Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-07-27

game, to be played out, as the Greek told the
Persian with knives and hatchets, and not
with drawled epigrams and soft petitions.
The lowest sentiment of contempt which a
freeman can feel, is that excited by wretch
ed serf, who has been polished and educated
TO full sense OF the degradation Ut his po-
| sltlon, yet is without manhood to do more
than utter piteous lamentations. Liberty
In every age. had her martyrs before she en-
Joyed her tull free worship. We have our
| honored scroll of names, in whose death we
| still live; but we hold our liberties not alone
because these men lived as freemen or died
| as martyrs, but because We can furnish many
more men to live as they lived, and die as
they died, when the occasion arises.
IT WILL NOT Do TO SAY THE REPUBLICANS NAY
BE DIsLoDGED AFTER SINGLE TERM.
| 1t is vain to argue that the Republican
| party would be dislodged from power after
a single term. In that term it would have
inflicted irreparable injury upon the South.
| by combining the majority section into unit
against her; by sowing division among us,
and by showing that sectional domination
may be exercised with impunity. Whenever
the spirit of people is degraded, their sub
| jugation is Inevitable. In all probability
the Black Republican party would be expel-
led from power after four years. because its
leaders are intent upon spoiIs, and would
soon quarrel; because the mind of the North
is not trained to the higher reaches of gov
eminent; and because the party itself is
conglOmerate of different and often opposing
sentiments. But, in obtaining power, it will
have taught the North the secret of con-
quest, and our submission will make us its
victim.
How CAN THE South BE SAVED FROM INJURY?
And how can the South be saved from in
jury if the Republican party succeeds in the
coming Presidential election? l answer,
ONLY BY DIssoLyING THE GOVERNMENT IMME-
DIATELY. Ii this party succeeds, loyalty to tie
Union ,riU be treason to the South. And will
the South be divided upon this issue! Will
she not dismiss party names, and build her.
self up intO one great unit for her deliver
ance! VIII the magnificent Uis ipert9 of the
Wing party oppose itself to this great achieve
menG In its day and generation, the Wing
party was the orderly against the progressive
element, and. though it seldom won, it al
ways retreated with bold steady front to
the foe. 1t seldom won, because unfortunate
ly for it, present knowledge is present power,
and its knowledge was of the nast. 1t was
stagnating responsibility. Old men, old
rules, old routine governed it, and made it,
in stirring time, a Louis Quatorze party.
In all lis campaigns 1t was respectable in
conduct; but 1t never, even by chance. eviu-
ced any lnVentiveness or breach of precedent.
1t was fossil system, and its advocates soon
became petrified into part of the mass. Let
its followers catch the spirit of the present.
and march abreast with the times
Will tue American party oppose itself to
the deliverance OF the South? In its infancy,
Black publicanism twined its strength into
weakness, its union lis discord, and it's piety
into hypocrisy. Through timid or covetous
apostacy at the North. it did not disdain
falsehoOd and, through obstiuacy at the
South, it went on in search of fresh misfor-
tunes. Will it now make the South unit?
or will it divide her, as in 70. when every
valley rang with domestic strife, and every
brOoklet babbled of civil discord? Will it
bow its head to vulgar tyranny" and
sacrifice its manhood for Union which loads
its enemies with benefits, and brushes itself
with disfavor?
Will the Democratic party, which is now
passing through death into q new life, forfeit
past honors and future confidence by submit
ting to a foul usurpation OF the Government?
Will it fold it hands without struggle, and
see the South put beside the North like a
whale beside a swOrd-fish-the one all prey
the other all weapon? Will it see our SPLEEN
did system of Government, with the separate
laws and political usageS, fused into one i'm
mense and incoherent mass, all equally de-
pendent upon the common central authority?
| cannot believe it. Why not, then, union
"a
the North, Caesar mas party, Pompey has
party; bat the South has no party there The
great party which controlled the Republic for
eighty years is broken and disrupted Itkept
the two sections apart from the beginning of
the present struggle, but it has itself fallen to
pieces in the conflict of principle; and the
North and the South now stand lace to face,
while each is touching the lifted shield with
the point of the spear. Dream after dream
ID If md ~,
return; illusion after illusion has broken up
and drifted away, and we are awakened 10
conflict which cannot be avoided without dis
honor, and in which we cannot be vanquished
without ruin. The South now stands upon
the Constitution, and her standard is in the
hanGS of Breckenridge and Lane; let her sons
rally to it, and under it move on to Equal
ITY IN THE UNION, OR INDEPENDENCE OUT OF IT."
WHAT IF THE SOUTH REMAIN PASSIVE?
But should the Black Republican party
obtain mower, and the South remain pas
sive-what then? While invoke co-opera.
tion-while L appeal to the States around us
to be true to their honor--yet, if these fail,
sriU counsel the State alone, If necessary, and at
all hazards, TO secede from the Union. ANY fate
is better than degradation and a slow con-
suming tyranny. The Federal Government
might be abolished tomorrow, and the South
| would only know it through the removal of
| burtheDs and the withdrawal of oppression
Every volume of the Federal Statutes might
| be burnt and the South would never know
that an injury had been done to her. Her
| protection comes from her State Govern
| ments, aud under these alone, if the Union
were in ruins, she could achieve her safety
| and prosperity. She will meet the future
with organized governments, and not in a
confused and chaotic condition.
| In my Judgment if the Black Republican
party succeeds in the coming election, the
| Governor should Immediately assemble the
| Legislature, and that body should provide
for State Convention, which should protect
| the State from the dishOnour of submission to
Black Republican rule. Before the tribunal
| of the world. and at the bar of history, we
shall stand justified. Freedom lives much
more in the spirit of people than in the
forms of a government. We shall receive
| the plaudlts OF brave men for preserving
freedom and not reproaches for SCATTERING
dispotism. Senator Hammond, in his unan-
| swerable and consummate arguments on the
admission of Kansas and 'squatter sove-
| reignty," has exposed the resources and
the rights of the South. Upon both we may
safely stand. This Union is just us travellers
| tell us many Eastern habitations are a pal
ace to look upon all fair on its outside, and
presenting the appearance of a house that
| should last for generations; but the master
puts his walking-stick or his bootheel
| through the rafters, and all that he sees
| about him is coating of paint, which an in
| trusive blow may disperse in cloud of dust.
| The skirting boards have already persisted,
| the rafters are now ready to tumble in.
We of the South have done everything to
preserve the Union. We have yielded almost
everything but our honOrs Let us yield
| that only as an enemy yields his banner.
| have the honor to be your obedient servant,
LAWRENCE NJ. KEITT.
ORANGEBURG. c. FL. July Is. 1860.
Democracy Declining In Old Vfr-