Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-05-26


free from the breath of infectious fanaticism
| aud tyrannous usurpation, or perish to q
| man. 49, : g -
| 1t is sad to know that people and sove.
reign States with whom we have lived in am
ity, who have received the golden rain of our
harvests in return for their skill and art, and
even artifce who have built up their splen.
did cities and now boosted greatness from the
rich returns of the products of our labor, and
the mighty revenues of Government whose
| legislation has often enriched them at our
/ expense people who have talked of Union,
| fraternity and freedom that such people
would now invade our soil, our homes, our
all, because unable to control the wild and
phrensied pretentions of fanatical estimates
of liberty. we choose to take care of our
selves. 1t is melancholy picturel But in
| the natural course OF events we expected It,
In the very name of union they desolate its
| every hope. In the barter and sale of the
| holy names OF our patriot sres. they would
invade the homes of their children. While
professedly generating the very ashes OF
Washington aud making barter to procure
their resting they sanction in the very
! city that bears his name as a national me-
| mento, usurpatiOn more enormous than any
| the sage-like hero ever resisted. In the name
| OF Liberty, they subjugate sovereign States,
and deal with their people as rebels. In the
name OF Religion, they would turn loose to
unlicensed murder, rapine, and every form of
| barbarian misery, four millions of COMPARE
lively helpless human beings. To effect this.
they publish to the world that Kentucky has
| furnished two regiments of her valorous sons,
| to be Differed by Northern mercenaries that
Western Virginia-Virginia. your mother.
the cradle and temple of Liberty-is ready
to arm against her own ritals. What lying !
| Great Heaven Cannot the sober, the think
Jag, the truth loving people of the North---for
II she IL rich lntpfil and porfh
as all know-see through this perfdy, this
filsity, this hypocricy They can and they
| will, and justice will yet be rendered, for its
seat is not wholly dethroned there. They
| have been deceived by mereenary press
| They have been betrayed by false appeal
to humanity and love OF iight-to which an
| honest people ever respond. /They have be-
lieved we desired to invade Their rights They
already see otherwise, and standing in solid,
formidable and determined array before their
| gathering hOrdes to-day, we present a basis
of hope to every honest Northern man, in
that we ask nothing and will have nothing
but our own rights. No invasion, save to re-
dress wrongs they may needlessly infiict.
! But the establishment anew of our right to
our own liberties end responsibilities, DE they
considered OnerOas, dangerous or otherwise I;
| our right TO them, and not theirs their ri ght
| TO their own, and not ours freedom of con-
| science the right TO acknowledge God in
| our own way, with none to modest, and with
| equal recognition OF the rights of those that
differ ; freedom of legislation !; freedom of
thought, speech, and action freedom to live
| Tor the unfolding of every trust committed,
| aud to preserve that freedom armed to-day
TO man, aud ready to meet every trespass,
every invasion, not stopping to count the cost,
| or however mach We may feel to weep over
| the memories OF the past. This is our native
aud our chosen land, aud here no hostile foe
shall stand.
L have shown in previous and frequent ad-
| dresses that the ingredients and proclivities
| of the North and South in their forms of civil
| fight for is, the recognition of this plainest
of facts.
In the formation of this government, we
had Washington on the battlefield our
| Madison spoke words of wisdom our Jeffer-
son in counsel was a nation in strength our
Paine, though blot. perhaps, on the page of
| American history. for he lived obnoxious to
Pharisaical pretension aud Puritanic eviden-
ces OF deceit, and he still liyes-our Paine,
repeat, with no unseen world to beacon him
fortISupOn the untried waste of human suffer-
ing and care, was yet A MAN, invincible and
impregnable in the assertion of human rights.
With the DecalOgue in one hand, and the
Charter of human rights in the other, they
held forth The ray divine of true, of rational
liberty, from whence Hope assembled high as
the light o. day DER the darkest night. The
charters of these men live as the birth of lib
erty. Amid commissions wild and terrific
they gave birth to thought that personified
truth, goodness, Justice, peace, virtue, and
right. Our country's right through them
and many others was established to act the
better part 10 the great God of instinct, the
human heart. Think you it can be lost 4?
tell you no. Guardian hosts of souls, whose
earthly pilgrimage was toll and suffering for
human right, watch, and iced, and guard the
ascending fame of hope that inspires this
people. We need but to stand upon the prin-
ciple of equal justice, and all He'll and Heaven
will guard and lead the hosts thus marshalled
to Humanity's victory.
You are told that the great me are gone.
Not so. Your partizan organizations-churc
aud state-may have strangled many who
might have led to peaceful conquests, and
made this fratricidal animosity a skeleton to
bleach beneath the sun of a true and trusting
confidence in each other. Parties destroy
greaness-that is, they bury and hide it in
obscurity. But your parties are gone. True
worth, ABILITY, merit,will now show themselves
all over the land. 1t was SO in the day of your
fathers Revolution. In every by-way, in
every neighborhood, men arose truly great,
because not afflicted with the contemplate
necessity of f1attering ignorance and passion
for the sake of prominence, place, and greed.
Oh learn We the lesson. Avarice Stays your
Gods of greatness. The true lovers of men
the real servants of right the men who can
dare false public opinion, defy miserable
spirit OF gossipping SANDER and detraction,
who can lead without the honor or profit of
1mere mercenary leadership; who, conscious
of their own purposes of right and goodness,
ask no reward but the approval of their own
consciences-ttese men are coming forth TO
ride the waves of the storm now upon us,
and our brave soldiers and gallant people
will see and honor them when their work is
done. Till then the best proof Of their exist
ence amongst US will be the ready, self sacr-
ficng service the country shall see them per-
form. Come, then, let US all be men. We
don't want ofice-seekers now. but men able
and ready for any office, however considered
humble or otherwise. And such men are in
this movement. A constellation of such are
forming all along the horizon of the night of
fratricidal strife, and their light shall never
set whatever shrouds of conflicting emotion
and feeling may arise to obscure their path
way of honor and trust. We must be such,
or be less than the least of the pretenders to
their country's honors. The seat of Washing
ton is disgraced ! the halls of Congress are
scarcely the theatre OF respectable rabble.
Liquor is TIL maker of your laws-hence,
Revolution is upon US. Its fiery furnace is
necessary, or it would not be. Let US go
through it only to make the gold of true man
ly and womanly worth more pure, and Pres
idenis, Legislators, Statesmen, Philanthro-
psts aud true men and women . every sphere
will arise to bless and beautify Columbia's
redeemed and regenerated people. In con-
clusion to you, soldiers, l propose a senii-
ment, as | am done;
Tennessee and kentucky might is Southern