Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-04-25

territory IN the west, which Is now the N
life nursery of its gigantic commerce .
ried on upon its borders, did not coutalp
1870, population greater than SO0,ON-
habitants, aud only 100000 IN excesN.
South Carolina at that period. TodA
numbers over 100000. whilst southxDa
lima scarcely exceeds 100000 and If we
tend comparison Ia order to illustrate
progress of relative civilization, one is gre
and msjestic, aud the other lapguishlngr
dccayiug-oue Is creative, inventive, fert
in resource, and not bounded in its purp
by the clog Of tradilions--whilst Tie olhe
sullen aud insensible to merit ia anytb,
not of itself living upon visions nouris
by egotism, aud contemplating the ruin
our noble institutions as the grand etd offs
aspirations and the contamination OF
hopes, when all mankind are to recogu
cotton as the superior monarch of the VOL
and become The willing vsssals Of its pow
Change Of residence has not altered
viotions long entertained, but enlight
them. : l have in the past been a slavehs
and would be so again If IL was my int S.
to hold slaves If the institution has f4u
and vices, the present generation is NOTE
sponsible; on the contrary, no syslenof
slavery IN any age Of the world was eer
more patriarchal, more benefcent tim
slavery in the States Of the South aud tlse
who seek to Interfere with it, and whole
sign to weaken its guarantees, are at Gee
the most mischievous and criminal of mn,
and it is their insane meddling, more tan
all other causes combined, that has insphd
the Southern mind aud heart with the seti-
ment of disloyalty to the Union. But hw-
ever intensified this sentiment has becme
from the persistent SANDERS of au Insight.
cant class, its insanity is surpassed blythe
people of the South, in chasing with tenn
millions of men in the Free States who freely
gave to the South their sympathies, and Who
were animated by every motive Of Pride,
every instinct OF honor, and every sentiment
of interest, to preserve it as a part of the
Union, not on conditions of uferiority, but
those Of equality. J,
All sections'ot our country have to lament
the depravity Of its politicians, of their ig-
norance and their serfshness, and no one
section has been more cursed by their au.
thority over the people than some portions
of the South, and even among those who are
the recognized leaders OF the Southern Con-
tederacy, one who is best acquainted with
their history would be at loss to find in il
any records of devotion to any thing uncon.
neoted with the interests of party, or any
proof of their ever having been identified
with, or foremost 10 the advocacy of those
practical measures of policy, designed to
foster and encourage enterprise, promote the
increase Of arts, difuse the blessings of in.
telligence, aud iortify the South in the &C.
QUESTION and possession of those advantages
in Improvement and progress which psrvads
almost every other division Of our county.
Under any circumstances / should des
Of anycause, deriving its counsels from suc6
a source. 1t can never prosper under such
auspices, and il in peace, when all the world
was moving onward, these men we're the in
different spectators Of its progress, employed
as the teachers Of faction, the conspirators
against q Government they had sworn to
maintain, and The iusolent iusdgqtors of
hatred among the msled people of the Sutb,
what is to be its future, with its mighty iar.
tunes computed to the direction Of mM
whose history 10 illustrated by no virtues,
whose ambition is regulated by no principle
and in'pired alone by visions Of power, only
to be won upon the ruins of their country
and the desolalion Of lis homes and fire.
sides | forbear to reveal names and per-
sons. My heart turns from the contempla-
ZION u their salG3hness, and sickens at the
narrative Of the murders, plumbers and
burning7, which thas brought upon a people
who were once so prosr erous, 50 happyss41a
so free.
The South is enyironed by peris aud dan
gers that tend inevitably TO the overthrow
of the institution, which Mr.. Stephens has,
since bile famous speech, proclaimed as the
corner ltoae Of It's power. Itis without the
sympathy Of European Governments, mob
slinately ignores the oounsels aud warnings
OF It's friends and If IL blindly persists in
following the dceeptions imposed upon it by
the egotism aud imposlure Of It's insane
leaders, it will cease for generations to come
to be the land OF prosperity, rank and lnHu-
ence, which was ouce my pride and boast.
Yours faithfully,
JAMES RODBl
Important dispatch.