Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-04-04
Erau ArIkansns.

-l-'z. L1rrLr Rock, ARE., March %, 1861,
Editor, Unioa and American MEN who may be
pitjed because they are " more disposed TO suffer
While evils are siderable than right themselves by
sbolishing forms 10 which they are accustomed"
beoome 6lHmesble when they seek. to plunge
others in their own degradation, and suppress 8
Just aud holy cause by resOrting, to such means az
th. following dispatch exposes clipped from the
"teleeraphic" column Of the Memphis Avalanche
Of the 26th inst :: = I. ss---P
HNAsHvILLE, March 20-Mueh excitement fol-
lowed the rejection of The secession ordinance at
Little Rock, Ark, yesterday. A compromise was
made that the people should vote on the first Mon
day in August for cooperation or secession dele
gates. TO be sent to Border State Convention, and
report at the re-assembling Of the Convention on
the third Monday in August"
Iregret that the good people Of your city, with
whom, when 9 boy, msrshslled in what then
ooneurred To- be the cause OF the whole country
should waste their emotions upon information con-
densing SO much Misrepresentation. Esavs d
The act Of the Arkansas Convention submitting
the 5ere question of secession cooperation to the
people on the frat Monday in August next, is pie
csely in effect to follow the course adopted by the
Stats Of Texas which resulted in. snch an over
Whelming triumph for secession. Such an action
was settled upon instead Of formally submitting the
ordinance Of secession" because there were many
Delegates elected TO the Convention pledged to vote
for secession "f nothing could be DONE who, not
withdrawing the signal failure Of those who made
an effort to do something," are yet prone to tenn
pOriEe, for The sake Of the prospect Of 9 "united
action Of the Border Slave States 81
No Delegstes are 10 be elected By the people TO
any Convention or other hImbug whatsoever. slja-H
The Convention will re-sssemble on the third
Monday Ia August next, Hhens II il shall appear
that q majority Of the votes Of the State has
been cast "for seOsSsioR, tas Convention is
bound by It's ordnance then "to psss an set
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fOr cooperation, !" "then the convention shall take
such steps may be deemed proper for further CO.
operation with the border or unseceded slave
States" y As indicative of the feeling prevalent
throughout this State the word Union does not
sppesr anywhere in the proceedings Of the Conven-
ton. Enclosed herein send you b copy of the
ordnance adopted by the convention, and the pro-
clamston of the President Of the Convention TO the
Sherfs of the Counties which viii sustain me the
correctness Of these statements
This "cOH'pTOnaiss2 is the practical if not literal
adoption of the example of Texas which will be fol-
(one-third) for secession. i will assert morsover
that none other than such a compromise would have
repressed the revolutionary eruption which at any
time during the sitting Of the convention. signal
might have called forth, to bury conventions, their
party making puppets, and puppet>moYing hearth
stone traitors in worse than Pomperian destruction
Many and think majority of the citizens of Ar
kansas of lineage nlagnanimous and indon1t.
able, which has ever defed the oppression of power
whether that power be represented by priests.
princes, vulgar embodiment of sectional fanat,
cism such now desecrate the seat conseGrated By
Washington. Even the safety of their ires:des. as
well as the assertion of their manhood they regard
as dependent upon q union with their Southern
brethren of the Confederate States. And if unfor-
tunately they opposed in the effort peaceably to
enter into such union, with portion if not with
the whole o. this State, do verify believe, unless
sooner kindled elsewhere, that the first flames OF
civil will reddOn the COW quiet skies of Arkan-
sas. Yours most respectfully, SO
JOIN NJ. HARRELL-