Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-01-15
THE DEPUTIES.
The following are the Deputies elected to repre-
sent South Carolina in the proposed Convention:


The New 1ofk Herald OF the 1lth, speaking OF the
progress of the feeling in the South, says:
We have now to consider the case of the mportan.
State of Tennessee the last of the Southern States
Up TO the present juncture, that State has been
carded as the most conservative State in the Union
Mr. Pell, the embodiment of the Union sentiment at
the South in the late Presidential election, halls from
Tennessee. But what is the condition OF that State
row? The answer will be found in the calm, digni-
fed and powerful message of her Governor to the
legislature now in extra session, which we print in
another part of this days Herald In this argumen
tative Undetermined document, which we commend
to the perusal of every Northern man, the republi
can marty unless they are struck with what the Puri
tans would call judicial blindness" must see in
large and legibe characters the doom of the Union
unless the most ample concessions are made TO the
demands of Justice. For if Tennessee fails the
North as a rallyng point for the Union where else
in the South is she to look for help or hope? Let
any dispassonate NOrthern'man read the indictment
against the Northern States by the Governor of
Tennessee, and then say whether the South is not
wronged and aggrieved and whether, if her wrongs
are not redressed, she ought to remain in a Union
which is but 1.-THE union of the shark with its prey"
As to the course Tennessee means to pursue if we
are to take the message of her Governor indi
cation. there cannot be shadow of doubt. He ssys
to evade the Issue forced upon them at this time
without the fullest security to their rights would be
ftaal TO the the institution of slavery forever He
has no doubt to the necessity and propriety of call
inga State Convention and a Convention will be
called and the chances one hundred to that
that Convention will declare Tennessee out of the
Union He enumerates some excellent amendments
to the constitution absolutely necessary for the
restoration of smicable relations and the part
of the State confidently expresses its determination
to assert and maintain its equality in the Union,
its independence out of it, He likewise declares
that Tennessee will never submit to coercion by the
federal power of any seeding STATE for that would
be " Union not of consent, dut Of force; a Union
not of equals: but of the victOrs and the vanquish
ed" And this is the unanimous resolve of all the
Southern States. The military force of Tennessee is
10000 men, and the Governor recommends the pur-
chase of more arms and thorough and efficient
armIng of the State.
This message Is the most decisive and signif-
cant sign of the times we have yet observed
at the South. 1t shows that whatever Union senti-
ment existed in the Southern States heretofore is
extinguished, and that the secession movement
is sweeping all before it like an avalanche The
North would not believe the South was in earnest
till it is almost too late arrest the progress of
the revolution. 1t contented itself with denOunc-
ing the secessiOnists traitors and rebels
which only accelerated their action George Ill
and his ministers called the people of these
States, when they were colonies, rebels and
traitors but the denuncatiOn did not stop
their career. Had he yielded to their just de-
mands and shed no blood he might have preserved
his provinces If. before the end of the next month
the rights of the South are not conceded, fifteen
States will be lost to the Confederacv before the
4th of March, and any attempt at coercion viii on
" hasten the catastrophe Full justice to the South
promptly rendered, or the peaceable separation of
fifteen States and the formation of a Southern
COnfederacy, the dread alternative of bloody
civil war, are the only possible solutions of the
dark problem which agtates the whole American
people, from Passamaquoddy to the Rio Grande.