Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-01-24


fixed fact, the Representatives in Congress
Of the border slave States will be about fifty
members The Northern free-soil States will
have about two hundred members. Should
Tennessee and the border slave States stay
in. under the circumstances upon which this
argument is based, would it not be, IN effect,
saying to Lincoln and Seward-"we will stay
Ia anyhow" edo as you, our masters please"
IT. to avoid immediate trouble, they should
wait until the inauguration of Mr.. Seward as
Lincoln's euccessor-in the meantime indoc-
trinating the idea into our people that the
Federal Government has powers OF coercion
what is it that the Black Republican leaders
will not do under the succeeding dynasty
Papers in Tennessee will boldly come out in
favor of aboiishing slavery in the District of
Columbia-for abolishiDg the interstate
slave trade-and in short for every part of the
abolition programme. Government officials
will softly hint. Money. without measure,
will be used to poison the fountains of public
sentiment and while - Eternal Union :"
dreamers are scarce thinking it, the abolition
of all our rights, as to this species of proper
ty, will be colsummated. Being in power
less minority, the abolition of slavery in the
District of Columbia will not, when accom-
plished, be thought of sufficient Importance
to dissolve the Union. After awhile, the in
ter-slave trade will be stopped and the abo-
lition of slavery in the forts and dock yards
will follow at u reasonable interval: and
again. men will say these arc not sufficient
causes for dissolution. By proper manage
meut, you can readily see A0's we shall be
completely hemmed in,-shy>ery be encIrcied
by the fire of aboIitionism until not only
the mind of Lincoln and Seward. and those
of everybody else will " rest satisfied" that
in the border slave States at least, +" it is in
the course of ultimate extinction" You will
bear in mind, also, the fact that while this
process is going on, STAKEHOLDER after slave
holder, detecting the scheme, will pass his
negroes into the Cotton States; and either go
himself, or become, perhaps, careless as 10
the fate Of the peculiar institution" In our
midst. think any of us can readily see, if
we think awhile, that by proper process. slow
aud conciliatory, the whole programme will
be easily carried out. Soft language will be
used-kind words-proper time given at the
intervals in the drama, and all will he over
with negro slavery in the border slave
States.
1 am asked, Why be hasty why not wait
short time-say six or twelve months-for
accommodation, and redress of grievances
| reply: Would you trust yourself for few
minutes in the hands of the Prince of Darkness
upon promise that he would not hurt you,
and if he began to do so, that then you could
withdraw yourself from under his hands?
As has been already well said, the speech of
Mr.. Seward (and which presents the argu-
ment upon which delay is asked) reminds one
of the speech of the tall arch-angel to the
damned hosts
GAN was false and hollow, tho his tongue
Dropt mamma, and could make the worse appear
Tue better reason
Let Tennessee and the border slave States
keep quiet and then will all accommodation
or promise of settlement pass to the winds.
Let these Black Republicans commence
ruling over US, with the sword and treasury
in hand, backed by the Northern legions, and
none of the Southern States need dare think
of going out. Promises will be held out
only to be broken, and while constitutional
intraction is going on, secret mail agents and
others will be permeating the country, ready
to report upon any disloyalty and he who
then lifts his voice for convention no matter
whatever tyrannical acts may be committed,
will only receive traitors doom. Ii few
brave spirits were to think of assembling in
convention to interchange sentiments only,
special agents and spies would have those
contemplating such things arrested and tried
for treason. Does not the public sentiment
as manifested in Northern meetings, in re-
Gently assembled Northern legislatures, and In
the late speeches of Messrs. Wade, Sherman,
Seward and others, foretell, with unerring
certainty, such result.
To go out of the Union now, is TO make our
peace; to stay in, is to invite aggression and
civil war. If the border slave States stay in
the ULion, the next step attempted, as it
seems all can readily see from the prepara-
tions making for it, and the speeches and
editorials indicating twill be the subjugation
of the seeding States, and holding them as
provinces" Such an idea is monstrous In
the language of Edward Everett
sit comes loaded with the death-smell from
the fields wet with brothers blood"
What will we, in Tennessee, do then? Our
Legislature says-we will resist coercion-so
say l. The effect of such a measure would
be civil war throughout all the land; the end
of which no one could divine. If all the
slave States were to go out prior to the 4th
of March, it is certain that such thing
would never be attempted.
There are some who say they have no
negro property, aud care nothing for the gu s.
ton of its preservation. To such l commend
the language of Mr.. Bel, in his great speech
in the Senate of the United States:
'.Sir, making all due allowance for Ameri-
can enterprise and the energies of free labor,
under such system of government as We
enjoy, 1 doubt whether the power and re-
sources of the country would have attained
more than half their present extraordinary
proportions. but for this so much reyiled in
stitution of slavery. Sir, your rich and
varied commerce, external and internal; your
navigation; your commercial marine, the
nursery of the military; your ample revenues;
the public credit; your manufactures; your
rich. populous, and splendid cities-all, all
may trace to this institution. as to their
well-spring, their present gigantic proper
tions-nourished aud built up to their pres
emit amazing height and grandeur by the
great staples of the South-the products OF
slave labor"
And to the poor men, and particularly, the
mechanics, the following valuable truthseon-
densed from late periodical of high repute,
are submitted:
81. The poor men of the South are the
holders of one to five slaves, and it would be
equally consistent with truth and justice to
say that they represent, in reality, its slave
holding interest.
2. The non-slaveholder of the South is as
sured that the remuneration afforded by his
labor, over and above the expense of living.
is larger than that which is afforded by the
same labor in the free States; price of work
say S23 to So in Nashville: in Northern cities
81 to So; board cheaper in Nashville, 81 80
weekly; Boston So 121 week.
g. The non-slaveholders, as a class, are not
reduced by the necessity of our condition, as
is the case in the free States, to find employ
meut in crowded cities, and come into CON-
petition in close and sickly workshops and
factories, with remorseless and untiring ma
chnery.
4. The non-slaveholder is not subjected to
that competition with foreign pauper labor
which has degraded the free labor of the
North, and demoralized it to an extent
which. perhaps, can never be estimated.
5. The non-slaveholder of the South pre-
serves the status of the white man, and is
not regarded as an inferior or dependent.
{ How would it be if the doctrine claimed for
the Declaration of Independence that 'all
men" black as we'll as white '.are created free
and equal" Lincoln and Seward propose
universal suffrage. One of the practical re-
suits of this is ANAL gamation of races; and
mingling together in school houses, in
churches, and in Legislative assemblies of the
two races.)
6, The non-slaveholder knows that as soon
as his savings will admit. he can become
and thus relieve bis wife from
r,,cossitins of tn. litcho, nd tho