Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-03-08
DIR. Breokinridge ON the crisis.


-FOUR editorial of yesterday on DR. BRECKENRIDGE
articles upon the crisis, contained number of ty-
biographical errors We therefore re>insert it this
morning, corrected
The Cincinnati Gazette is publishing series of ar
ticles on the condition of the country by Rev. Dr.
ROBERT J. BREcKNRIDGE-
The name Of DR.. BRECKENRIDGE is Familiarity con-
nected with the Emancipation movement in Ken
lucky he having been an ardent advocate of that
measure. Although not now insisting upon such a
policy it is evident that he is too sorey afflicted with
"chronic hatred of South Carolina to wisely COM
prehend properly prescribe for the existing ills
of the country. He says:
More recently the coramotion about Slavery in the
Territories, has been struggle for political power
aggravated the side of the North by the urgency
Of It's ma nerous emgrant population for cheap homes
1t is the idea of power-power to be diminished by
remaining in the Union and to be intellectually aug
mented by leaving It; the idea of wealth, of con-
quest, of adVancement-aI of them, we are tho
roughly eoLTineed, in the highest degree Elusive
and fatal; but it is these ideas-far more than any
disgust that the North condemns Slavery immoral
or any apprehension that Slavery will be disturbed
or slaves stolen, the South annoyed in the Uuion
that pervades the present dominant patty in the
Cotton States and enabled it to precpitate them into
revolution.
We undertake TO maintain that s'the conlmotion
about slavery in the Territories" has not been "a
struggle for political power" either by the North
or by the South. There is not a newspaper reader
in the United States who has not known for years
that although every foot of Territory South of IS
deg 80 min. should be forever slaVeholding, the
political power of the slavehoding States would
after the census of 1860 be overwhelmingly prepon-
derant in the Federel Government audyet every one
knows, that Notwithstanding this universal knowl-
edge, North and South, of where the political power
would lie, if protection had been forever guaranteed
to slavery South of Sc degrees 80 minutes, the
entire South would have been content to re-
main in the UriOn. Then it was not "a strug-
gle for political power " The North would
have enough after the census of 1861 to satisfy its
greed without the Territory South of the line. The
South with all the Territory which it was willing
to accept would still have been in a hopeless minor
ity, and that they knew. We repeat then, the com
motion about slavery in the Territories" has not
been a struggle for political power That conmo-
ton has been produced upon the hand that rel
gions fanatcism in the North which holds slavery
sim as of"the twin relics of barbarian as the
sum of all villanes and which afirms as tundamen
al doctrine of political policy to CRAFTY the prompt
ings of diseased conscience that slavery shall be
forever prohibited in all the territory, and thus
put it in course of ultimate extinction" Up0n
the other hand that commotion has been produced
BY that feeling in the South, which is the first law
of nature-self preservation. The hemming in of
slavery its confinement to its present State limits,
it is well known, both at the North and the South
would, by the natural, but rapid increase of the
slave population, render slave labor vaIueess and
lead to emancipation. 1t is further well known at
the South that emancipation would force white ten
ants and white labor to compete with free negro ten.
ants and free negro aborers in States where the black
would far exceed the white population and thus by
driving out the whites, Africanize the South and
reduce 1t to the condition of St. Domingo 1t is not
" the idea OF power to be diminished or augment
ed either at the North or the South it is not the
idea of wealth of conquest of advancement either
at the North or South it is religious fanaticism al
the North and seifpreseryation at the South which
has produced that commotion which has resulted
in the permanent dissolution OF the Union and the
establishment of the Southern Confederacy.
Our MINISTER TO FRAxcE-The Martinsburr Re
publican has satisfactory grounds for stating that
Mr. FAULKNER, early in January, applied to the Pres
deEt to be relieved from his present service as Min
lister at Paris, and that he now only awaits letter
of recall to return to this country.
Two ten inch Columbiads (huge monsters.) with
ell necessary accoutrements for active service.
passed mere Sunday for mobile They were pur-
chased in Richmond by Gov. Moore and are proba-
bly, destined for Fort Morgan. They had not been
transhpped since leaving Richmond, and would
reach Mobile on the same cars via Corinth Hubs
Uile AdUOcdte M,srch 6.