Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-06-05

YOvk Tlfbane.
Mr.. ABRAHAM LINCOLN held the following fsu,gs
in the House of Representatives Of the Cong -ess
of the United States on the 18th of Janu ~, 1885,
[see Appendix to Congressional Globe, ls45-e, o. 94
Any people any where, being inclined ind having
the power, have RIGHT to rise up and 81 aka off the
existing government. and form new one that salts
them better. This is most valuable, a most ss-
cred rights right which, we hope and believe, is
to lberate the world Nor is this right confined to
cases where the whole Of an existing government
may choose 70 exercise it. Any portion OF such
people that con, may rsvolutionze and make their
ocn of 50 much 81 the territory as they inhabit
More than this, majority of any such people may
revolutonize, putting down q minority, intermingled
with, or near about them, who may oppose their
movements Such minority was precisely the case
of the Tories of our own Revolution. It's quail
ity Of revolution not TO go by cd lines or odlaws;
but to break up beth, and make new ones.
Shortly after the election of this same ABRAHAM
LINCOLN to the Presidency of the United States by
a purely sectional party, the New York Tribune,
seeing that that act must result in the withdrawal
from the Union of those States whose people were
unwilling to submit to the rule of an Abohtiouized
sectional party reiterated the doctrine of its master
in the following emphatic language:
| If the Cotton States consider the value of the
Union debatable maintain their perfect right to
discuss IL. Nay we nOlQ WIN J01ereOu 10 lle III
alienable right of communities to alter or abolish
| forms of government that have become oppressive
or injurious aud if the Cotton States shall become
satisfied that they can do better out of the Union
than in it, insist letting them 90 in peace The
right to secede may be q revolutionary one, but
exists nevertheless; and do not how party
! can have a right TO do what another party has
right to prevent. We must ever resist the asserted
right of any State to remain in the Union and nulliy
| or defy the laws thereof; to withdraw from the
| Tr;o 10 ifa thprm mat nd xuho
considerable section of our Union shall deliberately
resolve TO go out shall resist all cite
designed to keep it in. We hope to live a
public whereof one section is pinned to the residue
| by bayonets -Nelo York Tribune. NOU. 9, 1860.
If the Cotton States unitedly and earnestly wish
| to withdraw peacefully from the Union, we think
they should and would be lolDed to do so. ANY at
tempt to compel them BY force to remain, would lie
contrary to the PRINCIPLES enunciated in the immor
! tai Declaration of ndependence-contrary to the
| fundamental ideas on which Human Liberty is
1 based-Neto York Tribune NoU 26, 1860
| What we have affirmed and still maintain, is the
| right of a PEOPLE to frame and modify their pOti
| cal institutions in accordance with their own
| victons of duty and policy affirmed in tie i'm
mortal Declaration of American independence. If
our correspondent has anything to say in confuta-
ton of that doctrine shall be happy to hear him.
If the people of seven eihgt contiguous States
shall pretty unanimously resolve to secede and set
| up for themselves, we think they would do So and
that lood be most unloiSe to undertake to resist
such secession by federal force Why s it that those
| who want to enforce this doctrine make their at
! tack on something else.-Neo York Tribune, Dec.
| 10, 1860.
We have repeatedly asked those who dissent from
our view of this matter, to tell frankly whether
they do do not assent to Mr.. Jeffersons state
ment in the Declaration of Independence, that gov
| erDments "derive their just powers from the CON
| SENT OF THE GOVERNED - and that whenever
any form of government becomes destructive of
these ends. 1T is THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE
| TO ALTER OR ABOLISH IT, and to institute a
/ government, &c, &C. We DO heartily accept this
doctrine, believing it ntrinsically sound, benefeent
and one that universally accepted IS calculated to
/ prevent the shedding of seas of human blood. And
if it justified the secession from the British Empire
of Three millions of Cclonsts in l776 do not
lrhy Joould not JUSTIFY THE SECESSION OF FIVE MIL
LIONS OF SoUTHRONs from the Federal Union in 1861
| If we are mistaken on this point, why does not
| some one attempt to show wherein and why? For
our our own part, while deny the right of slave
holders to hold slaves against the will of the latter
/ we cannot see how Twenty Millions of people can
rightfully hold ten Five Millions in q detes
| ed Union with them by MILITARY FORCE.
| There is hardly great principle which may not
be thus run into the ground But if eight
contiguous States shall present themselves authent
cally at Washington, saying, We hate the Federal
Union ; we have withdrawn from 1t we give you
the choice between scquesclng in secession, and
arranging amicably all incidental questions on the
one hand, and attempting to subdue US upon the 9TH
er-loe c5d not stand up for COERCION for sUBJUGA>
TIoN for we do not think it ould be Just. We hold
the right of selfgOvernment sacred, even when in
yoked in behalf of of these who deny it to others.
| If ever " seven or eight States" send
| agents to Washington to say, We want to get out
of the Union" we shall feel constrained by our de-
votion to Human Liberty to say, Let them go 2"
| And we do not see how we could take the other
side without comi:g in direct conflict with those
Rights of Man which we hold paramount to all po-
ltical arrangements, however convenient and advan-
| tageous.-Nelo York Tribune, Dec. II, 1860.
The Tribune would find it the most difficult task it
ever undertook to ITSELF but LINCOLN changed
and with him still goes the Tribune. Right or
| wrong, the Tribune follows LINCOLN.