Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-04-30

Aati or elsewhere. who knowingly seais VT snls ons
ounce of flour pound of provisions, or any aims
or other articles which contraeano OF war, 70
any person or any State which has DOT declared
its firm determination to sustain the Oovern-
ment in the preseHt crisis is traitor and deserves
the doom OF traitor. -
Gen t,arey then offered the following which was
UNANIMOUSLY adopted and Justify cheered:
Resolced, That if the Union men of Kentucky will
stand BY the Flag of our Country, will stand by
and defend them now and when the war is over.
Dr. Jordan offered the following, which was a.
epted after which the meeting adjourned:
Resolved, That it is the opinion of this meeting
that no more troops should be marched round the
city of Baltimore.
This is an inkling .of what the armed neutralists
of Kentucky have expect from their Ohlo friends
Letter from Judge RobL L. Caruthers
JACKSON, April "a, 1861.
To the Editors Of the Union and american:
Your letter of the 11th inst, directed to me al
Lebanon, was forwarded to this place. You ask the
liberty to publish correspondence between Mr.
THos MARTIN and myself soon after our return
from the Peace Conference. have no objection al
al to the publication of the views then entertained
in relation to the great issues of the day. then
in my devotion to the Union, hoped almost against
hope. that something might turn up to save it from
final disruption and restore it to its integrity as
whole. But now have no such expectation. All
prospect of saving restoring it is gone orsDer We
must now go North or South. Be equals with our
sisters whose institutions and interests homoge
NOUS or become dependencies of the North without
power, influence, or even respect. Can any mar
hesitate which of the two positions to choose?
No doubt can now remain upon the mind of any
one observant of the times and passing events that
there is no longer any hope of justice from the
North. The Union is no more. The wicked policy
of this abolition administration and the spirit by
which it is sustained in the North have blasted all
hopes of its restoration. am now convinced we
should not desire any further or future connection
with the North. We can perhaps never again live
in harmony. The alternative Is now presented to
us to give up property. our equality, and inde>
pendence, or bow our necks to the yoke and live in
A miserable state of submission and degradation
with thirty thousand millions of property in danger
Already the tocsin of war has sounded, and tie
hosts of fanaticism moving for our destruction
Those who have been heretofore regarded. as our
friends. and promoted to high places by Ssuths RI
votes have deserted in the hour of trial. and are
engaged in pressing on the wicked crusade against
us. The dreaded state of things which so much
feared ever since my association with the Northern
men in the Peace Conference, is now upon us
The perfdious Cabinet at Washington has now
laid off all Disguise and fully developed their satan
ic designs against US. With honied words of peace
snd Cancellation on their lips, they have suddenly
6rawn the sword, and demanded our submission
And worse than ALL we are called upon to furnish
troops 10 aid them in their unholy schemes. But
cur Governor, well as those of the other Boz der
Slave States, has molly rebuked them by pre-emp-
toy refusal to obey the Insulting demand. There
longer be any doubt but that this occasion is
embraced to carry out the long ostered scheme for
the destruction of cur institutions. Fanaticism
aroused, is capable of anything, and scruples at
nothing to accomplish its objects, no matter how
wicked and diabolical.
The great UolaEtee State should not fall behind in
rallying around the standard of the South in this
great crisis. There surely can be no divisions
among US now. We cannot be neutral. Tennessee
honor and chivalry is too lofty to allow her to stand
with folded arms, while other Southern States are
engaged in the deadly struggle for their common
rights. Such a course would obliterate her past
glories, and degrade her before the world. She
would become a kissing and bye word with the
whole South and be held in contempt even by our
enemies. Those who suppose the people of this
glLdnt State would submit to occupy such position
do not understand their character and have forgot
ton the past. No influence restrain, no dangers
can appall them. They will crush to atoms all who
throw themselves in the way of her aroused indig-
na ion. Tennessee, with all the other Slave
States should without delay, any di vision
withdraw from the Old Union, and enter into ne,o
one with their Southern sisters. A banner of ff-
teen stas should at be thrown out to the breeze
and our enemies confronted by the united Hosts of
the South. A peaceable separation should be de-
manded but if refused and the wicked, unconstitu>
tional policy of coercion persevered in by the gov
ernment the issue must be decided by an appeal to
the God of battles.
The only way now to avoid the horrors of a de-
vastating civil war, is for the South to present
united front, and firmly demand q peaceful sepera-
on or if that cannot be, refer the question TO the
lrbtrament of arms. United we can stand and
maintain our rights, but dirided we will be over
run, and subdued. There should be no hesitation
Or delay. but the whole fifteen States should move
forward promptly, and as one man to the conflict.
SSANAS
or its success. We have only to look to the devel
'pInent in the North making, and the spirit and
lnanimity of their action to learn that there is no
security but in unity, promptitude and decision,
IN our part.
1t is now palpable that we have deceived our
elves in trusting to the magnanmy justice of the
North or suppose that they were disposed or ever
Intended to back down. from their ultra position
This was only intended to deceive, and entrap us.
t is now clear that we have nothing to expect
rom them. We see that they hate us with per
ect hatred, and any appearance of moderation and
their part only to lull our appre-
tensions until they could ripen their plans, and
more certainly accomplish our subjugaton. Let
he united South meet them with the olive branch
n one hand, and the sword in the other.
Having tried in vain every means to save the
Union, and to live in peace under the compact of
,ur fathers, we must now yield to the manifest
necessity of separation, and the organization of
In independent government of our own. This is
he conclusion to which all haze or soH very soon
Lrrive Let there be no divisions among MS and
Ill will yet be well, and our liberties secured and
Virginia the mother of many States.
md of Washington, has yielded to the imperi-
Jus necessity of the case and retired from that
lnion of which she was almost the creator. Thus
las the shrine which contains the bones of the |
Father of country been separated from the old
Jonfederacy. Our old mother North Carolina has |
walked up st the sound of the cannon of Sumter |
With her sword uplfted to cut the cords by which
he is bound to the of her enemies. Maryland, |
issouri, Arkansas, and the land of Clay. are all |
,utting on the armor for defense, and rapidly |
moving in the same directon-to a Southern Con- |
ederacy.
Tennessee has always occupied the front rank |
When danger was to be confronted. Is she now to |
Ose the position of honor by falling into the rear
nd declining to strike? The spirit of Jackson /
orbids il.
There should be no more halting and temporizing.
We have exhausted all honorable means to obtain
guarntees" for our rights. They have been in,
ignantly rejected, and the clouds thicken over us
ally We have made all the advances, and main
aimed our loyalty to the Union. We have been met
Nth contumely and contempt. Now we are