The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-04-02


ciplss of government, aud resolve to per-
ish rather than the priceless legacy they
bequeathed TO us shall be destroyed.
Remember that the road Of patriotism is
always the road of honor. II there is q
laboriDg man in the State Of Tennessee
who prefers to follow in the footsteps of
CALHOUN and his disciples rather than
after WAsHINGToN aud his great cotem-
poraries, pity him,--from my heart and
soul pity him. Ii The fathers-if the
founders Of our liberties were rigLt-the
leaders Of this rebellion are wrong. They
believed they had founded a government
upon the principles of universal justice.
They proclaimed the principle Of uni
versal equality in the administration of
justice, &" that all men, in the eye of God,
are created with equal right to life, lib
srty and the pursuit of happiness" They
all believed the time would come when
slavery would cease TO be stain upon
our beautiful temple of liberty. They
would have shocked the moral sentiments
of the work had they proclaimed that
the chief cornerstone of their ediilce was
human slavery These great men main
tanned that the Constitution made us a ma
tion-made US one people--that the Con-
stituion was the work of the people of the
United States ia their collective capacity.
They declared it to be the supreme law
Of the land, nothing in the constitution
or laws of State to the contrary. 1t 50
declares itself The men who fired upon
Fort Sumter--who brought this rebellion
on---differ with WASHINGTON, JEFFERSON,
MADISON, MONROE aud JACKSON. They
are as opposite as light and darkness, as
Heaven and hell. They differ on the
march of slavery, on the Constitution,
and the rights of man. In the face of
the whole world they have made com
pact with iniquity. They have shocked,
they have outraged the almost universal
sentiment of the religious world. They
have insulted humanity by elernising
slavery-declaring it divine institution.
RICHARD Henry LEE, one Of the signers
of the Declaration Of Independence, one
of Virginia's greatest statesmen and
leaders Of the revolution, thus spoke of
slavery in the House Of Burgesses at
has been observed by great writer that
Christianity, by introducing into Europe
the truest principles of humanity, uni
versal beneyolence and brotherly love,
had happily abolished civil slavery. Let
us who possess the same religion practice
It's preoepts, and agreeing to dis duty, con-
vince the world that we know and prac
tice our true interests, and that we pay
a proper regard to the dictates Of Justice
and humanity" From this great family
of LEES, who shed lustre upon their coun-
try, in camp and council chamber, has
descended a degenerate son who has
proved a traitor to his country, false 10
his God and tho principles Of his fathers,
regardless Of the general Judgment of
the world, Of the precepts of religion, of
the dictates Of justice and humanity, and
is now trying TO pull down what his
fathers built up, thus dishonoring their
memories and covering himself with in
eiIacible infamy. ....
When the Constitution was submitted
for the ratification Of the people, some
imagined that the powers of the govern
ment which it proposed to establish,
might be exerted to abolish slavery. In
the Convention Of Virginia JouN RAN
DOLPH said
81 hop there is none here who, con-
sidering the subject in the calm light of
philosophy, will mako an objection dis
honorable to Virginia; that, at the mo-
ment they are securing the rights Of
their citizens, an objection is started that
there is q spark Of hope that those I'M
fortunate men, now held in bondage,
may, by the operation of the general
government, be made Free"
Let this scoursed rebellion succeed and
this hope is crushed forever Tho House
Of Representatives in 1890 RESOLVED. That
Congress had no authority to interfere
in the emancipation Of slaves in any Of
the States" But as TO the power Of Con-
gress over the Territories, no one doubt
ed, and no Congress since has ever claim
ed any power over slavery 10 the States,
or has ever attempted TO interfere with
it in any way, until after the commence
mont of this rebellion. .....
Slavery has made war upon the nation,
has announced doctrines fatal TO the lib
critics II the people. II has drawn the
sword, and il there is truth in Gods
word, it will perish with the sword,
l would advise the loyal men Of Ten
nessee to organize, to form home guards
or Union Leagues, 10 band together, q re-
gard oil as saemisS tolo profess 10 Be neutral,
10 permit no usvbalty to send Ne traitors
South II a,sy persist IN h.tr treason, bl
upon repentance, upon sl0piag ID proViag Il
by their rgorfs, Hsy sh9aH ts f5rgivsa and
taken into tie Jod If do f10VaL
j. H. sHACKLEFORD.
A gentleman who left Knoxville 90 the
18th, says CONSUMPTION has utterly failed F..
ia North Caroline and Southeastern Ten.
nossee. The mountaineers resist IL with .