The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-11-23


tillery, no gunboats, no ammunition, TO
defend themselves with; they would have
been helpless; and therefore, thank God
that this war was brought on the coun-
try when il was under more honest,
thigh h-souled, patriotic man, in the person
|Of old Abe Lincoln, than Breckinridge
ever was, or could be-unless God could
make him over again--a Job be would
not like 10 do if he knows him as well
as do.
l have canvassed every Eastern and
most of the Northwestern States for the
last eight months, and while | have
changed no opinion, | must say that the
North never contemplated interfering
with Southern institutions. think now,
in consequences Of the criminal conduct
of the South, that slavery is pretty we'll
played out, and the South may thank
herself for it. IL her negroes are eman-
cipaied or run off, il will be righteous
retribution. The present state of slavery
may be pretty well illustrated by an an
ecdOte: A sportsman, who was not q
very experienced hunter, sailed out one
morning, and at last walked up skunk.
We call the animal by another name in
my country, but permit me to say, that,
"A rose by any other name would smell a, ssest.'
"The huntsman, not knowing the pc
culiarites of the essence -pedlar, took af-
ter it with a sharp stick. lie did not
operate long before he retired in disgust.
A neighbor, who knew precisely what
was in the wind, from the state of the
atmosphere, ran up eXclaiming Tom,
have you killed him Y'' Killed the devil y
| replied the indignant hunter. Just let
the id thing alone, and it will stink
itself TO death!' And | say TO this
army, go on with the war; and let slavery
alone, and it will stink itself to death
When we clamored for Texas, we
wanted four new slave States. We had
not the strength TO get it, and the North
helped us. We wanted the fugitive slave
law. We again appealed TO the North,
and she helped us. We wanted to repeal
the Missouri Compromise, and again the
North helped us. had no hand in this
last act. fought il from the beginning.
1t was at the bottom of much of the present
| trouble. Thus we had no shadow of ex-
cuse for rebellion. The Southern leaders
had plotted it for thirty years. They were
determined not TO be satisfied with the
North. The rebellion started in South
| Carolina-an internal tory State | would
| let it out on a contract TO some Yankee
Company 10 dig deep ditch around it
and float it out into the ocean! If this
cannot be done, let us send steamers anC
rams, which will push like the ram il
Daniels vision, East, West, North, anC
South, and reduce Charleston to ruin,
and ashes, so that one stone shall not b
left upon another; and then let law b.
passed that it shall never be rebuilt TIVE
wears ago, when South Carolina voted
herself out of the Union, yOureeollect tn,
i speeches made in her Convention By
Rhett, Pickens, and their crew, wht
thanked God for what they had been per
mitted TO see, exclaiming with Simeon
"Now, Lord, let thy servant depart il
peace Their hearts desire was &C
complished. l lived in South Carolih
in '3I and '32 and fought notification
and sustained Old Hickory. Then w
had a man at the helm--one who iron
the crown of his head TO the soles of hi
feet was every inch man. Had he beel
in Buchanan's place, he would hav
Strengthened himself up about ten feet il
his boots, and seiZing that anOinted THE
old Floyd, by the throat, would have ex
claimed "By the God of Moses, thi
thing must stop!" And when Jackso
said thing had to stop, it did stop, an
all the people said amenl What di
Wigfall and Pryor say Pryor, VIII
thought one Southern man could whip
Yankees He whipped Potter, of Wis
consin, handsomely. He thought POtte
would not fight, and therefore challenge
him. Potter accepted, and as the chal
lenged party, chose the time, and weaponi
and told Pryor he would fight him wit
owie-knives. Pryor was Mortified, an
exclaimed: "Oh, Lord this will neve
do! II is barbarous--in violation of tn
code. must decline !" Why the ras
calls actually challenged me in Knoxville
because they thought was preache
and could not fight. They sent littl
fellow, all the way from Nashville, to iigh
me, a diminutive creature weighing abou
ninety-five pounds the worst specime
of a man that you ever saw except Ale
Stephens l accepted the challenge, an
as it was in summer time, said woul
fight in hog-pen, with dung-fOrks afte
the first warm rain; the one who pitche
the other out TO be considered the victo
The fellow published the correspondence
TO expose me, and disgraced himself. Ii
knew / would have shoyelled him out a
the first turn. Both Pryor and Wigfa
avowed, if the entire North would attac
their names to roll Of white paper, Ion
/, enough to reach from the Capitol to Lon
don, and let the South fix the terms, the
, would not stay in the Union. The gal
/ liant little Douglas declared be heard on
, rebel Senator say to another; No oh
{ iChat ofei the North makes, noe l0iH 90 o.
: Of the Union," ltwas that miserable, oil
corrupt specimen of humanity, that spay
, ined, CALLED, distempered, sway-backe'
4 wind. broken hack; that bloated an