Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-09-20

canvass the Presidency in 1860 to which are added
TO LORD BROUsHAM Tm john BEowx RAID, and a
the Of the Presidential Contest and
its consequences By James Williams late Z. s. Minister to
Turkey.
The South has relied too much on internal con-
viction and consciousness of right for her vindca-
ton, before the bar of the civilized world against
the busy and bitter assaults Of her enemies, upon
her domestic institutions. While the Pulpit, the
Pen and the Senate have been prostituted to an
holy warfare upon her civilization, her greatminds,
relying upon the constitutional entertainments
thrown around her rights by the founders of the
Government of the United States, or, il the last
Sort upon the vaor of her sous have failed to fur
nish those elaborate and Overwhelming evidences of
the rectude Of her laws the strength Of her posi-
tiOn the utility Of her peculiar institution and the
high destiny to which these will. conduct her, Of
which the subject is so eminenty capable.
It is true we have had some ingenious and pro-
found works on slavery, treated ethically philo-
sophically from the standpoint of the theologan.
Professor BLEDsoE's admirable and conclusive
article on slavery is treatise of which any nation
may be proud. Its compact logic has never been
surpassed by any specimen of moral reasoning in
the English tongue. It ought to be text book in
every University and College in the South. It's
clear and concentrated rays disspate the sentmen>
tAlsm Of the Abolitionist as the morning sun melts
the mist from the mountsn-side. But it is Of that
abstract character which is not adapted to the gen
eral reader. There is too much of deep philosophy
in it to charm that large class of intelligent and
practical men who are esptivsted by the discursve
treatment of subject which views its points with
in the wide raage of literature history, politics,
from every source suggestive thoughts, daring
artithesis eloquent appeal and unanswerable argu~
ment and which sweeps down the sophistry of an
antagonist by a comparison of the maligned institu-
tion with other human Institutions that disgrace
humanity under the patronage of those who SANDER,
distort and misrepresent Southern civilization.
Such work as this was needed, not only in
America, bnt in Europe to arrest the attention of
the critic to dispel prejudice to attract the general
reader to confound the politician and to interest
the mind in its study by novel and stirring pas
sages, by empowering and earnest truth, and by
a pure and pleasing style.
Such work is that which we have in review,
and Of which proOfsheets have been furnished US,
in ad vance of its publication, at our own request.
We have taken pains to describe these letters and
the supplementary contents of the book in the Ian
guage preceding. Some Of these letters were writ
ten from Europe during the last Presidential can
vass for this journal but reached here too late to
effect their purpose They; make not the slightest
reference to the party cant Of the day, and
cusiVey directed the revolutionary aspect of the
sectional issue, forced upon US by the North, as
seen by a philosophic statesman and patriot,
the sea, and just far enough distant to hear
A.
The language of earns warming contained in them
would have failed reach the fanatical and
bigots, who were resolved upon the degradation Of
the South. But now that the clear and remarkable
prophecy, which they uttered, has become history,
they must be useful to enlighten the popular
mind Of Europe, and even perchance they may
find appreciative readers, here and there in the
Northern States, among those not given over to big
stry and carried away by the infatuatiOn of fanati
cism. In the South, they will meet with unusual
favor, aud arm reception, as triumphant vim
dieation of her position, revolutionist, aud Of
her domestic institution, settled relation be-
tween the capitalist and the laborer, the master
and the slave, peculiar to the Confederate States
Cuba and Brazil alone. As being adapted
to the defence OF cur situation and to vindicate
our people from the systematic yituperatOn Of
the party that hiss triumphed in the late
Presidential election, they were seen and read
by some intelligent and sppreciative friends of the
author, who earnestly and warmly urged him to
give them to the press. They will appear in few
DAYS, in stereotype form, from the Southern Metho
dist Publishing House of this city In tbs meantime
we shall from time to time, entertain the readers Of
the UNION AND AMERICAN with striking chapters Of
fhis profound yet captivating work, the more SO
from its direct bearing upon the great Revolution
now in progress.
We invite attention to the proposals advertised BY
Ouartermaster-G General STEVENSON.