Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-12-15
No more compromises with AboIit.Ouionn.


Despite the fact that the past history Of our coun
try Is but one continual record of concessions and
compromises on the part of the South. made with
the view Of quoting the clamor and appeasing the
morbidness OF n northern ant-slavery fanaticism,
| we vet find not a few who now Justify CRYING
ont for further compromises for the 81 ke of the
Union" We are told that government itself is a
compromise-that we live, move, and have our be-
ing hv virtue of it-that the Constitution under
which we live is based upon it-that it Is necessary
in all the amenities and ordinary transactions Of
everyday life, and therefore the south would be
rccreant to her constitutional obligations were she
TO be unwilling TO make some further sacrifice of
her rights and enter into new compromise by way
of conciliating and harmonizng the existing com
pliCations of the slavery question
Rbt a careful examination Of the patched up and
so-called compromises, to which the adherents OF
slavery have heretofore been victimzed, only ex-
hbits the triumphs Of an ingenious northern / an
kraisrl over a generous southern patriotism. When
the simpIe interogatory is put What privilege has
he North ever compromisedy-what constitutional
rIf has She ever velded?-t is difficult to discover
satisfactory reply. The manifest reason is that
her concessions have only heen apparent, not real
theoretical not practical. What farther privilege
has She COMPROMISED beyond the expansion of
mere idea What right has she yielded beyond an
iogically assumed and palpably unconstitutional
theory, While she has, for full three quarters OF
century been processing TO do violence 10 her mora
sentiment. and TO COMPROMISE religious scruples. and
to smother conscientious convictions the South has
yielded something that is VALUABLE, PEcUNIARr, and
MATERIAL
History sustains US in the truth Of this assertion.
AS far back as l7SI but eight years after the birth
of the Republic. we find the sovereign State Of
VIRGINIA Welding up what is known as the North
western Territory Northwest Of the Ohio river, to
the Federal Government to be desecrated by its
hands to the purposes Of Abolition power The
ordinance of l7S7 excluded the STAKEHOLDER from
this vast domain and even forbade Virginia. own
sons from the equal enjoyment Of the grant which
foolish generosity had prompted her to make. Her
blood and treasure had been expended y consummat
nglt conquest yet was handed overo the ruthless
marauders who have since repaid her injudiciOus
morality by manifestations Of the blacklist ingrati-
Jude The invasion of her soil by their unhalIOwed
Footsteps, the larceny Of her property and the muir
der OF her inhabitants in cold blood constitute the
sequel Of this exhibition of her Federal devotion
Five free States have been formed of its bouDs
less area, and are now lending their aid in giving
vitality to the mongre and heggarly faction thar
overrides the Constitution and endeavors 70 nor
vert the government into an engine of political on
preston. Such unmitigated ingrautude scarcely
finds parallel save in the matricdal infamy of the
tyrant Of ancient Rome