLtc DOSOiu OF our u1Ol1Sr
earth the rich stores Of plenty withered and mil
dewed by the pestlent breath of apolItical simeon.
Let not the authors Of this calamity teach their vic
Tins lesson they may apply to themselves Let
those who advocate civil war pause TO think where
it viii terminate The first unsheathing of tue sword
of civil war against the South would lead to up
rising of the of the Northern people against
the knaves who would crown the measure of their in
EQUITY, after changing universal and unprecedented
prosperity into general disaster by crying havoc,
and letting slip the dogs of on the people of
any portion of what is still our common country.
As sure the Eternal consigned the devil to limbo,
the Inauguration of an unnatura crusade of war and
carnage would be the signal for the hanging fevery
abolihonists lay and clerical to the taest ber poles
ty in their respective vicnites No, there can be no
war that will arm brother against brother, and re-
enact the crime of the primeval assassin. There is
much to be borne with much to be forgiven both on
the part of the North and of the South and no man
is fit to raise his voice who does not counsel eone
ton and Christian forbearance and brotherly afec-
ton The States of the South that seem determined
on secession may be restrained by kindness, may
be even won back should they yield to temporary
excitement by their sister States proving to them
that it unfounded but they will never be dragged
backin chains as conquered captiTes to grace tri-
umphal procession of any sectional despotism