Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-12-15
The UnIon Chimora.

A peace proposition, 80 called, has been present
81 in the Federal Senate, be Nr sArIsBURr, of Del
aware. BE has moved for the appointment Of =
set Of Commissioners, on the part of the Uaited
States, to confer with the Commissioners on the
part Of the Confederate States, for the preserva
ton Of the Unoa, and the maintenance Of the Con-
stitution; as If there were Union. says the New
Orleans Picoqvns between these yet 70 be preseTv-
ed, and Constitution yet to be maintained. Th,
North has destroyed the Constitution, and theSoutl
renowned the Union. Beth facts are fixed an
Irrevsrsible. The North cOnnot make Constitu
ton under which the South would trust them the
South will never live under the sams Governments
with such as the Northern rsss have shown them
selves to be. Acommssion on the means for eectina
what is predetermined imposEibIty is q manifest
absurdiiy. -.
How many votes viii Mr.. sAULsBUET's project sc
in the Federal Senate: -Four or five, perhaps, OF
the forty and odd who constitute the DO y in lie
mutilated state. If By any possible and wonderful
trAnsmutaton Of politics, it should get throug
there and through the other House, both of whom
are now breathing fire and slaughter against the
South, how many votes could be get in the Con
fsderate Congress at Richmond, for Conference 70
debate on that basis? Not one. How many Of th,
many millions of free Southern people, who have
given hearts and means to this corfet for the lib
critics of the South would consent that it shoulu
be made topic of inquiry wheeler they shall evei
go again into political association with the peri IL
Gus North? If there be one in ten tn ousand. D.
covers himself from the scorn of his cUuntrymer
BY eoncealng his craven Thought
Mr. SGULsBUAY's scheme, therefore, comes 10
nought in It's birth. and bsfore its birth Pacific.
ton, by the tying tegether of two races that hayc
learned how thoroughly and radically they ar
dissimilsr and TO feel in the bleeding wounds an
hot enbers Of an unquenehed civil war how fierce.
ly these antsgonsms rage Is not the suggestion of
statesmsnship, but the plea of poor necessity of
which unhappily, Mr.. SAULsBUaT and his State ar.
subj and victims
Delaware has indeed great interest in the crea
ton of some government which would take her |
out Of the circle Of the LIEc 0LS States The old
Constitution was sp cial blessing to her. and |
could it have been preserved, she might well cling
to it a. her bulWark against the evils and oupr a
Sions which now thrssten her from the unchecked |
North. Under the constitution, as the LrsooI,
States use it, Delaware, az any other small Ssats
ia a mere tolerated excre scence on the huge mass
of consolidated nationality, which may be ex
cised at any momeut which may suit the
convenience or caprice Of her huge sssO-
sOcistes. She is, among them, practically
only "the lower counties on the Delaware az abe
was called IN primitive times, before she took on
herself the functions of an American state. The
examples which abound in her eyes now of the su-
dscious lawesspess with which the central author
ity trsmples out Of its way State rights, govern,
nsnts and social institutions, whenever it desires