Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-02-23

medy for existing evils She pleads the
fright of self representation" and forthwith
does all she can to dissolve the Union-being
goaded on by the willy Northern disunionist-
who exults and triumphs as he sees her so IN
suspeciingly "playing into his hands,n and
winning the great game for him, by ac-
complishing her own selfdestruction.
Perhaps Louisiana will tell us that the chief
"good" which has resulted from her seces-
sion is, that she is showing the North that
she will neuer submit to Black Republican
ruler She may, and doubtless does, regard
that as exceedingly heroic; but did it never
occur to her that there is slower deep" in
the depths of Black Republication, to which
she is atjectly submitting-aye, and most
abjeetly serviugs The proud State of Loui-
ana, as her ordinance of secession passed,
bowed, and kissed the dust, at the feet of
A6olaionisn, for that worst element Of North
ern fanaticism, and aggression, roOices Nth
Secession over the passage of every such or
dinance, realizing but too fully that each
one is means towards the accomplishment
of its darling idea-the ultimate and utter
extinction of slavery! Nor is this mere
Uaionia argument. We find it endorsed by
one who is noU a prominent leader of the
Secession forces in South Cirolina. Some
few years ago, he wrote the following words
as truthful as they are terrible: "Seces-
sion, separate nationality, with all its bur-
dens, is no remedy. 1t is, no redress for the
past; it is no security for the future. Such
is the intensity of my convictions on the
subject, that if secession should take place.
of which have no idea, for cannot believe
in such stupendous madness--I shall consider
the institution of slavery as doomed, and that
the great God in our blindness, has made us
the instruments of its destruction" This
then, is the "good," the MISREPRESENTATION"
the remedy, that secession brings. We ask
''for bread, and it gives US a stone'-we ask
for "meat, and it gives us scorpion"
The Lady of Louisiana, inquiries again
What has come over all your great and
good men of Tennessee, that you stand with
closed lips, and outstretched hands, waiting
patiently for the clanking irons of your Nor
thern foemen? waiting for something to be
done to save the Union?"
As we glance back to the glorious 9th of
February, l think we cannot be but impress
ed with the belief that the spirit Of Jackson
has "come over" the men of Tennessee. God
has not yet made the iron, nor man fashioned
the letters which they are TO wear. Nor are
they ''waiting for something to be done to
save the Union, they have put their shoul-
ders to the work manfully, and "with a
will" and are, themselves, aiding in its sal
walton. The present position of Tennessee
is proud one-the proudest of which the
human mind has any conception. Deserted
by her more Southern sisters, she still stands
bravely forward to fight for their rights as
for her own,-disdaining to fly with them, che
stands tn unflinehingly to protect the m
Knowing well that each of the States, as it
secedes, increases the power and triumph of
Northern disunionists to defeat all satisfacto-
~ measures for an adjustment of existing
has ''set her face as flint"
saying to the mad tide of dissolution-"Hith-
erto-bm no fauther!" In her action of the
9th, she boldly opposed Disunion in every
section. and appealed to the conservative
element everywhere to sustain her in the
right Knowing well that there is still a
Union,-(our secession friends to the contra
~ notwithstanding)-she appealed to that
Union. Aud where did she find ii? Not
among blatant politicisns-not in the rem
nants of old wrecked parties, and platforms,
nay. but in the hearts of the American
people, both North and South. The respon-
ses that come back to her from brethren
everywhere over our land, tell in triumph
ant tones that she has touched the master
chord of our nationality the chord of Union.
She is not " waiting for Black Republicans to
make concessions nor does she expect to |
make any herself But she is waiting and |
every man to do bis duty" and |
he can very well afford to wait to see if it |
will be done. If not, though she nerer has |
lad right to secede," she has, and al,Doys |
Fill have the right of revolution. Her right,
nd her power, will be the same after the 4th |
f March, as they are to-day. But she will |
ot be precipitated into revolution to
ratify disunionism in any section. The
threats and denunciations" Of Black Repub-
canism have not affected Tennessee to "any
farming extent" And whyf Because she
Understands their game. She sees through
he artifice. These threats and denuncia-
ions " proceed from the ultraists of that
'arty-in other words, the Abolitionists.
;ome of them have raised the cry of war,
merely from a general want of common
ense others, and the more cunning among
hem, threaten the South, as the surest means
# driving her into the mad act of breaking
Up the Union, in order that they may grasp
he mighty sequence-the humiliation of
lavery. The South declares before high
Heaven, that she will never be " coerced "
,y Black Republicanism into the Union-but
he has allowed herself to be " coerced " by
he tcOra element in Black Republicanism, out
If that Union, which is her right and her
leritagel
The next quotation l shall make is this, SO 1 |
hink they will yet find, to their cost, that |
he crushed worm can turn and sting" 1t |
las been my belief that Secession has de-
,raded the South, but yet never have felt |
hat she deserved the Designations crush
d worm" No, she has not fallen SO low as
hat. That Secession has degraded the South,
} manifest, and if her position in any degree
pproximates to that of crushed worm"
secession and Abolitionism are the authors of |
bat position. A few short months ago, and |
be whole national record of the South was
Without stain. If SMALL shadow, no
anger than the cloud " like mans band,n
ested upon South Carolina, it was forgotten,
nd absorbed in the brightness of the general
oyalty of her sister States. The true and
oble South could lift up her fair, broad fore
cad to the world, and say no act of dis
oyalty, no act of aggression, no slightest