Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-01-20

We see from Washington dispatches that Senator
CR1rrrNpES. of Kentucky, has consented to weaken
whatever influence he may have as paclfcstor, by
the declaration that the Union must be preserved
neaceably or fsrcbly, and that Kentucky would not
consent TO be border State Of Southern Confede-
rav He said that force used aganstlawless citizens
of Government is not coercion There is no such
thing as preserving the Union forcibly." The first
gun fired for that purpose by Federal force will
proye the death knell of the Union. The citizens Of
the Southern States with proportOnatey as few ex-
cepons as there were royalists in the revolution,
viii rally to the rescue Of any Southern State which
the federal Government may attempt to subjugae by
arms If by the superiority of numbers the Federal
Government should succeed in con4uering the seee-
ding States will that restore the Union as 1t was!
VIII the subjugation of free and sovereign State
to the condition of conquered province satisfy the
ambition of those idolaters of the Union who talk
about force? Is that the kind Of Union they wor-
ship Union from which are wrested all It's charm
and glory, where a portion Of the confederacy
deprived alike of its independence, freedom anu
equality, and made to submissively, the cnalns
forged for 1t by the proud invaders Of Its SOIL! Inc
people Of the South have loved the Union they nave
proven their devotion to it by the pa'ience
and forbearance with which they nave
borne wrong, insult, robbery and INVASION
They have cherished in their hearts hanltual at
tacbunent TO it. But such Union as this they VIII
snurn from them as they would viper from their
bosoras When they are asked to sacrifice their man
hood and INDEPENDENCE, their freedom and equali-
itv for the preservation of Union that would saw
agelv butcher its freeborn citizens, because they will
not submit to wrong, they will cast defiance into
the teeth of the usurper and hazard all for their
honor. Has it indeed come to this, that South
ern Senator can calmly stand up in the Senate,
and talk about coercing his Southern brethren with
out the murmurs of his indignant countrymen strlk
ing him dumb in his seat. But the south WIZ
not be subiugated. Eight millions OF people
contending for their sacred rights and lighting I'M
der the protection of just God, cannot be conquer
ell They will rise up, as our Colonial fatners
would and chastise their oppressors. There is
stage in the history Of these expressions when the
whrlwind of popular Indignation rises to height
and accommodates strength that no human power
can stand before it. That stage is fast approaching
Forbearance has almost ceased to be virtue, when
the South is tainted by of her own Senators In
this manner. We have had great veneration for
the Senator from Kentucky, though we have always
differed from him politically. Yet if he were ten
times as venerable as he Is and il his honors were
more than his years. we could not hesitate to
express indignation at declaration imprudent and
dsloval to his section He moreover said that Ken
lucky would never consent to be border State of
r Southern Confederacy. If the alternative is pre-
scented we think that Kentucky will far prefer this
position to being the border State of Black Re
publican Confederacy. If she doeg not, we can only
say that de gltsbuS non diSpatdndfm.