The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-07-09

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States, TO that state the slAveholders
mean also to reduce the white working
men Of the free States. That such is
their hope and intention, and that the
war is on their part war for the subu-
CATION of the ireemen of America, is PLAIN
from many Of the authorized writings OF
the rebel leaders In an article in a re-
cent number of the Richmond Literary
Messenger, entitled "The Great Danger
OF the Oonfederacy," this danger is shown
20 lie in the aggressive force Of demo-
cratic ideas and the writer warns his
readers, the shareholders, that the Con-
federacy must be guarded, especially,
against this danger. He has no words
too strong TO express his horror Of demo-
cratic institutions.
THE sLAyEHoLDER's OPINION OF DEMOCRACY.
lie says:
"Pure democracy is indeed form of
despotism, and in many cases most hid
eous and malignant, and utterly repug.
nant to the true spirit of liberty. To
establish the facility with which demo-
cracy may become the perverted instru
ment of crime and cruelty, we need not
refer 20 Socrates condemned TO drink the
fatal hemlock, aud Miltiades languishing
in prison, to crafty he ms ltiable
Atrocityiof bioodthirsty democracy
we have only to witness, enacted among
those who were lately our fellow-c
zens, the spectacle of an unbridled tyran-
ny established not only over a democrs-
cy, but amid the most enthusiastic mani
10 Faf . Of sa haa
Again he writes:
"The South is now engaged in q death
struggle with radical democracy, che
willing instrument of consolidation ia
the hands of an abolition oligarchy. y
= But the struggle Till not end with
the physical triumph Of the South over
| the North. Our success will be a stag
gering blow to tyranny, the tyranny of
democratic institutions, Namely and
will doubtless paralyze its arms in many
a fierce encounter. But we need not
hope for exemption from that never end
ing conflict of liberty and despotism."
Slavery he thinks to be one of the
most important safeguards against Il o
revival of democratic government in the
South, as well as against the influx of
the foreigners, the Irish, Germans and
others, whom the slavehu lders hate so
bitterly, but who have helped SO largely
to make the free states, where they are
welcomed, rich and prosperous.
"That benign institution of Slavery,
t0hich IL is n0i0 the pride and glory of the
South TO GScribe TO the conception of Divinity,
and iChicb this l0dr has proved to be, merit 10
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ton of her sous the great element Of po,0er
On the Confederaey, will prove, in prevent
ing too heavy an influx from foreign
shores of that class Of population devot-
ed to mental pursuits, another bulwar k
against the enoroachment of those ten
denotes TO democracy which have been
the Pandora's box of disintegration and
ruin to all republics"
He cautiously hints that something
else is needed to crush out the democrat
ic spirit.
additional safeguards must be pro-
vded in the cha acteriStic and Sntr9asic me :
clIanisns Of our social system"
Note what follows:
1.-THE people are the source of power
In them resides the germ and essence OF
sovereignty. This attribute of sover
eighty is inherent, and cannot be sur
rendered. The people NAV yield certain
powers to accomplish desired ends, but
they cannot deprive themselves OF the
privilege of deciding, in the frat in
stance, the form of government, institu
tions and laws under which they are tC
live"
And SO they are to be asked to set up
the Shareholders TO rul- thom-ihey have
! been. indeed, asked to do this in som,
measure already by those consplrators
eager to enter on their rule. la Virgins
they put upon the people the indiguity
two years ago, of voting to disfrsnchis'
the whole population, excepting only
few property holders. Here are the wri
ter's views, and at tho same time hi
opinion of democratic institutions:
"Let it be our fret duty, then, In thu
infancy Of our republic, while it is ye
: capable of receiving benehcent impress
sions, TO impress upon it those feature
which will protect its durability agains
those perlls which all history teaches u
= will constitute the greatest obstacles 4
Z success. No enlightened man will dem
a that these dangers proceed from extrem
democratic and popular characteristics
which are now stamped upon every fea
ture of our national and social organism
J, That spirit of levelling agrarianisn
which succeeded in degrading every thiDl
beneath the heel of an ignorant AM
vicious democracy, which sought to re
move every barrier of distinction be
d tween virtue and vice, between enlighten
# ment and ignorance, which sought :
equaliEe all by emitting all alike TO th
fullest enjoyment Of the rights of oiti
zenship; which not only invited TO on
shores, there TO re- enact the crimes whic
had condemned them TO punishment q
J, home, tho refugees from the jails an
. penitentiaries of Europe, but declare
them entitled TO a voice in all the coun
ellis of the nation as weighty as that
the purest aud most enlightened natiy
. of the soil.
. ave have no special objections to roy
= atty when restrained by constitutions
barriers. The glorious career Of freedoI
in England--illustrating for centurie
4 the beauty and truth of free government
> -.demonst-ates that royalty aud libert,
. are not incompatible. Certainly, Oh
condition of a subject of the Gar Q
Russia, the most absolute of monsrohI
is preferable to that of that democrAti
government, which we are nevertheless
d assured is the freest and best govern
e ment the world ever saw
q "Let us seek at once to eradicate ever.
!, vestige of radical democracy, every iea
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