Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-04-24
Gov. narris on Concentration.

We said the other day that the whole
current of affairs in the Seeded States
tended to consolidated Federal Govern
ment which would swallow up the SOW
ereign or local independence of the States
in strong central government. We in
deed believe that it is Tie intent of the
rebel leaders to form such government,
and we shall attempt in a few days to
prove this at length. But if this intent
did not exist, we assert that were the
Seeded States TO succeed in establish
ing an independent government their
proximity to powerful, active and en-
FILTERED people, already by far ouT supe-
riors in numbers, and increasing with
astonishing rapidity-a people renowned
for their naval enterprise and military
inventions, would force them by the in
stinct of self-preservation, to consolidate
their strength, and form one central gov
eminent. Military leagues always tend
to central political power. The exisS
tence Of two governments so closely all
lied geographically would render the
existence Of EState sovereignty in the most
limited sense even, moral impossibiIity5
The rebel Governor HARMS of this State.
in his message 10 the Legislature, of
April % 1861, actually urged the con-
solidation Of the rebel States. 1t fur
nishes very pertinent and forcible cyl
dence on the very proposition which we
have already advanced-to wit--the
impossibiIity of preserving the local soy
ereignty of the States, after the forma-
tion of two governments out of the old
Federal Union. lie says;
THAT each of the Southern States as
they throw off their connection with the
Federal Government, should take an itde-
pendent position, without that concert of
action ,0licl alone can be secured W POLTT-
ICAL UNITY, is a proposition which no
one UiH assent 10, Such political Union
is rendered essential, A Government
thus perfectly organized can more thor
OUghly command The resources and aqQ1equte
The revenues Of the country, than Isolated
States, moving without a common and ne.
spojsiJ1e head. These resourccs being thus
CONCENTRATED, because it is Ma
TURAL INTUITION, to ralV around
SUch % Cale,unle,sS for SELF-PRFSER-
WALTON and defence, can bed jsJursed l0ih
more efficiency Uaiy Of a1ouement to Sc
cure unity of purpose, in attack or de-
fence, is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY
to success. The Ie0ple of the whole South
thus united by inn POLITICAL COM
PACT, moving under the direction of
ONE GOVERNMENT, and animated by
the sense Of common peril are invinci-
ble.'
Gov. HARRIS here dwells earnestly on,
and repeats in varied phraseology the
necessity for one common Government" for
political unitg' and for "aggre5atiag
and concentrating the reserves Of the
State, lie says that cit is natural in
tuition" to rally around our political
head for self-preseryation, lIe does not
speak of the logic or argument of these
propositions, no more than he would 20
through a process Of logic to establish
the necessity Of eating, drinking or sleep
ing to preserve life. No, he declares that
"natural intuition" that is, the very in
stinct Of self-preseryation impels the
"people'-not the Sa'e, mark, bat The
"People' of The South, TO unite in "a
firm political compact under cone polit-
ical head Does.not this language shad-