The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-09-19

diaries and barriers they would discover
it into aniagonisiic parts; they would
tear from Illinois and the Northwest their
common iiglt 10 participate in the use Of
the Mississippi river,--thcir common
share in the Jurisdiction Of that great
river as an inland sea. Never no, never.
will the North permit this. Never neyer
never A war for five hundred years,
FIRST war between The Northwest,
single-handed and alone, against all the
South, first War between Illinois alone
and all who may oppose her. first This
is the depth and strength of my scnt-
ments and convictions on this point.
| retort the charge upou our enemies.
This is a war Of aggression, Ia causoless
/ and gratuitous war on their part What
do we see An atiomptby them 10 rend
and tear 10 pieces The great charter of
our national liberty and Independence
| that charter framed by our fathers, and
bequeathed by them as a common herit-
age TO all their children. Shall We stand
idly and cowardly by and see this devil
ish work completed? Ircpeat again,
| never, never.
What Justification or even apology, is
| there for this war! None whatsoever.
! Southern rights,--the invasion Of south
/ ern rights,-is the cry but when or
| where has there been any invasion Of
! southern rights? Let the instance be
! pointed out Was it in the repeal Of the
! Missouri restriction Z Was it in the
! bred Scott decision Was il i'm the fu-
! gitive slave law, written byan ultra pro-
slavery agitator, Senator Mason, Of Vir-
| ginia ? Was il in the failure of the re-.
publican party to apply the anii-slavery
| iuterdict 10 our vacant Territories Was
il in any of their acts or measures Why,
these are all instances of pro-slaycry
concession or guarantee, and should be
cause Of gratitude and contcntment
Moreover at the very time the rebel
lion broke out, the party adverse TO the
Wilmot proviso and slavery agitation
had control of both branches Of Con-
gress; and a majority of the Supreme
Court had held the Missouri restriction
unconstitutional. More than that. the
leaders Of the rebellion, at the very mo-
ment il armed itself against a kind aud
parental government never had been
more faithful and successful in the dis
charge of its constitutional duties that
its power, on all proper occasions, had
been put forth, miitarily and ciyilly, to
vindicate the rights Of property. Such
was the substantial admission of Sena-
tor, now General, Toombs, upon the floor
Of the United States Senate.
What, then was the provocation? Had
you not room for the employment oil
slave labor? Who 80 hardy as to say so
1t is notorious that an extent of territory
was open TO slave labor which il could
not have occupied and used for hundred
years, if ever. The province of Louisi.
ana had been acquired and opened e
slavery. So the province of Florida, and
Texas, too, a slave State larger thar
France, and capable of employing all the
slave labor of all the slave States, had
been annexed Even Mr. Stephens, the
great Southern statesman, confessed that
there was no want of territory; that
there was and would be want of ne.
groes to people the slave territories, I'M
less the African slave trade was re.
opened.
And thus | have struck one of the
springs of this rebellion,-the refusal Of
the American Congress in any way tC
COuntenance or tolerate the slave trade
a trade eschewed by most of il not all
the civilized nations of the earth. and fol
the suppression and punishment of which
many of them have kept up, at great ex,
pense, navies in far distant seas.
There is still another impulse TO thi!
rebellion-the love of place and power
The leaders, becoming impatient of re.
al, ,,,t ,p,hst,n,. a., ! =.
themselves, deliberately preeipitatcd thu
rebellion, for the purpose of introducing
a new order of things. They now snec
at the masses, and practically repudiat
their capacity for ll-gOvernmenL Hav
ing usurped the rights and sovereignty
Of the people, in electing to themselves
revolutionary Congress and establishing
a government without authurity-havin,
next converted this government into
military despotism - they would nov
convert il into monarchy, supported b.
different classes-plebians and patri
clans.
This appears TO be the personal obicc
of the rebellion. What is its nationa
object? Is it not TO EiJustsy and aggran
die itself by warning upon surroundin
and adjacent natioualities? II is scarce
ly concealed that the leaders would tr
TO control the Gulf of Mexico, and sub
{ iugate Mexico and Central America, i
order TO increase their ability TO pus
their aggrandizement TO still wider linn
r its. Can any peaceable and orderly cit
2 ! iZen sympathize with such designs? Wi
, he for a moment tolerate them Wi
/ the American peOple--will the people q
, | the North and West-be content to b
locked out or i'm from the Gulf by rcvu
F., lutionary authority, founded upon th
{ disregard Of all lawful authority, an
/ perpetuating its existence by profession
2 al ireebooting and robbery? Again | say
4 never War TO the last man. first
] All but til said Mr.. Lincoln wa
P elected and we were unwilling 10 submit
? True, he was elected, lawfully elected
1 and it was your duty to submit, and W
n Of the North intend to try 10 make 70
b submit, not to Mr. Lincoln personally
s but to Mr.. Lincoln as the choice of th
j people and Chief Magistrate Of III
b Union II was la the power of the PEG
70 pie of the South 10 have prevented NJ
q Linculu's election, but, on the CONTRARY
u they conniycd at it-conniyed at it b
- disrupting the democratic party and gi,
! ing the victory into the hands of the re
s publicans, Nor was this accidental, b,
, intentional
p The original programme of the revolt
]; tionists was to betray the democracy
% the North by running a southern disun
k ionist against the candidate of the nortl
g ern democracy, with the hope that, viii
n all the northern States would support IN
republican candidate, all the Souther
= States would support the disunion candi
% date, and this should have resulted
?. declare the Union severed, seize Wasl
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