Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-09-01
AdoptIng tho hTethoda Of Tyramts.

A2GnlAME
The usurpations Of the LINCOLN Government are
without parallel save in the history Of the most
Sespotic governments Of the old world. Men and
women are being constantly arrested and hurried
off to "a prison in the far and loyal North, without
so much as informing them of the charges upon
which they are arrested. And now, as we are in
formed by telegraph, an edict has been issued at
Washington directing that the names of those ar
rested shall not be made public go that they may be
clandestinely carried off to prison. If evidence was
wanting Of the despotsm that has been inaugurated
by the LINCOLN Government, it is supplied by the
special Washington correspondent of the New York
World, a sort of pet organ of that dynasty In his
letter of the 10Th of August, this correspondent
makes confession which confirms the worst Gus
picions that have been entertained of the LNcoL,
dynasty. lie says;
Americans now begin to understand mcrs clearly
perhaps to view more iepienty, the means by which
old world governments are compelled to maintain
their existence. European dynssties are always
exposed TO dangers ef rebellion-or revolution
and all rulers, whether just or unjust, when thus
threatened must resort to the secret agencies
and the sternest measures, or Weld the baton OF
power. The liberal and democratic government OF
this republic now for the first time seriously erdan-
gered finds itself exception to trans atlantic ex
perience 1t is at last compelled, by the growth Of
secret and atroeious conspiracy to avail ITSELF 10
Just cause and for good ends of the adroit police
system which has for centuries been misused in
other and less favored lands.
say the administration has been compelled to this
co 1rse. Through the want of it hundreds of mill
tary and civil officers have been permitted to place
themselves beyond reach before their treason has
been known and their laid and comfort" render ed
useless to the rebels For the want of it the capital
and cities further north have been more endangered
from within than from without; the plans Of our
campaigns have been known to the enemy on the in
slant of their fornatOn The strength and position of
our forces and stroDghOds have been exposed-more
infamous than sll, the very lives of the President
his advisers and generals have been in peril Of as
sassinaton.
fhe government has been SO amiable and long
suffering as 10 receive the regrets OF friends and
scorn Of foes. For fear that one innocent man
might suffer- hosts of the guilty have been allowed
to escape.
But az last this sort of thing is over The cabinet
have determined that the power and presence OF
government shall be felt; that for time, the little
finger of our police shall be thicker than the
lOin of the Austrian Neapoltln. No one
shall talk or act treason with impunity
The highest offender shall be the first to
fall. In pursuance of this course a de-
ective system has been lately IN operation embrac
ing all the concomitan,s of male and female espion-
age, patrcIan and plebeian which made that Of the
Hapsburgs and Bourbons so effective. We are
compelled tc adapt tie methods Of tyrants to tn G
ends Of justice and liberty