Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-02-20

tended for their recapture are not faithfully
executed Will a dissolution of the Union
restrain them from escaping? viii the abro-
CATION OF the iaws-consequent upon disunion
Intended to return them to us, cause these
laws to be faithfully enforcedS
w complain that our slaves escape through
the free States to Canada whence We have
no hope of getting them back. Will our
condition be improved when the free States
shall, by our act, be converted into another
Canada, differing only from the other, in that
it will be Immediately upon our borders aud
| TO reach 1t the slave will have no need OF
the underground railway?
We complain that we have not the right OF
transit through, and temporary residence in,
| the free States with our slaves. One north
ern State now gives to these rights 9th
ers. we have reason to hope, may follow her
example. One thing is manifest, we are not
more likely TO get them out of, than in, the
Union, as it is a privilege granted us by no
foreign State.
We complain that the soil of one of our
States has been invaded by armed men,
whose fiendish purpose was to incite insur-
rectlon among our slaves. When Virginia
shaii constitute portion of southern con-
federacy, will the danger of repetition of
this mad and most wicked undertaking be
lessened! By whom were Brown and his
fellow-conspirators captured and placed in
the hands OF the law, that they might expi-
ate upon the gallows the guilt of their most
unnatural crimes? By the forces of the Fed
eral Government. Will these forces prove
more efficacious for our protection when we
shall have renowned all allegiance to the
Government and forfeited all claim to its in
terposliion! Shall the hords of northern ia
natics, whose impudent interference with
what does not in the least concern them. we
nnraral ofr af f-o,
only danger of invasion to be appreh nded
shall they be restrained by the strong arm of
the States united, or shall they be let loose
upon US, as were the Goths and Vandals up
on southern Europe?,
We complain that northern Governors re-
fuse to promptly deliver up, as they should,
fugitlVes from justice-persons who have
stolen our slaves, for example. When the
North shall become to US foreign nation,
we will not have, in such case, under any
extraditioE treaty we will be able to make,
even pretext to demand such fugitive We
have reference made in the papers of this
morning to a case now pending in Canada,
where fugitive slave, who slew a man in
Missouri, who was attempting to capture him,
has been demanded And although the au-
thorities of Canada were disposed to surren-
der the murderer, so fanatical are the Eng
fish people in their hatred to slavery, a writ
of habeas corpus has been issued by the British
courts to remove him to England, in order
that be may be discharged.
We complain that equal and exact Justice
is not done US in the Territories; at least
that there is powerful party in the North
that have declared their Intention to prevent
US carrying our slaves there.
The adjudication of the Supreme Court in
the bred Scott case, has put it out of the
power of that party to do this, if they would.
But il such power existed and was exer-
cised, l submit to gentlemen from the South
if remedy for this fragrant injustice to us
is to be found in the absolute surrender of
the Territories, for every purpose, TO the
North? Would this repair the wrong. or heal
our wounded honor?
a leading journalist of Virginia, in an
elaborate article-marked and sent to my
address-urging the Immediate secession of
his State, because, as he says, 'the North has
deliberately, u1justly, and tyrannically diven
US from the Territories" concludes one of
his paragraphs with this heroic announce
ment:
I'VE go forth with only the soil beneath
our feet Tor our heritance, asking but to be
let alone by those vino have proved them
selves our enemies, and determined TO fight
if we are not let alone"
Is this the spirit of s.the Old Dominion ?'
Certainly it is not. 1t is not the spirit of the
men whom L represent. They are not pre-
pared to retreat and surrender to the North
our vast public domain, purchased with their
blood and treasure. l do not comprehend,
sir, that character of chiValry. which, in one
breath, recommends the breaking up of the
Government, because of an Gppreheaded de-
NAL to the people of the South of the right
to carry slaves to the Territories, and in the
next, announces its readiness to timidly
abandon every character of right in and to
such Territories, because, as the writer just
referred to says, 1.-THE North have decided
against slavery at the ballOt-box.'
If our connection with the Government is
broken, Tennesseeans will feel that they have
brought humiliation and not honor upon
if their interests in the Terrific
ries are thus to be surrendered to the North.
But, does any advocate of secession say
we will have a part of the Territories, if
need be, by force? What becomes in that
event, of the feast to which you invite my
people, of ''peaceable secession"
The truth is, and l want my people to
know it, the purpose of the leaders of seces-
sion, who would seem to imagine that they |
had exclusive custody of southern rights and |
southern honor, is to shdmefully surrender all
he Territories 10 the North. There is neither |
honor or profit in such a course. As the |
of people who have made |
IS great sacrifices aud shed as much blood in
The requirement of these Territories as any |
in the Union, 1 protest against II. |
What do they promise US in lieu of the vast |
domain thus given up? The privilege, sir, |
Of getting, if we can, portions of Mexico |
and Central America. How it is to be done, |
has not been explained. By force and with |
out provocation? If so, were it practical, |
denounce it as unworthy of civilized peo- |
pie. Shall we initiate the example of the |
bandit and savage, who fights for plumber |
aud not for glory or honor repeat, how |
is it to be done? By purchase? We have |
neither money or credit to buy Sir, it is |
childish faulty to dream of our getting it |
either by force or with money. The British |
whose recognition the seeding |
States are now so earnestly seeking, and |
without whose aid they cannot hope to main |
tain themselves, will never permit it. That |
Government is, of all others, the most fanat-
cal in its opposition to African slavery. |
She exercises sovereignty over the greater /
portion of Central America; and upon Mexi- |
90, in which Government she is known to |
have procured the abolition of slavery, her /
citizens hold a debt of over two hundred |
million dollars. She will never permit US
TO touch one foot of it.
Is it not, then, Your duty to stay your |
hands, and see whether the evils complained |
Of may not be remedied in the Union, and |
hose which will certainly be consequent upon
avoided?
sThe adoption of the following resolution is recon-
nended by the committee of thirty three.
Rssolred, That each State be also respectfully re-
Iuested to enact such laws will prrvent and punish
my attempt whatever in such State recognize or
et foot the lawless invasion of any other State
Territory.
CONCLUDED TOMORROW. |
To ALL DIsUNoNISTs-THE HORRORS OF
lIYI WAR-As a warning to the American |