The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-08-23
NANEIILLE - SUNDAY. AUGUST 3 L8a8


| protect aud who dlsclsimed any othe
than constitutional means in the accom-
| pli5hments of his objects. Under sucl
circumstances it seems that it they hau
laborcd under any real grievance, thei
course was plain. They should hav
I taken tae courec Of our Revolutionary
fathers When the States assembled il
/ Convention, instead OF proceeding q
I once TO declare their independence--fo
! the idea OF Secession peaceable u right
seems, IS Publius says, to have exploded
and gigen up the ghost-should clearly
and concisoly have stated what thei
grievances were, aud demanded redress
IN respectful, yet drm and decided terms
They should have exhausted every Con
4 atitnional means of obtaining guaran
tce5--if auF were needea--bv rsf,fesen
tation. W gemodsdsnCe, BY petition; ant
/ falling IN ali these they should havl
done as our evolutionary sires did, i. c.
fight In Che Union for their rights unit
they were driven out of il. Such {
course would have procured for ne, az il
did for our fathers, the respect, the sym.
pathy, and tho assistance Of other ma
tons. Instead Of that we have not 4
friend in Europe Bot such was not the
course which these--in their own esti-
mation--Wise statesmen chose,to pursue
When such a course WAS suggested OF
recommended to them, they evaded ii by
long list OF magnificent promises
which looked 80 splendid as to almost
dazzle the mind with their brilliancy
THE PROMISES or THE SECESSION LEADERS
First and foremost, they promised that
Secession should be peaceable.
Secondly, they promised that if per-
chance war should ensue, IL would be A
very short war; that il would not last
si1 months-that the Yankees would not
iight--that inc Southerner could whip
from ten 10 one hundred of them--that
England and France would speedily
recognize us and render us every assist
ance we might desire-that whatever
might be their abstract opinions of the
subject Of Slavery, their interests would
impel them TO promote its perp5tuity in
the Southern States; that if after all
they should not be disposed TO assist us,
Cotton 1Oas King, and would 5000 bring
all the crowned heads of Europe on their
knees in suppleation to US would COM
pei them to run the blockade-should one
be established-in thirty days, in sixty
days, in ninety days, in one hundred and
twenty days, in six months, in nine
months, in one year al fsrthest
Thirdly, they promised us that all the
slave States except Delaware would Join
the Southern Coniederacy- Slavery
should not only be perpeiua,ed in the
States, but that il should be extended
into al the Territories in which the negro
could live; that all The grievances 0c-
easiOned by the nOn-executiou # the
fugitive slave law should be speedily re-
dressed; that slave property should be
established upon basis as safe as tina,
Of landed propsty.
Fourthly, they promised US that the
new Government should be q mere Con-
federaoy Of States of absolute sovereign
ity and equal rights; that the States
should be tyrannized over by no such
''ceatral desp0tisp1" - the old Government
at Washington; that the glorious doctrine
of States rig bis and notification should
prevail in the new Oonfedcracy-that
the sovereignty of the States and their
Judicial decisions should be sacFedly res
pected
Filthy, they promised as the early and
permanent establishment Of the wealth
lest and hest government on the earth,
whose credit should be better than that
of any other nation; whose prosperity
and happiness should be the envy of The
civilized world
And lastly, they promised US that il q
war should ensue, they would 20 to the
battlefield and spill, il necessary, the
last drop Of their blood in the cause Of
their beioged South.
THE PERFORMANCES OF THE sECEssIONIsTs
-gr-WHAl HAS BEEN ACHIEVED
While such have been their promises
what have been their performances? In.
stead Of secession being peaceable Al
they promised that ID would, IL has giyer
rise to such a war as has never before
desolattd any country, since the barba'
Hahs Of tbs North oyerran the Roman
Empire.
SO fer from the wars ending in sil
months as they said it would, should il
! ensue IL has already lasted moro thar
two years, and if their policy is TO bC
pursued, il will last more than two years
longer; and Notwithstanding their pre-
I dictions, tho Yankees have fought OF
many occasions With 4 spirit aud deter.
imitation worthy Of their ancestors o
the .Revoluhon--worthy Of che descend
ants OF those austero old puritaus whose
heroic spirit aud religious zeal made Oh
liver Cromwells army the terror of thi
/ civilized world or Of those French Hu
guenots, wild thrice in the 10th century
coutendod with heroic spirit and variou
fortunes against all the genius of thu
house Of Lorraine, and all the powers o
the house Of Nal0is" E1gland anc
France have not recognized us-have no
raised the blockRde--haye not shown nj
any sympathy, nor is there any proba
bihty that they ever will and that cottol
is Rot King is nov universally acknowl
edged, And Maryland has not ioinet
the Confederacy, nor has Kentucky, no
Missouri ever really been with as. Sla
very has not only not been pernetuate,
In the States, nor extended into the ter
I AANNAANrs AAN AAtohNNAA nAa passed a
act of emancipation, and Mary Ian
is ready 10 DO so rather than give up he
place in the Union, aud the last hope q
obtaining one foot Of the territories "a
the purpose OF extending Slavery la
departed from the Confcderacy foreue
The grievances caused by the failure
some of the Northern States 10 execuD
the Fugitive slave Law have not onl
T not beeu remedied, but more slaves ha,
been Loot 20 the South forever since So
oession was inauguTated, than won.
have escaped from their masters ,n q
! Union Ia hva centuries And how hu
fbav Kent fbrfr promise that fhsv ygoul