Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-01-10

reign of equality of all races and colors, and the
universally of the elective franchise. Look at their
President elect whose silence since his election IN
anddnring the canvass, has been as profound as 10
is oanous Read his last deliUerdnces to tne pubic
ear As lste the1eth Of April 1893, ne sad' ms
]. is world Of compensations, and ne VINO would ee
4 no slaveust consent to have no slave. lhose VINO
1 deny freedom to others deserve 1t not Tor them-
II selves. and yndera Just God cannot long retain it,"
Rut once durinp the canvass was his voice heard,
which was when he spoke at ms own ooor to Ia
neighbors and friends. At Springneld the last of
| Julv or early in August, he was put forward very
| nne~nectedly and smoke with less than his accus-
TONED canton. He said: any friends you will fight
for tbis cause four years hence, as you now fight
4 for IL though Imay be dead and gone"
| Commenting upon this speech, distinguished son
of PennsyIyana loyal TO the Constitution as com
nact between the States, said There is then to be
no repose, no settlement, no finality under
1 his administration. The fight is to 90 on
nay, it is to be stronger then than now. Not
content with victory Of the compact North
over the stricken and insulted South the arms are
not 10 be laid aside-the army is not to be broken
peace and Cancellation are not even limited. Domes-
tic slavery, driven by triumphant Executive and
Congressional majority from the Territory, is to be
beleaguered IN the States. 1t IS to exist by suffer
ance-it is to be destroyed by compression and the
vanished, plausible and deceptive Republicanism
of 1860 to become the aggressive Abolitionis of
1861 so says Mr.. Lincoln, if his language has any
meaning: fsS 81
In order that you may see what will be the policy
Of his administration, state Mr.. Lincolns position
in his own words. He says:
1T is my opinion, it 1.-THE slavery agitation) will
not cease, untila crisis has been reached and pass
| ed. A house divided against itself cannot stand.
| believe this government cannot endure permanent
| ly, half slave and half free do not expect the
house to fall. Butt do expect it will cease to be
divided 1t will become all one thing or the other.
Either the opponents of slavery viii arrest the fur
ther spread Of it, and place it where the public mind
shall rest in the belief that it is the course to I'll
| mate extinction or its advocates will push it for
| ward until it shall become alike lawful in all the
States old as well as new, North as well as South.
| Again he says:
ii embrace with pleasure the opportunity of de-
clarng my disdppro6don of that clause of the Con-
| stitutiOn which denies portion of the colored
people the right of suffrage" 2 gst-4-z
TRUE Democracy makes no inquiry about the
color of the skin, place OF nativity, any other
| circumstance or condition. / regard, therefore,
the exclusion of the colored people, body, from
the elective franchise, as Incompatible with true
Democratic principles
And yet again, with still greater emphasis, and
explicitness of expression: -.-.-.
THAT no man is good enough to govern another
man. tcitto,d the others consent. l say this is the
leading principle-the SHEET ANCHOR of Ameri-
can Repltbticdnism.
The master not only governs the slGUe without his
consent, but he governs him by set of rules alto
gether different from those which he prescribes for
| himself. Allow all the governed AN EQUAL
| FORCE IN THE GOVERNMENT, and that, ard
| that OILY is self-government
l advert TO these extracts to show how vain and
delusive the hope that remorseless fanaticism,
| which has fastened its fangs in the vitals
of the Consultation, WILL in the flush of tri-
umph, stay its hand from further and yet laughter
demands. Never, in the history of nations. has
! such spirit paused or taken step backward. 1t
| is unappeasable. 1t shows no quarters. Ittakes
no prisoners. 1t wages a war of determination,
more relentless than war of of castles. 1t
must be met with brave hearts and stout arms, and
crushed out or its desoating sweep over organized
Governments will be more fearful than the unchain
| ed winds which rend forests and scatter fleets
Nearly quarter of a century ago, when this Vora-
cious demon in its swaddliDg clothing. and the
nnrses in charge made their first requisiton upon
Congress in the shape of Abolition Pc
titions, Mr.. Calhoun raised his prophetic voice
in words Of wisdom and warning, which,
if Needed would have arrested the terrible
catastrophe now imminent and unavoidable
He then declared that aggression should not
be met by concession that those who acted upon
the principle that should prepared to become
slaves that If an inch was conceded, concession
would follow concession, compromise would follow
compromise until our ranks would be so broken
that effsctual resistance would be impossible. He
counselled that the enemy should be met on the
frontier with &Aed determination to maintain
nosit: very hazard Tracing the subsequent
history and career of that spirit of aggression
which had seized the Northern mind, he undertook
to predict that however sound the great body of the
DonslaVehoding States then were that in the course
of few years they would be succeeded by those
who will have been taught to hate the people and
institutions of nearly onehaf of this Union, with
hatred more deadly than one hostile nation en-
tertained towards another. He said it easy
the end. By the necessary of events, if left
to themselves, we must become, finally, two people
1t IS impossible, under the deadly hatred which must
spring up between the two great sections, if the |
present causes are permitted to operate uncheck |
ed, that should continue under the political
system. The conflicting elements would burst the |
Union asunder, as powerful the links which |
hold it together. Abolition and the Union cannot |
cO-exst. As the friend Of the Union, openly pro
claim it, and the sooner it is known the better The
fermer may now be controlled, but in short time.
it will be beyond the power of man to arrest the |
course of events. We of the South will not cannot
surrender institution. The subversiOn of them
would drench the country in blood, and eXtirpate
other of the races | quote his words,
and as | repeat them who is not struck with the in
SEPARATION of his utterance, and the fulflment of his
prediction? What heart does not send up the
prayer 81 would his cOunsels and warnings had
been heeded.n But they were regarded at the time
as the SICILY distractions Of dreamer and meta
physician.
Men, in their impotence to reach the height of this
great argument, not gifted with his far reaching
gacity, adopted the opposite policy. Others, for
while. seemed struggling meath their argument, he
far above descending stopped to touch the loftiest
thought"
have purposely avoided discussion of the rem.
edy proposed in the resolutions adopted by the Leg
islature of Mississippi know full well the sent-
ent which has long prevailed in Tennessee on that
subject. / could not hope to change it, and would
not be understood presuming to dictate Besides,
practical results are more to be desired than dis
cussions of abstract propositions. 1t will make no
difference as to the form of the remedy, the name
by which it is called, if we are animated by the
same determined purpose. to maintain the rights of
the South at whatever hazard cost. We may
find ourselves borne along by the current of events
and forced to defend what we might be unwilling to
aid producing.
Ny first ard great concern-the chief object in
Iced of my missions to know that Tennessee, |
ike Mississippi, will bear all, brave all, but
submit to be ruled over by Black Republican Ad-
ninistration. Events are crowding upon each other
with startling rapidity. The Rubcon is already
passed. Nldld TerOrS1l UeStigiG, is inscribed upon
very shield and every helmet South Carolina
lptly denominated the Harry Percy of the Union
has flung to the wild winds free her banner of q
State independence, and back from the Spirit
and comes the cheering war cry which Eerved
he arms and hearts of her Sumters and Marions
Ter Pickens and Rutedges echoing IN tones of c
hunder in the ears of their descendants
'sStrke, till the last armed foe expires, j
Strike for your affairs and your fires,
Strike for the green graves rave Of your 'ires-
Georgia Alabama Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida c
Texas, will catch the swelling refrain, and high
hove the croaking voice of submission they will
Deu5e 0edrLs anu udIluS W OOulh OaiOAhd-bOSCbh-
r march to victory and independence or when the
last torch of liberty shall burn then sleep the night
# DEATH" Aye, and Tennessee will enter the grand
with slow and measured tread but 4
With all her banners waving, and ready to charge n
With all her chivalry Before could doubt it, Il Il
hOud have to obterate the brightest pages of my s.
ountry's history-ignore the undying laurels with
which fame decked the brow of the immortal Jack
on on the plains of Chalmette and the more recent,
but as undying harvest of glory which were q
altered by her sons amidst the storming of Mon
Grey. II such doubt were forced upon my mind
as a native of the State-I would throw myself
pon her bosom, and in the language of another u
would excaim Oh Earth, Earth, Earth as did the =
Hebrew Prophet when wearied out with the perver Il
ity of his countrymen he turned to his native soil
nd adjured that to see if he could not arouse with
q 1t some answering spirit If such an appeal was
lade to the soil of Tennessee, in such cause. 1t
GEMS to me that the very genius of the place N
would spring forth, and trumpet tOngued, sound d
he call which from the topmost height of her
fountains to the depths of her valleys would sum-
non her host to the rescue.
That something must be done, and speedily done, e.
We before the ruins of Government shall pass into
l. ,Tnv,N4 Tho