Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-09-18

every purely democratic repHbHe an eie
mant which NAV be developed IN the FORM On |
the most hideous despotism- wnen passion, |
in.tead of reason, sits enthroned 10 Its coun-
els. and ia the hearts sf its citizens, tnat II
tent element of tyranny may be developed
into scra of more unpisyiug atrecity than
any sjagie despot whose foot has ever press
cd npon the neeks of sIavish subjects, would
dare to perpetrate. That element once arous-
ed to action, farewell TO all your hopes oil
future greatness. You may. in terror or IN
anger, direct its fury, Tor season, against
common foe; you may make desoiate their
beaethstones, and leave their dwellings In
ashes, but "a sure as Heavens laws are al
ways executed, It s0iii return to fas,en tie deadly
faRgs into your o,cn vstdLs!
in concluding these desultory letters on
the issue involved in the pending contest for
the presidency, / may be pardoned for say
| ing, that no mere party feeling-no wish to
promote the success of this or that individual
aspirant for the presidency, on account OF
| any personal predictions for the one, or
| any unkind feelings for the other, has had
/ the slightest influence in deciding me to
| write them. Separated by oceans, and con-
| tinents, and seas, from my native land
| standing. as it we're, upou the outermost
1 verge of the civilization of the Old World,
| beyond which all is darkness-in the midst
of decaying empires. whose history for many
| centuries, is crowded with the records OF us
| dazzling ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS on every
hand by the melancholy memorials of once
powerful kingdoms and republics, whose
Greatness and whose dominion, annihIlated
by the sectional discussions of their own CIT
| iZ.us. have passed away forever; the spien
dor of whose glorious deeds, in the day o.
| their pride, has only been exceeded by tnt
magnitude of their ignOble fall whose De
| scendants have for ages lived. and groaned
@ta Haor nd 81 Ish
, | a foreign master; have asked myself II Tue
unhappy fate of subjugated and degraded
, Greece, is but prototype of that winch Is IL
3 store for the great Confederacy. OF the New
| World
: So far as the solution of this question de
Y ponds upon the preservation oil tne ieuefa
' Union, admit that am less hopeiui 'nau
? any nrevious period of my life. L see tn
| indications of an unswerving purpose, U
: the part of the North, to obtain trump
over the South. by means OF It's numerice
! nrenonderance and well l know the spiri
: with which the South will meet the issue tnu
r presented. ,,;.n of
= | conflict, whose beginning seems aiinos'
10 bond hut whose end is shrouded in impen'
:, | trabIe gloom with vivid appreciation
- | the disasters which may soon Involve US III
| common danger, If not a common run
+ the character of an humble citizen, who
passions have been GAINED by the startiit
20 proximity of the menacing danger, MAJ
Us addressed these words. and now send the
~ 10 forth to my fellow-countrymen. Tnat l.
oe a Soutberner, by birth, by education, ana
a all my hopes for the future, am Tree 70
% clare but am also an American, protect
Us in foreign land by the nag OF the on nio
IN aud every day live apPrecla.de rno,e w xb
u, us that star-gemmed banner symbolizes. FRI
IN less. indeed, compared to the pecuniary 81
On ri6ces necessary to maintain it in It's inte
~ ~ rity priceless, even compared with
Gu blood which might be shed in defending
against a foreign foe but detessao1e as
-. ra.t, and uatueIess TO fres'Hen 'nhea can o.
ms he ,,nb,ld BIZ a sacritice of the honor and
10 .ndcpendenee Of its members.