Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-01-23
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Fire in the Mountains.

Fire in the mountains.
9 Sparta, JAM, 1850.
Iofhe Editors of tac Union and American:
The widest excitement prevails here to-day, and
write in haste. A large and enthusiastic crowd
was addressed by Hon f. L. GARDENHIRE Col. S. H.
Coins and Majors Fisk and FARRB. Blue Cockades
on every hat 1t being the January term for our
Circuit Court large crowd assembled in the Court
House, who with great unanimity called Hon. E. L.
GARDgxHIRE to the stand who with his usual power
and ability presented tie history rise and progress
and the aims and objects of the Black Republican
party. And said that the policy of that party was
not only 70 abolish slavery in the District eolum
bia. and in the arsenals and dock yards of the
United States but that it had for its object the abo-
liton of slavery from every State of the American
Union, and that period should come upon the
country, when the sun should not rise upon master
nor set upon slave. He Endorsed the able and
learned message of IsHAx c. HARRIS to the Legisla-
ture of Tennessee, convened in extra session at
Nashville. he spoke great length upon the nsti-
tuition of slavery in the South and justified it by
one of the most elaborate and learned arguments to
which l have ever had the pleasure of listening
He spoke of the aggressive policy of the Black Re-
publican party; that they declare the doctrine of
the q Irrepressble Conflict" and that there was
no Compromise between Freedom and Slavery
and the whole Black Republican party with ABR1-
HAM LINCOLN at their head, were committed to the
policy of :" Free Labor" and the equality of the
races. This doctrine he said truck downthe equal
ity of the white man in the Union and under the
Constitution From authentic history he showed
that the negro in his native wilds was savage and
barbarian, and that the African race had made no
discovery in the arts and sciences, and that they
roaming in wild ferocIty in state of barbarism
in their native Ethiopia, and that this race was in
a state of barbarisIn, except when found n slavery
and under the direction Of the white man. And
said " if slavery a moral social and political
evil" that the sins of slavery would be upon our
own heads, and not upon our northern brethren.
He said the Black Republicans were responsible for
the crisis which was upon the country, and that
they alone could avert the storm which is driy
ing US down the darklng tide of secession and dis
union, and although tie Black Republican party had
it in its power restore peace and harmony yet
proposition 10 compromise had been offered to the
insulted South, who demands the "humbe privilege
of being let alone" and for this, our wells have
been poisoned and oar dwellings have smoked by
the hands of the iucendiary and for not submitting
to further aggression and to Black Republican rule
under ABRAHAM LINCOLN, we were threatened TO be
put to the sword, and to tie stake He expressed
himself opposed to coereing sovereign States
and reducing them to vassalage and to con-
suered provinces. He made an able defence
for South Carolina referring to her heroic gener-
ais their deeds Of daring and to the escutcheon
of her citizen soldiery, which cheered with
deafenng applause by a large and enthusiastic audi;
enee.
Col Coins was called to the stand, and announced
the disorganizaton of all political parties IN the
South; that Whiggery and Democracy were buried,
and we stand together identified in interest, and
that he was in favor of maintaining our equality
and our homer under the Constitution, speaceably
if we can, or forcibly if must;" and that he for
one was not in favor of coercion, and he would re-
sist any Black Republican army who should attempt
to cross Tennessee soil for the purpose of subjuga-
ting southern cities and vassaating sovereign States
and if this was disunion doctrine, he was dis
unionist and that come what would, the South the
sunny South the fairest land beneath the SUM- must
be saved. The Colonel spoke of the South and her
resources at great length, which gave great salts
faction to the entire audience, who cheered him
long and loud.
Mai Fisk who was a standard bearer for BELL
and EVERETT in the last canvass, was called to the
stand by both parties who manifested the greatest
excitement by clapping their hands. and throwing
their hats to the ceiling, and shouting for South
Carolina and Southern Confederacy. The Major
said the Federal Union, purchased by the blood of
our fathers, was dissolved; and that the COrstitu
ton formed by our fathers whose hearts and hands
were purified by the fires of the revolution, had
ceased to be respected by our Northern brethren
ard was to-day nullified by eleven Northern States
of this Confederacy, and that the Black Republ can
party are using the words, +" Union and Constitu-
ton as a bye word and called it covenant with
death ana league With bell. The Major expressed
himself in favor of Immediate disunon, and against
coercion 1t would do the Major injustice to close
here but it will make my article too long to follow
him in his able and eloquent disquistion upon State
rights.
Although the crowd had listened for four hours
to the speeches of gentlemen who preceded Major
FARRIs yet he was called to the stand with applause
and nisds speech in favor of immediate action,
and opposed to coercion and said that the future
historian would record the startling fact that the
North flched millions of property by indirect taxa
ZION, yet the North has been. unable to benumb her
energies or to exhaust her resources and that a
great eOmmercial perFe runs through the entire
South; that the ocean lies at her feet; that tive
thirds If the staple products Of tne United States
were raised in the South; that thousands of mer-
ehsntpen assemble upon OHr long line Of sea-eoass
TO trade With Eg. The Major said the cottonexrs-
riment had failed everywhere in the world, excest
in the eight cotton States that the world was knit
together by COTTON THREAD, which, if broken,
would stop every loom in the entire North, and top
ole eJery throne on the Eastern Continent
lie is g EnaR Of eapaelty, and made an able and
eloquent speech. I viii report no further The
blue coekades are worn by many Of our citizens,
and the widest excitement prevails all over this
county and will give a large majority in favor OF
a convention for Southern Confederaey.
WHITE COUNTY.