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

they have the means BY disposing of their
personal chatiels, while the non-slayeholders.
without these resources, would be compelled
to remain and endure the degradation"
II seems to me that we are all bound up ia
the institution of Il very. Believing it TO
be, as / sincerely do, morally, socially, poliii-
cally and reigiously right, and great bles-
sing to the master and the siave-to the rich
man as well as to the poor man-to the farmer
as well as to the northumberland upon this
point negro owners should quit raising up
negro mechanics)-I am unwilling to see its
speed retarded or its abolition worked out
among us. The mechanic should remember
that if slavery were abolished in Tennesss e
there would be for one negro m chanie ten
white laborers in his way. Upon the subj. ct
of action then: If we 60 out alone with those
identical in interest with US, even if Ken
lucky and the other border slave States do
not go. we will at once enter into confed-
eracy of at least seven slave States; adding
Arkansas there would be nine. We will be. 1
believe, then, in a better condition for ultimate
satetyithan bytremaining IN. 1t is now certain
that Virginia, nd exceedingly probable.
that North Carolina will be in the Southern
Confederacy before We get there ourselves;
and if Gov. Campbell be right, that the cali
ing OF Convention is tantamount to going
out of the Union, we may say that Kentucky
will be with as. 1t is quite evident that she
will call Convention. Perhaps all the
Southern States will be out with us before
the 4th of March, unless it be Delaware, Ma
ryland and Missouri; and should serious COM
plfeations arise they may be out too. Ex-
cepting the latter, however, there would be
such an array of Independent, confederated
States in the South as that the only questions
then appearing for Observation-Disclosures of
public debt, division of common territories.
and of public property be easily settl-
ed. use the term .icoDfedtrated States" be
cause after the 4th of February each State
as it goes out. would doubtless, go into the
Southern League or Coni-d erscy on the ba-
SIS proposed by the seeding States. tO-wit:
the Constitution of She United States with
ton of the Constitution might be commenced
if the Northern States desired it in good
faith; and a new Union, if formed. would
last thousand years. But should it not be
agreed to, the Southern States could 90 in a
Republican government, like the old one,
prospecting and to prosper. And whether a
new Union be formed, or a separate nation
atty be established; in either event, hereaf-
ter, as State after Stale Game up for admis-
sion, they would not, as heretofore, enter in
to the Uuion through 'gates grating harsh
thunder" but rather through those more as
similating the ones "on golden hinges turn
ing"
If contrary to all these calculations our
Northern brethren should force war upon US,
armed with the right and resolved as we are
to get it, if possible. we can fight the battle
out like men, exclaiming with a noble hero
of other years, that
''Whether on the galIows high,
Or in the battles van.
The nobest place for man TO die,
Is where he dies for man,
Very respectfully,
VIM. S. FLIPPIN.
Nashville, Jan. %, 1861.