Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-05-25

or three hundred of your most abominable
anti-slavery agitators in the North, and an
equal number of our God forsaken and
most hell-deserving disunionists at the
South, and had marched them to the Dis
trict of Columbia, hanged them on a common
gallows, dug for them common grave, and
embalmed their bodies with Unison need and
dogJeHnei, there would have been none Of
this trouble, nor should have been here
tonight. Let the Federal government
now guarantee to all loyal men in seceeded
States the right and title to all their prop
erty, including negroes, and protect them
in the enjoyment Of the same; but let the
title held by Rebels seeking to destroy the
government be annihiliated, both as to
negroes and all other property. And !
trust in God that it will be done, and that
such confscated property will go to make
up the losses Of loyal men"
He claimed for slavery divine origin,
and has never recanted that oft-repeated
dogma. Thus holding, he desired the gov
eminent to guarantee to loyal men" in
the Southern States their right and title in
slaves, while those of the Rebels should be
eonfscated and not freed, but sold "to
make up the losses of loyal men," Had
his counsels been needed, where wonld the
negro be to-day?
FAyORs A SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY-AD-
vIsEs A COALITION WITH FRANCE AND
THE INVASION OF NEW ENGLAND.
In letter addressed to the Rev. Mr..
Pryne, dated May s. 1860, and printed in
his paper, (the Knoxville Whig,) the Coy
ernor came out strongly in favor of South.
ern Confederacy. We quote az follows:
Why excite men, you vile incendiary, to
fanatical deeds which must destroy both
their country and themselves? Why urge
or gOad the Southern States to dlsunion
when destruction will fall alike on both,
North and South If this Union is dis
solyed-which may God in His mercy pre-
vent-we must of necessity be engulphed
in the whirlpool of European wars, and go
down forever az a republic. But, sir, the
South can, in two months enter into ALI
ance with either England or France, com
mercial and political, offensive aud defens-
i've, and in either case it will be utter ruin
W INT -NOAlllSiu sDtdtt5 vi lilS NObIcutEAC
England and France want our rice, tobacco
and cotton, but they don't want the manu-
features of New England. An alliance
between England and these Southern States
will break the existing tariffsystem discrim-
mating in favor of New England manufac-
lures, as rope of sand, and scatter at once
all your hopes to the winds, and coming
in collision with your ancient competi-
tor, and her low wages, without that pro
lection which has built up all your cities and
towns, you must be destroyed When
ever such an alliance shall be framed, and
our cotton and other products are landed at
either Liverpool or Havre and purchased
again at high rates, New England will see
the hand writing on the walls |, sir,
would favor an alliance with France as a
means of more efectually furnishing and
starving out the Abolitionists Of the North
The far-seeing monarch of the French
would unite with us on cur own terms, as
it would afford him an opportunity to crush
the commerce and manufactures of old
England, and make her feel that she is de-
pendent upon her ancient enemy, as well as
atone for villainous treatment Of his illus
trious uncle, Napoleon Bonaparte.
Dissolve the Union, you infamous vii
lians, and we shall make this proposition
at once to Louis Napoleon, a most saga
ciou5 monarch, and he would quarter at
New Orleans 100000 FTenchmen, and
Chesapeake 100000 more; we would then
command the Mississippi valley, whip the
Northern States into OUR SOUTHERN Con
and we w0hld then turn upon
the New England States, and cause the |
hurricane of civil war to rage and sweep |
from Mason and Dixon's line to the cod !
fisheries Of Maine, until we would extin- |
guish the last Abolition foothold on the |
continent of America Face to face, knife |
to knife, steel to steel and pike to pike we |
would meet you, and as we would cause |
you to bleed at every pore, we would make |
you regret in the bitter agonies of death, |
that you had ever felt any concern for the |
African race Sir, if the fdnatical, wicked |
and Internal course pursued by you, and |
your unprinCipled associates, is continued, |
the result will be az | have said, and YOU
and your children will live to see it. Pale |
faced poverty and dismay are already |
staring some of your manufacturers and
operatives in the face. We are sending our |
order to England and France for goods, |
and driving your hell-deServing freedom
the holding of Union meetings
and making these against their wills, curse
all agitators of the slavery question and |
resolve that John Brown and his murder |
Gus associates got only justice when hung |
At Charlestown. Carry on your war, if you |
choose death rather than life, and we will |
stain every swamp in the South with yours |
and our own blood, and with the vengeance |
IF an infuriated foe, we will be upon You in |
he North, at the hour Of midnight, and as
ong as lucifer match can be found, we /
will burn up your substance"
In another letter addressed to the same
he said:
But il might be that this Southern confer
nee would resolve upon going out of the
Union, and what would the Union men of |
he Conservative States do Go with them,
nd go all together at once and at the same
ime
HE BORDER STATE UNION MEN PRo-sLAvE-
RY-COERCIuN DENOUNCED.
la a letter to gentleman of Albany, n.
l., dated the 18th of May, 1861, the Gov
rnor spoke for himself and the Union men
# the border States as follows:
you correctly interpret the Union men
# the border slave States when you pro-
lounce them pro-slavery men, | think |
correctly represent them in my paper, as l
hall do in this brief epistle, except per
laps, that ! am more ultra than most of
hem
81 am a pro-slavery man, and so are the
Union men generally Of the border slave
itates have long since made up my mind
pom the slavery question, but not without
tudying it thoroughly. The result Of my
Investigation is that there is not a single
'assage in the New Testament, nor 4 single
ct in the records Of the church, during her
arly history even for centuries, containing
ny direct, protested, or intended censure
f slavery, Slavery in the days
f the apostles had so penetrated society,
nd was SO intimately interviewer with il,
hat a religion preaching freedom to the
laves would have arrayed against il the
ivil authorities, armed against 1t the whole
,ower of the State, and destroyed the use
illness of its preachers.
We believe that slavery had very little
D do with the inauguratIng armed seces-
ion, which commenced at Charleston, to
verthrow the United States government:
was the loss of the offices, power, and
atronage of the government by corrupt
oliticians and bad men in the South, who
ad long controlled the government
"While | say this, let me say in all
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