The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-08-15

WHAT watrLD CONE on REcoG&izINc TIN
socTHruN coxFEpERAcY.


s0cTHEHN CoSFEpKRAcY.
I6bis speech at The great var meeting
held in Boston on "Wednesday evening
Edward Everett took occasion TO show
what would be the result of recognizing
the Southern Cunlederacy were that
event possible. lie said;
The first question fhat will arise, "
you recognize the Conlederacy, viii be
on the extradition Of fugitive slaves. No
independent foreign nation ever thinks Of
their surrender. They will come in large
numbers after the separation; the South
viii demand that they should be given
up; the personal liberty bills OF the
North have been among the great eanses
of the present rupture Give them up,
she will now saw, OF Stonewall Jacks
will come and lake them. One Of the
articles OF the rebel programme lately
agreed upon az Richmond, is stated 70 be
'lihc suppression Of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Ninety miles Of il lie
through Virginia.; they will, of course,
do with it what they please. Ohio may
be little FESTIVE under this discipline,
but she must submit or she has got 70
send an army TO keep open this all7impor-
tant route 70 the seaboard With sys-
tenn Of free trade at the South, and mod
crate projection at the North, smuggling
upon large scale--armed bands of
smugglers, like those which desolated
Spain for ages--will spring up along our
vast frontier, To this you must submit,
or it will promptly be wrought up into a
cause of war with our belligerent and
warm blooded neighbours. Above all
the Mississippi-the great natural outlet
Of half the continent--you have got 70
tear up the treaty by which Louisiana
was coded 10 the United States--undo
the work of Jefferson and Napoleon, sur
! render d domain such as Providence new
/ er before intrusted TO a civilized govern
/ ment, or you have got 70 hold IL by the
sworc, for that's the way secession resoly-
| es all controversies. In short, fellow citi-
zeus, if this rebellion now succeeds, in
stead Of an honorable and lasting peace,w
have but one alternative to look forward
to-that of eternal war or eternal humili
alton and disgrace, not merely In our re-
lations with the South, whose language
towards us already passes all ordinary
limits of contumely, but from thenations
of the earth. What respect are Hey likely
TO pay 90 the reclamaiions either of the
North or the South, however well found.
ed, when they see US forever clenched a
each others threats, in the grippe of death
In fact, if the madness which has ruled
the honr at the South had not, while j
quenched every spark of patriotism
deafened them at tho same time to tn,
voice of enlightened self-interest, they
would have seen that of all the politica
suicides ever committed, secession Is tn
most hideous Bent only on destroying
the union Of the states, the South ha
forgotten that's she was striving tooyerturl
a strong and respectable government, o
which she formed an integral part, ant
reducing herself to the level of a fifth
rate government, dependent for existenc
on the eXigencies of the cotton marke
and the liberation Of the great powers o
Europe.
evil you, can you, fellow citizens
submit TO these enormous mischitfs
win you, to escape the burden of th
hour, entail upon yourselves and you
children the calamities Of eternal horde
| SiIlit w III ybu hCliNtI up your CHlo
brethren in the border States and throug
the South TO exile, Imprisonment, th
scourge and the halter? VIII you tax
upon yourselves the doom of the hous
divided against itself with the too pro
bable result, if this disastrous expert
ment succeeds, of being broken up int
still more numerous and still smalle
warning fragments You cannot be S
faithless to the duty which Providenc
has assigned you The Palladium {
our political salvation, as it was callc
by your sainted Washington, has de
scendrd from our fathers to us; it mus
it shall, 60 down from us TO our children
We have nothing TO gain, nothing
hope, from the betrayal Of the trust IN,
even present peace; for il is as true
nations as of individuals, that nOthin
so surely invites to further aggression Z
to yield to unjust demands" .'