Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-02-23
.Ano,her Revolusson seees..ry.n


The expression of sentiment from South
Carolina against the action Of the Moutgom-
cry convention is strong aud threatening.
The constitutional brandt affixed TO slave
~, and the constitutional recognition of the
protective policy greatly incense the leading
sen timent of Charleston, as they should, nor
do men of the Spratt and Rhett stamp stop
with mere words--they boldly threaten
another revolution. At the end of five col
umns of vehement remonstrance published
in the Mercury, of February IA, Spratt, the
vehement champion of the slave trade, uses
the following language. Speaking of the
great southern movement to "declare slave
~ to be the normal constitutions of society,"
he says, addressing a leading member of the
Montgomery convention "The members of
your convention may misdirect the move
meut; they may impede the movement; they
may so divert it that another revolution may
be necessary; but if necessarily that other
revolution comes, slavery will stand serene,
erect, aloft, un4uestioned as to its rights or
its integrity, at some point within the pres
ent limits of the southern States; and it Is
only for the present actors to determine
whether they will contribute, or Be crushed TO,
that RESULT eff the clause against the
slave trade) be carried into the permanent
government, our ,chole movement is defeated. 1t
will abolitionize the border States--it will
brand our institution. Slavery cannot share
a government with democracy; it cannot
bear brand upon it; thence another revolu-
ton. 1t may be painful, but we must make
it. The Constitution cannot be changed
without it 1t Is doubtful if another move
ment will be 80 peaceful; but no matter, no
power but the convention can avert the
necessity"
If such is the hostility evoked on the very
first day Of the PRONUNCIATION of the new
government, what will be the violence ulti-
n,ately developed when the power OF the
new confederacy goes to work. collects taxes,
demands quotas of troops, takes possession
of forts, and yields that strong and decisive
arm which every one of the men III authori-
ty have SO often expressed their intention to
organize. Power on the part of the United
States has been remote, Intangible thing,
touching nobody but to benefit him, and be-
ing known only through its benefcent
deeds; but month of vigorous rule by the
Montgomery authority would burn and bis
ter thousand real persons and real inter-
ests. No one of these would think of quiet
submission either. Spratt, with his slave
trade dogma, is no worse than hundred
others who have figured in the South Carroll
ma rebellion. There would inevitably be
another revolution, and that, as Spratt says,
might not be so peaceful. There would be
contingents and Alabama contIngents, gath
cred under Gen. JEFF. Davis, man who is
twice as bitter, as military partisan, than
General Scott. When gathered in armies at
Montgomery, they would march, taking
Charleston on the land side, as Major Ander-
son threatens it from the sea.
Mr.. Spratts argument as to the merits of
the ultra slavery case he presents, should be
known; unfortunately we have not room to
quote them. He contends that every form of
labor should be performed by negro slaves,
and he deprecates the introduction of white
mechanics into Charleston, as calamity
threatening the peace of the city. In South
Carolina generally, he says. "there is no ap-
peal to the mass, because there is no mass to
appeal to; there are no demagogues, because
there is no populace to breed them; judges
are not forced on the stump, governors are
not dragged before the people," But this
slavery be not promptly strengthened by the
may become numerous; "they will question
the right of masters to employ their slaves
in any work that they may wish for, they
will use the elective franchise to that end;
they may acquire the power to determine
our municipal elections, AID they will mex
orably use it; and thus this town of Charles
ton, at the very heart of slavery, may be-
come the fortress Of democratic power
against it."
This is the insanity which lay at the root
of secession and revolution originally, and
it is already breeding a !new revolution
against the Montgomery confederacy.--NorhI
American.