Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-06-18

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upon us--not of our own seeking, but
against our most earnest protestations.
I uouM haze he President to enforce the Con-
slitttion and laics e0ery tolere, EVEN TO THE
wAGING or WAR, IF NECESSARY, AGAINST
THE REBELLIoUs STATES"
The above extract is the utterance Of
whom think you, reader? OF SUMNER
OF WILSON? OF HALE, TaUMBULI, or
WmMoT? OF SEWARD, CHASE, or Doo-
LITTLE? OF a Northern Senator or Rep
resentatiye? OF an abolitionist or anti
slavery man? None of these? No, none
of these. Surely, then, it is the speech
Of some one whose name is now cast out
as evil by the votaries of secession and
the friends Of Southern Confederacy?
No, not even that Then it is passage
raked up out Of some old speech--it is an
ancient record. Times change, and men
change with them.
All gentle secession reader-for our
secession readers, if we have any, are
doubtless very gentle creatures. Secs
sionism was always gentleness itself as
we'll as gentility. IT was much opposed
to against itself If it waged war,
it did not expect war in return. That
would be unmannerly rudeness. Itwould
be coercion. If it stole property, it was
opposed to the brutal and bloody policy
Of having its gain thus gotten violently
wrested from it. Any low born beast of
prey might turn to such resort as that.
But we digress. We say, gentle, anti
war secesher, this is the language of
Confederate rebel Senator. 1t is the sem
timent uttered since the election of AGRA
TIAnr LINCOLN, by Ben. II. HILL, of Geor-
'gia, Senator from that great Empire
State" of the South in the concern which
held till lately secret meetings in Rich
mond, land which you call a " Congress"
In the Provisional Congress" which we
presume took its name from the large
supply of provisions which its agents
struggled through Kentucky-in that es-
Enlistment, which had no Senate, BEN
HILL was an honored representative.
Speaking seriously there is no politi-
clan in Georgia superior to BEN. HILL,
either as public speaker, or if we
look TO his influence with the people
HILL would be great man if his heart
were only equal to his head. Soon after
the election of LINCOLN, in the midst of
the reign of terror which already prevail
ed at Milledgeville where the Legisla-
ture of Georgia was then in session, a
consultation of politicians was held, and
Alex. IL. Stephens made his famous
speech, which will live after his dis
honored head has sought repOse and con-
cealment from the shame which rests
upon it under the green sod. The fol-
lowing evening, Hill delivered a speech
which by some judges was pronounced
superior to that of STEPHENS. HLL's
was truly great and logical speech
and the above is one of the conclusions
to which sound logic irresistibly bore
him. We do not, to be sure, recognize
States as in rebellion-each individual
must rebel for himself, if at all. He
cannot shelter hims elf behind the pre-
tended authority of State whose con-
stitutional government he may have
assisted to subvert by usurpatiOn. A
State cannot rebel. The original States
resigned all such power of independent
action, and the others never possessed
it. But granting such independent posi-
ton TO the States as is claimed by the
theory of secession, HILL, in a certain
contingency desired that States be CO.
creed by war into the performance Of
their constitutional obligations.
To be sure, the "great commoner"
had reference to the coercion of North
ern States into the enforcement of the
fugitive slave law; but then he would
have the President enforce the provisions
Of the Constitution and the laws every
,Ohere. And even il he had not said that,
the logic is inexOrable," and must
everywhere apply, "Our rock" 0 rob
els " is better than your rock, your own
great and honored men themselves being
judges.
Where is the Monitor? We have not
heard a word of the little "oheese- box"