Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-03-01

AZ srs pixies Pamphlet.
The MempS Appeal makes the following abstract
Of the late Sc political pamphlet of Capt. ALBEHr
PIKE of Arka as;
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A nolitical Pamphlet entitled as above. has been
issued bv HcT Albert Pike, addressed particularly
ID the peoplestf Arkansas. We do not hesitate to
pronounce Ahe ablest pamphlet we have read on
the present isis. Both in matter and in style it is
unsurpassedKy any production which has fallen
under our coSaizance the subject of which it
treats His snalysis of the causes which have pro-
duced the prasent divisions Of the two sections is
made with the sagacity Of a true statesman.
His argument in support of the southern the
CRY of our government, and against the north
ern theory, promulgated by Webster, that
the people of all the States one people made the
Government is mastery and invlncibe. His view
of the Unite States corporation is striking and
forcibe "Tus it was that the fathers succeeded in
effectipg whit had never before been attempted or
suggested as possible-the forming, at one and the
same time. 81 Union of independent confederated
States coeCSias and retaining their individuality
as States and national unity or single nation, for
all necessar national purposes. They did not ere
ate some noRdescript creature IN part a league or
coufederatin and in part one nation and one people;
but they created that which was, at one and at The
same time H5lrH league and union OF many states,
and ONE Srasd The motto, "E pltriubus 1uran," did
not mean tat the many were fused together INTO
one unity; put that continuing many they were
at the same i;Eae one And not only were the United
States meaS to be one nation for all the particular
purposes sp ied in the Constitution and independ-
ent and eaut States for ali other purposes, but by
beautiful application of the law of corporations,
their corporate character appears or disappears
whenever is necessary that it shoula do so for the
interest or Advantage of the States that the cor
porators."
The authoiErges that the real.controversy between
the Nerh ard the South az a radical difference as to
the very na ase and power of the Government, and
that this is b. true '.irrepressible conflict" II is
difference Of opinion that cannot be reconciled and The
Northern peokse are nearly tloo to our one"
While the Ehold that this is simply Government of
popular msSorItes, and degrade the States to the
rank of coulties parishes, they have become too
strong for nutnumber in people and IN States,
receive h<n1red thousand emigrants per annum
have spen sla'ie wherein to make six or seven new
States and announce it their ultimatum, that
shall not eYsand Southwardy or Southwestwardly,
but Slavery shqH be prohibited in all the Territory
hereafter ,.Iuired, I" He who reflects all this,
cannot well fail to ses that separation was but
question offlme." The doctrine OF the North as to
the TerritoEss is but application of their theory
of the GoyG1nment-" living reality in practice"
and if the SSuthern States from Della to Texas.
do net meaIs to abandon their Constitutional faith.
admit that tAere is Union of the States, and sub
nit to the Worst of absolutesms, that of foreign
majority tb@y must stand shoulder to shoulder, one
firm, unbrcSen phalanx, in this great emergency,
and prove t3 the world that they are strong wise,
and PATRIOTS enough to form and maintain Con-
tuition and Government for themselves"
To expand says Mr.. Polk, Is the destiny and ne
cessity OF every young and growing nation. 1t is
law of Its being By the law of its growth and
natural right, the Southwest is as much as the
Northwest is tea heritage Of the Northern States.
The law is more imperative with US because slaVe-
ry gradually drifts to the southwark. seeking
profitable fields of labor. Now the North says to
us, 1--WE will expand indefinitely to the Northwest,
and make new States there; if acquire territory
to the Southwest we will fill that likewise with
Vandalic hordes until our States make threefourths
of the whole In the meantime you shall remain as
you are. You shall not expand to the Southwest;
and we viii elso fercs slavery to reeoll and dsap
pear from the border States" On This Roint they
ISL make no COT ,.essioa.
ave have four millions of slaves. How many
years will clap before we have ten millions? These
-all-are hesaTorward to be confined to the pres
ent Southern States. No doubt it will be well
enough So dr riAg our lifetime; but hou tcH be 1oth
our children? we ready, in order to purchase
quiet and peacN Tor ourselves to bequeath such ca
lamity to HIaa as the perpetual confinement of
slavery Vitbi1S.lts present limits would be. Shall
we, to avoid a;Fresent danger, and that we may be
permitted to SD our hands and sleep in dishonor
devise to ther isis accursed legacy! l. for one, will
not consent s!sit Better were treason against an
unrighteous ~. eminent. than treason against our
own ehildrents; He argues that is both right
and a necessia, % grow-plaAt new States. at is
Gods law; an.le attempt to stay its operation has
already shives% the Union, as one shivers vessel
Of fragile glacS,'
From the Fgssit OF hs observation at the Federal
Capital, Mr.. s.;e afirms most emphatlcally that
which we htsSgsa repeatedly and earnestly urged
upon rehrses, viz: that the delay of the border
States encoCTA the Republicans and that as soon
as Lincoln is Ssaugurated, he cannot help but at
tempt to COG a tho seeding States if the border
States still dxiy lie says. :: bmboldened by the
hesitation OF ennessee, kentucky, Virginia, and
Maryland u: XlR see that the Republicans become
more iusole aSSnd speak in bolder tones of rebel
lion and ooezSS,n. ThersItes Hale talks bravely
Lincoln objess to any compromise and the very
fact that any, mates have seeded is ignored The
names of ttosg members are still called in the
House. Blas2S South Carolina as much you will,
the attitude S the North, and all the acts Of the
Republican 1Ns'ty go very far t9 prove, eyen 10
those most r3Satant 10 believe IT, that the separa
ton Of TIE thern States mas n2t occurred day
too soon"
a With coge Hlrguments and earnest appeals, he
urges ArkanHa and the border States to unite with
the seceded sEtes at ONCE, and gays thai, ii arY
compromise spatehed qp, somebody will be sold"
be thus GisIEASs of the hobby about the failure Of
the erpeTimeEk eghich has been so ridden by Union
orators and siters.
'Itis the dH mon cry that the dissolution of this
Union will bS91e signal failure of our experiment
of free gOvet4 uent. On the contrary, we are
proving thatAksr institutions not failure. The
world never "a such drama is being en-
acted in the sSdth. Without anarchy without dis
order, witho interruption of the free and ordinary
coHrge of thaws, without suspension Of the hqbeqs
corpus act, oItFoops to preYent or punish popular
excesses or E4en an increase of the police. the sep
aratoR of Esest confederation of sovereign States
goes quietly R with all the forms of law, all the
solemnities 40 elaboration, all the decorum that
could eharas sarize the most ordinary proceedings
in period of srofound peace"
If war results from it, it will not be by our fault,
but in consequence of northern avarce reluctant to
let those who Save so long been its tributaries go
Free and resoll,e to substitute another government
for that which our forefathers made.
The new Republic, which is now being erected by
southern patriots, the rival in arts and nus of the
northern Government, and SURPRISING it in its truly
republican institutions leH be the sole euid this
continent Of the capacity Of man for self government