Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-01-12

The practical acknowledgements of the Southern
States by the election over all their appeals remon
straHces and protestations, Of hostile sectional
candidate for the Presidency has oblitera:ed all in
terest in the South to the composition of his Ad-
minstratOn. 1t is not agreeable task for brave
and spirited people to coolly and deliberately dis
cuss the degree Of their degradation, and calmly TO
calculate the amount of odium, and insult that
may be heaped upon them by their triumphantenemy
Since the election of LINCOLN the sons ofthe South
have felt that henceforth they are to have neither
voice nor part in Federal affairs. Prescribed by sec
tonal hate and ostracized by the overwhelming vir-
dict of their Northern confederates, from their
proud position of equals, they know that the mere
form of representation at Washington is but sol
emn mockery, only useful to remind them OF their
fallen estate. Hence, though the Northern Press
has been busy in and gossip, with regard to
the material of LNCoIN's cabinet the Southern
people have ceased to consider the subject as one
claiming their interest.
They have only awakened from this Indifference
by the semi-oficIal announcement from WEEDS Jour
nal and GREELEY's Tribune, that SEWARD of New
York. has been rendered and accepted the Pre-
miership-the same SEWARD who is the author
of the higher law and the echo of the rrreprssibe
conflict the same whose senatorial career has been
4 standing menace and living insult to the South
ern States-the same whose oily eloquence has been
exhausted in the prostitution of Northern opinion
10 COMPASS the destruction of Southern rights, tC
degrade the white man to the unnatural position OF
equal with the negro and to destroy the foundation
stone of the Constitution in the destruction of the
equality of the ST. .es. 1t has mattored little il
,,,;,,ls a. many Coutbarn mon whether Mr. LIN
colin chose to employ supplant tools as his minis
tcrs, or to avail himself of the accomplished art:
and talents of the Machiavelli of the Black Repub
Ican school He is known by them to be as deter
mined an enemy of Southern civilization as SEWARD
himself But there are many others who have re
garied him as being one Of the more conservative
members of his faction selected az lis chief, on ac
count of his obscurity and availability
We concur with the former class and believe that
Mr. LINCOLN is as much Representative man as Mr.
SEWARD We have neither underrated his ability
his fanatcism or his interruptions malignIty toward;
Southern institutions. But the appointment of Mr.
SEWARD TO the first position in the new cabinet has
aroused apprehensions and awakened spirit of re
sistance in the minds of the second class who have
trusted to the chapter of accidents to redeem LIN
coins rule from the odous character it threatened
10 assume They now see that there is nothing lef
for the South but degradation and submission
to the long boarded vengeance Of SEWARD and his
party to the standing insults of all his declarations
to the destruction to which he has devoted her by
his years of warfare against her. Is there ore MAJ
in the whole South treacherous enough t
his own, his native land" tG submit to such :
domination? Is there one State that will hesitate
for a moment which of the two to choose-such de
graduation dishonor and establishment, or glorious
resistance even to death? Is there Southern STATE
north of the States that have determined to secede
which will not at once accept the honorable alter
native Of joining the Southern Confederacy, Under
the old Constitution pi.hily expressed by
President BARRY, Of the Mississippi State COnven
tion-rather than bow her neck to the degrading
yoke Of ABRAHAM LINCOLN and WILLIAM II. SEWARD
Is it not doubling the manhood Of the South to hes
itate in the response TO these questions?