Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-01-29

tS lie sssFsk tis ststes where Il exIsss, Ii arsa
Me Dol;cg 0te Central G0cernhttnt 10 eifcrrsscrtDe
its teaets, al fauor is ultimate eEtlnguisimentu
Now, fiow-citizens when you consider this
mans expaordinary capacities for mischief; when
you takea view Of his principles of action. and
duly scrtinize his character, can you doubt that
the greS, heartfelt nextinguishabe ambition of
his souiks to earn for himself the glory which he
imagine might be acquired by being permanently
recognized the Laberator Of North America I?
And is 4 such ahemon in human shapelas this. upon
whoseeleratioi to the Premiership of Mr.. Lincons
Cabnt, we are to felicitate ourselvesi
Were not this address already too long should
bring to your notice the extent to which Mr. Lincoln
is committed upon all these points. But these mat
tiers were freely discussed In the late Presidential
canvass that it is by no means necessary that
should do So Il is sufficient to say that for Abraham
Lincoln William II. Seward is about as suitable a
Secretary of State could well have been selected:
ARcADEsAMBol Citizens of Davidson county :
are YOU willing to arm these men and their
adherents. the Chases, the Giddingses, the Love
JOYS and the Greeleys, with such vast power for
your destruction as the possession of the Govern
ment will confer, without some shield Of security in
the form of Constitutional amendments being pre-
yiouslv obtained? If you are willing to incur this
so obvious then, indeed, should be wholly insult
able to be chosen your Constitutional representa-
tive at this crisis.
Last summer, when the Presidential contest was
came so strongly impressed with the importance of
securing additional protection to the slaveholdng
rights the South as to be willing to urge the pro-
\ tective demand before the National Democratic
jConvention at Charleston and at Baltimore at the
hazard of disrupting the Democratic party, and to
| the serious enlargement of the Union itself
Though always DESTROYS of fuller protection to this
Important local interest than has ever heretofore
been afforded in the action of the Government did
not deem it altogether judicious to press the point
If protection strenuously at that time under all
he existing circumstances. should be not little
sstounaed to find any Of these excellent adyo-
tes of Southern rights willing to press the demand
] e additional Constitutional guarantees, when the
eection of sectional President, upon purely sec.
tcnal issue, exclusively by sectional States and the
manifest conspiracy existing between Messrs. lin
cdn and Seward and their dark cohorts of sedition
| FOL the enslavemcRt and ruin of the South, have
reIdered it absolutely indispensable that some new
and5mpenetrable shield Of security should be pro-
| vid@ in cur behalf.
! l lm profoundly mortified to discover that
| some now in our midst laboring with a
| mok wicked and daring assiduity to sow the
SEES of unkndness between the seeding
| Staes of the South and those which have thought
prfper to pursue different course Of policy 1t is
ceain that the interests of the people of Tennessee
ar either identical with those of the States to the
Soth of they are SO far interviewer that tits i'm
possible that these Safes could exist prosperously in
safe of permanent political separation. Alienation
au dstrust between them would be inevitably pro-
du,tive of the most baneiuI consequences, such
asI am sure all good men would most pro-
feIndly deplore.
Another schemeswhich is on foot in this vicinsge
is still more to be eensured. 1t is daily
Suggested by the plotters of domestic mis-
chef to the members of that industrious
aid meritorious class known among US as
,sring men, that they have interest whatever in
tie pending questions that they involve the well
fire of Sldvehoding citizens alone and that it is
iIently unreasonable to expect the working men of
tie community TO stand zeaIously and firmly by
leir fellowcitzens and neighbors in pressing this
Ast demand of justice upon the enemies of our
saveholding rights in the free States of the North
Ireoice to know that intelligent and patriotic
low-citiZens of the class referred to- have already
penetrated add exploded this selfish device of the
bwest and basest 'demagogueism. They feel and
understand perfectly how completely their own
prosperity is bound up with the prosperity of those
property holders TO whom they look for employ
flent and without whose patronage they would find
exceedingly difficult to 1--we at all and support and
EDUCATE their families They need no argument TO
convince them that system of gradual emanelpa-
ton, applied to oursaVe population (thS nevIable
result of unchecked Black Republican denuncia-
TOM would be productive of the most certain and
immediate ruin of all our thriving artisans and
lIborers. Those who are at present slaves, being
once made free, and allowed to remain within the
limits of this State land their removal would be ut
trly mpossible,) would raise up so large a number
Ct new competitors for employment in their various
clllings literally to StarVe out those who are now
prosperous and comfortable, and would utterly de-
grade lohite Ldborers of every class. by sing up
the members Of an inferior race to condition of
practical equality with them.
Hoping to most of you, fellow citizens of Da-
wilson county, in the progress of the canvass now
commencing and to have the qualification of inter-
changing sentiment with you freely and unreserved
ly, have the hnnor to be, very cordially and re
spectfuly, your obedient servant,
H 6 FooTE