Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-10-26


constitution was raised when those shackles
We're put upon our limbs That voice will be
powerless now to ask them to unlock and
nnfasten these shackles, and allow us TO stand
up and resist them like men, or Loose them
lor their justice to US. / expect no Justice
from them. / appeal TO my countrymen to
appeal in spirit of manly and fearless regard
Tor their own rights. | expect 40 such appeal
to fall upon those of the North and be heard.
l know we shall not succeed. The mover
OF this measure has no hope that this law
dlsparaging your institutions and in VIOLA
ton of your constitution. will ever be wiped
from the sta:ute-book OF your common coun
try"
Gould save the Unien-net as il exists
now; could save the Union-not that which
exists under the present administration:
could l save the Union that was created
reared, and placed upon just basis by
Washington and his compeers, there is no
drop IN this heart that should not be freely
shed for that Union. CApplause.] But when
find the ruins of that beautiful fabric of
equality strewn about and trampled upon by
that Freesoil horde that now surround the
altar OF my country; when find those sa-
| cred principles there set forth broken and
| trampled beneath the loot of party necessity
| by all the dominant parties that rule the
country, that are not openly for us, but by
stealth, lest their constituents shall find them
/ out. IN ordtr to preserve the spells of this
| government in their hands; when find that
we have no right except that of concession,
| and that we have no stand that anybody
dare openly TO proclaim, then recognize the
/ fact that the Union of our fathers has long
since been dissolved by oppression and fraud !;
! and can say that there is no drop in this
heart that l am not ready to she'd in defence
of our rights against that Union"
| Soon after the adjournment of the Mont
gomery Convention, be penned the following
| letter:
MONTGOMERY, June Is, 1858.
DEAR SIR: Your kind letter of the 18th is
received. | hardly agree with you that a
general movement can BE- made that will
clear out the Augean stable. If the democ-
racy were overthrown, ii would result in Civ
ing place to a greater and hungr:er swarm of
| flies.
The remedy of the South is not in such a
! process. 1t is in a diligent organization of
| her true men for the prompt resistance of the
| next aggression. IL musj come in the nature
| Of things. No national party can save US;
! no sectional party can ever do ii. But if we
| could do as our fathers did-organize ''cOm-
mittees If safety all over the cotton States,
| (and it is only in them that we can hope for
/
Southern heart, instruct tie Southern mind, gre
courage to each Other, and at The proper Bonie1lt,
/ by one organized, concerted action, are can PRE-
| CIPTTATE THE COTTON STATES INTO = REVoLU-
| TON. a-- -
The idea has been Swallowed forth in the
| South by Mr.. Rufin; has been taken up and
recommended by the Advertiser, under the
name OF League of United Southerners,'
| who keeping up the old party relations on all
! other questions. will hold the Southern Issue
| paramount, and will influence parties, Legis-
! latures and statesmen. l have no time to
enlarge, but to suggest merely.
| In haste, yours, &C.,
w L. YANCEY.l
| TO JAMES SLAUGHTER, Esq.
| In a speech at Bethel Church on the 10th
of July, 1858, he was reported to have said,
among other things: Ia
The system of labor in the North aud
South are also antagonistic.
For one, said Mr.. Y. my convictions are
clear that it will be folly on the part of thu
South hereafter TO trust her rights exclusive
" 10 the care of any national party
But no sectional party can aid you in the
Union; for, if you are all united, you would
still be q minority, and would array against
you the sectional power of the majority sec
ton. --Fs-.s =
What then? Mr.. Y. said, for himself be
had little hope of justice for the South in the
Union, but he should be willing to wait and
try all expedients, till majority Of his fel-
low-citiZeEs entertained like convictions.
The people are devoted TO parties, and will
be party men. He bided the time when they
would throw off the shackles both of part les
and of the Government, and assert their in
dependence in Southern Confederaey.
Mr.. Y. said he should prepare for the con-
| sideratiOn of the South the formation of
Leagues of United Southerners," all over
the South, pledged to diffuse and sustain
pure constitutional views of the rights of
the South i'll the Union, or. as a last resort,
of aiding the South to resume her delegated
powers, and to become Southern Confed-
eracy.
In this matter, continued Mr. Yancey. we
are not without great precedent. Long be-
fore the Declaration of Independence, long
before it was dreamed (save by few that
the colonies would be compelled to Withdraw
from the British empire-whle the provin--
cal Congress were even discussing the phra-
seology OF their petitions to the King to re-
dress their grievances. the colOnists, acting
on the wise, practical principle of Pray to,
God. and keep your powder dry" formed
committees of safety all over the country.
Those committees were active in forming a
public opinion. and giving voice to that Opin-
ion, in gathering up munitions of war, and
in every conceivable way organizing our an
cestry in such an array that when independ
ence was declare & they were able to crown
it with the triumph Of Yorktown. The les
son and the example are eminently suggest
i've.
The letter TO Mr.. SLAUGHTER having been
published, and criticised by Mr.. Pryor, then
editor of the Richmond South, Mr.. YANCEY
wrote letter to Mr. p, of which the follow
ing is an extract
at is equally true that l do not expect
Virginia to take any initiative steps towards
a dissolution OF the Union. when that ext
gency shall be forced upon the South. Her
position as border State and sceH consider
ed Southern policy "a policy viich has been d.
GESTED AND UNDERSTOOD AND APPROVED By
THE ABLEsT MEN IN VIRGINIA, as you ourself
must be dtcare) would seem TO demand that
when such movement takes place by any
considerable number of Southern States, Vir-
ginia and the other border States, should
remainTin the Union, where by theirposition
and their counsels, they could prove more
effective friends than by moving out of the
Union, and thus giving the Southern Confed- |
eracy a long abolition, hostile border TO
watch. In the event of the movement being
successful, in time Virginia and the other |
border States that desire it. could join the |
Southern Confederacy, and be protected by |
the power of its arms and its diplomacy" |
III letter addressed TO Mr.. JAS. D. MEAD |
ows, of Dadeville, Ala, on the 10th june |
1853, he said: tzT |
''In my opinion the South at this time is |
not SO much in need of platforms or belief in |
correct principles as shs is sadly in need Of |
true men in her councils. She has often |