Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-01-19
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ed by peFiis requiring display of eonservat-
ism. Unless the Union can be preserved, the
Administration of which he is to be Premier
conceived the thought, therefore, of max
ing a brilliant appeal for the Union" for
the sake of auxiliary aid. There Is a saving
strength In the popular love Of the Union,
which would foil the mere dogmas of Re
publicanism; and his plan was to avail him
self of that strength-siDk Republicanism
for the time-eyen acknowledge some con-
stitutional guarantees to the South which he
has never before eonceded-for the sake OF
availing himself OF the strength of the Union
sentiment The expedient is an old one to
..wear the livery of Heaven to serve the Devil
in" Hence. he says
-sWhile the result of the election brings
the Republican party necessarily into the
foreground in resisting disInion. the preju-
diees against them which / have described
have deprived them of the cooperation of
many good and patriotic citizens. On a
complex issue between the Republican party
and the disuni0nists, although 1T involves
the direst national calamitics. the result
might be doubtful; for The Republican party
il weak In a large part of the Union. But
on direct tSsRe 1rdh all tOho cherish the Union
On one SIDE and oil 1cho desire its dissolution by
force on the Othcr, The rerdict lrOuId be prompt end
almost unanimous. l desire thus 10 simplify
| the issue. and for that purpose to separate
| from it all collateral questions, and relieve it
of all par;izan passions and preiudices."
And thus he reasons:
Union is an old, fixed, settled habit of the
| American people, resulting from convictions
of its necessity. and therefore not likely to
b. hastily discarded
| / learned early from Jefferson, that iE Pc
| liticaI affairs we cannot always do what
seems to US absolutely best. Those with
| whom We must necessarily act, entertain
| ing different views, have the power and right
| of carrying them into practice. We must
be content to lead when We can. and TO toI-
/ low when we cannot lead; and if we cannot
| at any time do for cur country all the good
| that we wish, We must BE- satisfied with doing
| for her all the good that we can.
beyond a doubt. Union is vitality import
| ant to the. Republican citizens OF the United
States: but 1t is Just as important to the
whole people. RepublicaniSm and Union
are therefore, not convertible terms. Re-
publicansm is subordinate to Union. as every
thing else IS and ought Observation-Disclosures
Democracy, every other political name and
thing. all are subordinate-and they ought
10 disappear III TUG ptccGuCG VI thS &c.
question of Union
He therefore sinks Republicanism for the
time. and seeks The cooperation Of good
and patriotic citizens by simplifying the
issue and eulogizing the Union, to love
which is an old, fixed habit of the Ameri-
can peoples" hoping, thereby, to stay resis-
tanee to the unconstitutional assumptions of
the Republican party by setting up the iu-
coming administration as the guardians of
the Union, aud uniting "all who cherish the
Union on one side" y
He states the cause Of dissatisfaction in
the South very unfairly. He says it is be-
cause OF the election of Lincoln, "a man of
unblemished virtue" is elected, and ''tbe dis
unionists did not accept as conclusive the ar
guments which where used in behalf of
the successful candidates in the canvass.
This is all" lie knows that the official acts
and pledges Of the Republican party, and
the tnenaces of their great leaders, be and
Lincoln among the rest, look to the over
throw of the dearest constitutional rights of
the slave holding States. and that million If
men IN the South who love the Union sd
the Constitution as they do their own lives,
have almost despaired Of them, but have re-
solved that their safely and honor now forbid
that they any longer neglect 10 demand Sc
curity and pcrmauance tc their constitution
al rights.
He admits that the laws of the slave States
ought TO be. within their own boundaries,
supreme; aud tha; the unconstitutional State
laws of the North in resistance to the fUgi-
tive slave law ought to be repealed. He also
admits that the John Brown and Montgomery
inyasions OF the South ought to be stopped.
But that is all be comedies. He offers no
remedy for the Territorial fends, full of mis-
chief in the future. unless adjusted Con-
cedes nothing as TO the claim OF the Repabli-
caus 10 abolish slavery in the District of Co
Iumbia. in the Forts, Dock Yards, and Ar
senals Nothing as to the misciievOus claim
to abolish the trade in slaves among the
slave States. Nothing recognizing in the
Constitution property in slaves and nothing
securing the present basis of representation
against change. His is but half way con-
cessiou, which he well knew fell short of what
the emergency requires. There stood the
Crittenden propositions before him, just and
reasonable, and looking only to peace, and
the security to rights guaranteed from the
beginning He fails TO embrace majority
of ihem-leaving enough causes of conflict
unsettled to keep up a continued state of
strife and bitterness between the North and
South. His purpose was merely to strength
en- the Republican party by show of con-
servatism-to give it the strength, by making
it the head of the Union party-and then,
for carrying out the programme which he
lays down:
Whatever dangers there shall be, there
will tie the determination to meet them"
The government of the State eau no more
ab>OIvc The people residing within its limits
from allegiance to the Union, than the
government of the Union can absolve them
from allegiance 10 the State. The Constitu-
tiOn of the United States. and the laws made
in pursuance thereof, are the supreme law of
the land paramount to all legislation of the
States. whether made under the Constitution.
or even by their organic conventions. The
Union can be dissolved, not by secession.
with or without armed force, but only by the
voluntary consent of the people of the United
States, collected in the manner prescribed by
the Constitution of the United Statesv
Congress Ought to supply the President
with all the means necessary TO maintain the
Union in the tall exhibition and discreet ex-
ereise OF its authority. Beyond this, with
the proper activity on the part of the Exec
utive. tbe responsibility of saving the Union
belongs to the people, and they are album
dautly competent to discharge it,
Such is his programme. Will such a Union
| organization fad advocates here? Tennessee
reveres the Constitution OF the United States
and loves the glorious. great Union which