The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-03-07

for letting the institution of Slavery en-
tirely alone.to to workout its own problem
under the guidance of beneficieut Provi-
dence--not interfering with it in any
shape or manner, but leaving it to the To-
calities where it existed, to be dealt with
in their own time and way. When they
said "Constitution said "Consiitu-
ton" When they appealed TO that as
their shield, invoked its protection for
them. When they said powder, / said
powder. Applause. And when they
inquired who can make war upon the
Beast, said the American people. Cheer
ing) l have had no anxieties upon this
subject, except TO afford them the shield
of the Constitution, so long as they in
woke it. But when they threw it away,
when they resorted to arms, said then,
put them down by the whole power of the
American people. [Applause. And l
say so now. Cheers. l was an old
fashioned Democrat as you may remem-
ber | am Democrat now applause, ],
of the straitest sect. But great many
who were Abolitonists when / was a
Democrat--Or tried to be lift paid we'll
now call me to an account, and say / am
radical, very radical, indeed, and they
are conservatives. Well, l admit they
are conservatives in one sense, and only
one, and that is not the genealogical or
technical sense, but it is the American
sense, and that is, opposed to the Govern
ment and all its institutions and inter-
ests. Applause. They say am rad
ical. admit that l am radical in this
radicalism, if they intend by this that |
am for making this cure complete, and
thorough, and efIectual, then am radi-
cal, for being fairly in, l have an idea TO
see this war fairly out The question of
Emancipation has become ono of the
questions of the day. 1t cannot be blink
ed any longer; end / have no disposition
to get round it. | will meet it as have
always met questions. Many Of you
thought l was on the wrong side but /
always took one side. l never took both
sides of any question. Laughter and
| cheers. / took the side of letting this
| question entirely alone, 80 long as they
appealed to the Constitution when they
threw that away and repulsed il, l said,
! as | say now--and | want the reporters
to be sure and get me down. speak for
the benefit of political sneaks general Y
! (cheering)- Il say that the only safeguard
of Slavery was the recognition of the
Constitution; that the opinion of the
world is against it; all the instincts of
| humanity and religion are against il /;
the advance of civilization is against il /;
the interssts--moral, material, CONNER
cial, and religious--of the country are all
against it and while would prosecute
the war solely and entirely for the pur-
pose of putting down this Rebellion, if
Slavery happens TO go along with it, /
will hold up both my hands and cry
amen to putting them both down. (Great
| applause) never favored il as an insti-
stitution favored letting it alone when
thev invoked the Constitution; when
they threw that away and exposed its
nakedness and deformity, / cared not
how quick it went by the, board. Cheers
They sent their pitcher to the we'll once
too much. Laughter. Icarus scared
so near heaven that the suns heat melted
away his waxen wings, aud he came
down TO destruction and baptized the
Icaran Sea, we are told. Although his
father cried lcarus, Icarus, he needed not
he was determined, in his ambition and
security, TO soar up 10 the heavens, and
thus he was destroyed. Slavery had
traded SO long in the politics of the coun-
try, had controlled convictions, had made
the mean mighty and the little great
that it thought it could do anything
and remembering that soaring up
ward like Icarus, melted waxen wings
and it went right downward But IL
melted its waxen wings there and de
stroyed the institution forever. The
friends of Slavery'have done for it what
its enemies never could have done and
the AbOlitionists ought TO hold a day OF
thanksgiving and prayer for the friends
of Slavery for destroying it from the face
of the civilized earth. Applause. ]
What we want in the Empire State, this
great and mighty Empire State is, re-
formation in our political system. Names
have become controlling. / suppose
am regarded as a hereto, now a-days
from the democratic faith, and propose
if the doctrines have advocated for the
last two years are heretical, propose 10
be regarded so hereafter. Like the jury
man who insisted upon his position dc
not propose to change my position under
any circumstances in this matter, but Il
stand where have taken up my ground
| am not Conservative; / am Radical
Radical let il be then. ! was never OF
the trading, the robbing, the expediency
class Of democrats. belonged to the
Jacksonian democracy, whose creed, iirs
and foremost, that the Union must anC
shall be preserved. [Cheers. There
stand to-day, and when they set up Al
image for me to worship, | say TO then
as Wallace said to Edward:
"Unto my Col tbroa times daily bow,
But Ike Coxcomb kuight, pray what art thout'
Laughter and cheers.
Our Democratic friends do not nc
knowledge them as the Democracy-they
are a spurious imitation, not the genuin,
Jacob Townsend. Laughter. TheI
say they obtained a greaI conservative
victory in the last Falls elections. w
have all heard of the very lucky indiyid
(, ual who drew an elephant in lottery
laughter, and who could not sell him
and could not give him away, and coul'
not keep him, and did not know what 4
{ do with him when he got him Now,
fear that our friends who succeeded II
the last Falls election have drawn th
J political elephant they seem TO be
good deal troubled with him just now
p and don't know precisely what TO d.
Q with him. They are evidently in diyi
3 ,ded counsels. Before tho election the
I were opposed 10 arbitrary arrcsts--thc.
were opposed 10 these thousand interler
e ences that they complain of-but sine
e the election they seem 10 have change
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