Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-03-13
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pie chose to think and act for themselves, ne
has been MORALLY offended. He doubtless
feels chagrined and outraged that the peo-
ple chose to be freemen and act on their Jndg-
ments. rather than on the dictation OF par
tisan leaders; and this is the only revenge
he can get. i. e. to denounce or TO intimate
that Tennessee is likely to become apoii'ioh-
iz.d You will hear them sometimes (and IL
| is really amusing, in many cases, when you
think of the number of slaves they own,) say:
"Well Pm going to sell out and go South"
Ask them why so? and with nod, shake Oh
the head and rather swelling OF the chest,
| NTH the thumbs in their vests and wise and
knowing look put on, you will get the an
swer or the intimation that Tennessee is likely
to become abolitionized. Now, sirs, say
such talk as this is likely to get up the ques-
ton of abolition here in our midst and
should be discountenanced by every one who
is not really an abolitionist at heart.
Under the guise or semblance OF being the
jealous defenders of slavery. all such are do
| ing more to weaken the bond OF slavery ana
to destroy the value Of slave property, than
all the North by their fanatical ranting could
do in thousand years.
They are reqIy the abolitionists OF our
State The ''precipitating" or the attempt
ing to force the question of the abolition of
slavery upon the people must be stopped, or
else there will be worse state of society
here in Tennessee than there ever has been,
and God knows we have had bad enough for
the last or years. 1t was by this sort of
a game that the Southern ''precipitators"
rushed their States out of the Union. They
made a great many of their people believe
that the question Of the abolition of slavery
was upon them, and those who had the good
sense to know better were overawed and
overrun.
Tenncsseans don't intend to be overawed
and run over rough-shod." They can't be.
Blood will run as free as water, and as deep
as our streams first. Tenuesseans don't in
tend, nor indeed can be scared from their
sense of propriety, nor from the path OF duty
aud of right, by the bowlings of lew politI-
cal partizan demagogues South, who would
sink Heaven and earth to maintain political
power; nor the rantings of vile fanatical abo-
litionists North. They are too calm, self
poised. and periodically imbued, with the
knowledge of their strength and courage, TO
fancy their safety menaced by abOlitionists on
the one hand, or her fidelity to the general
government shaken by secessionists and dis
uniouists on the other. Neither do they ia
tend to be dictated to here at home by pOliti-
cal wire-workers and desperadoes. This spi-
rit of bowling to the dictation or lead of pc
Iitical managers, has been heretofore, am
ashamed to confess, too much manifested IN
Tennessee; but from this time out think, or
at least hope, YOU will see different state of
things.
Tennesseans, will it not be so? Have you
not thrown off the shackles of the partizan,
and will you not take up the arms of the
patriot from this time hencefor b, or have
you lost the spirit of free men. that you will
cravenly submit to the dictation of political
leaders? God forbid Shades of your de-
parted heroes and sires Forbid
The bones of your immortal Jackson would
rattle in their grave at the very thought of
Tennesseans becoming so dastardly as to
bow submissively to the yoke and dictation
OF such recreants and traitors France was
once ruled by three-thousand Jacobins. and
is less that that number to rule the free and
enlightened people of these United States!
No, sirs, no; never, never, never Brave and
patriotic men can die for their rights and
their country; but can never submit to the
nd uSurnatiOu 0f n
principled, reckless political desperadoes'
Down with them and all such. say We, and
let the people rule, to whom and in whom,
rests all original political power. Tennes-
scans, honest and true, brave and patriotic,
will you not put them down? You have al
ready done much towards this, and have
ample, abundant reason to be proud of your
native, or adopted State. She has hereto
fore stood unsurpassed in the history of our
nation, for her wisdom, moderation, patriot
ism, justice. true courage and her alacrlty
III the service of her common country in all
times of peril, and she has noao placed around
her brow a chaplet of undying honor. She
has said to the world that she has too much
at stake in the Federal Union to see it shat
tered and riven asunder, without the most
imperative aud uncomfortable causes. She
has said that in addition to the great nation
al considerations-the memories and glorieS
of her past history-her partiots; her states
men; her warriors; her generals; her foun-
ders and fathers; her all which attach her
with unflinching fidelity to the Union. She
has peculiar and local interest in its pes
ervation, which the States South of her, stu
ated with the Gulf on the one side of them and
tier of slave States on the other do not feel.
She has said that her honor and her safety
her liberty and her property lie in the Fede-
raj Union, aud ''that it must and shall be
preserved" so far as she can contribute to
its preservation. Then shall she submit lon
ger to these political desperadoes who have so
long fed aud Toasted upon the slavery question
that it seems they are determined to force
the people TO give up their slaves or else
maintain them in power. They present the
issue 20 the people, maintain us in power, or
else we will abolitionize you. The people
will do neither. They viii neither keep them
in power, nor give up their slaves (; for they
know that the question of abolition is not
upon them. They know that there are none
either North or South, except the Abolition
its and the Disunionists, who are pressing this
issue upon them They know that only q
few days since, the House of Representatives
passed resolution by an unanimous vote,
declaring that Congress had not the Consti-
tutional power TO impair or interfere with
slavery in the States-they know that the |
House of Representatives passed, by more
than a two-tbird vote. resolution recon- |
mending an amendment to the Constitution, |
providing that no amendment shall be made |