Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-10-30
LIncoIn's Forthcoming PrOcIama-
ton,

Recent telegraphic dispatches from Wash
ington state that Governor Seward had let out
the important fact that, should Mr. Lincoln be
elected President of the United States. he
intended to put forth a proclamation of such
views as he deemed important to allay all
opposition from the Southern States. Seward
and Lincoln obviously think that the South
ern people are very like captured elephant.
In Africa they dig hole for him; and when
be has stumbled in, they beat him, and then
bring him some grass; and thus, by alternate
beating and feeding, they subdue his spirit,
and he follows his master. So these two po-
litical charlatans suppose that. after years of
sectional organization in the North, on the
ground of hostility TO African slavery in the
South, and its rightful and necessary over
throw by the General Government, and they
succeed in gaining the mastery of the Gov
eminent to carry out their policy, they have
only TO put forth few hypOcritical and ly
ing phrases and the South will submt-a
little green grass to the elephant in the pit.
Mr.. Lincoln or Mr. Seward is nobody In this
contest. They are only The froth on the top
of the wave. The wave itself, begins its
heave from the depths of the ocean. They
have, by their demagOguical and fanalical
appeals to the people of the North, divided
the Union into two great antagonist sections.
They have taught the people of the North
that is their duty, and their high and holy
mission, TO eXiinguish African slavery in the
South. That they should endeavor. when
reaching the powers of the General Govern
ment, TO keep the people of the Sonth pass
i've under their rule, is perfectly natural.
That they may even endeavor to get their
cohorts to pause, in view of the separation of
the indignant South from the North, is also
very natural. They know that the day the
Union is dissolved, is the day of their DOOM
But, il the South submits to their rule they
cannot arrest the onward course of events.
If they pause, they will be trampled down,
as the first OriginatOrs of this anti-slavery
agitation in the North have been. Where.
now, are the BarnaTds, the Hunts the Cush-
ings, the WinthrOps, the Van Burens. the
Everetts of the North? And so it will be
with Messrs. Lincoln and Seward. if they at
tempt to arrest the tide of sectional fanati-
cism and ambition, short of its great cousum-
matiOn-the abolition of African slavery IN
the South. If Mr.. Lincoln was TO come ont
and declare that he held sacred every right
of the South, with respect to African slavery
no one should believe him; and if he was be-
lieyed, his professions should have not the
least Influence on the course of the South.
The Northern people, by electing him, have
manifested their determination to set up
sectional and fanatical dominion over the
South, totally inconsistent with the whole
scope of the Constitution and the safety aud
self-government of the South. They have
established despOtism; and it matters not
who wields it, mildly or sternly, it should be
thrown off.
The above is from the Jackson lississippian
of the sd inst. We give it to show that the
disunion party in the Cotton States are de-
termined to break up the Union, in the event
of LINCoLN's election, whatever course he
may see proper to pursue. With such facts
as these and the hundreds of others We have
given equally strong, it behooves the true
lovers of the Union of all parties to pause
and reflect before they give their counte-
nance and support to the enemies of the
country on the 9th November.