Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-05-17

| the Federal laws in the revolted States.
That is what we had thought. That is
what the loyal men Of Tennessee, and
Kentucky and Missouri, and Virginia
and Maryland say, johnson, and Camp
bell, and Prentice, and John NJ, Bolts, and
Gamble and others Not one ,0ord does
this address sag Of putting dorm and crush
ing out the SOUTHERN Conspiracy. II
utters no rebuke against the rebels. II
deprecates neither bridge burning, nor
wire-cutting, nor guerrilla marauding,
nor destroying railroad cars, nor any
Confederate Outrages. 1t is dumb as the
grave on the horrors now sweeping over
devoted East Tennessee, the home of
martyrs and patriots. 1t condemns not
the barbarity of the rebel Government
towards our gallant prisoners. II has no
condemnation Of the infamous cOnscrip-
ton act, nor whitening invectiye to pour
out like motion lava on the heads of the
rebels who are burning the cotton and
sugar crops, and dcsolating the South.
Then it speaks no cheering word Of con-
graduation for our gallant and heroic
soldiers who have left their farms, and
shops and pleasant firesides to save the
Government, and keep step to the sublime
music of the Union under the flag Of the
republic. 1t does not even hint what
every intelligent man knows to be the
fact, that the prime and moving cause,
the fountain head and source of this re-
bellion is determination on the part
of Southern office holders and corrupt
aristocrats 70 destroy free government
and build up oIarchy or aristocracy
on the ruins of democratic institutions.
The man who is ignorant of this isignorant
of the speeches, addresses, resolutions
and newspapers of the Cotton States
for the last twenty years. He is i2no-
rant Of the celebrated speech of Hon.
/. w. Spratt, one of the leading men
Of South Carolina, who declared that
"SLAVERY CANNOT SHARE A Gov
ERNMENT WITH DEMOCRACY"
"Slavery having achieved one victory
TO escape Democracy at the North, must
aclieye another to escape IL al tie South!
He must be ignorant of the declara-
ton Of Vice President Stephens, as re-
ported by the Savannah Republican, that
"SLAYERY - not Democracy mark
you, or the right of man TO rule himself
but "s7avey,is the chief cornerstone of
our Government The ideas Of the franz
ers of the old Federal Constitution ,eeye
Fundamentally ,0rorg."
In these declarations Of the leaders of
the rebellion, which we are obliged to
cut short for want Of space-for they
could be extended indeGnitely-we find
the true cause of this hellish rebellion.
1t was enmity to free Government 1t
was determination on the part of an
aristocratic clique not to submit TO the
people, and be controlled by an igno-
rant majority as we heard John c.
Breckenridge say, at Hopkinsyille, Ken
lucky, in the summer Of 1861. As a
further proof of this, the Democratic
party was hopelessly split at Baltimore
a year before Lincoln came into power,
and split by the very men who issue this
address. ID is also TO be remarked that
on the advent of Mr.. Lincoln TO the
the House Of Representa- |
tiyes, Senate and Supreme Court were in
the hands Of the Democratic party. Why
then did the cotton wing fly off and set
up new Confcderacy? The Northern
Douglas Democracy would not be con-
trolled by the insolent Buchanan De-
and so q disruption took place
But this Address Of the inglorious thir-
teen goes on to glorify the Buchanan
Cotton Democracy in this Handiloquent
manner:
IL is the only party capable OF carrying
on war; it is the only party which has
ever conducted a war 10 successful issue,
and the only party which has done it
without abuse of power, without moles-
tation TO the rights Of any class Of citi-
zens, and with due regard 10 economy.
All this it has done; all this, if need be,
il is able TO do again. lis success, then,
in a military point of view be required,
the Democratic party alone can com
mand it,
1t thon proceeds 70 say that It's restars !
alton (that is Of themselves 6 Coq) 10
power is demanded by the following con-
sideraiion
Economy and honesty in the public ex-
penditures, now at the rate Of four mill