Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-01-25
GLASGOW, Ky, Jan, IA, 1861.
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Netting has occurred during the present session
of the Legislature more gratifying to the people Of
Tennessee than the passage of Mr.. PoRrER's reso-
buttons.
Than these resolutions nothing could have been
more timely. They are simple and much needed
indication to the Black Republican Legislature of
New York that the mercenary service they propose
to perform for the Federal Government, bad best
be considered in better spirit than that of bull
lying and gasconade. Being perfectly called for by
the circumstances. they express to the world with
perfect dignity the feeling of this State toward
Union pinned together by the bayOnet, such as the
icentous party now about to take the reins of gov
eminent seem willing to inaugBrate. The conyen-
ton that is soon to meet at our capitol will embody
the sovereignty OF a State whose moderation is as
proverbial as Its courage and patriotism and
whose long endurance of wrong is notmore remark
able than its single m-nsed determination now, al
least to have those wrongs rcdrcssed. 1t is to be
hoped that the good county Of Henry will furnish TO
the convention no worse or Letter man than its pre-
sent representative / am moved to this hope not
Oaiy from an unbroken friendship of many years
with Mr.. PORTER hut because my friend has done
the State some service, and they know It,
At least it seems that the Delphic oracle of the
hope on hope ever party CT our citizens has spo-
ken. This paper has already characterized that
speech so justly that l shall only add my
mite by saying that it is little wonder
Mr.. Bsff's voice was weak Nani his strength but
poorly sustained him in the advocacy of has feeble
policy. Can anything be conceived more weak
more illogical than the proposal that VIZ should re
main in the Union until an election shall be had at
the North. to ascertain whether the people there
will not yield more to our just demands than their
present legislative and congressional representa-
tiyes are willing to yield? Let us briefly regard
the proposition from a logical point of view
rs premises are an assumption that the seeding
States entirely in the wrong That their action
Is rebellion; and is aimed to effect the overthrow of
the most faultless known government These are
hard charges certainly but we have stated them in
more mild language than the submissionsts habitu-
ally use. Yet when We follow their line of argu-
ment we find that tiieir hope OF preserving peaceful
" our constitutional rights, and of bringing tbs
North back to a sense of justice is founded entire
" Spou results from the secession of those States
The election of Mr.. LINCOLN is very recent matter
and was effected by an overwhelming majority of
the Northern people. He was elected as the expo
aent of systematic federal policy which would Ill
tmately make the South an American Hayti And
now what has happened since the election of Lin
coin to make US believe that the people who so
lately elevated him to Office are ready to repudiate
him! Nothing but the secession of some of the
SOUhernstas and the expected secession of others.
Such is submissiOnst logic. ..
My thoughts upon the right of secession will
briefly present in another communication. Whether
it be legal revolutionary right il IL certain that
the exercise of it has suddenly brought the North
TO reason to an extent which the South was unable
to accomplish by forty years of patient and elo-
quent appeals to their sense Of Justice. / for
one think that ii little is good, more is better
And that the Southern States can obtain from the
North that guarantee for their constitutional rights
when out of the Union, which they have not
been able TO obtain while in it. C.