Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-06-01

which they are entitled of right, equally with
any other people. Then, the present strug-
gle on the part Of the South, is for Constitu-
tional Freedom, Existence and the Pursuit of
Happiness-God-g given, inalienable rights of
man. rights above all Compacts, Constitutions,
and forms of human governments whatever.
This struggle, on the part of the North. is
not for unfolding the "United States Gov
ernment," as is pretended, for the South has
not assailed that, but for the scbjugation of
the South, because she has declared her In
dependence and set up for herself. England
has alre ady recognized the South as "bel-
igerant power" which is virtual acknowl-
edgment of her Independence. Being in
the right, and defending the right against as
sailing foes, the South win certainly triumph,
and become the most prosperous and happy
country on the globe. Let the North keep
back invading forces from her soil, and there
will be no fighting.
But this soil is already invaded by sun
lawful combinations" of the North. See
Chas. A. Sanford's proclamation, issued the
other day, to Fairfax county, Va. This Ma
jor General in command of N. Y. State Mill
tia, now quartered in Virginia, promises
"good citizens" the "protection of person
and property" And who are these 'good
citizens?" They are such as swear allegiance
to abolitionists of the North-tories in the
South. This military leader of Lincoln's
troops, "assures" ''the people of Fairfax that
"the United States forces in Virginia will be
employed for no other purpose than that of
suppressing unlawful combinations against
the constituted authorities of the UNION"
And what are these combinations in the
view of Dictator Lincoln and has Gen. San
ford? Simply the Confederate States in the
South. And what are "the constituted au-
thorities of the Union?" They are Lincoln's
Military despotism and the 'higher law" of
abolitionists in their "irrepressible conflict"
The Generals of King George issued just such
proclamations to our fathers in their revoIu-
tionary struggle for Independence and the
right of selt-government. Such proclama-
lions were appeals to tories then, just as they
are now. Our patriot fathers despised them,
and so do their sons.
But Lincoln, say the "Union men," does
not intend to subjugate the South, or we
would resist him; he merely wishes to .tsup-
press unlawful combinations against the
Union" All who aid him in this work are
good citizens" whom he promises to protect
those who resist him, not killed in battle, are
to be hung as traitors; and we, as friends of
the South, will vote for "the Union.n The
determination of ten or dozen Sovereign,
the gallows, under the Dictatorship of Lin
coin, would be such a blessing to the South
and country, that the friends of both
ought to vote for Union" with the govern
ment which has undertaken the patriotic task
of comforting this great blessing upon the
South. These Union-voting friends of the
South, mind you, are not abolitionists, but
honest, enlightened, patriotic, brave men,
who highly prize the rights and privileges of
Civil Liberty. "Whom the gods wish to de-
stroy, they first make mad" The following
editorial from the Christian Advocate is worth
remembering: b.
s'A Peace Measure.
One word on the best way to bring about
peace. 1t is to show ourselves resolute and
united people, ready for war. Pardon the
paradox. but the man that talks of begging
peace now, is the real instigator of war; the
man with rifled musket in hand is the pro-
moter of peace. Every vote or speech that
creates the impression abroad that we are di-
vided in claiming and defending our rights,
raises up a hundred armed men to fight
against us.
This it is that keeps up the Northern pur-
pose of cOnquering US, forcing US back at the
point of the bayonet into the Union. They
say there are many Union men among us
and they must help them, mu. come to their
aid, etc.
Our peace-speaking and Union-loving
friends may not mean tive don't believe
they debut such is the moral effect they
produce at this crisis in affairs. They pro-
long the agonies of the war, thus encourage
and strengthen the enemy; they give him hope,
or, at least, pretext. They are the men
who invite invasion and will unwittingly
cause blood to flow, and fill trenches with the
dead bodies of our brothers.
Let the North understand. without mistake,
that we are one and resolue, and mean to
maintain to the death our liberties, and this,
more than any human means, will make
them pause and think of peace at first, where
war at last can accomplish nothing"