Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-03-31
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Iation 10 the Border Slave States.

The following, from the Commercial of Saturday
will attract attention:
" The Border Slave States are in a position tina
they cannot long maintain indeed that not long
be tolerable. They must speedily join the Seces
sionists-pass under the yoke at Montgomery arc
commit themselves to the keeping of the tyrannou.
plantocracy of the Cotton States-or the must une
quivOcally and unconstitutionslly remain in and
stand by the Union, They can have all its guaran.
tees in good faith and liberal measure but IN return
they must abide by its obligations, maintain its dig
nifty, defend its honor, obey and enforce the laws
and identify themselves with it unreservedly
Otherwise they are not for the Union Their con-
tingent disunion policy isan Endorsement of anarchy
and is insulting, as well as injurious to the real
friends of Union"
Early in the last session of the late Congress
various plans of pacifcation proposed for the
purpose of keeping the Border Slave States The
Republicans intended that none of them should be
adopted, The Commercial and Gazette did all they
could, directly and indirectly, to stave off Sc tile
ment, constantly sneering that the Cotton States
were not in earnest IN their movement, even after
they had seeded. At length, what had been appa-
rent to the world, and especially to the sensible
portion of it, began to be suspected by the Republ-
can leaders-that the Union was disrupted. Pas
sion then gave way to fear and they then began to
calculate the consequences, saw their helplessness
and threw overheard all their force bills at the last
hour of the session. The Border-State Union men
had risked everything for these Republican leaders
IN congress and out OF 1t; but, like narrow
minded fanatics, they treated the warnings of the
Union men with Indifference and the- position and
honor with contempt. They did not elect chair
man of committee from among the Senators of
the Border States in the recent organization of the
Senate, but, of the tweHtyone committees Of which
it was composed, the New England Senators were
made chairman of elepsR of them That was not
calculated to inspire the Border Union men with the
admiration of their Northern association, or draw
them closer to the Union.
Yin addition to the other indignities put on the
Border States Union men, the Republican leaders
had enacted the high protective Morrill, Tariff Bill,
a measure highly repugnant to all Southern men,
These Border States men are now told that they
must speedily JOIN the Secessionists, or they must
submit to remain in the Union without any addition
al guarantees-that they cannot any longer be per-
mtted to maintain their contingent disunion poll
cy," which Is declared to be ian Endorsement of
anarchy, and is insulting we'll injurious to the
tried friends of the Union" In other words, the
Border States are told by the Commercial that they
must either leave speedily and join the seeded
States submit Internationally to the Union as it
is, without any additional guarantees. We must
confess that it looks to to be just the Caaer>
ciGl has stated it. The Republican leaders do not
mean ohsve any compromise-do not mean to yield
any thing for paciAeation and compromise, and the
Border Slave States must act IN reference to that
condition of the Republican mind.-Ciaeirrndti En-
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