Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-02-01

!, God of Justice protectipg r.t;os '-eLs Is
lng nsr eounseis 0J' equality, moderation and -
W ana sun there are many among as who look ',
to Washlngton,and hope for adjustment 49, 80 I
gasp as they inquire the fate OF -
posi- ions to the Senate They have her LII n
both Committees-they had but a s;rr,Io .-..ss :.
whole Abolition caucus. EtheridQe was -af,sa
even the poor privilege Of introducing them INF
the House, and bec&use the great old man 3D. H.
se7Ued his country tci patriots still cl;nos 70 ~
bantng, and because tie last therefore ne ,o, jo
will press it upon the Senate and will not sec ~,
he has now Fanatieism insteEd of Patriotism IN
his association, and this fanatcism is content afe
once voting it down, to reconsider it and bring
, before the Senate again, aEdlin the doing which
only enough of the Abolition vote was given whe
added to the Southern vote to effect the object an
now tits there dallied with--other measures give
precedence over it. to delude and deceive the popu
lar mind of the Southern States where they know
the greatest division existand where most hope is e
tertancd OF Cancellation, and when the States Firg
ma, kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina, ar
now IN motion Who will be so credulons as to cor
nae m such appearances-to hope on such basis
| to build on such foundation? There is no hope Blu
IN joining our " sister Southern States and that
! the haven Of Independence equality. tranquility
safety, interest and honor
Can we hope for justice from abslitionism anC
us rulers. Inc lessons of the past best teach Il
know the future What has Abelitionism done al
ready when it had less capacity for mischief? Lee
me give you lst Of grievances collated by a higf
and able authority prepared and published under
all the responsibilities of his Official position;
Nor is this all; it seeks to appropriate to itself
and TO exclude the Shareholder from the Territory
acquired by the common blood and treasure of ali
the States. - -
1t has. through the instrumentality of Emrraut
Ald society, under State patronage, flooded the
Territories with its minions armed with Sbarne's
rifles and bowie knives, seeking thus to accomplish
by intimidation, violence and murder what il could
not do by constitutional legislation.
1t demanded, and from our love of peace and
devotion TO the Union, unfortunately extorted in
1Sl9I2O, concession which excluded the South
from about half the territory acquired from
France.
1t demanded and again received as a peace offer
ing IN 1872 all OF that part of Texas, North of SO
30, North latitude if at any time the interest of the
people thereof saall require division of her terri
tory.
1t would submit to nothing less than eompro-
mise IN 1880. by which it dismembered that State,
and remanded to territorial condition a considera-
bic portion of its territory South of sc So
1t excluded by the same compromise, the South
ern people from California, whose mineral wealth,
fertility of SOIL and salubrty of climate is not sur
passed on EARTH by prenaturey forcing her into the
Union under a Constitution conceived in fraud by
set OF adventurers, in the total absence of any law
authorizing the formation of a Constitution fixing
the qualification OF voters, regulating the time
place, or manner of eecting delegates or the time
| or place Of the meeting Of such Convention. Yet
AL eilcSc anu unauthorized proceedings
| were sanctioned by the fact that the Constitution
prohibited slavery, and forever closed the doors of
that rich and desirable territory against the South
| ern people. And while the Southern mind was still
| burning under humGating sense of this wrong 1t
refused to admit Kansas INTO a Union under a con-
| stltuton framed by authority of Congress and by
! delegates elected in conformity 10 law upon the
| ground that slavery recognized and protected.
1t claims the constitutional right to abolish sla-
very N the District of COLUMBIA, the forts, arseaas
ri q Cpfu and 9TH ~. L.
States, within the limits of s.ayeholding States
Nproposes prohibition of the slave trade be-
tween the States, thereby crovding the slaves to-
gether and preventing their exit South until thew
become Improbable to an extent that will force the
owner finally, to abandon them in self.defence
1t has by the deliberate Legislative enactment of
the Northern States, openly and agrantly nullIfied
that clause of the Constitution which provides that:
mo person held to service or labor in one State
under the laws thereof escaping into another shall
IN consequence of any law or regulation therein
be discharged from such service labor but shall
be delivered up on claim Of the party to whom such
service or labor may be due"
This provision Of the Constitution has been spurn-
ed and trampled under foot by these "higher law
nufers. 1t Is utterly powerless for good since all
attempts to enforce the Fugitive Slave Law under
It. are made felony in OF these States high
misdemeanor in others, and punishable all by heavy
fines and imprisonment The distempePed public
opinion of these localities having risen above the
Constitution, and their law, planting itself upon the
tie anarchial doctrines of the hilter ln" with i'm
pEnlty defes the Government tFamples upon our |
rights, and plumbers the Southern citizen. |
1t has through the Governor of OHIO as onenIy
nullhed that part of the Constitution which ppo- /
vides that
"A person charged in any State with treason fell |
ony or other crime, who shall flee from Justice and
be found in another State, shall on demand of the
executive authority of the State from which he fed
be delivered up to be removed to the State having
jurisdiction OF the crime"
In discharge Of official duty had occasion within
the past year, to demand of the Governor of Ohio.
"a person charged in The STATE of Tennessee l1ih the
crime Of SdUe stealing who had fed from Justice and
was found in the State of Ohio. The Governor re-
fused to issue his warrant for the arrest and dev
cry of the fugitive and iE answer to a letter of |
inquiry which addressed TO him, said: "The crime
CT negro stealing not being known to either the |
common law or the criminal code of Ohio it Is not
OF that class Of crimes contemplated by the Federal
constitution, for the commission of which 1 am alJ-
thorized, as the executive of Ohio, to surrender
fugitive from the Justice of sister State and hence
declined to issue warrant" &c. thus deliberate.
~ multiplying and setting at defiance the clause of
the Constitution above quoted, as the act of Con-
gress of February 18TH 1888 and grossly violating
the ordinary comfy existing between separate and
independent nations, much less the comfy which
should exist between sister States of the same
great COnfederacy, the correspondence oonnecfed
with which is within transpittsd.
IL mas, thropgh the eEeegtiVe authority Of other
SlttSe, qenieq eAsradItlOR OF mar2uderS.
1t obtained its compromise in the Constitu- | .
ton to continue in the importation of slaves and
low sets law, higher than the Constitution to de-
3troy this property imported and sold by their
'athers. !
1t has caused the murder of owners in pursuit of
heir fugitive slaves, and shielded murderers from
punishment.
1t has. upon many occasions sent is emissarcs 6
nto the Southern STAGES to oarrupto our slaves, and
nduie them to run OIL or excite them to insurrec
ion. '
1t has run off slave property by means of the pn-
foreground railroad amounting in value to millions
# dollars and thus made the tenure by which slaves
re held in the border States precarous as to ma
erially impair their value n
It has by its John Brown and Montgomery raids 3
INVADED sovereign States and murdered peaceable a
itizens. Id
1t has justified and exaIted to the highest honors
f admiration, the hoPrid MURDERS a1sons, and y
apne Of the John Brown raid and has eanonized ii
he feions as saints and Martyrs n
1t has burned the towns, poisoned the cattle and d
onspred with the slaves to depopulate Northern Il
exas.
1t has through certain leaders proclaimed to the IL
aVes the terrible motto Alarm to the Sleep fire AZ
} the dwelling, poison to the food and water of G
avehOlders." E,
1t has repudiated and denounced the decision of HI
le Supreme Court. b,
1t has assaed our right as guaranteed by the D,
ainest provisions of the Constitution from the 10
Dor of each House of Congress, the pulpit the Il
lstings the schooroom, their State Legislatures OF
I'd through the public Rtess, dividing and disrupt re
g cnufcnes, political parties, and civil govern pC
ent. q
1t has, in the person of the President elect as in
rted the equality of the 6ac with the ,ote race su
These are some Of the wrongs and injuries we he
i've suffered at abolition hands The CUP Is FULL be
u us like men and Tennesseans meet the destiny it
hich awaits US. There is hope but under the | en-
inner and shield of our own State cooperating | To
it'll the South under the present constitution, as Oh
ey have already determined it good enough fri
their fathers and for them, and they nerpetu- aj
E it. r-'F'7 e.
have avoided ell consideration of after conse-
eces, beoadse When the deuge comes il is idle to M
que details of its disappearance, but one consid- ~
alton is so prominent that it cannot be overlooked
that is, if we fail to adhere to the South and a.
with negro enquality comes, then IT,
one hundred millions of dollars of taxable slaves
the State must be paid for and that sum is with ~
avn from the taxable property of the State and Is.
other property Of the State taxed must be r. r.
red still higher, and many articles of r-oosTtv T.
! TOxry faza dot