Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-03-12

has sold out bYings fothng back but money. take,
nothing Ia exchange, tecollect that point.
When the merchants Of Tennessee 90 on for GOOD.
&fy all 60 10 Philadelphia or rather New Sz,rk
I'D when tlley have brought out their goods and
30 b them, tlIey take nothing in return but u1,,ev
SO ihat the money the farmer gets for his nfodnca
he pays over TO the merchant for goods and fbe
merchant forward it 10 New York So shat for
thirt years there has been stream Of geld and ell
yer W fs equivalent exchange flowing from tbse
count ~ 70 New York large enough 20 turs, . MIL
and zst one dollar can come back thev buv nofne
of us. Thus we have left our own coast towns and
cities 10 dwindle and almost perish and helm 70
1allde row at9er row OF marble fpalacies in New
York Eve miles long and to swell their population to
more han million. Now sdfsiass VI.
look 70 our own interest awhile and di-
rect our 8 trade to our own Soufherr,
coast and as we help to build up cities and increase
popoulation In that direction. we begin to make for
ourselves market. For you cannot increase the
population our Southern coast without icreas-
ipg the demand on US for supplies. For every new
settler in that direction vor will have To raise one
more hog and barrel Of -four to feed him, and
when the time shall come that we shall go to the
same point to buy that we go to SELF then you may
keep what cash you have Oh hand in your pocket,
and your sales will make your purchases and more,
when your capital will increase and you win be I'M
der tribute to no one, so far as exchange is con-
cerned.
But before close, will say a word or two on the
Of conversation in all most every crowd I viii be
excused for giving my views, which shall do in my
lsThs Fight Of secession regard as the strongest
law of nature, which is The right to defend mysey
tohen can get no body else TO do 1t.
Gin the union of States, each State yielded to the
General Government the right to protect itself from
ali external foes, to declare war, and make peace,
and to attend to all the interest Of the State in
tioaI affairs; and in this respect should State
c.fo-
Of any other State, the General Government is as
certainly bound to protect and defend the injured
State as If the injury were done by any foreign
power. Now to the case in hand For thirty years
portion of the citizens Of the free States have been
pursuing course adverse to the interest Of the
slave States. Their is calculated to defame
the character of the citizens of the slave States 3D.
render less secure their property and Sd, to dis
tnrb their domestic peace, and endanger their lives
This was still borne with while the Federal Cow
ernt was kept in the hands of conservative men,
But Just so soon as it evident that the Federal
Government had passed into the hands of those who
had vowed thousand times the death of slavery and
take their motto universal freedom, any person
at the first blush Of the subject, that the South
cannot look to the acknowledgements for projections
SO that there was no alternative left the South but
either to submit to Abolition rule ruin, with
draw that concession which had been made to the
Federal Government and take measures for self
defence. Whatever this Government may be in
u
ton of Southern interest is concerned. So that the
law of selfproIeetion, which is stronger than all
human enactment compels the action of the South
ern States. - -rse l-ee.
But what Of coercions believe that the Federal
Government has the right of coercion just SO far as
it would be right TO coerce, and where coercion
would be wrong of course she has no right what
ever. She had the right where petitions were sent
to Congress, the prayer of which, if granted would
have sngered sn unofending neighbor, and done no
good to the petitioner, to have BronoHnped such pc
htlons as incendiary in their character, and COM
PEELED their discontinuance. Again, when news.
papers were established in the North for the pur
pose Of depreciating Southern property and inter-
fering with domestic relations of the people of the
South, the Federal Government could have COM
PEELED the North to let the South alone.
And when incendiary books were published the
Federal Government could have taken measures to
have punished the offenders, and refused to have
carried those foul docunents throughout the coEn-
try by her postal arrangements. And when laws
were passed by Northern States directly contact
with Federal Isws and tbs interest of the South she
could have laid the hand of Federal authority the
Governors OF those States and held them to account
In such directions as these coercion would have been
right But to coerce State that has been waiting
for of years for the Federal Government to
aefend it. and waited in yaln and now that the State
has concluded t9 defend itself lor the Federal GgV
ernment to compel the State TO be quiet and still
submit to further injury, would be crtel No such
coercion VIII ever be submitted TO by the South.
And nov, IN oebelusion, Permit me to say that our
Government is dissolved, and |, for one, shal tpFn
to the South as my friend and my country.
want no quarrel with the North nor war, let US
part in peace, and then the agitation this yexed
question viii be at an end Some say they ike the
people Of the South, but do like the leaders.
] wonder if they ike the leader at Washington |
Some say that If the South should all go off, Canada
viii be- brought to the Ohio riyer-fnuch better |
have Canada there, SO far as the negroes are con-
cerned, they never decoy negro to leaye his mas
ter. But just sosn as the South shall take con-
troll of her own institutions, and the conscience of
the Northern Abotionist shall be relieved, they |
would not have our negroes; they have no desire |
for such population SO liberated slaves make; and |
my calculation Is that q portion Of the Northern
States viii ultimately go with u.s. ~
g As the writer is unknown to your readers, will |
Just say, that was born in this State that my IA
Their was soldier in the Revolutionary war; that
ay politics vas in sympathy with the Wings, and |
that in the last Presidential election voted for the
Hon. John Bell, QSE OF THE People,