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

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standing throughout the cotton States.
We refer TO Professor DEBow's Review,
published at New Origins. In vol Is,
p. 557, we find the following elaborate
DEFENCE OF AB1sToCBAcY.
"The real civilization of a country is
in its aristocracy. The masses are
moulded into soldiers and artizans by
intellect Just as matter and the elements
Of nature are made into telegraphs and
steam engines. The poor who labor all
day are too tired at night to study books.
IF You make them learned they soon for
get all that is not necessary in the COM
mon transactions Of life"
The ponderous Quarterly which has
been for years the standard authority and
oracle Of Southern politicians in this ex-
tract most happily ignores the evidence
of history as well as that of common
sense But what has an apologist for
aristocracy to do with such vulgar things
as facts? In the number for July, 1860,
page So, the same theme is discussed and
the reviewer tells
HOW TO MAKE ARIsToCRATs.
"To make an aristocrat in the future ne
must sacrifice a tb0llsaild paUpers. Yet we
would by all means make thcm-make
them prominent, too, by laws of entail
and primogeniture, so that the game of
grab might stop and the property of the
i -, L., ofo 10 40 hr,
gambled for by the votaries of trade.
We would do the thing at once and be
done with it. NOBODY FEELS DE-
GRADED BY PAYING RESPECT AND
ADMIRATION TO A NOBLEMAN--
Such feelings are loyal, refnining and
elevating, II isa necessary to haze Sonle-
hing aJoUe Us to admire as TO haze something
belol0 us to console us with our lot. 4
country Of tobacco fields, corn and cotton, and
OF ALL MERE EQUALS, is unnatural
tnsipid and INTOLERABLE. An old
family and an old farm seat are loved and
admired; the intrusive parUeaue IS detested
and de8pisea. A BREED OF MEN FIT
TED FOR RULE CAN ONLY BE
EVOLVED"
I Could the most minute comment on the
above extracts show the intense anti
republican feelings of the writer more
clearly than he has done with his pen ?
" Nobody feels degraded in paying re-
spect to a noblemanw Admirable snob!
We suppose he would not, " A country
of equals is intolerableW Magnificent
coxcOmb GA breed of men fitted to rule
must be evolved" Evolved" we sup
pose like the crazy monarchs of the House
of Hanover, or the idiotic Queen of Spain,
or the celestial and imbecile Highness of
China. The Quarterly in vol 28, p. 523'
makes some profound speculations on
REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT.
Representative Government is the
best, indeed the only tolerable form of
government We all mean by represen-
tative government one in which the in
terests Of the governing and the governed
are so intensely connected, that in ad-
vancing the one we advance the other
Very good, so far; but now let us see
what he means by representative gov
eminent, He says;
"Noae haze 50 TAR departed Jrooa this
primitive and natural form as pajd eleciiUe
governments. MONARCHICAL GOV
ERNMENTS over small nations are
strictly representative. AN ARlSTOC-
RACI IS also patTjarclQL parental and
Representatives In Europe legislators are
not paid. The feudal barons of England
were next to the fathers, tie most perfect
representative Government. The King and
Barons represented everybody, because
Ueyybody BELONGED 10 them They
represented them well, because men will
attend well to their own affairs"
The substance of this wise argument
is to induce poor white men to belong
to somebody" and they shall be as well
taken care of, as if they were negroes !
Let us see what the same great oracle
of Cottondom says of the origin of gov
eminent;
"AH government begins viH Usuypaiioa,
and is continued by force, Nature puts
the ruling elements uppermost, and the
masses below and subject to those ele-
ments. Less than this is not government.
| The right to govern resides in a Uery small
minority; the duty to obey is inherent in
the great mass Of mankind
! This explains why, for years past, all
the cotlon-mouthed, pro-slavery organs
have said so much about constitutions
being made to protect the rights Of the
minority just as if every one did not
know that constitutions are made 10 pro-
tect the rights Of all alike, the mode OF