Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-03-19

flatIppl, ana Wal moro % nave eesu co Dol
know; it has escaped me. ! did feel, sir, deeply
grieFed--not only erieved, but indignant, when
man Of his character was held up here to reproba
tfon br 4 Senator from q Southern State: man
who, more perfectly than any have ever met, COM
bines all tae great qualities Of Jscksonand Calhoun
With the iron will, pure patriotism, and Distinguish
e3 military abilities Of the one he combines in the
NEST singular manner, the clssrness Of judgment,
the wonderful sagasity, and the remarkable sccu-
racv ia his knsWledge Of the great constitutional
questions that are agitating The country, Of The
other. felt IT. therefore, az outrage that the
Senator Should wst here for six weeks. and make
a caaual remark Of shet Senator subject Of COM
meni, and couple L With dtnuncs.ion AID charges
| Of want Of patriotism.
As 70 Mr. Benjamin, and the sacers st him and
/ his being lawyer, be needs no defense at my
hands My relations towards him have not been 80
| personally intimate and close as those With the
Senaior from Mississippi and therefore felt less
INDIGNANT af that The housing orl.will strike at
/ the taee ID bis towering fight without disturbing
| The proud bird and Ifecl there is no occasion to
defend the reputation Of Mr.. Benjamin. or his ca
naoitr 10 comprehend either an act Of Congress or
treaty Of the United States, to draw legitimate
conclusions, ouch as lawyer does draw His ar
gumeufs on such questions need no defense.
But the point from which | wss diverted was,
| that the cotton States desire, not frem any good
feeling but for their protection to phosphate
these border States into arcvoluion- The charge
| is eround!ess That We feel sympathy with these
| border States, that we have similar institutions,
that desire that our dssnes should be the same.
ie true; but what is there to prevent u.s. net only
from asserting but carrying out to its legitimate
| ccnsequences cur separate State existences With
exports to The smonni OF hundreds Of millions Of
dollsrs our imports must be the same. With a
lighter tariff than any people ever uadertookto live
! under we could have larger revenue. We would
be able stand direct taxation to greater extent
1 hafor ~. Al.
ton Of the world We feel perfectly competent to
meet all issues that may be presented, either by
hostility from abroad or treason at home So far
as the border States are concerned it is matter
that concerns them alone. Should they confederate
| with us, beyond ell doubt the New England ma
| chinery will be worked with the water power of
| Tennessee of Kentucky. Of Virginia, and CT Mary
land the tariff laws that now give New England
the monopoly in the thirty three Ststes, that did
| when here were thirty -tbree States, will give 10
these border States monopoly in the slavehold-
ing States Should the non-slaveholdng States
choose to side against us in organizing their Gov
erumeuts and cling TO their New Eogland brethren,
the ony result will be that the meat the horses the
hemp. and the graia, which we nov buy in Penn
syiVania In Ohio in Indiana and Illinois, will be
purchased in Kentucky and in Western Virginia
sud in Missouri Should Pennsylvania stand cut,
the only result will be- that the iron which is now
dug in the mountains of Penunsylvania will be dug
and Of Kentucky, and Of North Carolina These
things We know.
/ We feel no anxiety at all so far ss money or men
are concerned. We desire war with nobody; We
intend to make war; but We intend to live under
inst such Government IS we see ct SIX States
have left this Union, and others are gsing to leave
it. simply because they choose to do it; that is sll
We do not ask your consent; We do not wish it. We
haya revoked our ratioation Of the tresty common
ly known as the Constitution OF the United States;
q treaty fss OomBon defense and general welfare,
and we shall be perfectly willing to enter into anoth-
err treaty with you Of peace and amity. Reject the
Lolive branch and offer US the sword and we accept
IL We have Mt TIE slightest objection. Upon that
subject re feel precisely as the great william
LoWndes felt upon another important subject. the
! Presidency which he said was neither to De sought
nor declined. When you invade our sell look to
your own borders. You say that you have too mary
psep.e tao many towns, too denss population, for
Is nothing that ever stops the march of an invading
force, except desert. The more popuIous ccun-
try. tAe more easy it is to subsist an army
There are some other IN alters that we understand,
and possibly you do not. Not only are our nom
Shareholders loyal, but even our neg oes We
have no apprehension whatever Of in,urrectiOp-
not the slightest. We can arm our negroes, snd
leave them at home, when we are temporarily abb
| sent That is fact. You cannot steal negroes in
/ q campaign In these modern times, HheR armies
march, hey carry as liule baggage as possible.
sinGs Napoleon adopted the bivogsaiGg system,
very little baggage is carried, and rapid movements
and quick changes OF position are the important
points that every military commander looks to. We
feel assured that you will never our border
with more equipsge than will DE necessary to carry
your sick and wounded You will not be able 10
have that amount Of transportation which will be
necessary to bring off many Of our negroes. With
| out it. you cannot bring the women and children;
I Nd ~ vxiu ieor fhoir wiz Int
pose You could suppose you could steal one hundred
thoussn9 in s:n9le campaign what is that to us!
We have four million and half, sad it would cost
you more to feed them than it would to lose them.
We may as well talk plainly about this matter.
This is probably the last time shall have an OPP
poatuaity Of addressing you. There is another
thing aninvsding army cannot do. It cannot burn
up plantations. You can pull down fences, but the
negroes will put them up the next morning. The
worst fuel that ever a man undertook to make hre
with is dirt; it will not burn
Now, have told you what an invading army
cannot do. Suppose reverse the picture. and tell
yoa What yeq csn %. an inyading ssmy in an
enemys country, where is dense population. can
subsist iself st very little cost, it does not al
ways pey for what it gets. An invading army can
! burn down towns an invading army can burn down
manufactures, and it starve operatives. 1t can
! do all these things but an invading army and al
| army to defend q country, both require military
] chest You may bankrupt every man South Of
Norrh Carolina that his credit is reduced to such
point that he could not discount note fer thirty
dollars. 81 thirty days but the neat autumn chose
cotton States will have Just much money aud as
credit as they had before. They pick money of the
| cotton plant. Every time thst negro touches
cotton pod with his hand be pulls piece Of silver
out Of it, and ne drops it into the basket in which
it is carried to the gin house. 1t is carried TO the
packing screw. bale of cotton rolls out, in other
words, Eve tsn dollar gold pieces roll out, covered
with canvass. We qhall geysr again Eqss legs than
| ave million bales Of cpttoA
| II lis true, the President of tho United States says
that the good crops had last year, aud the health
| of the country, were dependent upon the Union.
| do not agree with him in that In the first place,
we had very poor crops and if the only blessings
we are TO get from the Union are such seasons as
we had last year. had better 60 out of IT. but we
honestly think the President was mistaken in sup
posing either chat the health Of the people the cot
tor CROP dslepds on our being 10 ths Union. Theae
fscts. can produce Eve MILL balea Of cotton,
every bale worth fifty dolsrs, which is the lowest
market price 1t has beez for years past We shall
import bale of something else for every bale Of
cotton that We export aud that bale will be worth
| fifty dollars. We shall find no difficulty under a
war tariff in raising an abundance of money. We
have been at peace for very long tine. We are
| very prosperous. 1un planters gss tkeig cotton,
aot buy tie aecesssries Of life but for the super
auites which they can do without. The States
themselves have mine or wealth IN the loyalty
and the wealth Of their citizens. Georgia, Mis-
sissippi any one of those States issue its six
per cent. bonds tomorrow, and receive cotton in
payment to the extent almost Of the entire crop.
They can first borrow from their own citizens:
they can tag them TO an almost unlmlte9 ex Qpt;
an9 they caH rass revenue fFGha Q tariff to an Gl-
most uRlimted extent
How will it be with New England? Where will
their revenue come from? From your custom -hsus-
et? What do you export? You have been telling
us here for the last quarter of century, that you
cannot manufacture even for the home market
! Ter the tariffs which we have given you. When
this tariff cessss to operate in your fsvp: Sad yoY
Lave to pay i0S co,Apg into oe' markets., what viii
you get IN return" When your machinery ceases
to move, and your operatives are turned out, win
you tag your broken capitalist or your starving
opsrAtveg When the navigation laws cease 10 ope-
rate, what will become Of your shipping interest?
You are going TO blockade our ports. you say.
That is o very innocent game, and yon suppose We
shall sit quietly down and submit to blockade.
speak not of the foreign interference fer We lsok
nat TO it. We are Just az sopPetent to take queen