Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-12-15
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slaves Of the South continues to be the object Of the
Louisville Journals objurgstions. The people Of the
@ Confederate States not ct al surprise at the
~ latest interpret alton Of the doctrines Of the party
m that has rrined the Governmens Il was so clear
asa ly fOreshadOwed By the "rrepressble conflict" of
SEWARD andthe declarations of LINCOLN, that the |
country could not long remain half slave, and half
Free and by all the fanaesl and devilsh teachings
40 ytOf the party which hasoTerthrown the Govern
nent Of the Union that the majority Of the people
81 of the Confederate States never doubted the
& d Intimate designs of the Black Republicans.
81 20 Not so, however, with many Of the idolworship
10 pers, who had been taught to believe that the
la- Union should be the paramount object of their
affections instead Of ths principles which it was
- established to protect These have trusted il thS
decetful promises of the Oily.tOngued demagogues
who have misssd them until they have been star
tied from their slumbers by the fendish declsra-
tons of LINCOLN and CAxsRoS as the peaceful ct-
zen ia startled by the hrebsn at night. Even many
p of those who have girjed on the srmor Of
war to do battle, as they believed, for
the preservation of the Union, have thrown down
their arms and Obstinately refuse to fight cause
30 savage and nbumsn. 1t is stated that there is
whole regiment confined in the Medical College
of Louisville for mutny, in consequences Of the late
rye message Of LINCOLN. Id. ra-
-- Il is not surprising under these circumstances
~ exhibit great trepdation and arn for the future
20 prospects of the UsurpeFs cAusc. 1t is to be
wondered that he should, in breath assert that
helooks upon the Presidents treatment of the slave
81 ~ question in his message of the most striking
and objectionable instances OF official short CON-
ing which the world has furnished;" aud in an
other that he should plead loudly for LncoIas hon
esty of purpose and demand that conservative Ken
trckisns should strengthen his hands, to save him
tLo pation fro-1 hain0 tran plpd hv tbaI
radical element -....--
Ii is not surprising thst the same tWozfaced and
double.voiced Oracle should proclaim a. follows in
r. its issue of the 9th:
ALook st the great facts. The people of the
States now in revolt have been taught by dema
gogues and couspirstors fer the last thirty years
that the people OF the North q body hostile
the instituIsrs of the South, and that, if the Nor
thern people shout achieve possession Of the
Government the institutions of the South would be
abolished either mediately or immediately at every
hazard. We all know this wicked deuson has
been taught but too successfully. The successful
teaching of prepared the Southern mind for re7o-
luton whenever the North should achieve poses,
sion Of the Government. The North st lss achieved
possession Of the Government in the person of Hr
Lincoln. The South rsvOlted. The Government
called an SrEny into the field to suppress the revolt
War overs preSds the lssd.
Il well sccords with its system Of tactics and fsl
EiAcation throughout the whole history of this SIS
very question that should endesvor keep alive
the false impression il hiss taken so important =
part in producing touching the teaching of Southern
men that "if the Northern people should eyer
schieve possession of the government, the nStitu,
tions of the South would be abolished nedAtsly or
Immediately at eTsry hazard, is the deIualon of
demagogues and conspirstorE; when in the self same
hour its truth has been triumphanty Vindioa-
ted in the eyes Of all mankind, and when the
convicted caumnizscrs of Southern Secession
tts are endsaVoring VsInly and Insdly to
escape from the consequences Of their misrePre-
sensations, by Sssailing LNCoLE for boldly carrying
into practice the dogmAs vhieh he and his party
have openly proclaimed.
We have indubtsbs evdense tkst what the
Journal calls "this wicked delussnr in the South
has been the most reliable prophecy in the following
graphic description of the present condition OF
1iment in shs North drawn by the Journal, in tbs
message of the President which the Journal pre-
tends to believe has been forced by the radical
sentiment, and IN the report Of CAMERON, which is
but the supplement to the Presidents declarations
At time when the prospects Of our cause. con
edered in other respects, were never 80 bright and
inspiring the cry for radical and extreme measures
on the pretext Of necessity, rising from isfuen-
rial quarters of the North, with herceness and
intensity that awaken the deepest concern n the
breast Of every rejecting patriot in the lsEA It
is demanded By this fanstical cry, frst that the
law of Congress with which the President made
FremoBts proclamation tally shsll be repealed and
that new law which TALES with Fremont's procla-
nation or exceeds it shall be enacted instead. and
secondly that the sisves OF the loyal as well as of
the disloya shall be freed and armed if indispensa
BILE This is the topmost cry which rides the fierce
popular wave that Congress brings with it to Wash
ington All men of calm reflection here aud else.
where are agreed that this cry if it should fnd
expression in the action of the Government, would
render the perm anent destruction Of the nation
svoidabe 1t is in effect cry Of death to the last
hope of the patriot
And yet this very descriptive paragraph is found
In the same article, in which the former teachings
of Southern men are declared to be "a wicked dsa
1usionD and the teachings Of "dsmsgogues and com
spiratorsn The truth of their prophecies is con-
fessed, and they are stigmAtized by the same pen
that thus distorts, false prophets and wicked
deceivers Can any more fOrcible illustration Of
malicious sophistry be sdduced
And as If to burn into the public mind, with IRE
the truth of the Southern view of the question and
the wisdom with which it has been met and pur-
aued we have the New York Posts ATowal tina
General MCCLELLAN ought to be arrested because
he induced the President to have the report of
~ CAMERON slightly modified, by threat to reaign
If its original text were adhered to. And yet the
aliaht modification made has not saved it from
arousiDg and alarming the Border State Union1sts
to such degree that even the journal is compelled
10 raise the voice Of censurs against it
Truly history is rapidly yindicatng the SANDER.
id sons of the South. The long postponed dsy of
their vIndicntion and triumph i; nigh at hand.
The Masonic Grand Lodge Of Alabaeaa, at its re-
cent session in Montgomery, appropriated $500
for the use of the sick and disabled soldiers Of
State In the army Of the Confederate States,