Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-03-19
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mn, 49, z.,;cts in eloquent terms the " mag
-. - .to conseauences involved in the qnes-
49,, ;, presented in the Peace Conference Propo-
.;,;on What are those very grave consequencess
TIE very existence Of the Union Who says sos
Not we. Ii is neither Of the extreme parties
whose wicked intentions give such alarm to the
PairsoL It right in declaring substantially that
theg would satisfy the extremist Of neither section
who. according to its notions are arrayed against
them, con the principle Of balefal and mischiey-
Gus selEpreseryation.p So far as thess are con-
cerned, therefore, the proposition settles nothing
1t must be, then, that others as well as Southern
extremists are getting little restless under Black
Republican domination Surely the Pairios does
net mean to say that its own party are GO
ing to tread SO close upon the heels of the
despised and prosecuted disunlonists Surely
the Patriot is not going to demand of the
North condition upon which alone viii abstain
from a "permapent disruption of the most magnif-
cent government the combined wisdom and good
ness of mancverdevised.r Surely the Pdtriot can
not to say that demands for its party an
essential alteration in our GLORIOUS Constitution as
the prick for the preservation Of the glorious
Uniongn No. it cannot mean that. For elsewhere
it says that the opposition to these extremists must
be met and resisted and that successfully, if the
Consultation and the Union to be preserved and
perpetuated''
There is novelty in that idea to say TIE least of it
The exposition to an alteration of the Constitution
must be met and resisted in order TO the preservation
of the Constitution. The Constitution is popular
with the people, The Patriot processes to regard il
as the finest ever formed; andsthen berates Us he
cause we refuse to concur with it in thinking that
it needs certain essential alterations which it pro
poses We think this little unkind We are held
up to public indignation first enemies to the Con
stituton and then for not being willing to join the
Patriot in making alterations important, that the
glorious Union even is not safe without them
Again, -'the adoption Of the Peace Conferences
propositions would probably save theUnion from fur
tAer disntegration and possibly lead finally to the
cordial return of those States which have left it. The
result would probably lag the secessionists on the
SHELF &c. And hsw, pray, could it "save the
Union from further eisintegrationsp
We insist however, that it would be an act of un-
Pardonable cruelty play the poor, contemplate
cessiouists any further back on the shelf. Nay
more, for your own sake, for the sake of harmony
among yourselves, wouldn't it be best to keep us
alive, just as sort Of scare crow, sort of rally
ing cry to the faithful.
Already there are evident symptoms of alarm
lest the flock be TOO large to be herded together
Andf more than one shepherd be appointed directly
there win be general quarrel about the good past
ure. Who shall have the mountains and who the val
leysf Who sit in the high places and who in the low
Consider the danger too in another respect. The
Union party is composed entirely of honest unsus.
pecting, undesigning, unsQphisticated people(0 Nc
corrupt politicians among them(D They number
some hundreds of thousands in Tennessee. They
may by way Of illustration, be regarded as SO many
innocent lambs while the secessionists, who are ali
politicians numbering few Thousand, are Sc
many ravenous wolves, roaming about seeking
whom they might slay some innocent victims and
lap their blood
Suppose you succeed in making seeming truce
and turn these few thousand political wolves among
the tens of thousand innocent and Hnsuspecting
lambs. Our hair stands on end at the very thought
oh, no The politicians, how gratifed all ought to
feel are at last separated from the dear people and
he1eeforth there will be none to disturb them unless
the oGicious, over anxious for harmony. shall pull
down the dividing fence and turn them all in to-
gether.
But again. The Patriot thinks the Peace Confer
resolutions might possibly restore the Union.
And viii the Patriot consent to cast its efforts for
che restoration of the glorious Union upon what
It admits is only bare possibility II the Unionists
are satisfied with the Union and the Consultation as
they are, zoe may as well say ameni The Black
Republicans do not ask for any change, and the
Secessionsts do not ask for any such change as is
this resolution proposed. And if the Union party
are not satisfied il the Constitution must needs be
altered to make the Union any longer supportable to
Chem why then, in the name of ali that is just say
So and do not tell the unsuspecting Union party that
1t 1oe the politicians the SecessioniSs that demand
the change. We prefer rathertse Cc1Stitaion and the
Union Our fdak1s made It.