Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-01-15


slavery ia the States, leaves the momen- |
tous Territorial question, which is now |
shaking he Republic to its centre.-the Dis
trict of Columbia question, and all the others
referred to in Mr.. Crittenden's plan of settle
ment, sholly unproviaed for. This, with
few general and deceitfal professions of love
of the Union, and desire to maintain the
authority Of the laws, constitutes the whole.
OF thisremarkable and most Belial- Ike speech
now solemnly reiteraie. as have said in
| NV letter to Mr.. Bell. that the designation of
such man as this, for the Office of Secretary
| of State, at such time, and under all the
surrounding circumstances, is, in my judy
ment, formal declaration Of srar against the
| South and her institutions, and it behoves US
to lose no tine in providing against the
dangers which viii be shortly upon US. l
| have mass of facts ON this subject, showing
| who IFiliiam H. lSes0ard is, achaf have been his
guilty antededents, and what are his present
designs. which shall shortly lay before nay
! countrymen OF the South, and which / am
persuaded will leave no doubt upon the mind
of any man who has not already concluded
to betray the slave-holding States of the
Union into condition of seryitude and deg
radiation worse even than the universal
slaughter of our people, or than humiliation
itself. Even yet though, however hopeless
may be cur stu alton, am in favor of making
one more calm, brotheriy, and unaea effort to
obtain redress and satisfactory guarantees of
safety at the hands of those remorseless
Autocrats of Faction who are to be shortly
enthroned in the high places Of civic power.
Let us make one more demand of constitu-
t;onal amendments, in the name of saited
South, ere yet the power of the Army and
Navy, and eighty millions of Federal
patronage are placed under the control OF
that Internal Artificer of mischief VIM. H
Seward,--the most dexterous and uuscrupu-
lous political manager now living who wa:
utterly distrusted by Mr.. Clay in his lifetime
1 who, in my hearing, denounced him as :'aI
e execrable monsters" distrusted, venture t.
: say, by every truly high-minded man tina
l has ever had intercourse with him, the mos
Aelfish, cunning, and fiagitious trickster tha
!, this country has yet produced; let US, not
s withstaEdng all this, make one more demand
t and then, ii it should be refused, let ante
: South, with such Of our Northern brethren a
shall be found willing to aid us in the grea
: work, under the auspices which belong to th
h memory Of our revolutionary sires, proceed
:, to reconstruct the edfce of civil liberty, am
: secure the blessings of peace, of concord, {
b National felicity, and true public honor I
|, ourselves, to our children, and to our tastes
1t posterity. 1t is now most evident tbs
r. should Mr.. Lincoln and the other leadin
r. members of his party remain silent or ina
IT tive in the work of concession, up to the LIT
1t of February,-Virginia. the august motht
IT of States, will have declared this governme1
/ at an end. After that event it will be tc
le late to avert the menaced catastr
to phe. When new Republic sha
E. have been reared upon the basis above d
N scribed, and some twenty sovereign Stat
~ shall have entered a new Confederat
lie Union, Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois as Pl
j. sident elect, with all that multitudinous host
We office-seeking idolizers by whom he is ne
th encircled, will pass away like phantom
he the night, and the Black Republican trium
IS. recently achieved will become mere drea
u of fanatical phrensy. The fate OF the Repu
at lie is in, the hands OF Mr.. Lincoln and his P
It. liieal eoafreres; they can either save t
is Union or destroy it; they can maintain t
ON public peace, or light up TIM whole natl
on with the flames of civil war. Lei them Il
no to Il! III. S. FOOTE