The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-11-13
A Southern view of RECONSTRUCTION.
What the secessiOnlsts Design.

HerscheH " johnson, one of the
Georgia Senators in the rebel Congress
during the session -of that body las
spring, introduced bill providing fol
an amendment of the constitution 81
as to secure the peaceable secession o
any State in the event of failure t.
adjust grievances complained Of Thii
bill drew from the GrifiA (GaJ Union
the sutjoined article, which was regard
ed as reasonable, and caused the de
struction of the printing establishment
by mob. The editor, Mr.. A. g. Muir
ray escaped being murdered, his age
and high character shielding him:
So it seems that the theoretical Sc
cessionists are already preparing the
way for further secessions.
The leading idea with South Carolins
III seeding was to avoid tariff and
adopt a system of free -.radF, and as
the other States of the Confederacy
will choose to collect revenue by tariff
rather than by oppressive direct taxa
ton, South Carolina having then the
express constitutional right, would Sc
cede again. Then other States would
look around at the heavy deb left fol
them 10 pay, and would be scampering
off like rats from a burning barn.
When the government of the Confed
eracy should be thus broken up; anar-
chy would reign awhileIto be ksucceeded
by despotisn1. Meanwhile, the insta-
biIity of the government will render
all our institutions unstable and uncer.
tain, our rising generation will be rear
ed with corrupted morals, and mainly
without education, and we shall be los
ing our civilization and verging towards
barbarism very fast - fafi
The government of the United States
was the best government the world ever
ever produced. We need not look for
perfection in any human Institution,
but with all his imperfections, the peo
pie under that government enjoyed
more real civil liberty and were in q
condition to be more prosperous and
happy than in any other country on the
globe. Nor shall we be prosperous
and happy people again until that gov
ernment is reconstructed, or another
organized similar to it, and that can
never be done until the people go to
to the ballot box divested of prejudice,
and with compromising spirit vote
down these little despos that are de-
termined 10 have their own way, and
put into Office set Of conservative
men whose principles accord with free
government
The evidence of an intended disinte-
grafton of the Southern Confederacy
after the war is over on the part of the
theoretical secessionists, and that the
States are now only held together by 3
sense of mutual dependence while the
war lasts, are too glaring for any close
observer to be deceived. And hence
all who desire permanent government,
and wish to avoid the horrors Of anaF-
chy first, and despotism afterwards,
which is sure to follow, shonld open
their eyes 70 the facts and look for some
safe course to pursue. We believe that
q reconstruction or reorganization Of
the old government IS the only safe
course And to all who have suffered
their preiudices 70 become 50 excited
against the Yankees as 70 cause them
u think they eannot afford to live in
the same government with them, that
nature has placed us all here on the
same continent with no natural line 10
separatesthe different parts-has in fact
made us one people, and whom God
hath joined together no man can put
asunder And as we cannot be put
asonder, We can get along more quietly