Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-10-30
that resolution are neither sound in law. nor
VIM. NJ. BROWN.
JOHN @. SPIERS,
THADDEUS OLIVER

enee- to God'-it is clearly the duty of every
Southern man to resist. to death if necessary.
the Inauguration of such tyranny over the
people Il is worse than useless to talk Ot
our waiting for an overt act His election
TO rule for the next four years over our PEG
pie is oUert Get enough; and his inauguration
would be a memorial of our degrading sub
mission for all time to come. We hope there
is no sou OF the South base and traiiorous
enough tamely and quietly TO submit to Black
Republican rale of the South"
The LnteLjgeacer also publishes with appro-
baton the following suggestions of CORES
pendent, who, it says, is one OF its "leadiug
fellow citizens:
1T Is high time that the people were think
ing upon this question, for in all probability
they will have to decide il in a very short
timc-WhetbeT in short they submit to his in
auguratiOn like towards or resist like men.
To this end, permit me as citizen and a ma
live Georgian, through the columns Of your
paper, to suggest to the people of the State,
and especially To the members of our APP
prOaching State Legislature. the fact that it
would be well, a soon a they meet, to pass
a law, making it she duty Of the Governor of
Georgia, in case Lincoln is elected. TO issue
his proclamation. ordering an election Of del
egates by the people OF the State, to assemble
III convention in Milledgeville, TO determine
whetber Georgia viii remain in the Union
and resist LincOln's Inauguration, or whether
the State Will scc-de from the Union. Here,
then, MessTs- Editors. is a basis or platform
upon which a fusion Of all parties in Georgia
may aud ought 10 take place making COM
mon cause in defence of our constitutional
rights against the common enemy of the Con
sutuliUH, of the South and her institutions,
by resisting the inauguration of Abraham
Lincoln"
The Columbus (Ga.) Tlass (Breckinridge),
in view Of the probable election of LINCOLN,
says:
1T becomes the South, in the hour of her
humiliation, to act wisely and prudcntIy, and
to protect herself while she has The power
We counsel a separation from the Union.
We verify believe il Is the day and the hour
to act. 1t is no time for freemcn TO be limid
from an OveF-cautiOus conservatism and a
dread OF danger. The first is the parent OF
wrong and injustice, and the latter is the
soul of weakness. If the South is true to
herself, she will be an independent nation be-
fore the army and navy and the departments
of the government are in the hands of those
whose only conscience in protecting slavery
is i'll their want If power 10 annihiIate it,
In the New Orleans DeLtq we find a series
OF resolutions adopted at a public meeting
of citizens Of Carroll county, Miss, on the
10Th inst. The Delta says the meeting was
addressed by many well known gentlemen"
but does not give their names. Col. WIN.
BooTH presided over the meeting. The fol-
lowing is the preamble and some of the rcso-
IutiOns adopted:
WHEREAS. The recent elections in PennSyl-
Iii
States. indicate an increased and increasing
strength of the Black Republican or Anti
Slavery party. and the certainty. almost. of
the election of person to the Chief Magis-
tracy of the Union. upon the aVOwed and
undisguiscd declaration upon his part. aud
IN the part of his supporters, that the com
mon government shall be administered for
the destruction OF the rights and equality of
the Southern States in the Union; and
UI,Teas In view of these threatened dan
gers. we deem it Of the highest importance.
that The people OF the South should be united
IN the support OF the rights and liberties Sc
cured to them in the compact OF Union: Now.
therefore.
b Il R.soEred, That henccforth party strife
ought to cease among u, and that ali our
zeal and energy should he directed and eX-
crted in deviSing and carrying into execution
appropriate and fit measures TO secure our
rights and liberties as guaranteed to US in
the Constitution of the United States.
Hesolcod That We love the Union "a it was
made by our fathers in adopting the Federal
Constitution, but that We regard the Union
aS having been made for our defense. protec-
ton and welfare as we'll as for the deieusr pro
lection and welfare of our brethren of the
North; that the terms of that Union are
stated in the Constitution of the United
States; that We will stand by, uphold and
maintain it as II is therein formed; bat il il
shall be perverted TO cur destruction. as is
now Threatened, we sOlemuly believe it to b.
Oar duty as IL Is our uuquestioned right to
take any step that may be efficient 10 secure
TO ourselves and our pOSteTity the blessings
of Constitutional liberty
RssolUsf. That it Is theSsIcrgu duty Of all
Southern men in the present alarming crisis
to forget past political and partisan differ
Cnccs. and TO unite together rs brethren Of
one household. in determined opposition 10
the policy of the Republican paety.
ResOiUed, That the election o! Abraham
Lincoln to the Presidency of the Union,
avOwing and advocating, as he docs, line
OF governmental policy which ignores the
rights and equality OF the peO-
pie of the Southern States. is i violation OF
the spirit and substance Of the compact of
the Union. and if tamely submitted to by the
South, WILL in our deliberate judgment, |
finally and at no distant day, result in the
overthrow IF our Institutions and the subju-
CATION Of our people to an intOlerable des
potism.
Resolred. That in the event of the success
of the Republican candidate for the Presi- |
dency. we recommend to the Governor of this |
State to call the Legislature together at an |
early day, to take such steps as may be de- !
nanded by the eXigency of the times; and |
while we deem ii Inappropriate to attempt to |
dictate Il line of policy to b. pursued by the |
Legislature. yet We deem it right to say, that /
IN our opinion. Convention OF the people of |
the State ought to be called and a conference |
Of the slaveholding States asked, TO the end |
that the future course and policy of the South |
may be settled and agreed upon by the South
ern people.
ReSolued, That we regard the Constitution
Of the United States as a compact to which
The States are parties; and, therefore, that |
our first allegiance is TO the State of Missis- |
sIppi, and Whatever difference of opinion may
exist between us, as to the best mode of pre-
serving our rights and liberties. we declare
that when the State has decided as TO the
mode, we will cheerfully and Loyalty stand
BY and defend her.
We spread these things before the readers
Of the PATRIOT to keep them advised of what
; going on amongst the disunionists. Tax
ng advantage OF the excited condition of the
popular mind, aud of the fears of republican
Iggressi0ns naturally awakened by the results
If the October elec items, the enemies of the |
Union are making these movements 10 com
nit the people to extreme measures before
hey shall have had time to deliberate, and |
decide coOlly what is best to be done to pro-
ect their rights and interests. The people |
If Tennessee, devoted to the Union and yet |
calous of Southern rights and Southern hon.
IT, have q solemn duty to perform. If they
encourage these manifestations of treason,