Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-01-27

done: and hope seems to flicker ID the aocksf Still,
hope ceases only with life TheNorth is the agrees
sor. Action must come from that quarter. We /
have proposed. plead, entreated. We still wait.
Ffhe North understood US they would wheel into |
line and meet us rightly, in twenty days. But they
daily, relying upon our seeming division.
The greatest obstacle in the way Of reconciliaticn
is the late startling developments Of the incoming
administration.
The appointment Of Mr.. SEWARD to the State De
nartpent is matter of little consequence 80 far as
he himself is concerned. He is political gamester,
| /. man of talent of no known principle save unde-
WAITING hatred to the South. but will very likely
nerform the duties very well. The appointment is
important only SO far the appointment is concern
ed. Mr.. LINCOLN knew him to be Objectionable to
the South beyond any other man, not excepting him
4 self 1t an open violation of pledges made by Mr..
CoRyIN and others, LNcoLNs most intimate Friends
over and over, all along the border country pending
the election. No prudent selection of a Cabinet,
particularly for this Office, could be made just at
this moment, because, Just now, no man can tell
whether portion of it could be selected in the
South because all efforts at reconciliation are not
. closed finally.
The maEeing that appointment, in such haste, its
: prompt publication, under these circumstances
is cool, clear, open defiant advertisement to the
world and all q whom it may concern that the
Federal Government is to be strictly Northern,
sminently Black Republican and administered upon
high Abolition principles. Tie act Is susceptible Of
: no Other istzpretation look upon lt--indicating
the tone and spirit of the incoming Administration
: as, practically, larger stride toward dissolution
E than all the secession ordinances yet published.
How far this development of the spirit and temper
a of the new Administration may block up the way
: to reconciliation remains to be seen.
1t is believed then, that the best if not the only
/ thing remaining, to beedone for The Urion-that is
for reconstruction ds, for continued fedora
u y tion is, the immediate secession Of every Southern
: Stale. Outside of legal federation talk and
It treat with the North Half in and half out, we
cannot. They do not understand They rely
e on seeming disaffection among ourselves.
A. If reconstruction cannot be effected, then, what
can best be done for the best thing, the forma
m ton of Southern Republic and the answer is
as the Immediate secession Of er5ry Southern STATE By
Us all means let it be done before the Administra
ton goes in. Everything is to be lost nothing is t.
u be gained by delay.
ne 8. We hear much said about " coercion" and thu
IN question to be- whether army ought to b
y sent South to coerce somebody.
81 Coerce whom? for what? Granting everything
to everybody has said about the eong of South Caro-
lie lima and the other refractory Statessay they haF
IT'S violated the Observation-Disclosures their solemn
us pledges-injured the country-done great injustice
~ to the North-had no g right to seeeder
We What is the remedy?
I'D First There is not scrap of written law in tn
ng city of Washington, or out Of it, which, by tn
60 widest construction, supposes that the Fedora
~ Government be in state Of hostility with on
IN Of its own States. Such legal contemplation wou
he be both legal and political absurdity. The Law
IN presumes that the President in using force does s
in cooperation with the State where the OBSTRUCTION
,et exists. When the State becomes the obstruction
lso there Is no lao directing the President and for tn
n following obvious reason:
lat Secondly. Can an army heal the breaches restor
the forfeited pledges right the wrongs, and rectf
he the illegal matters complained Of! What a
l. army do supposing it to be successful in the natur
1th of the thing? l know CT nothing an army d
but to kill men and destroy property. This is its prof.
~ er and legitinate business. No army attempt
Inv ed any thing else. The United States army
the full in its undertakings could burn down Charleston
kill thousand people. and destroy ten millions
Cd property Then IS South Carolina "back'-a
II straght-the injuries repaired? It could, IF So
the cEssFuI. in the South, kill ten thousand men an
sed women, and destroy hundred or FIVE hundre
IN In millions of property. Then is the Union "pr
~. servcd"-the wrongs restored? singing mastt
ies or mathematician would for this purpose, do mol
lad good and thousand times less harm. What is
his forced federaten If your friend is unwilling to
tne in partnership with you, continue already
bon progress beat him with club until he is willing
on If man don't like you whip him until he does
of We are on untrodden ground, but hope have nj
om- lost our reason FFDERATus