The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-10-14
For the Unlon.l
HE UNION.

| from the city OF Washington, IN qulel
and secluded spot, near an eminence
overlooking one Of the most beautiful
rivers with which Providence has adorn-
ed the earth, rest the ashes of the Father
ofhis country, the Immortal WASHINGTON.
Truly his is the noblest portrait on the
canvas Of time. Oh, how many recollec-
lions, full Of wisdom and instruction,
cluster around his name. He was at
once the MOSES and the AARON, who con-
Quoted the Colonies through that sea of
food and fire which terminated in inde-
pendence; and then, laying aside all am
biton, and rejecting all the honors freely
prof'ered by a confiding and afectionate
people to a military chieftain, he laid
the foundation, by his pure patriotism,
for that Free Republic, with her glorious
Constitution, and with her still more glo-
rious hopes. Among the richest legacies
of wisdom which this great man be-
queathed to posterity, is that last will
and testament to the American people
his Farewell Address. And if l select
the richest jewel which is to be found in
the cluster of noble sentiments and wise
admonitions contained in his Address,
should say it is that warning to posterity
to frown with indignation upon every
attempt to ALLEVIATE one section of the
great Confederacy from the other, Lis
ten TO the immortal WASHINGTON
"The unity of Government, which con-
stitutes you one people, is also now dear
to you. 1t is justly so, for it is main
pillar in the edifice of your real inde-
pendence, the support of your tranquility
at home, your peace abroad of your
safety of your prosperity; of that very
liberty which you so highly prize. But,
as it is easy TO foresee that from differ
ent causes and from different quarters,
much pains will be taken, many articles
employed, to weaken in your minds the
conviction of this truth, as this is the
point in your political fortress against
which the batteries of internal and eX-
ternal enemies will be most constantly
and actively Though often cOvertly and
insidiously) directed, it is of infinite
moment that you should properly esti-
mate the immense value of your National
Union to your collective and individual
happiness that you should cherish a
cordial, habitual, and immOveable at
tachment to it.; accustoming yourselves
TO think and speak Of it as of the Pal
ladium of your political safety and pros
perity; watching for its preservation
with jealous anxiety; misunderstanding
whatever may suggest even a suspicion
that it can in any event be abandoned /;
and Indignantly .ftOl0ning upon The first dal0n-
ing Of every attempt to ALLEVIATE any portion Of
our country from the rest, or 10 eiyceble the
sacred ties a0lich no1o bnk together the varioas
lParts."
Not far from the city of Nashville, on
the southern shore of the Cumberland
river, amid the pleasant scenes of the
Hermitage, rises the modest monument
which marks the final resting place of
the hero of OrIeans-ANDREw JACK
SON. There, after noble service to his
country in war and peace, the patriot
hero sleeps; but his lessons to his coun-
trymen, whether expressed in deeds or
words, still live on the printed page and
in their hearts. Among these lessons
none ever met heartier response from
the whole American people than the Sim
pie declaration:
''Our Federal Union II must be preserved
The sentiment itself, indeed, was but
an echo to the utterances Of all patriotic
hearts from the very beginning Of the
struggle for Independence. The primal
necessity OF the Revolution was Union.
Without it, the Revolution itself, though,
in name, success, would have been, in
truth, disastrous failure. Il was first
and last among the aspirations of WASH
NGToS and his great compatriots; and
the most impressive yet simple of all the
admonitions of cold Hickory"
/ "Our Felerh Union! IL must be preserved
Once unanimously shouted by the whole
American people Oh, pity the day
that it should have mct with response
less decided or less unanimous.
Near the city of Lexington sleeps the
mortal remains of the great Kentuckian
He rests sweetly beneath the green sod'
Of that lovely spot over which rises in
beauty the richest and most lovely NAPLES
that ever graccd the groves Of any land
The cemetery is a great amphitheatre, il
whose arena is placed the chamber Of tn
dead. About one hundred yards nortl
Of the vault rises the classic aud beauti
, full monument Of Henry CLAY, making