Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-08-15
...LoyaIt.a.,, and -"RebeI..",- ~s

the North. They were I'D generdi use through
out the grand struggle of our '.fathers' from
I776 to 1888. They are significant in their
meaning and historic associations. They are
coupled indissolubly with every struggle for
freedom mentioned in the broad history of the
human race. In the language OF one OF the
chief organs of the Lincoln despotism, IN
every great struggle. whether OF men OF ma
lions. words come to be things, and have an
effect equal to blows" = The British King In
ITS. adopted these phrases by naming bis
friends "ioyalists" and the patriots in the
American Colonies ''rebels." The former
were faithful to him and his despotism, the
latter were faithful to liberty and inalienable
human rights. The words were equal to
blows" and liberty and right triumphed
Soft is to-day. Loyalty loyal States,
the loyal people-means submission, blind
and unauestioned submission to the uncon-
stitutional behests of the government al
Washington, precisely as it did to blind and
unouestioned submission to the unconstitu-
tional behests of George Ill. In all cases
and throughout all time, when the established
order of things has become intOlerably OPP
pressiVe, resulting, as it always ought to and
will, in rebellion and revolution, the friends
of oppression become "loyalists" and the
frien6s of liberty become rebels" in the
current terms OF the time. 1t has been so
everywhere at all times. The Northern peo-
pie and those who sympathise with them are
to-day ''loyalists." while those who are
struggling for the preservation of the iber-
ties of l776 are the rebels" Be it SO. The
most afiectionately remembered, cherished
aud brilliant pages of history are those which
record the heroism and victorious achieve
ments of "rebels-" As it has been, so it will
be now and forever We accept Times teach
ing and rejoice in the splendid lessons it has
impaired We know that, in the good prov
idence of GOO, Right and Justice will never
be defeated.
Is il required of US that we shall trace the
parallels of history to show that the position
at present assumed by the North, and the
Southern aideTs and abettors of the North, is
the same, in effect, OF every despotism that
has attempted to crush out the liberties of
the people? Has the North one single exam
pie TO which to refer in justification of its war
upon the South Is there single rational
human being on The continent, who does not
know that a government of force is not gov
eminent of consent? And is there an Ameri-
can, fit to be out of the lanatic asylum, who
does not know that the corner stone of Amer
lean freedom is popular consent, and that |
any government resting on any other fOunda |
ton is to Us despotism Yet there are those |
who say, in defiance of every fundamental |
principle upon which our government pro- |
ceeds, that the United States is nation and |
a power, independent of popular consent, and |
in its present difficulties to the
mouarchies of Europe. The theory of all
l.Ioyalists,'' whether they exist in the North
or pollute the soil of the South by their infa-
nous presence, is that the Union is indivisi-
Die and indestructible for any cause or in any
orm. OF course, the theory has its origin
IN monarchical principles and not in the prin-
,iples of republican liberty. They seek all
heir illustrations and examples, their argu-
nents and analogies from monarcbies. Take
he Louisville Journals paper which EN-
braces the entire Northern theory, though
permitted to exist on the free and chiValrous
,oil of our Southern sister, Kentucky-which, |
N an elaborate but false and mischievous ar |
,ument on the indivisibility of the Union, on |
Tuesday last, says:
.ket no one delude himself with the |
hought or fancy that Government. ma
ion, has not right to defend itself, by all |
he powers and energies at Its command,
.painst disruption and dissolution. To do
his il. az a general truth. among nations
most sacred rights and Its highest and most
olemn duties The nation that should not
and assert the right and the duty
youId be the object of all mankind's con-
empt. Surely no human being supposes that
England or France or Spain or Austria or
,ussia. if a portion, even a majority, of a sec
ion of either of those kingdoms or empires |
bould assert the right OF erecting their sec
ion into an independent realm, would per-
mir the right thus claimed TO be practically
sserted. II is absurd to suppose that either
+ them. upon any claim OF portion of their
eopIe to the right of self government, would
nbmit to ACKNOWLEDGMENT, submit to be d.
ided into two kingdoms or empires Sooner
7ouid they wage war OF centuries. war,
$ they would Justly consider it, of national
fe and death"
Thus the accomplished, but slavish and
-aitorous editor of this paper, reiterating the
rguments of his Northern coadjutors, can
nd no other parallel for American princi-
les and nationality, but in those of England.
rance, Spain, Austria, and Russia This is
,e standard by which the enemies of South
rn independence are forced to measure
outhern right and Southern liberty! No
ne will dispute that when people, finding
,e government intolerably oppressive, seek
, cast il off, that government has, by Origi-
al natural right, the right of power, to en-
.ayor TO coerce the revolutionary part; but
il not q moral right, or right established
\ the great principles of human liberty.
he common prudence and caution resulting
om civilization aud enlightenment would
,nsider that right in the light of humanity
nd expediency. So far as the right extends,
simply and only apperIains to the savage
the barbarian, and is not applicable to
ch a government as ours, where nea are
opposed 70 be humane, and to be able to
stinguish between what would be of advan-
.ge or disadvantage to them. The long and
tort of il is, that the theory thus espoused
, the North, if pursued to its logical results
ust resultin despo;ism more absolute even
ian that of Russia or Austria 1t subverts
I'd oyerturns every leading principle of re-
ibIicsn liberty, on which the Union has
sted and been administered from the be-
inning. And unless the people of the North
re up aud crush il out before it obtains too |
sttled and firm foOthold, they and all who
ing to aud sustain this senseless and iniqui-
'os war upon the SOuth. together with their
osterity, will be the subjects of government
lore absolute, if not more despotic, than any