Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-11-28


and in the midst of carnage we will clasp
to our bosoms that instrument whose
worth has never been transcribed by
human efforts. Soldiers, TO what means
shall we resort for existence? This war
is devoted not merely to victory and its
mighty honors, not merely to the triumph
which moves in glorious procession along
our streets. But it's war which moves
toward the protection of our homes, the
safety of our families, the continuation of
our domestic affairs, and the protection of
our firesides. In such war we are justi-
fed, are bound TO resort to every force
within our power. Having opened the
port of Beaufort we shall be able to eX-
port millions of cotton bales, aud from
these we may raise the sinews of war
Do you say that we should not seize the
cotton?
No; you are clear upon thatpoint. Sup
pose the munitions Ofwar are within our
reach, would we not be guilty of shame
| full neglect if we ayailed not ourselves of
! the opportunity TO use them? Suppose
I the enemy's slaves were arrayed against
| you, would you, from any squeamlsh-
ness, refrain from pointing against them
the hostile gun, and prostrating them in
death? No; that is your object and pur-
| pose: and if YOU would seize their prop
erty, open their ports, and even destroy
i their lives, ask you-whether you would
! not use their slaves? Whether you would
| not arm their slaves [great applause and
carry them in battaiions against their
| masters? Renewed and tumultuous ap-
! plause If necessary to save this Gov
, eminent, / would plunge their whole
! country, black and white, into one indis-
! criminate sea of blood, so that we should
| in the end have Government which
would be the vicegerent of God. Let us
! have no more of this diLletante system,
I but let us work with will and pur-
! pose that cannot be mistaken. Let us
not be put aside from too great a delicacy
. of motive. Soldiers, you know no such
! reasoning as this. You have arms in
your hands, and those arms are placed
there for the purpose of exterminating an
! enemy unless he submits to law, order,
and the Constitution. If he will not sub
nit, explode everything that comes in
your way Set fire to the cotton. Ex-
plode the cotton. Take property WHEREBY
er you may find it. Take the slave and
bestow him upon the nOnslavehOlder, if
+ you please. Great applause. Do to
them as they would do TO us. Raise up
a party of interest against the absent
STAKEHOLDER, distract their counscls, and
if this should not be sufficient, take the
slave by the hand, place a musket in it,
and in Gods name bid him strike for the
! liberty of the human race. Immense
! applause Now, is this emancipation?
| Is this abolitionism? / do not regard it
! as either. 1t no more partakes of Adolf
tionism than a spaniel partakes of the
nature of the lion. Abolitionism is 10
| free the slaves. II is to make war upon
! the South for that purpose. Ii is tOplace
| them above their masters in the social
! scale. 1t is TO assert the great abstract
| principles of equality among men. But
to take the slave and make him an irnple-
ment of war in overcoming your enemy,
! that is military scheme. 1t is mill
tary necessity, and the commander who
! does not this, OF something equivalent TO
! i, is unworthy OF the position he holds,
and equally un worthy of your confidence.
Emancipation! Are we engaged in
war of emancipation If SO, who COM
| menced the war: Not we. And if we
did not commence the war, we cannot be
| charged with its consequences. Where
| had il its origin? Ithad its origin in the
South. 1t was and has been a war of
the South against the free institutions of
| the North. Let me illustrate. Are we
to free their slaves? We do not intend
it. Do you recollect the resolution which
was passed the last session of Congress,
which distinctly declares that il never
| was intended by anybody in this wide
land to free the slaves? Compromise"
too, has been talked of in this natter
Why did they not compromise? Because
it was not their object. say this fear
lessly, for infer it from scenes in which
l was an actor. AT Charleston / remem-
Der that when Mr.. Douglas could not be
| nominated for the Presidency, they were
not satisfied to remain in the Convention.
Trying all their schemes, and failing,
they professed themselves satisfied, and
yet, satisfied as they proclaimed them
selves to be at midnight, the very first
thing next morning was to secede from
the Convention. This, you know, was
fOregOne conclusion. Nothing could be
satisfactory to them except that arms
should be resorted to, and the fate of
revolution abided by. 1 declare, there
fore, that the war is not of our organi-
| zing, but it has been enforced upon US by
a crafty enemy-an enemy resolved to do
or die; to destroy our free Government or
| perish in the attempt. And what is their
| object? Why, their object is to tear
! down this broad, noble and beneficent
Government, to establish a reign of ter
ror, anarchy and confscation in the land:
| to implant upon this our soil the hideous