The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-04-21

70 iis Constitution or tos as administration,
that we must look. Men must not creep
in the dust of partiSan strife, and seek
to make points against opponents, rs the
means OF evadiug or meeting the issues
before us. The fault is not in the form
OF the Government nor does the evil
spring from ihe manner in which il has
been admins cred. Where then is il
II is that our fathers formed a Govern
ment for a Union Of friendly States, and
under it the people have been prosperous,
beyond comparison with any other whose
career is recorded In the history of man,
still the Union of fri ndly States had
changed its character, and sectional hos
tility has been substituted for the fra
ternity in which the Government was
founded"
In an Italian church yard there is a
monument with an epiiaph on a man who,
being well, dosed himself TO death with
unwholesOme drugs. Stare Jene, nla per
star megliO, sto qui a. was well, want.
ed to be better, and here | am" MIR.
Davis, was living about two years ago,
as he tells ussnndcr the best form of gov
eminent eyeri stituted by man; no mean
blessing that, to begin with as the world
goes. There was 40 fault TO be found
with the manner in which it had been
administered. OF how few governments
can that be said, ia ancient or modern
times. 1t would have been ungracious
in Mr. Davis to complain Of its admin
istration, for it had almost always been
controlled by his friends, and he himself
had been literally educated at its ex-
pense, had passed most of his life in its
service, and was then filling one of its
highest trusts. Under the practical
working Of this perfectly constituted
and accepiably administered government
the country, he admits has been prosper
Gus beyond comparison with anything
recorded in history. Was not this enough
for man or people? Alas no! Mr.. Da-
Wis was not content with this exhuber-
ant felicity. He needed something
more; he desired q "nice and subtle
happiness;" he sighed for fraternity"
To get that precious boon, ne dosed him
self with the maddening drug Of seces-
sion; and now behold him, the fetocks
Of his war-horse wet with the blood OF
civil war, oozing from the tram led bo-
SONS of friend and foe, as be RACES over
the field Of death in search Of something
better than the best government, than an
unoxceptionable administration, than a
prosperity without example in the his
tory of the world
| GUILT OF THE REBELLIoN.N
Is this patriotic staiesmanship, or is it
ambitious frenzy? What an unprinci- :
pied rebellion like this to be compared
with the work of our saiuted Fathers, of
Washington and Franklin, and Jefferson
and Adams, the heroes and sages of the
revolution This gigantic treason TO be
profanely landed as tho august founda-
tion OF a new state; TO be fed with for
eign gold and nursed with foreign favor
Then let all pretense of distinction be-
tween right and wrong, truth and false
hood, be forever abandoned. Lift up
your heads, ye prison gates, and let your
wroHged inmates so freel Come home
from the cannibsl islands, ye missiona-
ries, and let the honest savage gorge upon
his strange flesh ~ Throw open your
doors, 0 just Bedlam, and send your
abused philosophers, princes aud states
men to their homesl Cease your dull
pirate, ye teachers of morals There i.
no crime, there is no barbarism, there il
no madness. Those who make constitu.
tious, lot those, who break them, shall
hence forward be the traitors Our legis.
laiors and judges hall be the culprits
MOI feluns aud thieves. Oalhs shall nj
longer be the link that binds the soul o
the creature to the f,otstpol of the Gre.
ator, but base ,rap baited by knavei
TO catch the easy conscience Of fools
, and all this vaunted civilization, foundeC
on ms itutiOns, hailowed by religion
buttressed by tribunals, accepted by tin
Z common sense of mankind, shall be pro
} claimed, IN the face of the Universe,
, paltry show and wicked lie.
Most true it certainly is, that for tn
) last thirty years much ill-feeling ha
3 sprung up between tue North and thl
9 South No one can regret this more thar
Z | have done, and nothing within th
! province of private individual has beel
0 neglected by me, to prevent It's growtl
| and arrest it's consequences. But thi
r ill-ieeling has sprung up quite as mucl
= by the fault Of the South as Of the North
( and the language Of reproach and irrita
r tion, an which il has found utterance, Ina
{ been heard quite as often and quite a
= loudly in one section OF the country a
:, the other. But after all, there has neve
been, on the part Of the masses of Tia
: people, North or South that degree q
9 sectional hostility which Mr.. Davis as
;, sumes, in order TO justify his attempt
4 ovorturn the Government; there has bee
= nothing, be admits, which has pregenie
= q satisfactory and prosperous admins
J.. tration OF the Government; nothing eyel
d he might have added, which has inter
h fered with amicable social intercours
Ie North and S0uth nothing which pr,
% vented Mr.. Davis himself, prior to d
= last Presidential election. aud, when
le himself was an aspirant 10 the Presidei
sr cy, from passing sumner in this mu'
j. reviled and hated New England, niue
l. apparently, 10 the mutual satisfaction
% himself and friends, everywhere receive
Of with cordial hospitality, and repayir
ne with glowing phrases Of compliment, 4
ly ovations which everywhere attended |
~ progress. In 0ne year alterward and
rs less than three months after pronounced
the eulogium just cited on the Conatit
n tion OF the United States, and with0
Of having resigned his seat as Senator
ed End him az the head OF a revolution q
n ganized 60 oyyrturn il and shedding
OF best blood Of the country, North a
e- South, 90 compass this cruel, this mel
,re rous end Perhaps If be had succeed
nt, in his canvass Cor the Presidency,
en- might have been wilIing that the pcol
res should live four years longer under 90
he beat Government ever stiiuted
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