Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-03-21


ca was still" Names are theirs, which call
men shall see, and all time shall not efFace."
The pure sunlight of their earthly lives has
gone down behind the dark horizon Of the
tomb, but still the worlds wintry front is
Gaddened by their beams which stream up
along its sky, like those long rays of PEN
eiIled light which at times irradiate the1l
vens after the day-god has gone down to his
setting. And now, has Tennessee no intel
lecfual submits to catch, like sun-smitten
mountain-tops. their reflected fire has she
no great minds looming up towards heaven,
all aglow with their radiated light, and Civ
ing back to her people below the reflection of
that living splendor, whose effulgence once
flooded the world
If there exists in this great heart of
our Union-nO remnant, no memory of
| those mighty Pioneers who have blazed
| out before us the path of empire IF no
shred of the mantle of those Prophets
has fallen upon US if no precept from those
Priests of Liberty and Love now fingers in
our natures-then are IRE poor indeed. If
| there is nothing now left of those grand
forces of character which can preserve to US
the ''rtyl,ts of the States" (without which
| there can be no true Union, and which
can preserve for us also the 80 Union of the
| States,' without which there can be no
just preservation of our rights, then
may we bow our heads in shame and sorrow,
murmuring as we pass the portals of this
Capitol" Who enters here, bids hope fare
WE'LL" Then indeed may Woman's eyes.
which look to you from every section of our
beloved land-eyes 80 sad, and yet so
soy ereign '-eyes 90 full of love, and full of
heart-break, be cast down in silence,
Overlooking with their own dumb, despair
ing sorrow. If we find you wanting in
either the will or the ability to save us-if
| you prove yourselves unwilling to preserve
our government. or afraid to do it-then
bitter indeed as the Vinegar mingled with
| gall " which touched the pale lips of the
| Crucifed, will be that long draught of de-
graduation which you force us to drain. eff
possible, let this cup pass from u.s." Let US
drink deep of sorrows-but spare, all spare
| us the bitter, burning draught of shame.
One mighty effort more for Equality and
Union, If then you fail, and fail Ike men,
| we will be content to bide the issue. Aswe
deal not in denunciation, neither indulge We
in bravado. If you fail, still grasping
Z" drowned Honor by the locks"-if the worst
comes to the worst, and you still stand
b1-ox- tIa Rirbf thon
promise to be '.heroines," but We will take
up our cross, as true-hcGrted ,Comen, and fol-
low on to the death. Much woe, and wrong,
and wretchedness it may be ours to bear,
and We do not close ours eyes to the fact
but trust to be enabled to meet it with that
patient endurance, that sustained fortitude,
and that humble hope in God, which is the
best and bravest of all heroism-which is the
true enthusiasm, (God in u.s. which ought
to distinguish us as women, as Americans,
as Christians.
But now, we ask you for that one effort
more, for our salvation, as nation. Men
and brothers, we ask you for our country
our whole country-for it is ours, no less
than yours. Equaity-Liberty-a Union
the sacred Triune glory of earth, which
we have worshipped only second to the Fri
une Divinity of Heaven-we ask it at your
hands. You cannot give US one element of
this great Trinity without giving us all
you cannot deprive US of one without de-
priving us of all. Will gentlemen assert
that one section shall coerce another, either
into the Union or out of it-and call that
maintaining of our Liberty? Will they drive
us out of the Confederacy, for the purpose
of coming back TO it-or force us to keep to-
gether at the point of the bayonet-and
call that maintaining our Union? VIII
they crush out of Southern hearts the i'm
press of AUTOMATICALLY the hand of vio-
and safeguard-force us to resign territory
which our strong hands and treasure helped
to buy-tell us TO cast aside as valueless our
heritage in Kings Mountain and Bunker
Hill-in our national music-in our national
restige-in that Holy Sepulchre, which Wo-
mans hand has hung with garlands, and
before which England'S crown so lately
knelt-and more, will they scourge us forth
from beneath that starry Flag which has
foated over us so long-a proud protecting
agis amid the battle-stained banners of i'm
memorial renown-will they do all this, we
ask, and call it maintaining our Equality2
Equality and Union are the inalienable
rights of every American citizen; these be-
inc pnesescad ~, hoir full TSbarfy
follows as natural sequence. They are
indissolubly united, and to tell us we must
give up one to gain the others is a mockery
as sad as it is terrible. We have believed
we still believe, that we have men in Ameri-
ca-men "born with the lions mettle and
the oceans calm,' who, under God, can be
made strong enough and true enough to lift
up for us the two great lights, Equality and
Union, turning them into the pillars of cloud
and flame, TO lead us through the wilderness,
and to go before us forever, marshaling us
onward in our march among the nations
From the extremists of any section we must
expect nothing. This is an instance where
extremes meet-for they, though avowing
widely different purposes and pursuing di-
verse paths, are tending practically and
rapidly to the accomplishment of the same
end. Maddened by passion, blinded by pre-
judice-each is arrogating to himself the
final settlement of question which God
himself has fixed and settled by geographi-
cal and isothermal lines, from the FONDA
ton of the woodland the end of the con-
test viii only be the ultimate extinction of
She institation which is now the cause of
their quarrel. We need not ask which wing
of the extremists will triumph in such a
case. We must be willing to let the ex-
tremes pursue their own course-He must