The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-09-21

world as TIE proudest structure Of states
manship the world has ever known: and
our fathers earned for themselves an
honorable name, which shall be co-exis-
tent with the gratitude of frccmen and 4
the glory Of their Institutions
BY this Union we have secured all our /
distinction and success as a Nation And I
on the maintenance Of the Union all our |
safety, peace and prosperity depends for |
the future 80 for ourselves, and Tor our !
children after us.
This is indeed C0ngyes, "a Naii,6e-- |
| We cannot be two Nations-wc must be
one and
'raiicl Ne stand asidei We hnr
Thirty four sovereign Staiee have been
erected into a National G1eJRmeHt, a COW
eminent 80 wise, SO free, sopidcttaL that
we might well wonder that its establish
ment should have been accomplished so
soon, were il not for the Greater wonder
that IL should have been established AZ
all. lI ra-
The sevcrence Of this glorious Union
is an appalling thought, akin to the sup
position of the abrogation Of the law Of
gravitation in the physical world. When
oshs from ont their orbits fly and COLI
sion, distractions and death follow in
quick succession.
It is the thought and design of men
who are more careful 20 secure piece of
the Union than TO secure he peace Of the
Republic disappointed politicians and
ambitious, designing men, who have fat
tened Of the public crib, saG Kicked like
| Jeshuron q Olden times.
Secession is dissolution, and dissuiu-
ton is dcath--the political death of our
| glorious land Secession dis contrary
TO plighted faith--'tis setting up priiats
against the pi,blic intercst--the efforts to
secure partial by the sacrifice of the
general veal Secession lit is the SIT
preme of evils itself, and is mo remedy for
any existing evil. Secession tie the
77GH against which Washington, in his
farewell address, 20 pathetically warned
his cOuntrymcn Secession - It's the
hideous Hydra against which Andrew
Jackson, of Tennessee battlcd all his
life and bequcathed the contest with his
sword 10 his nephew, with the injunc-
ton TO WELD il ever in behalf of the
Union of these States. Secession il il
j Pdnlora'S box without the alienation Of
hope; il, is a claim that mover has been
an admitted one in any organized gov
eminent of any form in all the earth (;
and is studiously ignored by Secession
lists themselves, when applied TO their
own ill-digested scheme of selfaggran-
dizement.
Secession lit is evil, only evil, and
that continually. BY il what losses have
not its abettors sustained already. They
have lost the liberty of free speech ;
the loss of voting upon the COnslitu-
ton under which they live; the loss of
fifty per cent or more Of the value OF
their property, with increased taxation
They have lost the titles 10 their proper
, ty, il being liable to confisoation They
have lost their trade and commerce lost
, self-respect and civilization, and have
4 committed the most atrocious acts in the
, prosecution of this wicked rebellion
Surely the way of transgressors is hard
and the end of these things is death.
Q Secession! II forgets the thrilling me-
mories of the past it is unmindful Of
the almost inspired appeal of the Genius
. of Liberty, saying 10 us in the hour Of
madness
= Green drew his blade at Euilw
+ And bicuatoE southr"n iert
Amid tue SNOW AID sleet.
Aud To- upon the parchment
. | Where the natal record shine,
The burning page of Jefferson
| k1ars trlnklin's Ctluer lines,
\ CAnye divide that record BRIGHT
I / And tear thu.r names apart,
| That once were written boldly there
> with plighttd hand and heltt
Can We erase a IIancDrk g uamr
Zen with the sabru'z edge
Y ur wash out with lairrnHl hl'ot
I Clrroll's double pledge
I, Say, Ctu We part, with equal lisnis
:, An hes tagr OF graves
! | Or tear iu twain the starry flag
@ Which DER thcm proudly Wuvt-t
;, Cany, cast bots for Noruou's sod.
r. or guarIrl lut4st the gloom
| That hiurs 90 solemn folds around
luur rommu Fathers Duib
u Say, viii you meet Ground Dr. grave
% As lntricdal foes
q Ant pnnr 20 ~ hurnhiE rur7os
O'er hi- deep and ,.ln rtpOsrt
= Ne may not lis the >aegnan,an huudortonei Ic
'Tis echoed where Nevada guards IN, blor aud iran
70 puil sea
e Where tropi' waves, delighted, clasp oar Souih,r
n'WeIy shore,
= And whrrr, through iroWHins mountain % tt,T, NJ
brlska Watris roar
s Yet the fell spirit of Secession, ia il
u desperate wickedness, ignore all ne'e 0p
Is peals, and, with Vandal hand, would puI
: down the iairest, amplest fabric of gov
&c eminent ever formed by the hand {
= man.
'e Aud who, we may ask with Webster
- who shall reconstruct the fabric of dcmol