Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-10-18
The Danger of Hebonlon in the North.

The Danger OF Rebellion in the North.
From the New YORK Times, Oct. 8.
The symptoms of mutinous and ssditious spirit
against the Government are daily and hourly de-
veloping themselves at the North, in the radical
wing OF the republican party and among the Abo-
litionists of the true-bHe stripe. Both factions,
having been separated BY only the breadth Of hair,
or the difference between tweedle dun and tweedle-
dee, are now cordially united in opposition to the
President. whose manly letter TO Fremont is the
occasion for the opening of general fire upon him,
from the big sixty-fouT Founders dOwR to the pop
guns. Even the telegraph at st. Louis is used to
spread muntiny.Ihrough the North. Under the cir
cumstances it is the duty of the conservative ele-
ments to come forward and sustain Mr.. Lincoln and
denounce the Abolition traitors, who are the prime
cause of the present misfortunes Of the country,
and are doing their worst to render permanent the
mischief they have wrought. The Government
ITSELF consulting its safety, ought to seize and
inearcerate the leaders, who are thousand times
dangerous than the editors of Northern papers
sympathizing with the Southern rebellion, and
opposing the war for the Union. The Secession
heresy never had any strength at the North and it
| is now completely squelehed here by the vigorous
action of the Government; but a more formidable
and far more extensive disunien element openly
defes the President, spits upon and execrates the
Constitution, which is the bond o. the Union and
threatens to subvert our whole political system,
turning it either into a consolidated military des-
potism or into 6 Mexican anarchy, in which
numerous petty ehieftains will each play an inde>
pendent part.
When the Southern Secessionists were forming
their plans against the Federal Government, We
warned Mr. Buchanan of the danger, and called on
him to act with energy. We told him that his foes
were of his own household that leading members
of the Democratic party medita!ed the destruction
Of the Government. Our admOnitiOns were IN
needed, and the consequence is bloody civil war.
We now warn Mr.. Lincoln that there IS a disafec-
ton to his Government in his party at the North
that is every day gaining strength and that unless
he speedily brushes IT, it is very likely soon to crush
him and betrsy the cause Of the Union into the
hands OF its Southern foes. This is now the real
danger Of the count y, and it should be promptly
met by the powerful arm Of the Government, before
it cOnsolidates its strength and natures its plans.
If the policy of the red revolutionary republi-
cans prevailed, and the Government we're weak
enough to succumb TO il and endorse such prOcla>
nations as Fremout's or issue others TO the same
effect the North would become divided instead Of
a united people, and the South would become so
thoroughly united that It would be as easy TO fud
white crow as a Union man beyond the Delaware
and the Ohio When the war commenced. no sane
well informed man hoped for the success OF our
arms, ueless upon the basis Of Union element IN
the Southern States, which would become developed
as our armies advanced The mslignity Of abOli-
tionism seeks to destroy that element and convert
it into of hostility, and If it 3 only successful,
the men of the present generation will lot 1--we to
see the end of the war; and from its vast, extensive
nature covering area Oi Two tulfus VI Lie SUI
of the United States it will soon exhaust and ruin
the country.
Already great evil has been done by the procla>
nation OF General Fremont In Missouri. We have
the testimony of Rev. Mr. Olmstsad, pastor Of the
BAPTIST Church at BOOnYille in q letter in Chicago
Republican journal, that 1.-THE whole country in
Northwestern Missouri is up and fOcking by hun
dreds to Prices camp, their being of every de-
scrlption that the whole force of the rebels march
ing IRON various points. against the Union army
0nnnr md his
opinion is that the only hope Is to fall back, con-
centrate, entrench, and act on the defensiys Such
are the first fruits in Missouri of the false step Of
Fremont towards making the war one Of emancis
patton, instead Of war to restore the status qLo ant
beLHm-the same condition existed before hOetlll
ties broke out The AbOlitOnists and rad
ical Republicans do not want the Uuion restored
unless negro slavery is cut out Of it BY the sword
they do net want the Union restored unless the es
sental principles of the Constitution abolished
principles without which the Uuion never could
have been formed. A Union without the Constltu
ton is new question, which neither the President
nor Congress nor Generals have any right to solve
That remains for the decision Of the people IN con-
TentIon assembled and any attempt 10 decide It In
any other way would be an act of usurpation and |
rebellion equang in criminality the course of the
Southern rebels
The President has been denounced by the radical |
organs because he did not override the act Of Con-
gress relating TO the coEfscatng of slaves and other
on the President to perjRre himself He is sworn |
to maintain the Constitution and execute the laws
1t was upon this ground that the Herald and the |
conservative press of the country called on Presl
dent Buchanan and after him on President Lincoln
to put down the rebellion in conformity with the |
oath of otiee. Unlike the monarehies of Europe, /
in our Government it u not the Chief Magistrate,
but the National Legislature, that Is the war Rak-
ing power, and therefore controls aud defines the /
objects of war. When the present war broke out,
aud before COngess had Ssserabled The President /
had discretion subject to the revision Of Congress;
but as soon that body met and passed an act lin
ting the discretion Of the President on the very /
point raisRl by Ffemonts proclamation, the Presi
dent who was sworn to carry out the laws of Con
gress was bound to conform TO that policy himself,
and to cause all in authority under hun to DO ike
wise; and the fact Of the abolition journals expect
ing him to do the contrary Is an admission OF their
desgns-that when they voted for him as
President they expected him to use his power as
President to abolish slavery, and when they sup
parted the war in the commencement they also
hoped that such was its object; and now, when they
discover the contrary and thas he is not willing to
play the part of Usurper, they are nled with al the
rage of disappointment.
The patriotism of the President has so far baflsd
their schemes. and he ought to be warmly SUPPORT
ed BY the whole country, without regard to party
politics. Rut, meantime, il will be only an act OF
prudent precsutioa On the part Of Mr.. Lln0oln's |
Government to arrest the leaders of conspiracy
sualling in atroGity that of Catalina and his con-
Iederates in ancient Rome,
From Fortress Monroe.
From a late number of the New York Tribune
we extract portion of one of its correspondence
from Old Point Comfort, as throwing some little
light on matters in this section:
seversi Companies of the Indiauians will embark
in the Spauliing for tiatteras lis evening. The
other three companies under the Lleutenant Colo
mel will remain at Camp Hamilton. Oh