Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-03-10
EXTRACTS from Business Correspondence

Extracts from Business Correspondence
JASPER, TENN, March 4, 1S6I-"I send you the
money to renew my subscription to your paper,
believing my year has almost expired, though have
not seen the mark yet 1t matters not for that
Iwant the paper forI like the principles itadvocates
ard the ability with which it makes tspoints lean
but very deeply regret the late action of our State
in voting down State Convention. What does it
mean9 The people in their primary meetings all
over the State requested the Governor to convene
the Legislature to take into consideration the pro
priety of calling Convention, They seemed to be
in earnest they undoubtedly thought then that
they were in danger, and that the Black Republican
party had denied them their constitutional rights
and equality. What has transpired between that
time and the election quell all their fears moth
ing that / can see, unless it was that the Great
Spirits at your city had spoken to them and said
Peace be unto you, there is no danger from the
North, and the cry here is, this glorious Union
must be preserved, and tie laws enforced against
the seeding States at all hazards, using this very
argumentn substance against those States that Black
Republicans in Congress and out OF 1t use carrying
Quito fraction part of the programme laid down by
HELPER ; some leaders in the party saying If the
negroes are to be fought for the owners may do tho
fighting they of course having no interest in them
These sort of arguments viii naturally enough
engender bad feeling in the bosoms of many non
shareholders against those Of their neighbors who
have been more fortunate than themselves. There
fore, it is plain to see where we are drifting to-
Putting the arguments and the non-aetion OF the
State together it to me- that 1t takes no great
forethought to discover the great calamity that will
soon overtake u.s. / mean that it will have the eff
feet of growing up in very midst in few
years Black Republican party which, If they can
do no more can harrass the Shareholder by encour~
agiug the slave to be more disobedient and less
content and IN various other ways not necessary to
speak Of If the present courge of the State is per-
sisted in long fear it is the great entering wedge
in Tennessee for emancipation. / hope and trust
that the people of great State like Tennessee will
not so far forget their interests and Sefrepect as
to stake them on game they are SO sure to loose
Ibope we will soon see a reaction take place in
public sentiment if not all my hopes Will be blasted
in NV State returning back to ask her rights and
eouaKty and maintain them, will bow my head ID
shame and hardly own myself to be Tennessean
It seems to me that the only question to settle
now in Tennessee is who she is going to fight for
whether she will fight at ALL if her militia is called
| on by Mr. LINCOLN, to make war on the Southern
States to subjugate them and hold them as conquer
cd PROVINCES or for the purpose of ringing tribute
from them to fill the Black Republican treasury,
the more completely to enable them 10 carry on
their diabolicai warfare against brave and gener-
ous people, contending for just rights. Will they
obey the call? viii she send her soldiers from
Marion county, Tennessee, over in Dade county,
Georgia. where they can begin quick, as they will
NOT have but few miles to go before they would
find some of the traitors and where they would be
right among their nearest and dearest relatives, to
unfurl their bloody banner, and begin their diabo-
cal work of subjagation know the good people
of Marion could not act thus to Dade county. Well,
if Won cannot act thus with Dade, pray stop and
think before you insist on coercion. Look round
you and see how many Of u.s. or opr parents who
camefrom some of those States leaving large family
connexions, which are near and dear to us."G