Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-06-01

Gay or TWO, lIle new NC
here.
have just ascertained that Mr.. DAVIS is Raleigh
North Carolina, to-day, and will be due here to
morrow. Gen. left this morning for Manassas
The plot thickens the hour for action has come and
we mnst meet it as freemen, resolved to-'con-
quer or die. Would to God we had twenty-five
thousand Teunesseans ready and fully equipped at
this point But our is righteous one. and we
are therefore, thrice armed for the conflict We
believe God is on ourside of whom then shall we be
afraid. We lift up our banner III the name of the
Lord. In Him is our hope. E.
FeIIow-CitIzeTls of the 9th Senatorial Dis.
tfIct:
address you this letter in haste as it will be i'm
possible for me to see many more of you between
this and the election day. have endeavOred to ap
proach most of you upon the stump and notwith
standing my appointments embrace all the time,
both days and nights find it impossible TO get to
all parts of the district You will therefore not
consider this letter as an obtrusion upon my part
especially when it is known that some of my con-
stituents in parts of the district disapprove
my in the recent errd session Of the General
Assembly. 1t had been reported that intended to
have voted Tennessee out of the Union without sub
hitting the proposition TO the people never, for
moment, entertained any such intention desire,
and you will have seen from examination of the
Journals that my course was entirely the reverse
believe that the entire General Assembly cOncurred
in submitting that imp ortant duty to the people the
great source and embody ment of the sovereignty OF
the state. We, the members, simply shaped an3 pre-
scribed form for your convenience in acting with
one common understanding upon the great issues
touching your federal relations. Those issues are
now before YOU in g form that renders them tangi
bic to every mind, they are broad and cOmprehen>
sive and yet properly adapted to the voice of the
ballot boz. so that by few brief words you can
express your will the whole great controlling
question. Now. gentlemen, how will you vote
on the first proposition, to-wit: "feparGtion?"
IL YOU vote against II you will thereby say
to MIR. Lincoln and the North that you
feel Indifferent to the warfare which he is waging
against our sister Southern States and that
going to stand by with folded arms and see Lincoln
bring those States back into the Union driven the
point OF the bayOnet like culprits with hand cuffs
and thus converting the Union of Washington. OF
Madison and Jefferson into great political and
military ''penitsdidry' in which eight or ten nee
proud and glorious States are to be held chains Of
ubiugation while we, their brothers are to be
tortured with the groans of their Imprisonment
What would the Union be worth when reconstruct
ed on the plan proposed By LiDcOln's friends? What
pride would there be IN having the stars and stripes
of Washington waving over the heads of a srbju-
gated and dishonOred people? Are you willing to
stand quietly by AM see the chains of tyranny and
despotsm fastened upon the hands OF the South
simply because he processes to be actuated by the
sta
your hands because he only proposes to tie them
with slken stripes from the flag of your fathers
No! ] feel confident that the noble constituents
whom represent will never ermit Lincoln to fat
ter them with striped rags while he all the time
preparing to fastcn the yoke of bondage upon their
necks. That flag never intended to be waved
over conquered. dishonored States. but our noble
fathers intended it emblem OF liberty and not
| of oppression, and although loved il W.
| are now compelled, like fOrefLthers who once
loved the British flag drop because il has become
an ensign of tyranny in the hands OF a corrupt and
wckedusurper who it only because OF its former
influence give him tine greater success in his nefa
rious purposes Again. II vote No Sepa ration
Won will thereby excuse Lincoln and his Northern
friends for using the peace appropriations OF money
| for his purp ses. foH Will also excuse HIM
for Selling upon the pension fund of the old soldiers
and converting il into Black Republican war fund
| You will also excuse him for insulting Tennessee
with his blockade at Cairo. where, Notwithstanding
our State constitution claims express right the
freedom of navigation upon the Mississippi river.
he has been for some time seizng our boats and dis
gorging them of their contents Will you submit
to all this? If ought to cap the climax of our
tmidity, by asking h II to pardon for our cow
ardice The next proposition Is representation"
If YOU vote against that you will thereby declare
that YOU are not willing to have voice in the South
ern Congress pending thewar II you vote for Repre-
sentation Tennessee will then have delegates in the
Southern Congress who will aid in the management
of the warfare, and thereby you will not only be
terested and concerned in the fight las you are
bound to be whether you give this vote mott
but in the legislative action of the South pertaining
10 the warfare We have already entered into a
military agreement or pledge to help them and let
them help US in the and they to furnish arms
and men, when necessary to our State; and they are
bv the terms of SAID military contract pay the ex
penses of the war nCluirg whatever Tennessee may
necessarily spend in the struggle which relieves US
of the five millions that we had already apprupri-
ated. Again believe that destiny is manfeStly
with the States South of and in order that the
permanent government of said Confederacy may be
so framed as to be adapted to the interest OF the
border States it is best that should go into the
temporary or provisional government st once, so
thereby to secure TO ourselves vocein the forma
ton of the permanent government. But am told
that some persons are opposed to any movement
upon the part of Tennessee except to arm herself and
stand neutral and between the North and the South
Well gentlemen, you must know that if could
even feel thus Indifferent TO the struggles of our
sister Southern States, it would be very expensive
to do so. Suppose should arm and carry
military movement upon our own footing Where
is the money to come from? Has Tennessee any
ports of entry at which to impose tariffs upon i'm
ports in order to raise revenue? No! She is then
compelled to tax the people directly in order
tain a war movement and it would cost about
twelve millions per annum, at low estimate, which
would require heavy tax to sustain It, But if she
joins the Southern Confederacy she thereby takes
stock in all the coast South. which whenever
the independence of the said COnfederacy shall
have been established will afford revenue
sufficient to pay war debts and all other
federal debts without taxing the people
cent Some persons say that they do not
desire Tennessee to unite with the Southern States
in their temporary Government because 1t will sub
ject US to part of an enormous war debt which
is now being incurred by the said Confederacy |
South Well. do we make anything by hanging on |
to Lincoln government where he Is creating war |
debt equal to five times that of the Southern Gov
eminent? Does Tennesseans prefer TO pay a Black |
Republican tax rather than Southern rights tax? |
Do prefer to pay five dollars to carry on |
Black Republican war, rather than one dollar to /
maintain southern rights and Southern honor? If
you continue in the Union will not Lincoln make
Tennessee pay her part of the Union war debt?
And if you vote half of the ticket that is, for sepa
ration and mo representation, and then stand with
loaded guns without either hnts or caps, as an
armed neutrality or mastery inactivity" the
North may possibly conquer the States South of US
and thus restore the Union. Then would Lincoln
not make Tennessee pay her part of the Union war
debt? And would he not also require Tennessee TO |
pay over and above that all of the armed neutral>
lty debt incurred on her own responsibility! Then
away with all those scare-crows about the risk of
money in going South when in reality you have
everything TO loose IN pecuniary point of view by
taking any other ground than direct active
and thorough cooperation with the Southern CoI-
tederacy. You will see by reference TO the war bill,
that we have laid tax OF eight on every hun:
dred dollars worth of taxable property which in
Vie" vi 'ne great appreciation OF tne price OF prop
erty since last January, will not be than four
cents on the hundred dollars worth, last year
according to the way property was then valued.
with what it will be given in at on next
Jannary-which makes it lighter tax than that of
1859. But be it great or small, the Southern Con-
federacy has agreed to take 1t of our shoulders
and have we not cause TO lay down our preudices
against the Southern Confedersted States? For
while we were, in devotion TO the Union almost
ready to advocate the claims of Lincoln the one
hand and were abusing the Southern COnfederated {
states as traitors, the other hand, the former
was whetting his sword of during all his peace
to cut our Threats, while the latter was