Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-06-07
Substance of the Remarks of
COL. D. II. HUYETT,
Ia Laperqre. R.aherfard ob,.ltu. Man 2ath. 1a6I


At LaD1yre, Ruaherfrd Cbssnty, May 29th, 1861.
We have assembled here this evening, my
| fellOw-countrymen, under circumstances of
most grave and extraordinary character.
Events of the greatest moment are crowding
thick and fast upon us, and it becomes our
duty to examine carefully the issues involved,
and seriously consider the great questions to
be decided by the people of Tennessee re-
garding their rights as free and independent
American citizens; and citizens of a sover-
eign State, whose loyalty to the National
Flag and love for the Constitution never
could be doubted, or dared be questioned, so
long as that flag protected those sacred l1ber-
ties inherited from our foretathers-the pa
triots of l776, and that constitution had not
been violated by those who have sworn to
| maintain and support it.
The question of our Territorial rights; the
extension of slavery; the tariff, and all 9TH
er political issues have been absorbed and
lost sight of in the great contest upon which
either give US position amongst the great
Powers of the earth, or forever subjugate
and enslave US.
War has been declared against us, not by
the Federal Government, but by political
usurper, who has divided the most powerful
and prosperous nation under the broad can
opy of Heaven, to establish his long cher
ished, though insane theory of equality of
the races, regardless of color, and who has
inaugurated a ''reign of terror" surprising,
if possible, the bloody days of Robespierre
and Nero. Tho chains of Lincoln's tyranny
are even now fostering to the very heart of
our sister Southern States, and his iron heel
of despotism is crushing out their last drop
of life's blood.
Maryland. my native State, is bound hand
and foot with standing army OF 10000
Northern men, and her brave sons having first
been betrayed by a weak disloyal Governor,
and party of Black Republicans, are now
exposed to every insult and outrage that
fanatical Abolition Administration can in
vent, and are driven to occupy position at
once the most humiliating and degrading to
free people.
Missouri, too, has been compelled to sub
init to abolition rule; and stand by silent
spectator to witness her own degradation,
and see her defenseless women and children
shot down in cold blood on her streets by an
imported abolition Dutch soldiery, born in
foreign country, and so ignorant of our peo-
pie or our language that the command is
given to them in Dutch, but it is carried out
ia plain English.
Virginia, the mother of States and of states
men, has been invaded and the blood of her
true sons has been poured out like water in
her defence. Brave Jackson and other iron
rather than submit to tyranny, and her sons
are all made of the same flesh, blood and
spirit. zs-- .
The position of Tennessee requires that
every loyal sou within her borders should
consider calmly, judge coolly, and decide
wisely the vital questions submitted to them
by the last Legislature. Our pecunisry in
terests, our political rights, and the safety
and protection of our homes and families de-
thaI lo,, o 4.
day of June. We have sometimes heard per-
sons in our midst talking about neutral
ground; but, thank Heaven, there is not one
true Is7r.esSean who now adheres to such a sui
cidal policy. There is no neutral ground
We must either be for or against the South,
and neutrality now is but a pet name for
Black Republicanism. We cannot regard
any man who knows the position of the North |
and South to-day, and who breaches and |
practices the destructive doctrine of neutral |
ity, in any other light than Black Repabli- |
can at heart. Let no man trust him.
We must be united South or our de- /
struction is inevitable, and with one purpose, |
one heart, and one soul, resist tyranny and |
oppression in whatever guise it may come. |
We must choose between Separation and |
or subjugation and extermi-
nation, and | would reflect upon your intelli-
gence were l to ask which you prefer. Then
Ct cfci uidu hOlc al Opcu tiOhCt III tSCNOu
and liberty, for none but our enemies will /
vote for our subjugation, and they will con-
zeal their ballots from the eye of every hon.
est man. We know that Tennessee will take
warning by the sad fate of oppressed Mary
and, and helpless Missouri, and Will cast her
vote with an overwhelming majority for her
but we want her 10 do it unan-
mously, and go out of the old Union into the
new in a blaze of glory. Her noble sons
IL. Ar1r IF
history victOrs of one hundred and seven
teen well fought battles, and upon whose fair
escutcheon her honor is mirrored bright
as the blazing monday sun, will never
prove themselves cravens and towards
,r go down to their graves with their backs
bleeding beneath the scourge of abolitionism
md fanaticism.
We have asked for long years that our con-
titutional rights should be respected. We
lave implOred our Northern brethren to let
our institutions alone and permit US to man
.ge the affairs of the South as would best
promote our interests, secure our domestic
,eace and protect our private property; but
hese have all been denied us by those who
low claim to be our masters; and we mnst
ither tamely submit to unconditional, abso-
ute, dependence and subordination and be-
ome serfs under an abolition despot; or we
must stamp the dust of humiliation and sup
)llCaLlOQ lTOm our Ieet anu QeIeQO the rlglLS |
belonging to us as American freemen.
Thirty years ago this oppression was be-
run, and ever since, it has been stealthily | {
hough steadily progressing until the TEN.
lie of our Greatness undermined by fanati- |
ism, has tottered and fallen to the earth a
Melancholy mass of ruins. And who did it =?
Why those, who, during the last presidential
anvass, In the city of Boston and other
laces in the New England States, threw our
ational banner to the breeze with but thir- | {
cen stars upon it. The abolitionists of the !
forth have brought this dire calamity upon | !
Ut nation. They have ever sought this sep |
ration from our people; but in their blind 1
ess they forgot to count the cost. And now
fter having succeeded in whipping us out,
hey are trying to whipus again into Union,
De very bonds of which they tell US is a
compact with the devil and league with
ell" IL
The damning doctrines preached and prac- {
ced by the Stewards, Chases, Hales, Garri- a
'ns, Browns. Beechers, Greeleys, and we 4,
lay add Andy johnson, Parson BrownlOw
nd Emmerson Etheridge, disgusting as they
re to every Southern man, are thrust upon
;, and we are commanded by abraham Lin
IN to submit like dastardly cravens or HE
i'll wipe us from the face of the earth. They
re precious set of christians; those follow
IS OF Henry Ward Beecher, that corrupt
earted fanatic, who has borrowed the livery
Heaven to serve the devil in." Can we
yer again unite with such bypocritical dema-
ogues; men who pretend to preach Christ
'uciied from their polluted pulpits, and at
lie same time deny to their Southern
rOthers the right of the Holy Sacrament,
rivilege which our own servants enjoy with
leir masters Yet these are the christians
nd this the religion and teaching of a peo-
lie to whom the "Rail-splitter" commands rs J
} return and live in peace md harmony. ]
ut this doctrine is in keeping with the early
aiming of these model Yankees. TurG over
lie pages of the Puritan history Of New
ngland and there read the evidences of their
iety and patriotism. Read there from tie !
ems of their own historians of the defence !
.ss women, old and young they burned ]