The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-01-15

or validity; and if, in future the people
Of any State were SO infatuated as to
dream Of independence, they might pass
al ordnance of secession, and then point
to the repeal Of those adopted in 1861,
az an evidence that their legal y was
admitted by loyal men. It would not
be unreasonable il them 10 ask why
Law. which is unconstitutional need be
eraeed by q formal act; and the response
could be no other than lame.
Garrett Davis Going over 20 tsso Iseb-
eIs-IEe Rscsmmenos revolution
Garrett Davis is q wonderful man. He
is eloquent-that is, ho thinks 90
though We heard one of bis listeners
once declare that were his voice little
cOarser, he would apply to him the lines
Of Byron, relative to certain lODg-esred
animal Prscticing reciiative; ;" but the
peculiar squeaks even robbed him Of the
classic title by which . respectable
donkey is known. BE once managed to
get into Congress, through the iDfusnce
Of Henry Clay that great statesman, who
never was q good judge Of human ma
ture, and therefore always liable to be
betrayed by those in whom he freely
oonGded, thought he saw something IN
Garrett, and he told the people so; they
couldn't exactly see il, but from their
uobounded confidence in the Sage of
Ashland, were induced 10 take him on
trust; bat even Clay could not save him,
aud be whose ambition led him to aspire
TO the succession, as the adored Of the
Commonwealth, speedily retired to the
position Of > village lawyer, from which
mistaken Judgment had called him and
from this be did not emerge till 1859,
when a certain blodless duel with Mr..
Simms, then q candidate for Congress,
gave him little notoristy, and rendered
HIM the laughing stock Of all sensible
men.
Next he came to The surface during
the excitement Of 1861 and in espOus-
ing the Union cause, il we are to judge
by his subsequent acts and words, he
evidently did 90 from the same motive
which led others, in the extreme South,
10 ioin the secessionists. We hear, now,
Of great many leaders in the rebellion,
who say they only became such with
view 10 guiding the infatuated pOpulace
uutilthe passions had time to cool, when
a restoration of the Union would be
practicable. Garrett evidently was 3
Union man, that he might control the
loyal sentiment TO the interest of JEFF D4-
vie; control it till the patriotism, just
awakened, should subside, when be could
throw himself and State into the arms Of
that traitor and his coadjutOrs when
a frat ssat would of course be given him
as . reward.
But Garrett has been Gs unfortunate
as the captain of q certain fishing smack.
Little acquainted with navigation, be
was beating his era It about, when he APP
proached large ship, which he endeav-
ored to avoid; bu. from his inexpertness
be came near causing q collision, when
the pilot of the large vessel cried cot;
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"The Jonathan, Of Boston"
"Who is the Mssier?'
"Wall, thought was, but the internal
thing is masterin' me-"
So with Mr.. Davis; he would direct the
loyal sentiment toward that great seat CT
Observation-Disclosures; but i! wouldn't
20 that way, and poor Garrett, like the
captain of the smack, is in = trias of
tribuIation.
vexed At the display of patriotism
which he witnessed among his cOnstiiu-
snts, and unable to carry any body into the
embrace of his Richmond friends, be de-
termined to prove himself as valuable an
ally as possible, and accordingly offered,
in the United States Senate, series of
wordy resolutions, just such as might
have been proposed by either ToOmbs,
Foote, John Mitchell, Jefferson Davis,
Vallandigham, or Fernando Wood. Gar
ret has great faith in words; he always
believed he could bring house down by
their profuse use; and we agree that be
can do even more; we have ourselves seen
him clear one; and be hopes dose that
will operate so effsctuAlly upon q congre-
CATION, will affsctithe nation; and be mali
ciously inhict5 an amount of Literature
upon the country, which is truly aston
ishing.
Did we possess the facilities for issu-
Ing a quadfuple sheet, We think we could
Law them before our readers in something
over q fortnight; but with an ordinary
sized paper, the task would be hopeless;
we therefore content ourselves with one
or two extracts, which evince the spirit
| of the whole document:
"verily, the people North and the peO-
| pie South ought to revolt against their
war leaders, and take this great matter
into their own hands, and elect members
to National Convention of sll the
| States, 20 terminate = war that is en-
riching hundreds Of thousands of officers,
plunderers and spoilsmen in the loyal
| States and threatens the masses Of both
sections with irretrievable bankruptcy,
and indefiaits slaughter, and TO restore
their Union and common Government
upon the great principles Of their liberty
and compromise, devised by Washing
ton aud bis associates"
HRssolUsi, That the impending destiny
Of our country can no longer be blinked.
The people Of the loyal states are re-
solved into two great parties, he destruc-
tiues and Tie conservatives The first con
sists of Abraham Lincoln, bis ofdce-hold-
ers, contractors, aud other followers; the
| second Of all men who are for electing
Lincoln and his ptrty from office aud
power. This pTOfessed objects Of the
first are to preserve the Union and to