Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1861-03-28
From a Correspondent.
LYNcHBURG, Tenn, Feb. %, '61.
A1R N. O. WALLACE

Dear Sir::--In unison with
universal sentiment of my fell
youth Of this community. (Lync
burg aud Mulberry,) ! write y
this communication that the 9th
portions Of the county may s.
through your worthy columns th
that sentiment is unconditional, u
eqoiyocal advocacy of secession fro!
the present Abolition despotism, an
a union on the part of Tennessee
with the "Coplederate States {
America" And why is it that Tel
nessee should unite with her siste
Southern States Of that eonlederacy
There is no cou liberation Of figh,
reason. or principle. binding upon he
to remain longer 10 the present COY
ernment. Could men be convinced o
thls,we would uoloDgst '.ear SO mucl
of this empty laudaiiou of 'this glo
riOus Uniun,' now that it has been
ca.ried to tha. extent that ii amounts
to iansticism, as indeed men can car.
ry any idea, even the most sacred,
into ianaiicism Wba. does this clam
or about Hthis glorious Union meant
| Tennesseeans. will you pause and
calmly consider it? tell you il has
beer gotten up to deceive you, and
having bonnd you hand and foot un-
der the fatal delusion Of "this glorl-
Gus Union, the submissionisfs aad
coercionists Of this State viii transfer
you like sheep iuto the fo!6s of Alb
oliiionisn,. 10 be barrassed by the
wolves Of that tribe, Lincoln, Seward,
Chase, Sumner. & Co. Ii this Un.
lon had CONTINUED to be ouch a Un.
MON as it was designed by those who
constructed il, Union upon the
broad basis of tie Constitution re-
cognizing the equslity and protecting
instead of impairipg or destroying
the rights Of the States, here would
TO this day have been no mare loyal
m mber of it than South Car DINA or
Mississippi. To such Union as that
heir mos, ultra statesmen 81 tie past
generation, the immortal Calhoun
lntl the gallant Qnit,nau, were deyo-
ed. To such Union az t hat the
most ultra man of the present day.
Davis, Yancy and Toombs have been
oyal. Then if The Union Of the q
resent day were such Union as G
'as bfqneathed US by our ancestors,a !
constitutional UnioD,a Union of equal S
y among all lis members. there C
'ould be no necessity fbr'encomiums {
7 p,neg. RIGS on the Union, for then IN
Il its m mbers and all its citizens Z
'ould b. loyal to it. We repeat the v
,qliry Whit does this uniqn shrek. e
.g OF which we hays heard SO much n
the present day mean? Does it l.
lean the Ulion We have afove de- b
,iibed? # so il is useless and prepos- \
.rous. Or does il mean the Uuion a
ncon9itionally, the Union m rely for d
ne sake of the Union, the Unicn at n
Il hazsrds and to Tie last extremity. iC
be Union wiibon: regard to rights h
r opr equality 10 it, even tc the ex- b
mt that we Tennesseeans. the sons r
I jackson. Grundy and Polk, are II
, br made the Interiors of the black o.
g. r'ed loul-mouihed Abolition ISIS Of ii
le North. Ii that be its meaning 1
ut so understood. it will have but u
" votaries in Tennessee and none ex- )
.pt among coercionisis nd the sub II
Ii,sitnisis. and :lty will oDly adept SC
as cloak with which to deceive ri
Du fellew-cilizens in order that their IN
al designs may be accomplished al
subjugating your brave and pa st
lotto brethren Of thes South, and VI
,ldiug them as conquered provinces &C
an Abolition despoiism. II either
le. or the other be its true meaning.
nj it cert,iGly can mean nothing re
Sc. then Tennrsseeans quit it. qnit +,
Quit your Union shrieking fer the b,
le reason that it is preposterous, tu
r the other that il is destructive. ii
will neither save the Union nor Sc A
ire sonr tights. OF which the lat "
r should be your principal purpose ii
our efforts while the former should "
, but the incidental. for il our rights Fl
'uld be secured the Union would to
llow SIS a natural and inevitable in al
dent. Now that our rights cannot "
, secured in this Union. now that il q
IS become an engine Of oppression G
stead Of means Of protection, b