Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-04-28
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II.
IHitors Union and American
Through your valuable and pafrioue oou1nern
Rights Journal wish to be permitted 70 inAAe oil
appeal to nay relations, friends and al pa'rio's sas
love the South and Southern institnnons' anu 'na'
does not want to see their Southern brethren OF ne
Confederate States murdered by the tens OF tnou-
sards and the remnant that may De leis a1ter Inc
r,o.sscre become conquered slaves and dependen-
clos n bolition Government of the North-to the
..,se If the Southern Confedsracy be their cause
.nd IL needs be let the last man, that IS able to
sboulder his rifle and march five miles per day
MARCH to the conflict wish to give you piain
statement of facts as they exist thrcugnou' ING
North at one time had the utmost conndence
in the professions of the Northern Democrats pu1
alas they have succumbed to the popular DOGMA u
the Abolition fanatics Almost the entire press Oh
the North of all shades of politics, arepying thei
selves to sustainthe Presiaentln his anu
,,uiustifable war, that he has proclaimed against
| the Southern people. The Democratic poh'lciAns
of the North have succumbed to Aoontionlsni' anu
] in less than twenty days nine out Oh every
ten of the rank and file will De "hippeu
| in There are public meetings being hei0
| in every nook and corner in this state, irres>
oective of party for the purpose OF deVlslng MEANS
aising volunteers and funds for the support OF
I,rScoIN Wharf.-The Democratic party OF the North
west in State Conventions during the past winter
| declared by resolutions, that if the Administra-
zion should persist in carrying out the coercIve pol
| icv of the marty. and thereby bring about civil
! aa, between the sections that 1t would be an ag-
,ressive war, and that they would not support It
that the Black Republicans could fight it out them
| selves: but what change has come over their
peaceful dreams they now say that Abolihonism has
to be supported by millions of men and money,
necessary.
The Iowa State Journal a paper that have here
tofore thought to be one of the most patriotic and
unflinching Democratic papers in the Union, and
cordial supporter of the BUCHANAN Administration
now saws that if war must come, let not the stars
and stripes be dshonored in the contest. Let 1t
! bear itself proudly and triumphanty through the
| conflict and the dignity of the Government be
maintained at all hazards He says millions OF
treasure. and thousands of men will be sacrificed,
but that matters but little. He says let us have no
boys play on the part of Mr.. LINCOLN. If war is to
be the programme, let every nerve be strained 10
| sustain the National honor. he says seventy-nVe
| thousand men are not commencement, let US have
| two hundred and fifty thousand men,
This sheet also publishes call of the citizens OF
| Des Moins for meeting to sustain the adminstra-
| ton see the names of our leading Democratic
politicians signed to it, some of them that have only
been from Kentucky, and Virginia three or four
years It is said that when man sells himself to
! the popular dogma of the day that he becomes
more fanatieal and corrupt than the man does
| that has been rocked in the cradle of fanaticism
from infancy. There a few Democrats IN the
North that are true and loyal to their whole coun-
try, and men that will die before they will take up
arms against the South man is IN danger Of 10 sing
his life, TO say that he SympGthies o0th the Soadh
The Black Republicans say that they intend to
hang every man that says he sympathised with the
South an excited mob of abotionists in Des Moins,
was about to hang as good man and as good
citizen as there in the State because he said that
the South was fighting in selfdefence, and that he
| sympathised with the South; they got the rope
| around his neck; there is the greatest excite
ment here that have ever seen they are threat
ming to shoot and hang every man that does not
| support the administration Since set down to
| write this letter, / learn that there Is strong
talk of proclaimIng martial law, and if any man
| expresses sympathy with the South to hang him up
| to the nearest tree. l am going to start South
| in twenty days, or sooner; my lie Is IN DANGER
! There are hundreds of thousands of men enrolling
under the banner of LINCOLN and private citizens are
subscribing hundreds eff thousands of dollars. L
| oeseech Tennesseans TO enlist in behalf OF the
South, every man that is able to bear arms
| z. S.. APRIL 22.-The greatest excitement pre-
| walls There will not be less than one million of
men in the field against the South, if LINCOLN will
receive them All are united here against the
South For the sake of everything that you hold
sacred and for the lives and happiness OF your
wives and children and for the honor of Tennessee
let her be taken high and dry out of the Union and
Join your Southern sisters, and beat back the mil
lions of Abolition fanatics that will march against
you-as they say-for the purpose of giving you a
| TENNESSEE