Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-03-23

States shall monopolize the whole Of this great IN
heritsnee. They have title 60 part Of it BY con
sttutioEai right by blood As an eminent Senator
not now here said, 'tat tho Southern States paid
part Of the money when money was its price, they
paid part Of the blood when blood was the price.
and they win never permit themselves 10 be eyeIn,
ded from share in this imperial inheritance which
belongs 10 all The States they will never consent h
be helnned IN and kept N condition in which they
cannot expand" Whatever may be the settlement
of other questions, thismust be settled ia connon
with their rights under equitable division cf ffe
same They viii contend to the last The povern
ment must be impartial The present dancersfrere
foreseen By the men of the North Patriotic r,sr II
Congress offered resolutions and delivered speae,ea
urging satisfactory settlement He repeated tbaf
the people of the North cav the danger Thaea ~
New Jersey Pennsylvania and Of the great Sares ;r
tie valley Of the Ohio, and elsewhere poured 10
their petitions to adjust the difficulties terms of
equality, but the members of the dominant party
here and in the other house. with stubborn incred-
ulity as to the result, were determined to make
no change in the platform Of the party-thev
refused to recede one inch. They would not meet
those on the other side one half or one quarter Of
the way on the basis Of settlement. When the
Senate Committee of Thirteen was raised COMPOSED
of representative men from all parts of the Union
the dominant party was fully and ably represented
After comforting for weeks, they were unable to
agree single proposition In looking at the pro-
ceedings of that Committee, he struck with the
rigid exhibition of purpose MOTTO come to an agree
ment. They refused all guarantees as to slavery.
and to an equitable division of territory and dur.
ing the last Congress, notwithstanding the urgent
and supplicatory efforts to bring them to the work
of doing something they have never from the he
ginning 70 the end receded from the essential nrin
ciples Of their platform It is true both Houses
finally passed proposed amendment to the Consti-
tuition that no amendment shall be made thereto To
give Congress power to abolish or interfere in any
State with its domestic institutions including pei
sons held to service or labor by the laws of said
State. Eight slave States now hesitate about their
course, and that waa the ultmatum offered but the
majority utterly refuses to give security IS to slave
IN the District of Columbia, and the interSsat
slave trade, and the rights of the South in the ter
ritory, or any other aspect OF the whole subject.
de wanted kentucky and the other slave States to
understand what they have to expect in the present
state OF the dominant party as represented in Con-
gress. They have nothing offered for their aecep.
lance, that they will not abolish slavery in the
States. He then reviewed the short address made
by Mr.. Seward to party of friends who called upon
him, to show that that gentleman advanced subtle
dangerous and demoraizing policy to shift the ques
ton OF distinctive Republican principles TO the more
popular question of the Union Was it now the policy
Of the Republican party, under the name of devotion
to the Union to form Union party, especially in
the border slave States, backed by the Federal Gov
eminent, with view TO secure the triumph of free
soil principles The idea essentially leads to the
emancipation of slaves He warned these States
mtted to be carried out it will result in nothing less
than emancipation in those States As to Kentucky
she fingers and holds back yet for settlement Ii
would be presumptuous in him to say what she
should do, but she understands this ISSUE and is de.
termined to have her constitutional rights and soon
very soon, from peak to peak, and from mountain
top, viii be heard the clear cry for constitutional
justice. She will not lay her bright and heaminr
forehead in the dust but turn to her Southern sis-
ters Intercourse, commerce and common wrongs
viii compel her to unite and form mighty repub.
lie with States which will keep the faith of com
pacts. 1t may now be too late to restore the gov
eminent; he trusted not. If this Is done, it can be
only done by the majority Of the Northern people.
whom you represent. Peace Is in your hands, and
the destiny Of the country in those of the President
and remotely In the hands ofthe majority whom You
represent. They should address themselves to the
issue. The only mode on earth to avoid collision
Is for the Administration with or without the ad-
vice of the Senate to remove the troops from with
In the borders of the Confederate States. 1t will be
bold act, but of patriot and statesman W hich
all good men viii approve and justify and will be
heralded from one end of the country to the other
as true test of peace policy. If the President
does this, opinions will be various. Some may
brand him false and falteriug statesman but the
majority will declare him patriot, who refused to
bring on the country the oalsmities of civil war.