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

teHigace, notupon the right of man to SELF
government, but upon a species of proper
ty a privileged institution under the
control Of a few favored persons. Z
If Vice President STEPHENS tell the
truth the government of which he is an
officer belongs not to seven millions of
white people, but 70 less than h0o bundled
and .fhy thousand SLAVE holders In the
Confederacy the white man, unless he is
the owner of slaves, is socially mental
and politically nothing. This is but a
reproduction of the long since exploded
follies Of Europe, where property rules
and man obeys, or rather where the privi-
legged few who own property, rule over
the millions who have none Mr. STE
PHENs errs when he asserts that he and
his as sOciates have made discovery in
the science of government. He is only
strutting a few moments in the cast Off
trappings and gew-gaws of European
aristocracy. We will here add that dur
ing this wars IAN almost universal eager
ness has been manifested by the Confed.
crate leaders toplace the revolted States
under foreign protection. Instead of
regarding the warning of WASHINGTON
" to shun entangling foreign alliances"
they have sent YANCY, MANN, and Rosr
on one mission, and Mason and SL1DELL
on another, with various minor embassa-
doris as important suitors for royal favor
at the Courts of England, France and
Spain, nor has the bitterness of repeated
repulses, produced any other effect
upon them than to make them still
more abject and importunate for
royal smiles. The newspapers do
not scruple to say that they would rather
become vassals of England than return
to the Union
The editor of the Milledgevill9 Gao
Union says: eve would rather make our
home in revolutionary Menico OR IN DES-
P0TIC AUSTRIA. than d,oeH in tie In
ion"
The last quotation we shall make is
from noted Rebel newspaper, the Cou-
,5er, published here a few months ago,
under the eye of Gov. Harris
This has been called fratricidal war
by some, by others an irrepre ssible con-
flict between freedom and slavery We
respectfully take issue with the authors
of both of these ideas. We are not the
brothers of the Yankees, and the slavery
question is merely the pretext, not the
cause of the war The true irrepressi-
BILE conflict lies fundamentally in the
hereditary hostility, the sacred animosi-
ty, the eternal antagonism between the
two races engaged.
The Norman cavalier cannot brook the
vulgar familiarity of the Saxon Yankee,
whilst the latter is continually devising
some plan to bring down his aristocratic
neighbOr to his own detested level Thus
was the contest Waged in the old United
States. So long as Dickinson dough-
faces were to be bought and Cochrane
towards to be frightened, SO long was
the Union tolerable TO Southern men
but when, owing TO divisions of our ranks,
the Yankee hiyelingS placed one IN their olOa
Spa'gn oUer as, political comerioa became
uaenduGble and separation necessary to
preserve or self-yespect
As oar Norman kiRSnlea IN. Eaqla1d, al
nays MINORITY hare ruled their Saron
co'natyyDen in political yassaIage up to the
present day, 50 hare zoe, the "slaUe olgarchs"
governed tie Yankees, till within a twelve
month. We framed the Constitution, for
SEVENTY years moulded the policy of the
Government, and placed or olga men, or
Northern men 1cW Southern principles
in p0,gey,
On the 9th Of November, 1860, the
Puntans emancipated themselves, and are
non an pioleHt iHsWrecti0a against their
former o,Oaers. This insane holiday
freak will not last long, however, for
dastards in fight, and incapable of self
government, they will inevitably again
fall under the control Of the superior
race. A few more Bull Run thrashings
will bring them oHce more u73er the yoke
as docile as the mast loyo2 gf o,g EaiQoiaa
"chateiy."
We have thus brought some Of the
prominent actors in the Rebellion before
the public, and made them speak for
themselves. What say you Of their
testimony? Is it the voice Of a people
rising against tyranny, or is it not the
language of men who are laboriig 10
overthrow free government? We trust
that the extracts we have given will be
read and studied, and read again.
The first words Of the Confederaoy are
full of gall and wormwood--what are
its fruits We suppress a hundred in