The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-04-01

20 the LaborinE Nion of Tsnn'sue,

Permit laboring man, born, and haS-
ing lived more than half century in the |
south, to address you few thoughts.
l ask those Of you who are aiding the
rebellion, to show h solitary instance in
the history Of the world Of a rebellion
of people, throwing of their govern.
ment authority, without their rights,
liberty, or property being Invaded. This
rebellion has no parallel in the annals
of the world. Until the firing upon Fort
Sumter, the Federal Government never
oppressed a human being. Under the
bene6cent administrations Of the gov
ernmen down TO the commencement Of
the war, the South has prospered as well
as the North, to an extent that no other
people ever reached. RS false u,at he North
or he Federal Government ever oppressed tie
South. Show the act, the Administration
under which ii took place. The tariffof
1928 was declared 10 be offensive 20 the
South; unconstitutional, because OF its
protection to American labor; and South
Carolina placed herself in hostile atti-
tude to the Government, declaring i'm
ports under that tariff should not be col
lected in her limits Yet her leading
statesmen were the ablest advocates of
the tariff Of 1s16-pelitioned for, and
advocated by them as measure OF pro-
lection for American manufactures
against the cheap pauper labor of Eu-
rope. Such is the miserable inconsis-
tency of the Aristocracy, who are respon-
sible for the heavy calamity that has be-
fallen us; for all the blood that has been
shed in defense Of the most bene6cent
government ever instituted amongst men.
Again and again have l been asked by
secessionists, "Why did not the Gov
err nment coerce bedience on the part OF
those States who passed personal liberty
billsY' 1 answer, those States never
took up arms against the Government,
that the Government could only act
through the civil tribunals, as upon the
citizens with armed force, when the ci'i-
zens resisted the fugitive slave law
, The citizens, and not the States, are the
subjects of the General Government
Yet what right has any secessionist to
object TO the Northern States, declaring
the laws Of Congress unconstitutional,
, and resisting their execution Is not
this the doctrine of the secessionists
, | Did not South Carolina in her ordinance
f of notification make it q penal offence
for clerk to furnish a record of the pro-
, ceedings in a State Court to 90 up to the
Supreme Court, the arbitrr under the
Constitution, expressly created TO deter
! | mine such controversies, Forty nine
f out of fifty Of the leaders Of the rebellion
are CALHOUN men, disciples of JOHN c.
CALHOUN. | beg you, laboring men of the
, State OF Tennessee, TO get Mr.. CALHoUN's
! works on Government, read them. You
will find that he denounces that great de-
mocratic principle that Mr.. JEFFERSON re-
, gardedas the living principle of republic
can government He is opposed to the la
boring man having the elective franchise,
and regards property as the State and the
only true basis of government. He ig-
nores the existence of virtue and intelli-
gence, religion and morality outside Of
the favored few born with silver spoons
in their mouths They alone bave the
right TO govern. They are the PEG lie.
They do not admit that the poor--ihe
laboring men Of the country proper
ly the people. Thsy deny them that
dignity and arrogate 10 themselves the ex-
elusive privilege Of the r man Committia,
an order Of patricians claiming to be ex-
clusively the people, and denying all
rights of government TO plebeians, See
DeBo0's Reviet0 for the last three years,
published in New Orleans until the city
was taken by Admiral FARRAGUT. Every
number of that infamous sheet for years
has been libelling the laboring men OF
the Union and denOuncing Democratic
institutions. 1t was the political text
book of the aristocracy. No man in the
South was found TO combat the infamous
sentiments ii monthly expressed, because
they were the sentiments of the control
ing power in the South, and if it was not
dangerous it was prejudicial to the in
terest Of any citizen to rerute them. To
differ with them was an offence, and al
ways created suspicion of disaffection
to the peculiar institution. II is true that
Mr.. LINCOLN was elected upon a free soil
platform, but majority of the Supreme
Court and a majority of Congress were
with the South, and the platform on
which he was elected declared ID at slave
ry could not be touched In the Slave
States and In the Territories. The Kan
sss-Nebraska Bill, mainly the work Of
the South, provided for constitutional
settlement forever Of the vexed question.
Why, with all these advantages and
securities, did the South seoedo and COM
menoe the WARP Because of the unholy
ambition Of tho leaders. They wanted
government founded exclusively upon
Slavery, while they alone would oil the
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