Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-06-15
THE Necessity for moaeratton.
FRANKLIN COUNTY, Tenn,
Iuua 18th 1891

nessee, who have voted against revolution,
believing it to be their duty, be induced to
| 90 with the people of Middle and West Ten
nessee. who have decided upon a separation
from the Federal Government? ask how
this shall be effected, with the view of sug-
costing the answer, because it is matter of
the greatest consequence, LIST, that we shall
have their sympathy; End, that in the ter
rible struggle, now just commencing between
the North and the South, the strong arms and
brave hearts of East Tennessee shall deal
their blows in behalf of our cause; and 3rdly,
we cannot afford to strive with our brothers
at home in times of such imminent peril as
| these.
| L answer emphatically, there is but one
way to obtain their sympathy and hearty
cooperation, and that is by addressing our
selves to their reason and sound judgment,
and not by violent epithets.
There is too much intelligence and oneness
of thought in East Tennessee, as well as
strength and bold, manly courage, for them
to be cOerced by threats or quieted by hard
sayings. But they are generally men of rea-
| son, and the argument, addressed to them in
the proper spirit, THAT there can be no safety
for the people Of this noble State Containing
within its limits the bones of their fathers and
ours, who bore each others burdens and for
each other laid down their lives) but in being
united; and that we can only be united by
the minority going with the majority''-will
INF nina IF fan info
| ly, in this as in all other countries, we have
many reckless, imprudent men who, in their
zeal for the Southern cause, have done a
great deal of harm. Such men generally
condemn everybody who disagrees with them,
and they have well-nigh involved the State
in civil war by their denunciations of East
Tennessee Union men-denOuncing every
man as Black Republican who took ground
against the action OF the Legislature for Sep
aration and Representation.
Such men would do well to leave such
grave questions to the consideration Of mod
crate men. He who suppOses the great body
of sober thinking, true men in East Tennes-
see, who voted the Union ticket at the late
election, are Black Republicans, or sympa-
thize with the Black Republicans, knows but
little of them.
1t was a part of their education that the
dissolution of the Union was the climax of
all evils, and holding no sentiments in COM
mon with LincOln's administra alton, yet they
felt inclined to bear with it rather than assist
in pulling dcwn the government. They
were more hopeful people than we of Mid
die and West Tennessee, and, at the same
time, their education taught them to look
with more horror upon the destruction of
the Government than we did. These same
men-thOusands and thousands of them
when they fully realize the fact, that the
Union was practically and substantially dis
solved by the commencement of hostilities
between the two sections, and that it is to be
a great sectional contest, the North against
the South, seeing that large majority of
the State have so deoided-with a conscience
void OF offence, will at once take their position
with their native South, and especially with
their own beloved State, and whether in the
public councils or upon the field of battle-will
acquit themselves with that high credit that
always characterized their fathers 1t may
be truly said of East Tennessee that no por-
ton of the whole South, OF equal extent, has
furnished more noble men in council or more
truly brave men in war than that portion of
our State, and now that Tennessee has taken
her position, the die is cast, and her destiny
is fixed, we may expect to see, from the
mountains of East Tennessee, the very flower
of our great army come forth.
i have just cOnversed with one of East
Tennessee's great men-a man who would be
an ornament to any State-as true Southern
man as ever lived; but who felt it to be his
conscientious duty to sustain the old Govern
ment in the late election, who assures me
that nothing but recklessness on the part of
the majority, can drive East Tennessee into
hostility with her own State, and that the
feeling with the great body of East Tennes-
see Union Inen was to make the best fight
they could, boldly and fearlessly, but to &C
quiesce in what the majority did.
By the way, one of the hardest GASES have
heard of, was an insult offered to this true
Southern man being slaveowner, born
and raised in the South, with every emotion
of his heart for the good of the South, about
his vote, by regular old fashioned Yankee.
who has for the last several months not only
been Yankee by blood, but by trade for he
has been enlarging his business and hence
making money by extreme abuse of his ma
tive country. Now, such men must quit Ma |
tive Tennesseans know native Tennesseans
better than they do, and an insult accom-
plishes no good. East Tennessee is a part of
our own great State. 1t was there that Ten
nesseans first made their foot prints as the
bravest pioneer warriors. 1t takes the whole |
of East, Middle and West Tennessee to make |
up the character which the State has abroad |
as the Volunteer State" For mere than
half a century the statesmen of East and Mid |
die Tennessee have labored together in the |
councils of the State, as well as the nation
for common objects, while upon the tented
field, their brave sons have met as brothers
of one household, and have shared the same
toll, the same privations, they have fought |
together, they have bled upon the same field, |
they have dined in the same tent, and been
buried in the same grave, and they cannot
now be separated unless fools do it by reck-
lessness. Moderate men know what estimate
should be put on the views and opinions of
their antagonists,wh while reckless hot-heads on
ly know to condemn.
Now, let East Tennessee understand that
these extreme sentiments are only the views
of extreme men, and that the great body of
the people in Middle and West Tennessee
still wish to cherish the old kindred spirit
with them, and that there shall be no quarrel
between them and us, and we win be one