The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-04-10

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! yada-uOt exactly as we acquired Texas
Is there any difficulty in reconstituling
the Union in that way? Their cause is
If the ladies will pardon me the illus
tration-like the case Of wife who has
run away from her husband with another
man and has divorced herself cannot
take her to my arms again until we go
Eeiore the priest and be remarked. |
lave .he same feeling in the case of these
people who have gone out. When they
will repent and come back amsready
TO receive them, but am not ready until
then. (Cheers
THE SOUTH TO BE TREATED AS ALIEN
ENEMIES.
Now, then, to pass from the particular
to the general, come to the proposition,
what is the contest with all the States
now banded together in the so-called
Confederate States? Into what form
has il come? II started an insurrection;
il grew ap rebel llion; it has become a
revolution, carrying with il all the rights
of revolution Oar Government has
dealt with it on that ground. When it
blockaded the ports it dealt with it as a
revolution. Wheni il sent cartels for the
exchange Of prisoners it dealt with those
people no longer as simple insurrection-
lists and traitors, but as organized revo-
lutionists, who had set up government
for themselves on the territory of the
United States. Let no man say to me,
"Then you acknO wledge the right of re-
volution in these men " | beg pardon,
| acknowledge the fact Of revolution. /
look things plainly in the face, aud /
trust do not dodge because they are un-
pleasant TO my sight. Again say, l find
this a revolution: and these men are no
longer our loving brothers, but they are
our alien enemies; foreign to us-(ap-
plause) carrying on war against us; at
tempting to make alliances against us;
attempting to get into the family of ma
tions. l agree it is not yet a successful
revolution, and it is a revolution never
TO be successful until--(Cheers and
cries of Never,") l was going to say
until acknowledged by the parent State.
And now, then, / am willing TO unite
with you in your cheers, and to say that
it is a revolution which we never will ac-
knowledge, and which, therefor will
never be successful, CRenewed cheers
| if these men are alien enemies, how
does that affect your political action
Think a moment. II we are at war
with foreign cOuntry--as | insist we
are for all intents and purposes-how
can any man stand up here and say he
is on the side of that foreign country?
(Cries of "Good" and applause.) A man
must be either for his country or against
his country. A voice--"rhat's so."O
He cannot be all the time throwing inn
pediments in the way Of progress of the
country under preience that he is help
ing some other portion of his country. If
a man thinks he can do something TO
bring back his erring bretherern at the
| South, let him take his musket and 90
down and try in that way. daughter
and spplause.) Ifhe is of different
opinion, and thinks that that is not the
best way of bringing them back, but
that be can do it by persuasion and talk,
let him go down with me to Louisiana,
and will send him over 10 Mississippi,
and if the rebels do not feel for his heart
strings-but not in lOve-I am very
much mistaken, Laughter) But-(forci-
bly, and impressively )-let him not stay
here. Tremendous applause, and .wav-
ing of handkerchiefs by the ladies } Let
us say to him, "Choose ye this day
whom We will serve. If the Lord
be God, serve him; il Baal be
| Goa serve him" But "No man can
serve two masters, God and mann
mon" (Cheers,) There are other logi-
cal consequences to follow from the
view which l have ventured to take of
the subject, and that is, with regard to
our political action. Ii they are alien
enemies, / am bound to them by no ties
of party feAlty. | must look simply TO
my country and its service By that
give up no territory of the United States
Every foot that ever was circumscribed
within the boundaries of the United
j States belongs TO us. Cheers. 1t is to
be drawn in under our laws and govern
ment as soon as the power of the United
States can be exerted for that purpose
| Therefore, you see one set Of the logical
sequences which must follow-namely,
that we have no occasion TO carry on the
| fight for the constitution as il was-l beg
pardon, for the constitution as il is.
Who makes any attack on the cOnstitu-
tion We are fighting against those who
have gone out and repudiated the cOnsti-
tuition and made a new constitution for
themselves.
THE uEION-BUT NOT AS 1T WAS
And now, my friends, do not know
but that / shall commit some heresy !;
but asa democrat, and "a an Andrew
jackson democrat, ! say that | am not
for the Union as it was. cloud chers.)
have the honor TO say as democrat,
and an Andrew jackson democrat, that
am not for the Union to be again as it
was. Understand me. | was for the
Union as it was, because saw, or
thought l saw, in the future the troubles
which have burst upon us but having
undergone those troubles, having spent
all the blood and treasure, do not like
10 go back again and be "oheek by iowl'
as we were before with South Carolina,
ii can help il. (Chers.) Let no man
misunderstand me; and repeat il lest /
be misunderstood. do not mean TO give
up a single inch of the soil Of South Car
olina. II had been alive AZ that time,
aud had the position and the ability, l
would have dealt with South Carolina as
Jackson did, and kept her in at all haz-
arks. Bot now she has gone out; and /
will take care that when she comes in
again she will come In better behaved
, daughter and cheers) will take care
that she shall be no loGger the fire. brand
of the Union--aye, and that she shall
enjoy, what her people never yet hav,
enjoyed, the blessings Of a republican
, form Of government (Cheers.) There
, fore, ia that view, ! am not for the re-