Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-02-20
TaEPRo-sLAvERY REBELLION.
FROM WASHINGTON.
TENNESSEE ELECTION.

L6NNEScE1c E1A-A1C n AO-Nr
Compromising AT observation-disclosures
King and Pitt Fessenden--.-The new
southern Confederacy.
Under the above heading, the New York Tribune
has letter from It's owa Special Correspondent"
dated, Washington, February 18th. We submit 10
our readers some extracts from It, showing con-
clusirely, the unfortunate effect which the result OF
the Tennessee election is having in stienlng ""
the antlslavery feeling of the North against conces,
sion. The people of Tennessee deVotedly atIacheu
to the principles Of the Constitution. and haV7
ing a reverential regard for the Union
which our fathers framed for our protection were
ready to lend willing ear to old party leaders VINO
used their energies to induce them TO believe tlla'
full and satisfactory guarantees would be speeoiy
granted that the seeded States would return ana
the Union be honorably perpetuated The people
are beginning to learn that their hopes are 20 De
sadly disappointed that satisfactory guarantees VIII
not be granted by the Black Republicans that the
seeded States Twill not return and that the Union
is as TO them finally dissoleed and that coercion to
Be the policy of the Lincoln administration and that
war il a necessary consequence of such policy.
The peope are also beginning to learn that some of
the leaders who did much to mislead them have
calculated the growing strength of the Northwest,
and have 80 shaped their political course to catch
the popular breezel in the Northern States. They
are further beginning TO learn that the opposition
of such leaders to the South at this time is based
solely upon the fact that their political promotion
is solely dependent upon their remaining in Union
where Northern power preponderates. The people
of Tennessee arc neither wilfuy blind to their in
terests nor recreant to their duty The day is not
far distant when they will reject with Indignation
the counsels of those who have recently misled
them. But to the extracts from GREELErs cores
pondent part of which we italieise:
wAsHrGroN. February II, 1861.
The result of the Tennessee election has done 8
great deal of good here. 1t demonstrates the vir-
tue there is in bold treatment of the Secession
treason. Senator johnson in his speech month
ago denounced the great heresy in pumeasured Ian
guage.
And now behold the result. Secession is DESTROYED
every where in Tennessee but more completely than
onvlohere else in the portion Of the STATE from loich Mr.
johnson In that part, East Tennessee, the
vote is overwhelming even against Convention to
consider the subject is to be hoped, as It is 10 be
erpectef that such CONCLUSIVE commentary upon The
policy Of standing By the Government as and The Con-
SLiOn as Il IS 1oi0lu compromise, and l1tthoeg sur
rem ier and lchod regard to threats ScH destroy aoG
anqU 1enain of the compromising and Submissive temper
purged of the whole race of slaVe7kings like
TOombs Mason, SEdell, and others, and their OBJ
sequious lackeys in the North, if the Republicans
but stand firm for their rights and their pricl-
PIES loithoot finctiag The whole breed of slave
holding dictators can be Inundated and driven into
retirement by the exercise of even moderate de-
gree of manly determination. But it is the easiet
thing in the world TO lose all that has been gained IN
the Presidential election, and reinstate this same
race of lOrdy and arrogant soverelgns to their old
place of rulers of this nation, by now pusillani-
mously begging for peace ,and union on any terms
they may choose to dictate. Only let them under
stand that the Republicans willing to sacrifice
everything to the Union, and that Is the end of Re
pubcanism, it is the endiOf all Government that
Is worth having.
1t is as incomprehensible as it is Notifying to
fell that there can be two opinions on this subject
in Republics ranks. Let us all rejoice that very
few events Ike the IeEneSee election lrN be enough
to end the doctrine of compromising to the Union
The brief speeches of Preston King and Mr.. Fes-
sender in the Senate yesterday fell like refreshing
showers on thirsty soil. Not altogether so much
for what was said for what indicated, and
for the tone and temper they displayed. The main
body of the Republicans in that branch have been
disposed to be very fOrbearng and reserved in their
expressions in the present crisis, but they are none
the less feTyent and decided in their opinions as TO
the duty and necessity of going straight through on
the line of the Chicago platform. As body, there
is no difference of opinion among them. The time
has, however. now come for utterance, and they
will justify Republican principles. Republican
ideas, and Republican policy, before the world
And they will not desert belittle those princi-
pies or ideas, or that policy, on any pretext what
ever. If there be outside politicians who regard
ali parties associations flor public plumber
and patronage and who are thus willing to abandon
their Republican Organization as one OF them
through alarm at the results of its triumph, they
will not find their counterparts among the men who
give tone TO the party in the Senate. They at least
believe that great principles at stake in this
contest, and they loM adhere 10 them, let the cOItse
qlSeRceS be Gubdt neyBldy.
As TO any specific measures of compromise, opin
ion in Washington seems TO have become rigid and
glazed. Ii is no long er in molding condition. The
soft clay has become hard And the ysrious figures
essayed while opinion yet ductiie remain rs a.
first formed, and stand abortve mementOes OF an
eager desire rather than fnishsd achievements O
either just conception or executive skill IL will
not be long ] fancy, before the various members o.
the dismal groups will be hurried from sight to be
crumbed and forgotten, like the unused clay Of tho
molding- board.