Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-06-01
The Cause of Independence i'm viii
Hanson County.


We learn from the Franklin Reuiesc that
large concourse of citizens of Williamson
county assembled 10 a beautiful grove near
Franklin Saturday last, to hear discussion OF
the exciting political topics of the day. The
speakers were Hon ANDREW EWING, Hon.
JOHN BELL, JOHN MARSHALL, ESD, and DAVID
CAMPBELL, Esq. ,all of them representatives in
February last of the Conservative Southern
Rights Union Party which carried the State.
On this occasion, they appeared before the peo-
pie, not as advocates of the Union, for that
is destroyed and the Constitution trampled
under foot by the Federal Administration,
but as supporters of Southern Independence.
The ReUieaO, commenting upon the remarks
of Mr.. EWING says-"He declared it as bis
deliberate conviction, after mature delibera-
ton, that the old Union was dissolved forever
that the time had passed when a recon-
struction oNthe Union was impossible. In
tones of fervid eloquence be urged upon the
people to arm for the coming conflict, and to
resist -bS, armed force the hostile tread of
Lincoln's invading army who were probably
at that.hour engaged in deadly conflict with
our bred I'm of Virginia. He said that if it
were possible for the North to conquer the
South in this Struggle, there was no POSSIBLE
ity Of our remaining free, Independent and
coesual States, but some great military
leader would probably be put into power and
crush out the last vestige of liberty"
Mr.. BELLS speech, the Revia0 says, was
cable, statesmanlike and conclusive. He
held up before the gaze of the people the
glaring duplicity of the Lincoln administra--
ton, and denounced, in unmeasured terms,
the war policy of Mr.. Seward. Mr.. Bell took
substantially the same ground with Mr.. Ewing
on the reconstruction" question and urged
immediate and united armed resistance to
the forces of the North that are being poured
down upon US for our destruction and subju-
gation.n
The ReUie1c adds
Hon. John Marshall followed, and, without
any disparagemeht to the other distinguished
gentlemen, his speech, by the universal YER
dict of the large assemblage, was the speech
of the day The great questions that are
night and day pressing upon the mind of ev-
cry man, are, how shall / vote on the 9Th of
June? Shall 1 vote for SEPARATION from the
old Government! Shall vote for REPRE-
sENTATIoN in the new?
Mr.. Marshall marched boldly up to the
questions He proclaimed himself "rebel"
to the government of Abraham Lincoln. He
said he would vote on the 9Th of June for
and Representation and told the
people why he would do so and urged every
voter present to come forward and do like
wise. Mr.. Marshall concluded with an earn
est and eloquent appeal to the young men of
the country to come forward and enroll their
names in the service of the State and battle
for right and liberty. He entreated the
fathers and mothers not to keep their sons
from so great and so honorable a service, the
wives not to detain their husbands and the
sisters not to throw obstacles in the way of
their brothers.
At the close of Mr.. Marshall's speech
David Campbell, Esq, was loudly called for,
but declined on account of the lateness of the
hour, to make speech-he only had time to
announce to the people that he endorsed
every position Mr.. Marshall had taken and
trusted that the work would go bravely on.