Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-06-15
New Testimony as 20 the Designs OF
the Southern COnspirntOTs.

-AcVteWj eulleu ny IfOlebbof - DEDOW, 2
gentleman who stands high in favor with
the Confederate Government, and holds
an important office under it--contains
some declarations which demand the at
tention of the whole Republic. 1t says,
in one of its leading articles:
"The real contest of to-day is not
simply between the North and South;
but TO determine whether for ages to
come our Government shall partake more
of the form of Taolarclies, or of more lib-
eyal forms" (of liberal governments.)
The question between the Government
and the rebels is, shall the people manage
the Government or shall there be a Gov
eminent beyond the reach of the people
shall we have a republic or an aristocracy?
So Mr.. DEBow states the case, and he is
the oracle Of the Southern Rights party
Our readers know that we have always
taken this view of the contest 1t is in
accordance with the oft-repeated decla-
ration of the leaders of the rebellion.
And as we have had republican form
of Government for over half a century,
and as the loyal party are for pre-
serving that Government, and giving it
physical as well as moral power by pre-
serving the Federal Union, it follows as a
logical and unavoidable conclusion, that
the rebels are for destroying that Gov
ernment and making one which shall,
in the words of Mr.. DEBow, "paytake more
Of the form of naonarclie8" This is the
view of our leading Nashville Secession
lists. They are tired Of popular rule. The
-ReUie,O in fact discloses that the seeded
States have great dislike for universal
suffrage"
"7here is nothing to aobich the South en-
teytains so great a dislike as Of universal
suffrage. Wherever foreigners settle to-
gether in large numbers, there universal
suffrage will exist"
Observation-Disclosures white people
ARE not less Objectionable
81 nou-slaBe7aolling ,1nnu,,,sass, .ss The
midst Of the South l0iH eUer be diSafected and
tyeacheroas. Witness ST. Louis Louisville,
North Western Virginia, and Eastern Ten
nesSee. We must exclude such commune
ties in future at any cost"
1t lis evident that the restriction against
universal suffrage is to establish PROP
BRTY QUALIFICATION, and as Vice Presi-
dent STEPHENS says that the "clief corner
stone of the Confederate Government is
slavery" the qualification will be based
upon this "corner stOne," and every voter
will be required to own negroes and real
estate. How do our non slaveholding
citizens, and the large majority of our
people are such-thousands of our most
useful, intelligent and virtuous citizens
not owning one dollars worth of slave
prOperty-relish the idea of being "DIs-
AFFECTED AND TREAoHERoUs" by this ora
Gle of Southern Rights? The reason of
the dislike of the Revie,0 for foreigners is
thus stated:
"They understand and admire the
leveling Democracy of the North, but
cannot appreciate the ARIsToCRATIc feel
ing OF PRIVILEGED CLASS so universal at
the South"
The reason our foreign citizens cannot
appreciate the "aristocratic feeling of a
privileged class" is, that they had sur
felt of privileged classes" in the old
country and don't want to see any more
of them. But wherever you find big
Oted, purse-p proud, conceited foreigner.
you invariably find fierce rebel. The
Revie,O proceeds in this manner:
The peculiar circumstances of the South
will require that in many respects. she
pursue cautious and exclusive policy"
Yes, exclusive is the word. The old
JSllersonian motto was "equal privileges
to all and exclusive privileges to none"
But this does not suit our cotton aristoc-
racy. So they exclude the people from
the secret sessions of their own Legislature;
they c1clads them from the right of vot-
ing on the ordinance of secession, and
changing their organic laws. They de-
coy them by false pretences into the rebel
army, and then by their conscription
law, exclude them from the right of go
ing home. The ReUie,o closes with this
shameless calumny on the memory OF
that God fearing man, GEORGE WAsHINo-
TON. who eallad Religion She main pillar
of Government, in his Farewell Address
at was the misfortune Of our ancestors
of the Revolution Of '76 to believe and 10
teach that religion had nothing to do