Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-03-28
The banner and MR.. rharIn.

The Bonner seems grieved or outraged at the con-
duct of soma Alabamians in expelling one Mr..
THARlN from their midst. This Mr.. THARN is now
engaged in lecturing in the antslayery States upon
the evils of slavery. On Thursday night of last
week this Mr. THARN, the BGuler'S political refu-
gee ectured in Cincinnati In the city papers of the
next morning there appeared conspicuously synop-
sis of the lecture. The Cincinnati Gazette says
The lecture commenced with an allusion to his
own expatriation. He said it was endeavoring to
teach those who had been degraded beneath mi
nority ten times more despotc than Transatlantic
George, that he was compelled to leave that land
from which once waved the Star Spangled Banner,
TO seek its folds and protection North of the Ohio
What is the South? Said he. We often hear the word
South mentioned in the Streets in speeches; it is
rung sufficiently in the hall of Congress to be familiar
in Washington. II is known to every one by
ocular as well SIS auriculsr demonstration for all
have seen it in the newspapers, read it in books,
and ! suppose your proximity to the Ohio river
your contiguity TO the South, has taught you Gin
cinnatians what the South is. There are those in
the North, however, who consider that the South is
represented in the secession movement. This is
not So The South, IS some people construe it, he
said means Yanceyism and Yanceyites. is made to
apply to certain class Of individuals who Pc
culiar kind of property-who monopolize all honors
and emoluments-sll the social and political rank Of
| the countsy. Constituting q minority of one-sev-
eath Of the population Of the cotton States they
have from the time that the Government was inau-
gurated to the present, held all the Offices, carried
GU. all the measures, and kept the non-slsveholders
| in 3 state Of degradation, worse than any thing
which be conceived by an enlightened audience.
Shareholders are q minority, and yet they are the
| despots of the South, and they always have been
SO yet who fought fer the liberties Of the South
who shed their blood upon the plains Of Carolina
who laid down their lives for liberty? Was it tina.
l Il 4kokn IL 49, davo aff ha Raw
olution. he who turned Tory in order to save his
house from being burned, and his negroes from be-
| ing run away by the British
The speaker here dwelt at some length upon Rev
dictionary topics. showing that the Tories of the
war with Great Britain, in the South, were slave
holders and that they were at all times ready to sell
their country in order to protect their property,
and secure it from the invasions of the enemy. He
said they have incorporated the Terry element in
their native land they have to-day burst forth be-
fore the civilized world in all the rainbow hues of
| new revolution. Mason & Dixon's line is Chimes
wall, bristling with Southern bayonets, manufac>
tured in Southern armOries, and pointed by South
ern youths, for what simply to their honses
and to keep the people of the North from running
| off with their negroes. How faithful they are to
their glorious antecedents how faithfully they car
| ~ out the theory of American Institutions how
BILE they are-wiling to fight and die for the South
II the non>slaveholders of the Southern States do
not submit to this class they are submissionists-
assert their manhood single>handed and alone amidst
mobs, and tumults, and confusion or else submit to
| a degradation worse than baltimore characters>
| tic of Patagonia than Of America-more character>
istic of the reign of terror than of American berN
ty-characterstic of the Jacobin Clubs Of old, now
/ revived under the name of Vigilance Committees.
/ Speaking of King Cotton he said Who is King Cot
| ton? expect that although you Americans,
and glory in your institutions although you love
the freedom of the press-delight in the liberty of
| alt NJ
own belief Is still dear TO you, dare say you have
not only heard Of King Cotton, bu have some slight
respect for His Majesty.
The appearance of such false and infamous sem
timents in cur columns is painful to U.S. but we are
forced to publish them in order to justify the Con-
federate States from the attack of the RdnnS for
expellng this Political Refugee" HINTON ROWAN
HELPER never uttered more satanic sentiments than
those of this Mr.. THARS. His statements are q
libel upon the whole South. They SANDER both the
stakeholder and the non-slavoholder The executive
officers of five, at leSst Of the seven seeded States
rose by their own exertions from the humbest
walks of life Neither of those had wealth or fam
lily influence to aid them in their upward course.
There is not man in Congress from Tennessee
there is not filling any Office of State that is not sur
rounded simply by such worldly goods as he himself
has acquired. The Southern stakeholder and
non-slaYeholder alike feel that they have an
immediate fpsrsonal interest" in the institu
ton of slavery. Their every iptereat and
sentiment demand that the negro shall sustain
his present position in society, and that Mr. LIN
csLNs doctrine that he has equally with the white
man, an unAIienable right to liberty, should be repu
dated. For Mr.. THARIN we have no sympathy. 1t
seeus IN ms not only as misunderstanding strange
but pItIfu, wondrous pitiful," to find leading or
gan in our midst condemning such conduct OF cit-
zens Of the Confederate States-yer utterly failing
to erdeavor to arouse its readers to the danger
which must follow the practical operation OF Mr.
LNCoLSs inaugural doctrine, that the power OF
Congress to prohibit slavery in the territories is de-.
termined, not by the Constitution but by majority
of Conoress