Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-07-11
Address OF w. -. HAWKINS,
IN THE 4TH INST, AT MURRAYs CHAPEL
DAVIDSON COUNTY, TENN.
IcoxcLuDKD PROM Yesterday

CONCLUDED FROM YESTERDAY
You have nobIy indicated yourselves al
the ballOt-bOx. but to maintain the heights
YOU occupy, bullets will be more effective than
ballots, and upon your firmness now depends
the whole future of yourselves and your
State. Historical precedent. as you see, is
re,iOubled for your encouragement James
H. suspended the laws George Ill sought
to annihila;e the Colonial charters. Presi-
dent Lincoln aims his fell and deadly blows,
not only at your laws and chartered rights,
bat also at your hearts and homes. James
levied money without the proper authority
to sanction him George imposed unlawful
taxes on loyal and loving subjects PIesi-
dent Lincoln goes farther than either. and at
tbs outset threatens you with a visit, by thou
sands, o. the hOrrid missionaries of plumber
snd piIlage, called and sent by the Father of
all evil and duly commissioned by one of his
fayorite vice gerents on the earth, to famil-
iarize a peaceful and unOffending people, by
saddest experiences, with rapine, murder and
famine. james subverted the laws and by
tie act forfeited all right TO his place as
monarch of England. George broke the
solemn contract existing between ruler and
ruled, and at Once-whatever insignia OF Oh
fee he still retained-Yacated his position as
King of the realm and colonies of Great
Britain President Lincoln has proven false
to your trust and his own oath, and is back
ing the falsehoOd by atrocities which would
put the scions of royalty to the blush.
Let the law be declared then, and let Pro-
violence speak. .'The Almighty has created
the South TO he Independent of the North"
1t is His sacred will, now being written in
letters of fame.
On the 9th of February last. in the face of
sympathies and interests, and many an inter
woven tie of friendship, affinity and blood.
that bound you to the men of the South, you
ma unanimously declared that should ne keep
his Inaugural oath, You would still hold at
any cost. your proud place as law-ahiding.
and ord.sr1Oving citizens, cOnservatOrs of
Right and Opposers of Wrong.
Though brotherhood was loudly calling
from another Quarter, that vote declared that
Won were still disposed to prove all things.
that Won might hold fast the good Alas
for bleeding liberty-ft Was all in vain. You
were cruelty deceived. Troops were called
ont against you and your kindred, without
the Constitutional right of the Chief Exeeu-
tive TO make such call, and TO add insult to
injury, you were ordered to furnish q por-
ton of those troops yourselves
Finding how greatly be was mistaken in
supposing the healthy Union sentiment of
Tennessee, to be akin to the morbid, intOler
ant and unconditional Unionism OF his own
section, he began at once to enlist men, in
both the army and the navy, for term of
wears far exceeding the time desi gnated by
law.
He has borrowed money to be spent in sub
iugating you, without the authority OF the
Congress, for either the borrowing or the
subiu CATION and people, whom you once
hailed rs fellOw-citiZens, for whom, as cOun-
trynen, your best and cOstliest blood has
flowed like water-have eagerly responded
10 his unrighteOus acquisitions with prompt
assistance and an almost universal cry of
WAR against the robbers of the South, till
the flag of the Union again floats from every
stronghold. whence their pOlluting hands
have torn it." (See speeches of Edward
Everett and d. S. DickinsOn.)
He mas interfered with your peaceful COM
sneree, and by stringent blockade and dread
fol thfeat, has endeavored to cripple all your
resources, to ALLEVIATE by fear aud fearful cal
umny, the friends you may have had in the
North and West, and to reduce your free and
independent Commonwealth to the degraded
position of fendal appanage--a conquered
proyince. Those of your former tellOw-citi-
zeus who dared to exercise a freeman's right
and give expression to their resentfuI indig-
nation at his giaring and unjust usurpations.
have been seized, Imprisoned and many of
them. unknown martyrs to your cause. cruel
Iv slsia. He has suspended your laws and
v,rtuaIIy annulled even the Ha5eas C5rDus act.
before whose severe land venerable majesty.
English despotism itself stood abashed.
la distributing the arms and war munitions
of the United States--your common proper
tv-he has selected individuals and village
eficales. here and there. always basing his
choice on avowed enmity to yOu-especially
preferring those who could go the farthest
in denounciBg your Institutions, aud reward
ing most richly the traitors who have fed to
his embrace from your own bosom.
The Chief Justice OF the Supreme Court,
himself, the highest law officer Of the land
has warned the people OF the North that
..they are no longer living under q govern
meut of law, but that every citizen now holds
life. liberty and property at the will and
Measure of the army officer, In whoseimilitary
district he may chance to be found.n What
greater offences can any public Official, as
such. commit
He has sbrogateG law, ignored the exist
ence of a Constitution, superseded the Con-
gress. and with malice aforethought. usurped
ne powers and duties especially assigned to
thai body.
n you, under any circumstances, should
accept The principles he seeks to enforce up
an Won. evils would ensue, to which the pre-
.ent war. with all its horrors, is far preiera-
bic: ali the relations of life would be thrown
into friehtfuI chaos-obedieDce to the law
would become d seryftude of folly, Justice be
to q most announcement and Dn'
vsrrsntabIe mPositioa-h9nor De vain