Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-02-27


Better preserve principle than extend dominion.
See LIFE Of 9. Norris, FOL. 3d. D. $40
But the Pesce Treaty of Client il si0ned anf
again the North can GO on unmoiested trading and
making money Behold the arrival of the era o.
Good Feeling. Mr.. Monroe il Pras;dsrts Adams
Calhoun Crawford are in the Cabinet Sr+aiv W.
shall have quiet at last We shall see. Missouri
and Maine asked to be admitted into the Union
Vermont long ago had been admitted without slave,
and Tennessee and Kentucky with slaves: and nc
questions asked or objection made. Ohio had come
in, carven out of territory which had once belong
ed to the South, but which she had ceneronsv giver
to the North. And Indiana and Illinois also oiver
by the South to the North, had Just been admitted
Missouri ana Maine knock for admittance The
generous the just North says, Maine thou shalt be
aumltteo-MissourI we are hoer than thou-cans
thou expect that we shall admit thee to our com
pany? And SO the entire North voted. And &C
the country was for two years hanging
upon the brink of civil war and dismem
berment And for the sake of peace the
South finally Inundated itself by agree.
ing tnat the brand of unconstituton insulting inter
dict to threefourths of the common territory shoud
be affixed to that only species of property specially
recognized and protected in the Constitution
the North thereby declare that the soil owned by
the SOUTH and North in common, would have been
contaminated by the residence upon it of Wash
lngton, JenersoD, Madison with their household
Surely surely the South ought never to have agreed
to this But the act was passed mostly by Southern
votes And again Missouri applies. We can't adj
NIT you, say the North. Why was not that the
bargain-have you not got the price of my admis-
sion IN all the land above sc deg 80 min? Yes but
what care we for compromises we not know we
can extort another bargain out of the generous
Southron? And so Mr.. Clay had to compromise the
thing oYeuDgain
But once more the difficulty is settled; and surely
all this rejoicing shows that hereafter there shall
nothing in the world occur to mar the harmony now
h. IL. n
listen to the mutual congratulations passing from
mouth to mouth to every quarter. Mr.. John Holmes
member of Congress, wrote such letter to Mr..
Jefferson. Things do not, however, look so bright
to the wise statesman of Monticello He replies as
folloys-"I thank you, my dear sir, for the copy
you have been so kind as to send me of the letter
to your constituents on the Missouri question 1t is
perfect justification to them. had for long
time ceased to read newspapers or pay any atten-
ton to public affairs, confident they were in good
hands and content 10 be passenger in our bark to
the shore from which | am not distant. But this
momentous question, like a fireben in the night.
awakened and filled me with terror. considered il
at once as the kne of the Union. II is hLsted in
deed for the moment. But this is reprieve onl not
final sentence. A geographical line eoinciding
with marked principle, moral and political
once conceived and held up to the angry
passions of men, viii never be obltera-
ted and every new irritation will mark
it deeper and deeper. ! can say with conscious
truth, that there is not man on earth who would
sacrifice more than | would to relieve us from this
heavy reproach in any practicable way; the cession
OF that kind OF property for go it is misnamed is
6dgdteAs which would not cost me a second thought
If IN that way general emancipation and erDdrid-
ton could be effected; and gradually and with due
sacrifices think it might be. But as it is we have
the wolf by the ears; and we can neither hold him
safely nor let him go. Justice is in the one scale
and selfpreservation in the other. OF one thing
am certain, that as the passage of aaves from one
State to another, would not make slave of single
human being who would not be so without it, so
their diffusion oper greater surface tcod make them
individually AGpptsr, and proportionaAy taciate As
accomplishment Of their emancipation, By dtviClag the
blItaeh on greater number of conductors An absti-
nence, too, from this act of power, would remove
the jealousy excited by the undertaking of Congress
to regulate the condition of the different descrip
tons Of men composing a State. This, certainly,
is the exclusive right of every State which nothno
In the Constitution has taken from them and given
to the General Government Could Congress. for
example, say that the non-fFoaMeR of Connecticut
shall be freemen, or that they shall not emirrate
into any State regret that am now to die in the
belief that the useless sacrifice Of themselves by
the generation of l7E6 to acquire selfgoyerpment
and happiness to their couatry, is to be thrown
away by the unwise and unworthy passions of their
sons, and that my only consolation is to be- that
live not to weep over it. If they would but dis
passionately weigh the blessings they will throw
away against an abstract principle, more likely TO Ii
effected by Union than secession, they would pause
before they would perpetrate this act of suicide
on themselves and Of treason against the hopes of
the world" JsferSon's Works. Vol. tn, D. 100.
And, In letter to VIM. Short, Mr.. jefferson saws:
Although had laid down as a law to myself never
to write, talk or even to think of politics to know
nothing of public affairs, and therefore had ceased
to read newspapers, yet the Missouri question
aroused and filed me with alarm. The old schisu
of Federal and Republican threatened nothing be-
cause it existed in every State and united them to-
gether by the fraternism of party But the coin
cidence of marked principle, MORAL and political
with geographical line once conceived feared
would never be obliterated from the mind !; that it
would be recurring on every occasion and renew
ing irritatioDs until IL would kindle such mutual
and mortal hatred as to render separation prefePa-
BILE 10 eternal discOrd. have been among the most
sanguine in believing that our Union would be of
long duration. | now doubt it much and see the
event at no great distance and the direct cOnse-
quence of this question not by the line which has
been so confidently counted on the laws of nature
control this, but by the Potomac, Ohio. and Mis-
souri, or more probably the Mississippi upwards to
our Northern boundary. My only comfort and
confidence is, that Shall not live to see this Vol
I'll, t5S.
What remarkable sagacity and discernment have
we not here Displayed To show how from small
beginnings the present dominant sectional party has
grown up IN the North until it now has swallowed
up all other parties were work of supererogation
IS it not in all the newspapers of the day. and have
we not all seen it with our own eyes? 1t Feeds aot
therefore that we speak of the cunning malice of
Quincy Adams, the father of the present anti
slavery party, Disgusting war-bitter unrelenting
the South, for having displaced both
himself and his father from the Presidency after
tut single tsrTn-al others having been reelected
Up to that time-under the specious and convenient
lobby Of "the right of petition" 1t were unprof,
able to tell how. under the claim of the right of
oo1I IL IL.
present request to Congress to dissolve the Union
Why should we now speak Of the moderation of the
blessed State OF Massachusetts, in passing this ordi-
ancs, which is still unrepealed:
RESOLVED, That the annexation of Texas j. ipso
1cto, dissolution of the Union.
RESOLVED, That Texas being annexed. Massachu-
etts is out of the Union"
DO we not all remember the imminentperi which
nvironed the Union in 1850? Shall we recount the
'unic faith of the North in grasping California |
nd every other advantage conceded to them IN the
ompromise, and multiplying and resisting by person
liberty bills and by mob law the only thing in |
ended for the benefit Of the South-the Fugitive |
lave 2ct Can any one have forgotten that Mr. SEN
tor Seward, as far back 1912, when Governor of |
Ne great State of New York, refused to comply /
nth his duty in restoring fugitive from justice
n the ground that the article stolen-a slave-ceuld
e regarded property in New York-and thereby
ommitted perjury? Or that the blessed Governor |
ennson of Ohio refused the requsitIon of Governor
arrls, OF Tennessee, last summer, for the like
eason but finally gave him up because it was
lown that in addition to stealing negro, the thief
ad also taken come pinchbeck jewelry? Or that
le same interesting public functonary has recently
ade like refusal to Governor McGofin, of Ken
loky, who hes asked the Supreme Court for a
andamus to compel the recussnt Governor to the
Scharge of his duty? Higher law,n the cant
lrase, whereby Seward, the Pope of Republican
M absolves from official perjury-shai we ex-
ain that? Kansas and Sharp's Rittes-the session
all the churches although dOuos means nothing
1t slave, the election of Banks-the endorsement
Helper-the persistent attempt to elect Sherman
the lohn Brown raid, the evident sorrow that he
d not succeed in having St. Domingo re-enacted
Jain in the South, felt and expressed throughout
e entire North; the unbounded admiration felt and
pressed everywhere for that horse thief, rob-
IF and murderer the telling Of the bells and
ing of cannon belonging to the State, by or
r of the Executive thereof, in lamenta-
n at the martyrdom of one pronounced greater
an Washington and the Saviour himself; the tax
g up an obscure man, like Andrews in the piou4-
lightened and Constitution loving States of Massa-
usetts, and electing him Governor by 10000 ma
rity, for no other reason than that he presided at