Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-02-22

=i~'ar. t'.e rights claimed by these. would be
The signal of rejoicing throughout Tennessee
and the South; for. Sir, from her geographic
cal position Illinois can turn the scale in
this conflict Of opion. Indiana will follow
then Ohio must. per fnrce. and the tide thus
arising shall sweep Northward, bearing in
its widening and deepening CURRENT State
after State, till all yield to the peaceful tri-
umphs of a generous public sentiment. Thus
will we exempfify sagscity, forbearauce. jus
tice before the world that gaze in awe at a
peoples quarrel. and will ella p in delight alta
peoples Adjustment. There are some II the
South, and these Increasing. that would re
sist any Observation-Disclosures per se-who.
however, with the evacuation and plan sug-
gested could effect not more for permanent Sc
cessicn than mans breath upon the storm.
The great mass would gravitate to the
Union again, and in three years time or less
the disrupting impulse being gradually ex-
pended, all would settle, each planet back to
its place, in harmony aud equilibrium, thus
exemplifying the wonderful adaptation OF
our system aud the severe tests to which it
may be subjected. Meanwhile individuals,
citizens, saving those that for the sake of
glory are DESTROYS of testing the strength of
the government, would loose or suffer no.
tbing-meanwhile justice would hold her
its functions in the States, aud the machine
~ of these (the States) ruD on, as it were.
in the open air till the shelter of a common
constitution could again, upon firmer ba-
Sis be erected over all. Evacuate, and with
''the proposition of the South, or peaceabie
separation" upon your banners, go forth to
battle at the North. For the former invoke
the memories Of she past and the spirit of
justice, (we'll ask evenhauded justice,) and
for hn lott Goa 10 10
the spirit of free government and cbristiani-
ty. If there be humane Republicans that
will not "let US depart in peace" remind
them how meet 'twouid be to separate them
selves from the "heathen''-they that cher
ish the "sum of all villainies" and 1.-The
twin sister of polygamy." But if they will
yet cocrce, let then the history of the Con-
stitution be invoked, lei the nature of the
government be analysed, and when honest
men affirm therefrom "force,n show that hon.
est men may claim therefrom secession"
aud that where there's Iroom for doubts the
laws of God and man cry withhold the
stroke" HE that liveth by the sword, by
the sword shall he die" And some men at
the North might remember too, how little
back the South braved storm indeed, and
with equal citizenship" and freedom of
religion" upon her banners won for them a
victory which they now enjoy, but alas now
citizenship,-this same freedom in religion
which we hold allows our institutions,-we
ask 10 take the responsibility, social, moral
and political, now and forever, of slavery in
the States, and to allow this responsibility to
each territory ever as 1t dOffs its minority
and assumes in pride and hope the powers
and hOnors of new and higher estate. We
ask no powerful Capitalization to encourage,
We'll suffer none to disfranchise us. We ask
L. , hra
What friend of the white man? What one
of the black? What friend of equal and free
government? Consider, / beseech you,
whether aught else than the plan proposed
aciu avail? The people that have seeded be-
lieve before Heaven, they have the right thus
to do. They regard the government a COM
pact-a FEDERAL Government, and they know
the meaning of that word, and something of
the formation of the Constitution-somehing
of the doctrines OF '9S and -, and that JEFF
ferson and Madison aud Jackson, said there
was no final judge created by the delegation
OF power-that to allow the Judiciary this
umpire character, would be to set the crea-
ture higher than the creators-the machinery
above the inventors. With these views the
South almost from the first, have warred on
banks and tariffs, and internal improvements
with these views have they protested
against splendid government and an i'm
poverished people, and have not now assum-
ed but only extended them, not in perverse-
blasted ambition Of her leaders, nor the dis
appointed hopes of Office, but simply, cir, to
save herself from Geographical party
perhaps one that arose in haggard feature
and grinniDg triumph before Pater PatriB,
as he penned the last warnings to his
countrymen. Now, sir, these seeding States
thus viewing the government as compact,
with no final judge, will think each party EN-
TITLED to something of the common property.
You know they will.
They said nothing about the territories, the
most desirable of ail-they've simply asked
the forts at their door, with guns turned, as
they never expected, inland on them.
Will they dl,0oys ask? turn from the an
swer and cry 'evacuate" for my country and
for the memory of a common brotherhood. l
seem to hear the shout echoed back from
East, West, North and South of patriots and
christians 'tevacuate and save"-"prevent
that which will rend the Union yet again but
cement the South-preveutA American blood
by American arms.
The conservatism, as it is called, of the
Border Slave States is based solely here.
Men believe the Northern masses "knew not
what they did," They do not believe that
they, the people of free States, SO much as
dreamed of the present condition eff their
country, as the result of their party triumph,
and hence the people of these Border States
wish to give an opportunity to them not of
salf-degradation and dishonor, as their leaders
would have them believe, but an opportuni-
ty, which every good man should rejoice to
have, of choosing the least of evils-the ex-
istenee of African slavery among another
people in States and Territories, or war and
bloodshed between that people and themselves
and result no man can tell, but most likely
ending in the firmer establishment of an In
stitution which is now sought to be destroy
ed. We would not ask brave and strong
people to humble themselves but "on the
sober second thought" to do justice, which is
to advance and not recede. You well know
sir, what single individual possessing the
confidence of people, can accomplish in
crisis like this. A generation unaccumstOm-
ed to such scenes stand stupefied at the rapid
acts of drama never witnessed before till
the temple burns down upon them. Raise
the alarm-point the door of safety. Know
ing the wisdom Of no policy, depends upon
the character of any individual suggesting it,
! have ventured what an unknown man, but
l trust disinterested patriot. sees as the
only hope of his country. May Heaven
direct our rulers to 'evacuatc and save.o a
different course will bring war, and war
Southern Independence; for, sir, AngLo-Sd1dn
revolution has necer failed and will not now
when free people are asked to allow a gov
eminent of their own making to pass into
hands unfriendly, even hostile to their
equality, their property, their peace and
their prosperity. "Evacuate and save" A
different course sets up the terrible cruci5le
of war, and institutes again the last
grand analysis of Liberty, the blood of the
brave 49, -L5s4 CITIZEN.
From the Montgomery (Ala.) Mail, Feb. 1871