Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-02-28

all the questions of high and vital interest
presented in those reports and resolutions;
but cannot take my seat without making
an earnest appeal to gentlemen Of the Re
publican party to come forward like men
capable Of graphing with and controlling
the events by which we are surrounded, and
| make an honorable adjustment Of these
matters.
Gentlemen say, will not grant any terms
of compromise to South Carolina Srs, it is
not South Carolina who asks it; ask it in
the name of Virginia, the mother of States
and of statesmen, in whose sacred bosom lie
entombed Washington, Jefferson. Madison
and Monroe; in the name of North Carolina,
who even now, amid the excitement which
RACES on her southern border, sits firmly en-
| throned on her lofty conservatism, conscious
of her own strength should occasion call for
| its exercise ! ask it in the name of Ken
lucky, who is ready, 10 defence of the Union,
to Te-baptize her soil with the name of the
dark and bloody ground. l ask it in the
| name of my own noble and gallant State,
every pulsation of whose great heart is for
the Union.
Sirs. let US go back to the purer days OF
the Republic, and catch the spirit of our
fathers. Let us remember that Southern
blood gushed in living streams down the
slopes of Bunker Hill; and that the bones of
Northern patriots whiten the field of York
town; that hand in hand our fathers tracked
the SHOWS of the Delaware with the blood
that trickled from their unshod feet. Let US
recall the hallowed memories that hang
around the heights of the Hudson, and linger
along the shores of the Schuylkill and the
Brandywine. Let us forget this bitter feud
that has grown up between our sections, and
Danish forever the apple of discord from our
halls of legislation. Sir, can it be that our
glorious Union is to be dissolved?
Say, can the South sell out its share in Bunker
hoary height?
Or can the North give up its boast of Yorktowns
ing fights
Or rend in twain the srarry flag that DER them proud
ly wavesr
No, sir; no. May the God of our fathers
forbid it. For when that direfui event shall
happen, the sun of our glory will have set,
and it will set without twilight. Pass these
proposition of the distinguished Senator from
Kentucky, mfr. Crittenden.l and you will
send thrill of joy through the national
heart, from the "pearly strand of the Atlantic
to the golden lip of the Pacific;" and every
heart will leap with gladness as the glorious
old banner floats out the free breezes OF bea-
ven with every star cleaning On it.
But am asked. what will Tennessee do in
this crisis? Sir. she will exhaust every hon.
orable means of compromise; she will appeal
to you, as she is now doing through her COM
missioners sent here to confer with those of
other States; and if she finds you incapable
of the sacrifice of your party preJudices to
save our glorious Union, she will appeal to
YOUR constituentS-"from Philip drunk to
Philip sober" her action will be deliberate,
conservative, patriotic, and temperate. No
State values more highly the inestimable
blessings of the UAion. She will do every
thing except tarnish her unsullied honor to
preserve it. No rashness will mark her
counsels; but she will be guided in all she
may do by high sense of duty to herself and
a fervid and glowing love of her whole coun-
try. She will stand as the ''day's man" be-
tween the fierce and contending extremes of
North and South; and with the olive branch
of compromise in each hand, she will say in
accents of affection, "Let there be no strife
between you"
But, sir, if, in an evil hour. led on by rash.
inconsiderate, and extreme men, you should
attempt, under any pretext, however plausi-
BILE, to subjugate her, or one of her sister
States of the South, by force of arms,
SAT once there'n rise so fierce yell,
As all the lends from Heaven that fell,
Had pealed the banner cry of hell.''
And she will stand the dread arbitrament of
the sword. This, in my opinion, is her po-
sition; and in this position, am proud to
say, concur, with my whole heart; but, sir,
whatever may be her choice or her fate in
this dark hour, 1, as one of her sons, will
abide it; and, in the language of Ruth to
Naomi, say to her: "Whither thou goest 1
will go; where thou lodgest will lodge; thy
people shall be my people, and thy God my
God"