Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-05-28

often. Mr.. RUSSELL was the guest and
lion Of the Merchants Of Charleston and
the planters Of the interior al the begin
ming Of the rebellion, and he writes thus
to the Times of the Carolinians
"From all quarters have come to my
ears the echoes of the same voice; it may
be feigned, but there is no discord in the
note, and il sounds in wonderful strength
and monotdnV all over the country.
Shades of George ILL., or North, or john
son, of all who contended against the
great rebellion which tore these colonies
from England, can you hear the chorus
| which rings through the State of Marion,
Sumter, and Pickney, and not clap your
ghostly hands in triumph That voice
says, if we could only get one of the
royal race of England to rule over us, we
should be content? Let there be no mis-
conception on this point. That senti-
ment, varied in a hundred ways, has
been repeated TO me over and over again.
/ There is a general admission that the
means TO such an end are wanting, and
that the desire cannot be gratilied. But
the admiration for monarchical institu-
tions on the English model, for privileged
| classes, and for a landed aristocracy and
! gentry, is undisguised and apparently
genuine. With the pride of having
achieved their independence, is mingled
in the South Carolinians heart strange
regret at the result and consequences,
and many are they who would go back
tomorrow if we could An intense
affection for British connection, love of
British habits and customs, respect for
British sentiment law, authority, order
civilization and literature, pre- eminently
distinguish the inhabitants of this
| State" etc.
Does not this witness indeed speak as
cone having authority ?" He has "no
misconception on this point. This SEN
timent varied in hundred ways has
been repeated to him again and again"
And it ever told of the partiality felt by
the children for that corrupt and oppres-
sive monarchy which their fathers were
so reluctant to give up in the American
Revolution.
discreet disclosure of friend of Sout h.
ern aristOcracy, deny the right of this
Englishman to speak for them. Then
let us take as a witness a South CAROLYN
ian himself, distinguished statesman of
that State He says, in letter, dated
February 10, 1861:
The South is now in the formation
of a slave republic. There is no other
form of human labor that can stand
against slavery, and it will build itself a
home, and erect for itself at some point
within the present limits of the Southern
States, a structure of imperial power and
grandeur glorious confederacy of
States that will stand aloft and serene
for ages amid the anarchy of democracies
that will reel aromdit."
But it may be that to this end anO-
ther revolution may be necessary. 1t is
to be apprehended tina this contest be-
tween democracy and slavery is not yet
over.
at is probable that more abundant
pauper labor may pour in and it is to
be feared that even in this State, the
purest in its slave condition, democracy
may gain fOothOld, and that here also
the contest for existence may be waged
between them.
Slavery cannot share a government
with demOcracy-it cannot bear brand
upon it,"
Mr.. Spratt brands all laborers except
slaves, as "paupers," and declares that
" Slavery cannot share government lQith de-
naocracy" In other words, he is not will
ling to allow every man to share in the
government who is not himself slave
holder. This is in keeping with the
Constitution of South Carolina, which
provides, that no man shall be elected to
the Legislature unless he be the owner
of ten negroes.
But will some partizan of the rebel
lion say that even this last witness
made only declaration of his own sem
timents? We say that we could quote
indefinitely sentiments of the same
character from the Richmond Wing, from
the New Orleans press, from the Charles
ton Mercury, and from papers Of Ala
bama and Mississippi. But to put the
proposition beyond cavil, that the South
ern Confederacy is based upon the p,7'ta-
! hge # property in contradistinction to the
government of the United States which
is based upon the rights Of man we
viii now quote from speech made by
Hon Alexander II. Stephens, VICE Presi-
dent Of the new government and the
ablest and most candid politician en- .