Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-10-10
New EnrInnd ana the war.

Al the accounts, that reach us from the North
indicate Enthusiastically that the New England States
are playing their accustomed cowardly game in
the present war. After having reared up their
sbominabIe abolition hsresies, and sown broadcast
the seed which would have forced the Southern
States to become mere dependent colonies of the
North. or 70 take up arms and resist the most dia
bolical usurpation ever before attempted to be
fastened upon ople reared to freedom, they are
now shrinking, like cravens, from the contest, and
throwing the burdens of the war upon the West
Nothing can be more characteristic. In the war
of 1872, waged for the defence of the commerce of
the East, and the protection of free trade and
sailors rights New England fAetousy opposed the
war and added to history the infamy Of the famous
Hartford Convention, which was assembled for the
revolutionary purpose of breaking the bonds Of
Union, when the country was carrying on an
onerous contest with q foreign Power.
In the Mexican war, the South and West bore
"the heat and burden of the day, leaving for New
England the humble task of filing up the ranks
with here and there Regiment.
Yeti sooner had the war ended, than New EGG
land stepped in and audaciously claimed that the
whole of the vast territory acquired chiefly by the
blood and treasure of the South should be "dedica
ted" to Abolition, or rather desecrated by the
exclusion of the conquerer of peace with Mexico,
from it. From this beginning arose the protrscted
slavery agitation, which has finally dissolved
the Union and inAugurated an interneene war
and eternal estrangement between the sections.
New England is now carrying out the same policy,
which is to stir mp strife initiate bloody wars and
leave others to- do the fighting. The Western PEG
pie are beginning to open their eyes to this selfish
and corrupt characteristic of the descendants of the
Puritans, as will be seen by the following remarks
from the Evansville Qndiana) Journal of the 3rd
inst;
The telegraph coolly Informs us that troops will
not be drafted by the President from the West un-
Ill the East has sent its quota We rather guess
not The truth is that the people of the Northwest
are Disguised with the conductofthe Yankees. who
were swift enough to counsel and advise the war.
but who now refuse TO leave their factories and
their farms to defend the honor and integrity of
the government. The story comes to us upon every
breeze, of the unOounded prosperity of the E Ist,
while the west is paralyzed bya blockade and
obliged to sell her products for mere
song. Let the draft be made upon New
York for her 100000, and Massachusetts,
and the other New England States for their proper
ton of the army of half million. Let the citi
zenR of these States cease for while their money
changing and money counting, and prepare to resist
whole North. The West is in earnest, as she ought
to be- To her il is most emphaticaliy war of self
defense; a war in which, aside from the principle
involved mighty interests at stake the sacrifice
of which would be almest the sacrifice of existence
Without free and unrestricted outlet to the CeIn,
the mighty West would soon sink into comparative
insigniicancs; her thrifty farmers would become
the heWerE of wood and drawers Of water for her
neighbors to the East and the South of her, VITO,
commanding I'll the avenues to foreign markets,
would impose such ex0rbitant tribute upon the pro-
duets of the West as would enrich them AMI impOv
erish US
The preservation of the Union, on the principle
of selfdefense, is q matt IT of prime necessity to
the people of the valley of the Mississippi Their
interests their very existence, except as depend.
ents is bound up in the Union They cannot afford
TO part with the Union, and therefore prepared
10 make every sacrifice TO maintain it. In this
great work they are expected to be sustained by
the united voice of the people of the East. The
Union is necessary to them as well as to 1t has
afforded field for much of that enterprise which
has characterized the people of the Northeastern
States. Cut off from it, and confined to their own
narrow limits terrible blew will be struck at
their prosperity. WIZ, then, should they hold back
in this mortal struggle for national unity! Why
are not their egions poured forth ia defense OF the
sacred cause in which W. are engagedy Let them
respond to the call Of the Chief Magistrate,
I'LL up the army, and make one mIgEtv Effort TO
strangle this rebellion.