The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-01-16


tariff pretext, and that the next time 1t
would be the negro question"
According TO General JACKSON, these
traitors were determined TO find pretext.
The Journal in former days, worn high |
reputation for its able advocacy of the
tariff: but what would the Journal say
of the fairness and truth of the historian |
who would assert that, "without the help |
of the tariff war upon the planting inter-
ests of the South, secession would never
have been attempted ?" Yet this asser-
ton would be easier TO prove, in our
humble opinion, than the one which the
Journal actually makes, In the same
number of the Journal from which we
have taken the paragraph which is at the
head of this article, we find the follow
ing paragraph in an editorial
The leading Insurgents hare aUo,oed that
gns rebellion ,Cds not precipitate1 bit had
been the tOort Of the last thirty gears since The
days of Modification. We have in addition
to this the con fessions of The Iadeg. a
paper published in London under the in
fluence of the secession agents there.
which sloDO that Ae thirty years Of prepa,etioa
did nat pass i0ithom European aid and assis-
lance. In it's issue of December 4tb, last,
that sheet contains an article, extracts
from which we find in the Baltimore
Ameaica,l, which are written by one who
seems to have been in the confidence Of
the late Sir William Napier. We have
not the entire communication, but after
stating that many gears since "the sovereign
States of the South had te'alterably resolUed
to secede from the Union, DC.
II is not a very rational supposition
that plot sOlong formed, and fully ma
tured, depended ON the operations of an
anti-slavery party for its manifesto
ton.
We condemn the statement of the Jour-
mel, because it looks like an abandonment
of the strongest position of the Union
party, to-wit: that the war for the pres
erystion of the Union is war for the
perpetuatiOn of free government, and that
the 0pi0aus of the rebellion, is opposition
TO democratic institutions, and not to
abolitionism. Here is proposition
which all can cOmpr ehend, which is easy
TO be established, and which is universal
in its application. Why weaken the
force of such war-club, by idle clamOrs
against the bug-bear of anti slavery, as
if the crime of destroying the nation
was no greater than the crime of destroy
ing slavery, or as if the national cause
could be helped by taking half the odium
of treason from the shoulders of JEFF.
DAVIS, and placing it upon the shoulders
of anti slavery menu Let the impor-
tant fact be proclaimed TO the country,
that this Southern conspiracy is the work
of an intOlerani, selfish, and despotic
faction, which, to use the forcible Lam
gnage of a rebel Journal, the Raleigh
Standard, "as 1t broke up the old govern
ment, because il could no longer control
it, so it is ready to break up the South
ern Confederacy for the same reason"
Mr.. CALHOUN and his satanic associates
did not believe in the fundamental priR-
ciples on which WAsHNGToE and JEF-
FERsoN erected our Government, nor do
their disciples who are now in armed re-
belion against it believe in them; they are
infidels TO the gospel of human freedom.
We must also consider that the anti
slavery party is the legitimate offspring
Of the system of slavery, and the agrees
Give and despotic spirit of slavery, and
that without slavery there could be no
abolition party. The most earnest OPP
ponents Of the system Of compulsory La
Dor were the Southern statesmen of the
Revolution Of rs. Hon. A. II. STEpHESs
said in his noted Savannah speech
" Tile Pretqii'ng ideq, entertained by him
| (JEFFERsoN) and most Of tie leading states
men at de hae Of the formation Of ne old
| Consultation Were, THAT TIKI ENsLAvEMENT
or THE AFRICAN WAS IL VIOLATION or THB
LAWS OF NATURE; THAT IT WAS wRONC
IN PRINCIPLE, SOCIALLY, MORALLY AND 10
LI-IeALLY. = ON aeg Government
IS founded upon EXACTLY OPPOSITE IDEAS /;
is foundations are Ibid, is corner stone rests
upon the great truth that the negro is not
che equal Of the white man; Tint sd0e,y
is his natural ANIL m0rai ooadih'ml,"
Perhaps "morai condition is a mis-
print for normal condition. but this is Of
little consequence, We shall not at pres
ent quote the opinions Of. the ilIustrious
fathers Of the Revolution Of 'T6, who lived
in the South, upon the yexed question of
slavery suffice il 30 say that Mr.. STE-