Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-01-26
What do they intend TO dot

The question is often asked, what do the
seeding States intend to do. Will they or
ganize and maintain Southern ConIedera-
cyl Or, if new guarantees are given them
by the North, securing their rights. will they
renew their allegiance to the old govern
mentf These are important questions, which.
il is difficult to answer correctly. In South
Carolina, during the canvass for the State
Convention, candidates were required 10
pledge themselves for secession and against
any future union with non-slayehOlding
States. This fact would seem TO indicate
that South CaroIiua will set her face against
all attempts to reconstruct the Union. She
desires, and has desired for upwards of
quarter century, dissolution of the Union,
and the formation Of a Southern Confedera-
cy. believing that the change would increase
her wealth and happiness. and magnify her
importance as State. On the other hand,
the Commissioner from Mississippi to Mary
land, Mr.. HANDY, stated, in public speech
in Baltimore, that additional guarantees
could be best secured by the South after se-
cession, and then tine Union could be recon
strueted upon an enduring basis But this
idea may have been thrown ont is q bait to
catch the border slave States, and after hav-
ins been used as means to induce them
to secede, may be abandoned altogether.
The Montgomery Confederation having re-
Gently stated that the deputies elected 10
the Southern Congress which is to assemble
in Montgomery on the 4ih of next month,
were conservatives, &C., the AaUafiSr, the
organ of the Yancey Regency, rebukes it.
as foIfows-"These gentlemen will con
temptuously rtpudiate all schemes for decoying
The STATE back into the Uaion tcih ebolfionists ty
propositions for nesg guarantees and Tecostrctioa
of the old goUeTRBiezf. Their only object will
be to form provisional and permanent .goseTzi-
naent for The Southern Confe2eydcy, on the vital
principles of the present Constitution of the
original Union" With such manifestations
as these before Us, We may apprehend that
10 NEW guarantee on the part of the non-
slaveholding States, will De permitted to re-
suit in a reconstruction of the Union We
fear that the men who have engineered the
secession movement do not intend that the
seeding States shall ever again attach them
selves to Union in which there are nom
siaveholding States If they can continue
to hold their present mastery over the pop
ular mind, and to TepFess the patriotic i1r-
pulses of the popular heart, We may never
behold reconstruction of the Union. The
Southern Congress at Montgomery next
month, has, apparently, been called with .
he ~ awTTTTTu mt ~
these leaders Its object, in the Ian
guage of the AdrTtseT, will be 10 form
q provisional and permanent govern
ment for the Southern CCnfedeTacy," and
then the border States will be invited to
cast their lots with them, and submit to a
government in the construction Of which
they had no part, under the penalty Of he
ing prohibited from selling slaves, and toe
productions OF the sUil, 10 their Southern
neighbors- Were the Southern Congress al
Montgomery postponed. until all the slave
States have concluded to withdraw iTOin the
Union. and all meet in convention to form a
government, the Gulf States know they
would be in a minority, and Of conTse,
would find it necessary to defer TO the wishes
of the majority. IL would seem that AisSis-
sippi has an eye to this pOint,alsO and aims.
in advance Of q general convention Of all
the slave States,-f such convention shall
be caIled-to give each State the same vote.
Each State is sovereign. il is argued. and
equal. and therefore each State should b. en-
titled to the same vote in the convention
Thus the State of Virginia With her twenty
Eve votes would be dwaTfed 10 the fiuieu-
sious of Little Florida.
We commend these facts to the cOusidera-
tion of the people of Tennessee They flTn-
ish matter for serious reflection.