Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-07-13

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! peaceful ard happy country. Te hear il with as
t0nishnenS a. the madness OF ignorance and passion
butT we answer It without disnay or fear. Il comes
nearer. clearer. deadler In its toness. The Asrcs
aao furious 30 sting Of the nsoleRs invader sWeepu
org The vines day after day if he were talkiRr
TO children or fools. The srovl Of the angry
cowardly wolf, low that be Is stripped Of
| his fsecy garh in which he deceived oven the
elset, with breathings Of peace, whilst mediate
/ ing insurrection, war and rapine, Is heard
! from every den and covert Of his icy borders We
hear il as the hiss Of serpent, and stand ready to
strike It in all its snakey coils and enYencmed aims
| whenever It shall attempt what it so boastfully
\ threatens. We have no boasts of proves and DOW
er. The day Of trial is at hand, eni viii reveal
what We are AID what We will do. But we are
| freemsn-I love TO breath the air OF liberty among
your grain clad nils and along Your pure pelucid
streams, and mingle my song of gratitude with its
divine breath as 1t rises from muPmuring brook and
the carol of the bright birds of the glen! By that
/ name we were born; of that parentage we boast
and to perpetuate it we will live, and dare, and do
or die TO conseerate the soil whereOn tyranny may
| erect its tomb.
| Freemen never were conquered. This thought
IS streBgth for this thought allies US to the God
| of Nature and her ever-u unfolding power for the
| good Of all even the least
Our rights, our inheritance, our solemn obliga-
| tons and responsibility people, we have stated
from the lips OF as pure patriotism and high
morality as the world ever witnessed from wear to
year. In the couDsels of the nation the seats of the
state power, 10 the forum and on the platforms of
| the National parties. We were not believed and
received repeated insults the response of pretend
ed brothers
IL all vain. II remains for Us now to indicate
our rights our honor all. the felo of battle
they have chosen and made, and leave to all DER
shadOwing Heaven the result. This we will DO
while one manP mains TO lift on high the appeal Of
his strong right arm.
The North has told us for many long years and
while reaping the rich reward of our Iabor, that
she responsible for sins, and especially our
sin Of taki0g care of the negro race and not ours
ing him with the starvation incident to an irrespOn
si5e and undesired freedom They have done this
without providing home, nay even resting place
for the foot Of single COlOred man. where he could
be free from their own grasping avaricOus tres
passes In ali the wide territory mostly the gift of
Southern States, they have not pr IF, red even a
county where he might dwell in safety. Still they
claim to be responsible for our sin Of African ser
vitude. We have now relieved them from all po-
litica responsibility. They have depicted the dan
gers of african slavery. We have taken them into
our Jwn hands They have predicted insurreetioD,
and we're ready, as are all false prophets to fulfill
amongst oar Ignorant negroes their own prediction.
We take the prophecy and the danger of its fulfill
ment into our hands and feel that neither race
Is ever half so secure when freed from the mer-
cenary fOrebOders of evil they live to prOpitiate
an 1UreshadOw. They tell Us we will we must
stIrve without their friendly aid. We answer so
let it be rather than an ins0lent vulgar and
bOlsttul usurpeP They seem not even willing to
allow US the poor privilege Of starvation and self
destruction so very d:snterested is their ympathy
for our forlOrn condition. Great and lust Heave1i
What meaneth such hypocrisy, if il be arouse
whole people TO renew their manhood and manly
honor, virtue and power? Is il not enough that We
have the cOiored race whose characterization they
predict and strive to promote, whose chains their
mad fanatcism has only served to riVet? Is it not
enough that we are poor and must come to naught
in our poverty? Defenceless, and must soon peri h
IN our degradation. In the name of Heaven why
not leave Us to our fate, if such be their honest
estimate of our dangers and doom,
aye. we have spoken at last 10 tones they can
not misunderstood or By m=rcenary press and
Prosntutsd pulpit, perveTt We have said at
length-yOu shall leave US. We have said this in
action that Commands its silent and solemn
significance the ear of the veteran nations of the
earth. The destruction, the poverty, the d-sOlR-
uUn SOW lmpends over their own heads. Thus
it is ever with pretentiOns GsurpatiOn when the
spirit of truth and justice breathes DER the putrid
carcass of decayed forms and to life the armies
of Revolution to assert III their majesty tie sOver
eighty Of man in the power not OF profession but
of unfolled capacity.
Such. gentlemen, is the true state of this strug-
gle. and our ability 20 go through il will be az
tested by time and not by rofessions Of beastfal
numbers and resources.
hear mach said of the relative strength and
resources of the States North and South l feel
that l can make just estimate Of these. But it
is an idle task at an hour like the present ] know
something Of our own resources snd rejoice in
them But It's nos what htUe but ,chdl tcs are,
that will write the inscription of National great
ness or National shame | rely wholly upon the
HldaijRess of our people. That and that alone can
make, develop or use the resources, that all
bouLteOus Providence. with lavish hand has
stored in the bowels of our mountains and spread
wide DER all our smiling fields. Men of prosperity
are often timid in the very hour when timidity
endargers all Thus they loose what an adher-
ence 10 principle would have preserved IN them
selves aud their children for good II property
or any other external consideration cause peO-
pie TO desert their bIrthrght in freedom, it is
unsafe from that hour. Do not mistake me herd
1t Is peculiarly gratifying 70 know that men
of property have cOme up as true men and
patriots. and upon the altar of country placed
their fortunes for its preservation and defence It
is noble; It is q refreshing spectacle and promises
more than human language can portray. This spirit
wherever sincerely felt will give success aud glory
to a cause SO lust The value Of wealth it were by
pOcry 10 GespIse But wealth Is not greatness much
less Is II goodness. mighty engine for good IN
IN the hands OF a manly, 3 free. Just |
aud Independent people An invitation invasion,
trespass and destruction, TO mere tTuCklIngs and
pretenders. Mark yOg the destruction. Property |
should be sacred to the ends of life, Of human H.
erty and happiness. When not So hell has no deep
er cUrse,-eaTth prepares herself for more wide
spread deSOiatiou. 1t exists TO make State Ma
-iOnaiIty, that we may perpetuste race Of noble !
men and enn0bling women. Upon the altar Of
country and common good It Is ever placed. and
Is people rise in the scale Of being to assert and
nairtaD a manly independence and Just Ubserv-
lnce Of all the rights OF man. il their pride their
ylOry their highest veal to hold all grass wither-
ID and rotten, when their rights are threatened by
nsolent invasion. Why, We a people to day have
nothing sacred. nothing left, were it not that we
lave arisen in the majesty of our might to assert
,ur independence. This makes US men in the hour
# birth a nation, and this will preserve the
radle of our liberty and make It a citadel Of pow
r unapprOachable and imPreguable to the mad
waves of passion that threaten every buWark erect
d by our heroic fathers.
The day was when home, land. credit, all were
iven for freedom. That day returns, and it does
ny soul good to see in all this land that are prov
nc ourselves worthy of our birth from the heroes
hat day. Not that / would have dollar given
where there is no need No lavish expenditure feed
Dg pomp, pride and false ambition No, oh no.
every resource Let every soldier, every
fhcer civil military, feel that his salary is his
Ountry's if need require Let every man and wO-
nan wear out their old garments. Buy no goods
on manufacture during the war. Waste not
traw a grain no matter how bOuntifully our har-
ests have yielded to our labor. Receive the boun-
and hold it for the highest good. This will make
s noble, worthy, united, great and good
eOple, and Heavens shield and blessing will encir
le Us, wives our little ones, our servants and
he stranger within our gates.
You have heard the trire expression, " the dsys !
nat tried mems souls' The days in which we ! I
leet will try US by the soul How much soul have
re- is the question asked by every advance of the
nemy, and answered by every assertion of our !
wn manly right. Let u.s. then. hold Ourselves. our
roperty our talents, our energy our industry, our
Il at the service Of our country, asking not for /
Onor place, but striving to make every place q
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