Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-01-31

by the -faiee- show of military pafades. gilt
| tsnng swords and high-sounding military
I Ities.fead- yon into this now -ceBfederacy
| until you have wholly failed in your besi
efforts to save the present government
Stand by your present government while il
4 continues to maintain your honor and youl
| rights. 1t has never yet deserted you. See
TO ii, that you do not, needlessly, desert il
! Tine breaking up of the entire government
may become a necessity. But when thai
time arrives. We will try to be ready to meet
the evils Of it as best we can. Let u, while
there il a reasonable hope left, continue our
| sxertions for the preservation of the Union
and of our rights in the Union. Our efforts
should be unceasing, while there is a prospect
of success, aBdswhen the last hope is gone
| we can then give up the good old ship but
| IN sorrow and sadness OF heart let this be
| done, and no: in rei0icings amid. the roar OF
Cannon and the jabulant shouts of the incou-
siderate and unrefgcting. We should meet
| such calami y as the saddest event that can
ever befail mankind on eartb-as the death
| of civil liberty. among men, Beyond the ex-
istence of this government, all is darkness
| and gloomy horror for the American people
Ii any thing can be seen after this sad caias-
| trophe. it will only he 50 the broken and dis
honOred fragments of a once glorious Union
States discovered. diseordant. belligerant
"a land rent with civil lends, or drenched,
it may be, in fraternal blood" r..t,
4 In the place of the present government
nothing is offered that can be youched for.
| No seeding State or advocate of secession
has suggested one reliable idea indicating the
| most distant prospect of our future safety.
The cry is-'.a Southern COnf-deracy.n and
pray, what is to be the Southern Confeder-
acy? Who can tell? Can Tennessee CON
troll 1t if she goes into it? Or can she mould
1T into form, or shape its organic alton, if she
| secede now and join the Cotton States with
out the company of the other slave State i?
But the argument is frequently urged, thai
the Union is dissolved, and we are asked
We will go with the South or will we be the
''tail of a Black Republican Government"
In the first place, the Union is not dissolved
in point of fact. Six States have passed Or
dinances of Secession-nut still the postal ar
| engagements and revenue laws of the United
States are in full operation in these States.
And moreover, there are twenty States
still unit I'd together in the Union aud under
our Constitution.
But even if the Union should be deemed
dissolved, it does not follow that we shall
either go with the Cotton States or be the
"tail end of Black Republican govern
mento The fact, that these six States have
declared themselves out of the Union, is not
a reason that we should nosc go with them. 1t
is rather the best sort of reason why we
should not now go. They have deserted
their rights under the government. They
have, as far as it can be done on paper. given
mp the Constitution of the United States
given up the Fugitive Slave law-given up
their rights in the sTerritories-aud in the
public property of the government, and aban-
dOned over a million aud half of friends in
the free States. s- -
Tennessee is yet in the Union, insisting
upon all the rights which these six States
have deserted, and the prospect that she will
get them grows brighter every day. She,
with Virginia, Maryland. North Carolina,
Kentucky, Missouri and Delaware, will doubt
less succeed in this manly effort, the benefits
of which will De freely extended to those
who wish to separate from US. These States
now stand in the centre of the Union as the
grand pacificators of the nation, and what
glorious mission it isl
Why needlessly hurry up this mission? Wait
rather for time TO cooperate with these other
sister Slave States, and alter they aud we have
agreed upon our grievances, let us present
them in becoming spirit TO our Northern
brethren, and after we have done this, let us
wait decent and reasonable time for the
people of the free States to act upon our pro-
positions. This issue is not between the poll
ticians North and the politicians South. 1t
is between the people of the slaveholding
States and the people of the free States. We
do not rely upon politicians in this issue.
The people are disc ITding them and taking
the matter into their own hands. They are
in large masses, and large bodies act slowly
and In acting slowly, they act surely We
are for appealing to the Northern people. 1t
is our duty to ourselves as well as to them,
and we believe they will give US favorable
response. Already the Northern masses are
beginning 70 move.and TO fall into line. We
had. at the oltset, over million and half
of true friends to begin the grand movement
There was only little over two hundred aud
fifty thousand votes to overcome in a vote of
three millions and half. We have no doubt
more than overcome that already. We have
every reason to believe this. In the first
place there were hundreds and thousands of
votes cast for Mr.. Lincoln with no reference
TO his opposition to slavery. These men can
now be relied upon in this emergency.
Again-in the Legislature of Vermont, a
Committee OF three of the best lawyers of
the State. were appointed to examine their
Personal Liberty Bill in connection with the
Constitution of the United States, and they
have decided thatsit is unconstitutional aud
recommended its Srepeal, which will DOUBT
less be done upon the meeting of the Legis-
lature. The State of Rhode Island has al
ready repealed her Personal Liberty Bill and
the tendency and feeling of the other State s
are the same way Neither Indiana nor Illinoi>
ever had any Personal Liberty Law. Aud
there are now, pouring into Congress fiom
the Northern States, petitions signed by tens
of thousands of people praying 10 have the
Critteuden propositions adopted. All these
are cheering Indications of bright fniure.
and encourage US TO press forward in the
glorious work with high hopes of better
day ahead of US. tt ~
EAgain we ssy. stand by the Union as long
as it eau be preserved in honor. 1t il, as We
honestly believe the only sure protection of
slavery in The United States. We verify be-
lieve that the psaOer of this great Govern
ment-the respect for it aud The fear of it in
the other nationsof the earth, are the only
reliable guarantees for the permanency OF
American Slavery. Il will last as long as
the Union of the States remains-hut when
that is broken up, the strong shield aud
protection of that Institution are gone. Break
up the Union and you break down the Con-
stitution; and with it you expose slavery
TO the attacks of the Abolitonists along
border two thousand miles in length. and
you Furthermore expose the whole Southern
country to the attacks of the fanaticism of all
Western Europe. 1t may be said with entire
truth that the deep seated venom and wild
faaaticism of the powers of Western Europe
are more intense and diabolical than that OF
Wendell Philips or Lloyd Garrison. Then
will come to pass what Hon. W. w. Boyce,
one of the prime leaders of secession in
South Carolina wrote IN 1852, that secession,
separate nationality, with all its burdens. is
no remedy. 1t is no redress for the past; it is
no security for the future. Ii is only mag
nificent sacrifice for the present, without in
anywise ginning in the future. Such is the
Intensity of my conviction on the subject,
that If secession should take place--of which
i have no idea. Tor cannot believe in such
sTUPENDoUs MADNESS-I shall consider the irsfi-
fulton of slarery as doomed, and that the great
God, in our blindness. has made us the in
Strument of ITS destruction
Once more, therefore. we say stand by our
colors aud the preservation OF your rights
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