Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-11-19
MEssNATE.
The voice Of one Crying ln enc Wllaerne..

The Voice OF one Drying IN Ihe Wilderness
The New York Tines, in late issue, thus raves
and bewsis the condition of the North, and exhorts
the people to do something:
Are We to be overwhelmed, like unhappy Greece
in the putri1 waves of domestic corruption Heaven
fobid that this inquiry shall be consunmated. We
have not yet eliminated TO the merdian we are not
yet manacled for tbs sca1fold; we are not yet
shrouded for the grave of nations We have com
miited dreadful errors; have walked in the val
ley and the shadow Of death but there beautiful
sea, shining like the "cross in the wilderness ?
reckoning Us to q lOftler and prouder destiny!
There Is one whose pavilion is dark cloud"-one
at whose voice the universe was summoned to ex
istence who is still the guardian of the land Of
Washington. (Vlrginisyl Let us not despair.
Now is the time for action The eyes of the world
are upon you; the shades Of one hundred and
eighty generations of men are looking down upon
you, and il Is for you to fight or die Boo loom
As we have said-you have no election; you mus
fight or consent to be kissing and & by-word
through every century to come; you must meet the
dreadful ISSUE or your childIen will deny their
parentsge great many are already in doubt
about that And blush when your names shall be
mentioned
The greatest questions of the world are to be de-
cided at once. Hdre ire q G=Usrnnaent on this Cont
1ent? lCertainly- J This Is the mouen
Ious issue-mOre than thirty millions of people are
directly interested IN the result and all the nstions
Such struggle as this is not limited to any especial
age; the highest interests Of humanity are conceraed
and the pulse OF the world beats with thst of Amer
lea. Not Yankee America
We hsve not yet GppToachel this tremendous sub
ject;[ You have approached several times-at Bethel
Manassas, Leesburg DC. but you didn't seem to
like its look, and away from it'll we have not
realized in remote degree, the awful responsible
des resting upon US; are attempting to perform
IN q few short months 6 task which cost Spain
eight hundred years of ineessant labor. We began
wrong upon this subject, and we have continued
wrong. We are afraid to take the high unimpesch
able ground upen which this war must be settled
We are lingering in the low, degraded valley OF
compromise and EXPs DENCY, instead Of declaring in
favor of G5 tract right
"ComprUmise" is word which is not in our die
tOnary; iE is an invention OF eowardice and crime
and we repudiste it with contempt and scorn. No
compromise with the agents of the devil [He won't
let you of with compromise but toqr, stern, IN
relentibg ,oGT TO the knife. Close the column and
let the battle rage with Nspoeonic 'ury while the
earth shall oTen to receive the bodies Heaven viii
expand to accommodate the spirit of those that shalt
fall In defence of the inprescFiptsble inalieBable
rights of man. $50 we hOpe-and the other place
will yawn for those who fight against them
An end to all comprom Use! Let us meet this issue
like men, Hal hs hs.] Let US assert our rights
as did Israel, against the Roman Empire and LEI Us
bid defiance to the world in arms What right has
Europe, hoary with crime to dictate terms of peace
to America! What right has she to look down,
with condescending air, upon America?