Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-02-15
Secession OF ouIsiana.

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| We publish below an extract from letter.
written by one of the loveliest and most &C
complished of the adopted daughters of Lou
isiana, to friend in Nashville. Is it strange
that the men of the State favored secession.
when her women make such appeals in its
behalf
| NEw ORLEANS, Feb. 4, 1861
You seem TO feel as well as ex.
press regret at the action of our Convention
You think the movment "hasty and ill-ad'
vised," and it no doubt appears so to you, OF
| you would not so express yourself But,
what else could we have done? What coed
would have resulted from waiting longeri
! We have waited and begged long enough for
our just rights, without receiving anything
save taunts and insults. As the deed had to
be done, the sooner the better; and l, for one,
am glad the die has been cast. rejoice
that my adopted State had the spirit to fol-
low the lead of South Carolina and Ala
bama. 1 am glad and proud, TO belong to
the REPUBLIC OF LOUISIANA.
As for Tennessee, fear the secession
movement has completely paralyzed her.
The enormi;y of the offence is so great, in
her eyes, am afraid she will not even make
an attempt to recover, until ii is too late.
What has come over all your great and good
men of Tennessee, that you stand with closed
lips and outstretched hands, waiting patient
ly for the clanking irons of your Northern
foemen?-waiting for something to be done.
to saue the Union. The Unionl alas, there is
no Unionl Waiting for Black Republicans
10 make concessions, When did they ever do
any thing of the kindf Have you seen, as
yet the slightest inclination, on their part,
to pass even one act in the least degree con-
cilistory? Is not every speech made by Re-
publicans in Congress, full of threats and
denuncistions against US? Are not, and have
not, their papers been full of insults from
the beginning? Did they not say, when
South Carolina threatened TO secede, that q
hired police force from the city of New York
would whip them back in few hours; or
one small revenue cutter off Charleston bar
would be likely to make blue rOsettes as
scarce in South Carolina as blue roses?
So much for their threats. 1 think they
will yet find, to their cost, that the crushed
worm can turn and sting. Do not think
feel or write lightly On this subject. feel
the dissolution of the Union to be the sad
dest, most direful destruction of government
in the history Of nations; but it was ne
cessity, and right; and we should stand by
the right let come what may. 1 know that
there are clouds over head; and feel that
breakers surround us; but l also know and
feel that there is an Almighty God obove all
and over all, whose true arm encircles us all.
So l look above, feeling sure the clouds,
which now hang so dark over Us. will soon
disappear, and the glorious sun shine all the
brighter for the past darkness.
Let Tennessee awake from her slumbers
Awake stand by your Southern sisters.
Arise come to us while our hearts are full
of sympathy and affection for you. implore
you, stand idle no longer, but come whilst
we can receive and love you, as an own sis
ter. with open hands and affrctionate hearts.