Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-06-05
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The greatest and best men OF this country
have generally refused, IN their public out
eiyinrs. to set a value upon the Union Of the
States constituting our Republic. When
they have been brought to contemplate this
subject they hare frankly expressed their IN
abiIi,7 to estimate its value They hare
avoided it as among the greatest OF Poiieicai
ealarnitics. But in later times there has
| grown nm different sentiment among Ger
tain classes of men, The dissolution OF the
| hond which holds these States together has
come 70 be regarded in soue quarters rs
| matter of small consequence, and IN DINERS
as an object of patriotic desire Hence at
the North AMI the South We find diaunion-
ISIS 5e- s.. and others Who, though protesting
attachment to the Union, give aid and COM
fort 20 the disunionisls By saying that the
Union. with all lis blessings and sacred mem
Dries. is quite 2 secondary affair. and these
latter are. in our estimation, the more dan
cerous cIass OF the two. Admitting that
the-e il nothing at present which would be
valid cause for dissolution, they Jet put
hypothetical cases, which might justify
severance Of the States. Doubtless many are
engaged in this business without intending
to minister TO the overthrow of the Union, CT
meaning TO be classed in any sense with the
disuniouists. But the motive DOES not alter
the fact and the tendency. If once they es-
tabIish the impressioH that the union Is OF
little CONSEQUENCE, it is easy TO take the Eext
s,ep and make it of no nsequence a. all.
And some, st least. We believe, knowing
that this is the surez: gey to bring about the
fItzl rezult, adopt it as the Eost expedient
and available means
A correspondent OF the LnjoE and american,
Of Sunday last, for ezample-tbOugh We do
Tot charge this 10 BE the G7lHsas-takes ex-
cepiion 10 . strong expression of devotion
to the Union in : speech By Ex-Gov- Ms.
BEo1x in the Baltimore Convention, in which
the speaker said: y would not swap the
Union oftbese States for all TIC niggers and
ell the manufactures and ali the railroads 10
this country. and all the ships that swim the
ocean"
The correspondent says he could not ''suD-
scribe 10 q sentiment: 50 humiliating to all
the noble sentiments of his nature" For our
part. t,s cannot sc anything "humiliating
in Gov. Bows ; expression; nor can We see
how any patriotic lover Of his country can
see anything s-humiiialinG" in it. But we can
gee everything .'humiliatiDg' IN the converse
OF the sentirnent--a cold, calculating, meTcen-
sry valuation Of the Union by the measure
Of negroes, Manufacture. railroad stocks and
shiDs. We should be the last 20 envy the
man who could thus calculate the value OF
his couutry. We should about as soon en-
gage in the sale OF our wives and children
for a like recompense-objects which demand
the devotion of our hearts, aud the sacrifice
of our lives, jf NECESSARY, for their Pssserva-
lion. There IS nothing eitR-r in the expires
sion or sentiment Of Gov. BEOTN which I'M
plies a sacrifice Of the constitution or the bon
or Of. the good citizen. He had just linked ]
the constitution. the Union, and the enforce
ment OF lhe laws together raised them above
all price. and made them insepaTaGle. They
were inssperable then in MS mind and Will,
we trust, be insepaFahle in his heart as long
as it beats and gives his great brain power OF
thought and his eloquent lips power Of utter
ance. without The constitution there could ]
nave been no such Union as We now boast |
nd love, znd without such Union there can |
be no such constitution as We revere and are
pledged to sphold and maintain. Any Effort |
% detract from the value Of the Union by |
uch means as this is labor worse than thrown
away; and any endeavor TO lessen the infu-
nee Of Gov. BROWN by captions exception to
uch sentiments will not only prove futile but
sill turn to bitterness OIL the tongue THAI ut
ers them,