Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-01-23


ing lick-epitslss, against whom have 70 contend
is but three hundred and forty .sercn thousand five
hundred and twenty FIVE. Against this army for the
defence aud propagation of slavery, WE THINK IT
WILL BE AN EASY MATTER Independent of the
negroes who in nine cases out often would be de-
lighted with opportunity to CUT THEIR MAS
TIERS THR0ATS, and without sxcePting single |
pccJuit from either of the free States, England |
Franco or Germany, TO MUSTER ONE AT LEAST /
THREE TIMES AS LARGE AND FAR MORE RE-
SPECTABLE FOR ITS UTTER EXTINCTION.'
I" But we are welded TO one purpose, from which |
no earthly power can ever divorce u.s. We ARE |
DETERMINED TO ABOLISH SLAVERY, AT ALL
HAZARDS-IN DEFIANCE OF ALL OPPOSITION |
or WHATEVER NATURE WHICH 1T Is POSI-
BILE FOR sLAVE0CRATS TO BRING AGAINST |
US. Of this they may take dae notice, and gov
ern themselves accordingly"
Mr.. Seward says: al have 1ead the intending
Crises with deep attention. It seems to me work
Of great merit, rich, yet accurate in statistical in
formation and logical in ANALYSIS" When such
book with such sentiments il thus endorsed We
should know it is their determination at all hazards
and at any sacrifice, TO carry ,uttbs doctrines they
have been teaching. Their opposition TO slavery |
has become a kind Of religious fanaticism with |
them being taught from the sacred desk, around |
the family altar and in thdr public meetings as |
the worst of all crimes, whilst the press is daily
imfsming the public nina with its teeNing invee- |
yes upon shareholders AMI tie institution Of slave
to be continually annoyed by this unnatural strife,
until they accomplish therpurposes, or we must :.
meet them to the bloody dwilh FIRE and sword if
need be, to check them in their mad career. II 10
to no purpose fer us TO sit with folded arms and
wait fer peace, it will tome, until put an
end 30 it by bold and fearless action, be the conse
quenoes what they may They have long since
demonstrated to us their determination TO execute
practically the doctrine they boldly aVow, by
the notification of thirteen States, of Q law Of
Congress, disregarding the decsons OF the Supreme
Court, and recently by their seorect attempts
TO slaves to instruction, and holder
still, in the descent on Hsrper's Ferry by their
agent and tool, the vile missresnt Brown and
though he and his deluIed followers met with tho
fate they justly raered, yet the press aad pulpit
of the North lsuded himas noble martyr of
glorious cause and though Brown be dead his spirit
is etill manifest in the aecreI emssares strolling
through the country in disguise, depositing arms
and ammunition for the hen,ft of slaves, sxd as
was the case in Texas, placing still more deadly
and effective weapon in their hands, the torch and
poison, with which 20 execute their diabolieal
purposes. And vile wretches in ministerial robes
we're the leaders of the deep and damaing plct.
But Black RepubIicanigm has yet another plan
which, in connection with thar nciDdisry and III
surTectiopary designs, they cal effectually
complish the abolition of slavery aud place the ne
gro upon equality with the white man. 1t is TO
get complete control of the Government, SO that
ted into the Union; aud when they will have adj
mtted sll the Territories they viii in the meantime
hsve freed of the present Slave States and by
that means will ultimately hare sufficient maj r-
ity of threefourths ofthe States to change the Con-
stution so as to abolish slavery in the remaining
States. Mr.. Seward, in anticipation of great vic
tory, as early as September last in his speech at
ST. Paul Minnesota, declared that, 1.-The battle has
already been fought and Won. Slavery to-day il,
for the first tine, not only ppwerless, but without
influence in the American Republic" and ''thst it
would be abolished and that Constitutouslly."
The plan by which this is 10 be effected is 30
clearly exposed in the March number of DeBow's
Repe5c. by Python, that synopsis here nay not be
amss to show the dasger to which the South is ex-
posed by the progressive workings and deep laid
plans of the Black Republican party to accomplish
their ultimate purposes Having secured Kansas,
the first link in the great chain which is to follow,
they claim as a certainty that Missouri and the To-
dian Territory are completely within their grasp
Missouri phicsly situated with regard to the
free States, with Iowa on the North, Illinois the
East and Kansas on tie We5t, will. in the natural
course of events be yIsboltiouzed for
already there is ucre ssipg tide in its favor evil
deuced from the establishment of Abolition journals
in the States: the election Of MIR. Blair notorious
Abitionist to Congress from the st. Louis district
and the recent vote Of Mr. Lincoln in the late cleo
ton. But Black Rerubliclnjsm, if impatient
for the result have dispatched their bandit chief
I
lined murderers, TO begin the bloody work of free
| ing the slaves of Missouri; and who will pretend
to doubt that these attempts the nstigacns Of
men IN high position in our national councils, and
such fends as Brown and Montgomery made the
miserable tools of their lswless ambition. Having
gained Missouri, of which they now feel certain,
their attention IL directed TO the Indian Territory
! with its civilized Indiana, amongst whom exist
! large number of slaves ard are preparing for
! admission into the Union. Black RePublicsnsm,
/ IL. n i n
ritoTy with their emissarIss ia the disguise of min
| listers Of God who are eadeavornE to arouse a
/ bloody aud exterminaling strife, by exciting heir
cations against the shareholders among them
as God-abanGoned doomed to hell, and unit to live
! Says the New York Tribune of November IT'D, and
4 adds, " If blood could be shC1, erminatiea
would be the result under the lez taIioRis that pre-
vailr and thus the country would be left TO the &C
! cupaiien of the Emigrant Aid Societies" Then
| the TerrtJry, which comprises area sufficient
for I'VE States, with abolitionized Kansas and Mis-
souri, on the North, the abolition tide which will
pour forth by aad through their Aid Societies, and
that Territory will be added to the already powerful
| and despotic Nerth. This being accomplished the
bslsroe is already theirs almost without an effort
! for Arzona and New Mexico, surrounded on the
east by Kansas and the Indian Territory, by the
Mexican free states on the SOUTH and California on
the west slavery will never find its way there and
they too will become important links in the great
| chain Of Black Repubcsnsm with which to crush
! out slavery in the remaining States WhaSremGins
/ to be done now, is to secure Arkansas, Texas and
| Louisiana Arkansas will stand in the relative po-
sition TO the free States Missouri does ct the pre-
/ sent time. Surrounded on the North and West by
ab5li,ionsts she will be unable to resist its over
/ wheming Influences; slave labor will become profit
less; instruction, rapine and murder will rule
| preme and Arkansas will be stricken out from the
! catalogue cfssve States. Then Texas will be SINH
larry situated and the results will follow; and
] 10 ~
! less rule of Black Republican power. Delaware,
! Msryland, Virginia and Kentucky, bordering along
the line of the abolition States, have already imbih
ed to some extent the doctrine Of emancipation and
in view Of that fact and their contiguity TO those
States, together with the convenience for abolition
! immigration, Black RepublicGnism will spare no
1 palms. will leave no stone unturned to accomplish
the final abolition of slavery within the limits of
! those States; and without effective resistance to
their progressive and rapid march, their entire
schemes will be accom- lshed almost before are
aware of it, aud whilst yet we are hesiating shat
course 10 pursue.
What then, will become of Tennessee? Where
/ will she stand? What will be her position? With
! Keuucky en- the North, Missouriand Arkansas on
! the West can she resist the powerful influences by
which she will be spToundedl Can she stay :he
swelling tide that has already enGu fed her sister
STATES and now threatens TO submerge her beneath
/ it's angry, threatening waves? 1t Is time that ZEN
nesseaus were thinking seriously of this, and of
placing themselves in an attitude to protect their
rights, their property and their soil frcn the inva-
! ders' hands We might extend the great chain
work Of their operations to Tennessee, thence to
MISSOURI, thence to Alabama, and finally to the en-
1 tirs siaVsaolding States Then could Northern
/ fanalicism proudly exelaim. ! have accomplished
the full Of my mission let rest in peace;
there remains not slave 10 impress the soil Of the
/ South.
| kad now, in view Of these facts, their avoyed
hostility 70 the South and their plaLs for the final
! DETERMINATION Of slavery, fhey have succeeded in
elecrng Mr.. Lincoln Presto dent of the United States,
pledged by his past political history, his party assc-
Citations, and fidelity to that party, 10 administer
the eOyernment upon the principles upon which he
was elected, which he will do or prove tratorous to
the party WHICH elected him. La either event he is
| not worthy the position he occupies. With Mr..
| Lincoln as cur Chief Magistrate suFFoHnaeA by
Black Republican Congress, which he will doubtless
have before his administration expires where is the
safety of the South, to remain in the Union? Shall
We Es;t for some overt act by which we may be still
more egrsded and incapable ofresisance, rshsllwe
/ IL !, Ira