The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-01-28


break mp your blockade; reduce your
navy restore travel upon your railroads; |
re establish the telegraph: re unite your /
express companies; build no more Mont |
tors and iron -cads, but set our friendly |
steamers and steamships again In motion,
visit the North aud West, visit the South; !
exchange newspapers; migrate; inter-
marry LET slavery alone hold elections
al the appointed times; let us choose a
President in 1864, and when the gospel
Of peace shall have sounded again from
heaven into their hearts, and the gospel
Of abolition hate been expelled, let your
clergy and the churches meet again in
Christian intercourse North and South {;
let the secret orders and voluntary as
soeiations every whore ge-uHits as brethren
once more,
The substance Of all this, which
was elaborated in a speech of great
length, may he compressed into
three words Separation and he
ttnion We pass over the diff
Guilty which the Federal Govern
ment might find in attempting to
reduce both armies to peace es-
adjustment, particularly as JEFF.
DAVIS recommends in his late
speeches, a permanent standing
army for the Confederacy; we say
nothing of the obstacles which
might lie in the way Of opening
full and unrestrained trade and
intercourse with the South, on the
very heels of a bloody war, with
out first establishing the guaran-
tees Of a treaty, which Mr.. VAL
LANLIGHAM rejects, from his Uto-
plan scheme.
We will consider, briefly, the
reasonableness of the expectation
which lie Processes to cherish that
reunion would follow such u sep
aration. We apprehend that in
Vulnerable hindrances would stand
in the way of restoring the seeded
States, after the organization of
rival political factions, led by am
bilious aspirants for the honors and
spells of office. Is there man
among the Southern leaders who
would consent to diminish his
chances for the Presidency, for a
Cabinet appointment, for a berth
in the Foreign embassies, by adj
yocating the merging of the Con-
federate Government in the FEEDER
al Government If we know any
thing of the weaknesses, the ava
rice, the ambition, the selfishness
lhuman nature, the lapse Of time,
build only serve to render the re-
hnion of the two Governments less
likely. The influence of every
politician in the South would be
= exerted to the utmost against it.
JULIUs CESAR once said that he
would rather be the first man in a
village than the second man in
Rome; and such men as DAVIS
STEPHENS, BENJAMIN, and MASON
would rather be the first men il
the Southern Confederacy, thar
risk their chances Of political pow
or, by re.entering the Fedora
Union. AS little likelihood would
there be Of the military leaders
such as BEAUREGARp, LEE, BRAGG
and their comrades, sinking thoil
identity in the Federal army
~ Nor would the commercial inter
ests of the Southern cities, backe,
by the whole free trade intluenc,
of Europe, be any more selfsacri
fcing than the political and mill
tary interests. All would combm
enthusiastically and energeticall
TO prevent the re.establishment @
the old government. There is eve
ry reason indeed to believe that i
the centrifugal force of the Unto
should in one grand instance over
come the centripetal force, a res
toration of the Union would be ia
y less likely to occur than continue
disunion not only in the Souther
but in the Northern government
Some defeated candidate for tn
Presidency, who had nevertheless
succeeded in carrying two or tire
s. States. by large majorities, o
some local question, would a
tempt to crafty his batiled amb
ton by raising tho flag of reyol
an inaugurating another civil wa
Mr.. VALLANDIGHAMs plan fc
reunion sounds TO as very niue
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