Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-01-01

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no Interest of theirs We Violate no o5li-
cation or duty to them. As separate, inde-
pendent States in Convention, we made the.
Constitution of the United States with taem;
and as separate independent States, each
State acting for itself. We adopted i. South
Caroliua acting ia her Sovereign capacity,
now thinks proper to secede from the El1i6a
She did not part with her savereigHfy IN
adopting the Constitution The last thing p
State can be presumed to have slrrendered
is her Sovereignty. Her Severeignty Is her
life. Nothing but clear express graHt can
ALLEVIATE it, Inference has no place. let it
is not at all surprising. that those who have
construed away all the limitations at sbe
Constitution, should also by eonsiruetioa..
claim the annihilation of the Sovereignty 81
the States. Having abolished all barriers 70
their omnipotenee by their faithless esusfrae1
tons in the operations of the General Coy
eminent, it is most natural that they shoRid
endeavor to do the same towards as in the
States. The truth is, they, having violated
the express provisions of the Constitutiep, IL
is at an end, as compact 1t IS moral II obs
iIgatory only on those who choose to accepf
its perverie ed terms. South. Carol nt.<sieeEs1z
ing the compact not only violated in partiea
lar features. but virtually abolished BY her
Northern confederates. nithdraws herself as
a party from its obligations. The right 10 do
so is denied BY her Northern eonieaerates.
They desire to establish q sectional idespot-.
ism, not only omnipoteat ia Congress. but
omnipotent over the States; and as If TO
manifest the impefious Necessity Of our SEE
cession, they threaten us with. the sword, to
coerce submission to their rule
Citizens of the slave-hoidilg Stalls of the.
United Statesl Circumstances beyond our
control have placed US il the van of the great
controversy between the Northern asd South
ern States. We would have preferred that
other States should have assumed he posi-
ton we now occupy. Independent ourselves
we diselaim any design or desire, lead the
counsels of the other Southern Stats. Prov
idence has cast our lot together byi extend
ing over US an identity Of pursuits, interests
and institute ms. South Carolina dssires no
destiny, separated from yours. To se one of
the great slave-holding Consedesaey streteh-
ing its arms over a territory larger han any
power in Europe possesses-yifh a poplation
four times greater THAI that of Whole Udited
States when they achieved their indepeu-
dence of the British Empire-with prodac-
tions which mike our existence more impor-
tant to the world than that ct ans oaher
people inhahitIng it--with com.noa instilu-
tions to defend. and common dangsrs toe4
conn ter--we ash. your syTp THY ans aeter
.erafioa. Whist constituting a pordon u
the United States, it has been 4oasr Atatsa-
manship which has guided IL ID It's mighty
strides to power and expansion. In the field.
as in the cabinet, you have lrd he way 10 its
renown and grandeur. You lave loved the
Union, in whose service your srest statemeH
have iabored. and your great soldiers have
fought and eonquered-net for The material
benefits ii conferred, but with the faith Of a
generous and devoted chivalry. You hare.
el<.xaer nd fhr, sfa rob
remains Of a broken Constitusioa.- Compro-
mise after compromise. formed by your con.
cessioHs has been trampled under foot bv
your Northern confederates. All fraternity
of feeling between The North aud The South
is lost, or has been converted Into hat; and
we, of the South, are at last driven together
by the stern destiny which conlrels the exis
tence of nations.
Your bitter experience of thu faithlessness
and rapacity of your Northern contedg.ates,
may have been necessary to evolve those
great principles of free government upon
which the liberties ofthe world depend, aud
to prepare you for the grand mission Of vim
dicating and re-establishing tlem. We re-
ioiee that other nations should he satisfied
with their institutions C0ntenin1ent is
great element of happiness, With. nations as
with individuals We are satisfied viii ours.
If they prefer system OF industry ia which
capital and labor are in perpetual cqnflct
and chronic starvation Keeps down the natu-
raj increase of population and a man is
worked out in eight yeaTs--and the law or
dams that children shall be worked only fen
hours day-and the sabre and bayonet are
the instruments of order-be itso. 1t is their
affair, not ours. We prefer, however, our
system of industry, by which labor and capi-s
tai are identified in interest, aid capital,
therefore, protects labor --by hhieh our pop
ulation doubles every twenty years-by
which starvation is unknown, aud abundance
crowns the landry which orderis presery-
ed by aa unpaid police, and the many fertile
regions of the world, where the Caucasian
cannot labor, are brought into usefulness oy
the labor OF the African, and The whole world
is blessed by our productions. All wesde-
mand OF other people is, to be lei alone, TO
work out our own high destinies Uni.edto-
gether, and we must be the most indepen-
dent, as VIC are among the most important of
the nations of the woiid. United together,
and we require DO other instrument to con-
quer peace, than our benefcent productions.
United together, and we must be great.
free and prosperous people, whose renown
must spread ihrougheat The civilized world,
and pass dewns IN = ffust TO the remateSi
ages. We ask you 10 jCia Us 10 forming
Confederacy of Slayehoiding States
FLoRIDA.-The election news IRON this
State is not very encoura oiuc to tht. irnmedi-