Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-11-28
MOVEMENTS OF THE DAY.



Special Dispatch to the Charleston Mercury.
WASHINGTON Now 22.-There has been great
deal of dissenson in the Cabinet lately about the Sc
cession question but some compromise was to-day
agreed upon. What is the nature OF this has not
vet transpred The President however, says that
there will now be no dissolution of the Cabinet
account of the positions taken in his message. 1t
seems that Secretary Floyd insisted that it was due
TO the country that the views of the Cabinet on the
subject of secession should be promulgated at once
The President declines that the message should be
sent in advance to Richmond. Ii will be laid be-
fore Congress on the second day of the session
Gen Jo Lane has addressed letter to the Breck-
inridge Club OF New York, in favor OF secession.
He takes the ground that the rights Of the South
have been menaced and impaired, and its equality III
the Territories destroyed by the same North which
retains on its StatuteBOoks nullit5in ing ordinances
He expresses his opinion that unless these wrongs
are promptly remeded, the dissolution OF the Union
cannot be averted. lie denies the right of the Fed
eral Government to use force in compelling the sub
mission Of a sovereign State, when its rights have
been repeatedly infrnged and equality has been re-
fused to it. The Union. he argues, was not formed
by force, and can never be sustained by force
Secretaries Cobb, Thompson, and Floyd, it is well
understood here, hold views identical with those OF
Gen. Lane
Attorney General Black has prepared a lengthy
opinion on the right of secesSi0n-taking the mega
tive position the subject which, it is believed,
will form the basis of the Presidents Message on the
The subject was brought up in the Cabinet, yesteF-
day and the Southern members deissented from the
others as to the legal view assumed by Attorney
General Black.
The Constitution newspaper is out this morning in
an article calling upon Lincoln and Hamlin to re-
sign as the only means of preserving the integrity
of the Union
The receipts in the United States Treasury for the
past week have been upwards Of 81, 400 0C0-mostly
the proceeds of the ten million loan. Two mil
lion dollars of the loan due to-day have not been
paid in. 1t is understood that many of the cOntrac-
tors will forfeit their contracts.
The President has repeatedly expressed himself
as opposed to the secession movement He believes
that before revolutionary measures resorted to-
every legal and constitutional remedy ought to be
exhausted.
very great excitement prevails among the officers
of the navy in consequence of the present state of
atIirs at the South and that adverse they to
collision with their feow-ctize IN that quarter
that there will be an almost universal resignation OF
their commission as soon as hoStlltIes break out.
They will not imbrue their hands in the blood of
their brethren
WASHINGTON. November, 23-Ilearn from reliable
sources that the Treasury Department will be forced
suspend specie payment IN the course of the next
ten days. Arrangements will be made to pay off
the Government officials in Treasury notes. There
is the greatest alarm among the clerks in cOnse
qucnce of this straitened condition Of the public
Treasury.
There is no longer any possible doubt concerning
the Presidents views on secession. In conVerslng
to-day with gentleman of this city, he took strong
ground against the Southern movement. He de-
clared that he did not believe the great West would
ever permit the mouths of the Mississippi river to
be held by foreign power. South Carolina" said
he wishes to enter into conflict with me, and,
upon the shedding of the first drop Of blood, to
drag the other States into the movement of dissOu
ton" lie acknowledged that the South had suf-
fered great wrongs at the hands Of the North, but
thought that the compact between them should not
be broken until reasoning and reflection had been
exhausted. He would first appeal to the North for
Justice and if it should be depied them, then, said
the President. - | am with them" Notwithstanding
his condemnation OF secession Mr.. buchanan has not
vet given the slightest indication of the course he
proposes to adopt when it takes place. But he has
pointedly authorized the denial Of the statement
that he favors secession.
The Administration still holds in allegiance the
resignation of the Federal officials IN South Caro-
lima. To-day the resignation Of United States Mar
shall Hamilton, of Charleston, was received and
placed upon file.
The President to day dispatched special messen-
ger with full instructions for Gen. Harvey TO pro
coed with all possible haste against Motgomery, and
to deal with him in summary way
Information has been received here that Montgom-
ery and his desperate band of AbotOniss, are pre-
pairing to proceed through the Indian country to
make a raid upon the unprotected frontiers of Texas
Montgomery has sworn that he will carry his bloody
war of determination until he frees every slave in
the Southwestern part OF Missouri.
Correspondence the Baltimore Sun.
WASHINGTON, Nov %, lS6O.-The Cabinet crisis
cannot be said to have yet passed over, if it
has been yet reached. When the President shall
finally submit to the Cabinet that portion of his
message which relates to the question of the rights
of State secession, it is probable that at least two
members of the Cabinet Mr.. Cobb and Mr.. Thomp.
son. must take ground in opposition to what are
derstood to be the Presidents views. Meanwhile,
the President is strongly urged against taking any
ground in his message in opposition to the right of
secession for the reason that il will hasten, instead
of delay, actual secession. The temper of the
South would not at present, endure patiently any
dictation on this subject from the Federal Govern
ment
The abstract question of the right of secession is
no doubt, to form leading topic OF discussion in
Congress at the coming session.
Some suppose that the President will recon-
mend to Congress the calling of a convention of
the States If he do So the State Legislatures soon
to be in session may also make the same request OF
Congress But whether the republican members
will comply with the request is doubtful The call
must be made by vote OF two-thirds of each
House
The Charleston Courier remarks that it is the evil
dent intention in quarters to force premature
issue of violence with citizens of the South. The
statements which have been so unqualifedly made
that the President would issue a proclamation
or message against secession, are calculated to eX-
cite citizens of the South to rash action. 1t will
be found. as have reason to believe, that II the
President denies the abstract right of secession,
he will at the same time, declare that it is ineXpe
dent resort any force against the exercise of
the claimed right of secession.
Half of the new loan is paid in, and if the other
half be paid the government can go on for ninety
days. But another loan is impracticable, under
present circumstances Congress must resort to the
reissue Of treasury notes. They must be sold for
what they will bring in specie, or paid to public
creditors. During one period of the war of 1872
of suspended bank paper But it Is to be hoped that
government credit will bear the shock Of the pre-
sent political panic Ion