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

tits Of the utmost importance that the
people should understand thoroughly the
real motives which impeled the leaders
and authors Of the present civil war to
rebel against the government Sustain
ed by the clear and irrefutable testimony
of our political history from the day
when ANDREW JACKSON and JOHN @.
CALHOUN met in conflict, the former as
the representative of the people, and the
latter as the champion Of a cotton oil
garchy, we declare that the sole purpose,
aim, and intent of the Confederate dy-
nasty at Richmond is TO destroy popular
government, and build upon the ruins of
American democracy a despotism after
the pattern of the missionaries of Eu-
rope. We declare that the pretence of
"Southern Rights" is only delusive
catch-word to mislead the people, and
make them, by operating on their fears
and preiudices, the unconscious agents
of their own ruin and enslavement.
Should this daring plot succeed, it will
not be the first time that few desperate
and ambitious leaders have hoodwinked
the people, and made them bow their
necks to the yoke of an arrogant dicta-
tor. The sad story of every nation which
has preceded the American republic Of
fers, alas, too much encouragement TO the
Richmond conspirators to struggle for
the possession of the Southern Confedera-
cy. In proof of our assertion that this
rebellion. is no sudden outburst Of pas
sion but the result of long plotted con-
spiracy, we quote from the speeches of
two distinguished rebels in the South
Carolina Conventions
Hon. LAWRENCE NJ. KElTT said ST
have been engaged in this movement
ever since l entered political life. We
have carried the body of the Union to
its last resting place, and now we will
drop the flag over its grave"
Hon. r. b. RHETT said: "The seces-
sion of South Carolina is not the event
of a day. 1t is not anything produced
by MIR. Lincoln's election, or by the nom
execution of the fugitive slave law. u
has been matter aohich has been gathering
head for THIRTY gears"
So much for the inception of the Re-
belliOn
Now let US inquire into its purposes,
taking for our authorities the master
spirits Of secession. Here let us state
that South Carolina, the locality which
gave the world the monsters of Nulliii-
cation and Disunion, is the State which
in the Revolutionary War showed the
strongest attachment to the monarchy of
Great Britain, and contained the largest
number of tories, and has ever been dis
tinguished for having a constitution
characterized by aristocratic provisions.
This was the cradle of the Rebellion.
The sons inherited from their fathers a
violent antipathy to free government,
and sighed for one of privileged classes
and orders OF nobility, pampered on
enormous revenues from entailed estates,
and hedged in by the sanctity of 3iUiae
Tigld, not to be questioned by the "mud-
stills" and vulgar masses Of society"
Some years ago Rev. DIR. SMITH, an able
and eminent Presbyterian clergyman of
Charleston, S, c., pastor of tho most
wealthy and fashionable church of that
city, preached a sermon on a national
fast day. He complied and discharged
his duty so much TO the delight Of his
audience that the officers of the church
and prominent citizens generally re-
quested the publication of the sermon.
lie complied, and we make this remarka-
bic extract In enumerating our national
sins, RIGHTEOUSNESS, proaigacy, sc, he
says;
"The source of all this mlideity, vice
and national Generalization is attfibuta-
BILE in great measure 90 the bOseHesS and
latitude Qf The Declaration II independence,
and to tie existence Of as natural out-g,oioH
the absurd doctrine Of sntcersd ,g6togsn
The Reverend orator proceeds TO de-
nounce Mr.. JEFFERSON as the Apostle OF
French infdelity and democracy, and
says that unless his heresies be discarded
the nation would soon perish. NC
man who could use such language in re-
gard to that immortal document which
all true Americans reverence as Their
Magma Charta, and speak so eontemp.
tuously of the great right Of the ballo
hoy. oonld have bad any love for the GOV