Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-07-11

I with no restraints Ddt i0fJse OF Baftjafodr
force and no check bat that of blinded Ias-
sion I fear that by too many in the North,
such future Is awaited with complaceney-
The PHritanic notions OF naturally dePTav-
ed and vicious humanity and the constant DE-
claration OF the repugnant doctrines Whicn
1 consign the Many to the doom OF repronauon On,
have Tend. d to make callous the moral IA
| ture by removing from the attributes OF Inc
Deity the endearing characteristics OF Love
and Mercy and thus turning men, from the
iron-barred portals of an impossible perfec-
fion. TO the dangerous. yet attractive, and
Aowery paths of present enjoyment and pleas
ure With your communities 1t has not been
Tins Witch-blrniug aud Anti-Aasonry, the
| Iicentious teachings of the Ultra Communists
| and the terrible and sanl-destroying visions
I of Spritualism which would weaken even the
| sacred marriage tie and vent an unworthy
/ malice against the pure Revelation OF God
| itseIf-tbese and other theories, as absurd if
4 not as pernicis US, can fluid no soil in the
| mind of the South from which to erect their
| baIeful Upas-growth. Such cold and heartless
| schemers as Sewe-d and the creature of the
| Tribune knew all this fall well and finding that
| they cannot mould the generous feelings and
| cultivated intelligence of the Southern peO-
pie TO their will, strive to make sure at least,
| of the North. AS the first evidences of this
extreme tyranny striving to bind soul as we'll
ss bOdy-see what has already been proposed
mark the spreading plague, spots and be
| the more thankful, Tennesseans, that you
| I'D in time. Tue minions and subordinates
of Mr.. Lincoln-among the very people who
| have sustained him thus far, in his wild on
| slaught against you, are now busy: and have
/ been thus busy for weeks-in resuscitating the
old e1ete notions of the Federalisls-pTOpos-
/ ing the obliteration of State lines and the
consolidation of the yet loyal States an
individual mass, under one supreme central
pOwer-the creation OF u funded debt, the es-
| Establishment of National Bank under gov
| ernmental supervision; and as a neces saIy Sc
| quence. the subsistence of such a standing
army. as shall promptly repress all opposi-
1 ton 10 these obnoxious and lnimIcal meas
/ ures.
| Think not that this language results from
undue and unhealthy prejudice. These are
solemn and startling facts. and as to preju-
| dice-it can not so possess our mind as TO
| saut out many iiustriOus achievements Of
| the North. | cannot forget the noble dar-
ring of Warren and Prescott on the hills
near Boston; nor eau | shut my eyes to the
| fact that the same Boston has not fulfilled the
/ promise at her youth, so grandly christened
| in patriots b.OOd.-the fact that her Revolu-
| tionary fame has been almost totally
| eeIipsed by her Abolition nOtOriety. | can
not forget that New England gave us Web
| Ster the expOunder of the Constitution and
| The. ONLY eminent Northern Statesman who
| tried TO be true to his whole country-nOr,
| on the other hand, can | forget that the same
| New England has warmed lovingly in her
| bosom and with something of maternal pride,
| those nestled vipers-men like Beecher and
PbiIIips-whO have boldly declared, and
been sustained by all New England in the
declaration that ''that Constitution is a COW
euat with death and an agreement with bell, -
oaly JecaLse Il s1EstdiHs you IN the enjoyment Of
Dosr property rights. Ali thanks 20 the North
for her glorious Past-nOne for her pitiable
Present. All praise to her engenuity and
the tireless energy of her men of Literature
and Art-nOne TO her deplOrable immortality
-nOue to her imbecile tyros in the science
of Government. Let her not think, in the
intOxication of her amazing physical tri-
umphs.-that moral supremacy also follows
in the train. Her telegraph sends tidings
swiftly, vet il Is not remarkable as dissem-
inator of truth. Her locomotives are most
convenient as transports for soldiers; but vi
eDna has told us that bravery is not gen.
Grated by steam, and that mechanical appli- |
ances are sought on that side with more ca
oraruess TO hasten,-than to retard retreat |
Her gutta percha is a desideratum for many |
nuFDOses. vet il is hardly wisdom for man |
10 usa it as coating for his conscience. |
Enough on this pOint--it can be amplified
indefinitely. Let US be thankful that per-
VprSItV anu CduuOt tUc
day much longer. Like all incompetent men
who are cursed with power, Mr.. Lincoln is
now irving to make violence do the work of
foresight lie ends in being feudish because
he started in being foolish A man of great
force of selEcOhsequence and characterized
by an infinite variety OF demerit-the little
power of reflection he had-has been con-
densed into an inexorable, but very bad logic.
In solving the political problem Def Jre him, one
that would task the genius, the energy and
the experience OF a Chatham--he uses,
as the only tombstone of difficulty petty
syllogism of which 1.-THE Chicago platform"
aud ''the determination of the South are
the premises. while peace, happiness, broth
erIy love. commercial prosperity and Un-
ion redeemed, regenerate and disenthrall
ed'' are are to follow in resstless conclusion,
las the night, the day." The more he has
..exterminated" you however, the more COM
pick and Iabyrinthine. has grown the maze in
which he wanders. New and more puZZling
problems have sprung, like fecund dragons
teeth, from the soil he has stained with Sou
thern tIOod-from the CORY streets OF Balti-
more aud St. LOuis-frOm the once virginia.
purity of the Yirginian plains-PhiIlippa and
Bethel-Great Bethel truly The brave
aud resolute thought that would open path
through the entanglements of his position
can find no growth uor entrance in that bar
rem and uufurtile brain. Carlyle says, ''the
greatest thing England ever did was Oliver
the aOorst thing Ameri-
ca has ever done is Abraham Lincolni But
the beginning of the end draws near-the
ashen grey of Dawn spreads its faint pallor
in the political East Already the hounds
who have so zealously aided the Actaeon of
Illinois in his mad hunt, give mounting signs
that baffied in the chase and disappointed of
their prey, they will yet turn enraged to rend |
aud tear with furious fang, the desperate |
Huntsman who now lies them on. The at |
tempt of the President to carry the Govern |
ment beyond its Legitimate sphere, and to |
override those restraints, which had been |
wisely imposed for the protection of personal |
liberty and our dearest rights has been prompt |
ly AID nObly resisted by you. Let US glance |
then at the prospect now before you. Some |
but timorOus hearted prOgnOs- |
ticators fOretell "a year of sects and schisms,' |
and would have US believe the Future dark /
enough. They tell US that the times are out |
of Joint, and point to our old Oracles and
as they sit low like mourners yelled
and dumb, lingering with weird and mean
ingless tracery in the dust of the past. Our
answer is in those grand historic words OF
the Trojan ''t5e best omen Is our COuntry's
cause" Just here let Us be clearly understood.
In recent appeales to You on the issues deci-
ded on the memorable Sth Of June, you will
remember that We strOve to eXalt patriotism
to its tue place-insisting that it is not. as
many seem to think, a blind instinct OF the
blOod-that it is rather an essential part OF
virtue and religiOn-a part of our grateful
reverence to Him who has given US country
to lOve-a part of our living, burning faith,
in His providence who with nations as with
men causeth ''all things to work together for
good 10 them that love Him." Our affection
or our country is no mere local attachment
10 hills and skies, to helds and streams, nor |
even to flags or parchments, to the insignia of
office. or the persons of the powers that be
/ is rather an exalted and enrolling dev&
ion to the justice, the protection and
light embodied in these things and represent
d lay them. Thus the spirit which has so efec-
rifed the Southern heart with the mighty |
lphsavings of patriotism is as far renewed
-, iisat nnscrnnnInus and renrehensihIe |