Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-03-08
mutterfngs from the Insurrectionaf5
States.
From the Tugcumbia North Albanian
AcouIEscENcE DOES NOT IMPLY APPROVAL.

From the Tuzcumbia North Alabamian.I
Let the voters of Franklin county and
North Alabama remember that dcqusescence
does not imply approval Notwithstanding the
delegates from North Alabama 10 the state
Convention ocquiesced, so far as to remain in
the convention and take part in its delibera-
lions. after the act of secession bad been
passed, yet from beginning to end, they were
unanimously opposed to that act, and still
further with becoming irmness and respect
for the will of their constituents, they urged
that it ought not to be enforced unless first
submitted to the people and ratified by
them From this beginning, viola;ive Of the
expressed will of the almost unanimous wish
OF North Alabama, II not majority of the
popular vote of the entire State, il is hardly
to be presumed that those who opposed Sc
cession can look with patience or Indifference
on the subsequent proceedings growing out
of that enactment. So long as our people
claim the right of elfgoverument. they will
watch with Jealous vigilance all apparent
usurpation of their rights. They will very
naturally enquire whether a government
formed against their will, is designed for
their protection or their subjugation.
Under the Constitution of the new Confed-
erscy, the war making power is vested in the
Congress now in session at Montgomery
| That Constitution can only be altered or
| amended by vote OF two-thirds of that body;
and we see it stated in Geographic despatch
| from President Davis that ali who oppose
them will smell Southern poaraer. and fol South
| erH steel'' Whether this declaration is de-
signed to apply 10 all who live within the
new Government, and manifest their opposi-
ton by voting and speaking against the policy
of their measures, or to those only who may
| array themselves in a hostile attitude from
| beyond rs limits. we are not advised. In Ell
ther case it CRATES har>hiy on the ear and is in
bad tas e-coming as Il does from the accred-
/ tied executive head of civil Government
Ii betrays that reckless, defiant spirit, which,
| from the beginning, has marked the course OF
those preeipitators, who have hurried the
country into its present distracted, reyolu-
| tionary condition.
| We trust the time has not so suddenly and
unexpectedly arrived, when the gag is to be
| placed in the mouths of all who do not be-
| lieve that the king can do no wrong" If so,
| il is high time that the people should enquire
| into the legally Of the authority by which
the King presumes to illuminate bis eGiel
from the head OF this new born government.
Was he placed there by their authority, or
by the authority of any body of men having
| the sssent of the people to act in their stead?
Ii appears to US that people of Alabama
have had very little, if any thing to do in
this whole matter, and that those who have
assumed the authority to act for them, have
assumed high dietatGrial position 10y the de-
claration that their power shall not be
wrested from them without the consent of
two thirds of their own body.
Had We forcseen the extent 10 which this
secession wedge was designed to separate Al
ALBANIA fR0lly from the great body of the
other States; and heard the declarations
since made by these now assuming to CON-
Eiand; that the separation is designed to be
final; that under no circumstances will they
ever consent to a Reunion l2der the stars
our friends and the terror OF our foes, we
should have deemed it advisable and patriot
ic for the Cooperation Delegates to have re-
tired from the Convention, after the act of
secession had been consummated, and left
the responsibility of further action wholly to
the disunion members. AS it is, they have,
with few exceptions refused 10 sign the ordi-
nance of secession, and we trust they never
will sign it, unless instructed TO do SO by
a majority of their constituents. Not that
the withholding of their names would make
that act less legal, but it is due to them and
the people they represent, that the record
should show who were in favor of further eff
forts to restore 10 the South peace and frater-
nal relations with the other States, and who
were in favor of preoipitating the South into
revolution, in violation of the wishes of, at
least. a very respectable minority, if not an
actual majority of the people of Alabama.